List of new jack swing artists

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This list contains singers and groups who performed in the new jack swing (or swingbeat) [1] [2] style, a hybrid style popular from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s. [3] It developed as many previous music genres did, by combining elements of jazz, R&B, funk and hip hop. [4] The sound of new jack swing comes from the hip hop "swing" beats created by drum machine and hardware samplers [5]

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