How different would the black community be if they embraced New Jack Swing over Gangster Rap

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nikka the black community DID embrace New Jack Swing. And the result was that it ended up killing R&B music.

The New Jack Swing of the late ‘80e turned into Bad Boy and Jermaine Dupri type of style of the mid ‘90s. Singers weren’t singing and hitting notes anymore, they were just harmonizing and sing-rapping. By the early 2000s, this is what most mainstream R&B music sounded like:



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nikka the black community DID embrace New Jack Swing. And the result was that it ended up killing R&B music.

The New Jack Swing of the late ‘80e turned into Bad Boy and Jermaine Dupri type of style of the mid ‘90s. Singers weren’t singing and hitting notes anymore, they were just harmonizing and sing-rapping. By the early 2000s, this is what most mainstream R&B music sounded like:



:francis:

Agreed overall but that Jagged egde is a classic, dont let anybody tell you different :ufdup:




Ethnicity models all up in the videos, :blessed: Shout out to Lashawna
 
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To answer the thread's question, i think the main issue is the number of kids being raised by single mothers with no constant male energy in the household. The lyrical content of rap has an impact but not as big.
this would be yall's answer to why world hunger exists or civil wars...get a new boogey man
 

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No change. Violent crime rates in most American cities peaked in the late 80s/early 90s. The heyday of New Jack Swing.
For real

Most the gangstas/dope boys etc would be right in the clubs on the weekend doing the running and man and the cabbage patch to teddy Riley and Jimmy jam and Terry Lewis production.

The only thing gangsta rap was, was the mainstreaming and commercializing of what was already permeating in the Black community. Gangsta rap turned nobody Gangsta.
 

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this would be yall's answer to why world hunger exists or civil wars...get a new boogey man
I'm curious to see if there is research demonstrating a correlation between crime, incarceration, prostitution, drug use, etc. and kids being raised by single mothers...say there was, would you agree at that point that it might not be a boogeyman?
 
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