The "New Jack Swing" label is commonly used to pigeonhole a specific strain of R&B – characterized by gun-shot snare drums, cluster bombs of hi-hat triplets and imperious singers like Keith Sweat and Bobby Brown – that was popularized in 1987 and peaked with the release of
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Teddy Riley Talks Honing New Jack Swing, Learning From Michael Jackson