During its peak years, R&B and hip hop artists alike flocked to to the new jack sound, with varying degrees of success. The timeline of the new jack swing era's peak years is generally agreed to have coincided with the The Golden Age of Hip Hop (1987-1994), with the first true new jack album being Keith Sweat's Make It Last Forever, released in November 1987. But it was Control, their 1986 collaboration with Janet Jackson that created the musical style that would eventually be known as "new jack swing". Meanwhile, Jam & Lewis, after being sacked from The Time by Prince in 1983, took the "Minneapolis sound" made famous by their former boss and added smoother R&B stylings and hip hop influenced drums, using this style to create hits for the SOS Band, Alexander O'Neal and Cherelle. Many of Teddy Riley's earliest productions for New York based rappers such as Slick Rick and Kool Moe Dee were noted for their unique swinging beats and melodies, which were uncommon at the time in hip hop.
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