new jack swing

noun

variants or New Jack Swing
: pop music usually performed by Black musicians that combines elements of jazz, funk, rap, and rhythm and blues

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The Amber Ruffin Show did a new jack swing–inflected R&B song about how the white celebs need to wash their kids. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2021 As new jack swing pioneer Bobby Brown, Houston’s husband for 14 turbulent years, Ashton Sanders strains to humanize a figure painted as comically insufferable. — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022

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1989, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of new jack swing was in 1989

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