Introducing Jacked: Rise of the New Jack Sound

Jacked

Wondery | UMG

Society & Culture, Paula Abdul, Bell Biv Devoe, History, New Jack Swing, Music, Teddy Riley, Jacked, Taraji P. Henson, Guy

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Have you ever had a dream? Something you wanted so bad you just couldn’t let it go? For a group of kids in Harlem in the Eighties, their dreams would change pop music forever. Teddy Riley, Timmy Gatling, and Aaron Hall form a group called Guy that would fuse hip-hop and R&B and launch a new sound. By the early Nineties, the New Jack Sound dominated the pop music charts: Bell Biv Devoe, Bobby Brown, Boyz II Men, and many more. But the rise of the New Jack sound would come at a cost, and not everyone would make it to the top. Hosted by Taraji P Henson. From Wondery and Universal Music Group, Jacked is a story of friendship, gangsters, double-crosses, and big dreams.

Hosted by Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to Jack's ad free on Amazon Music.
0:05.0	Download the app today.
0:07.0	Have you ever had a dream?
0:13.0	Not too long ago, a gentleman by the name of Teddy Riley
0:17.0	masterminded a concept called Guy.
0:19.0	Something you want is so bad, you just couldn't let it go.
0:22.0	Their debut album sold a million copies and they're here to perform a tune called
0:26.9	Groove Me. For a group of kids in Harlem in the 80s their dream would change pop
0:31.5	music forever.
0:32.6	Please welcome.
0:34.2	God.
0:38.8	I'm Taraji P Henson, and when I was growing up in DC there was a new sound we were all listening to non-stop.
0:46.8	It was a little bit of R&B and a little bit of hip-hop and you couldn't help but shake your
0:51.2	booty to it.
0:52.4	We just knew we had something different and that it was special
0:56.0	and we wasn't going to let it go.
0:58.0	It's a story of friendship.
1:00.0	Karen did a...
1:02.0	And Teddy was down, and he bent back in it.
1:06.7	We killed them cats.
1:08.7	Double crosses.
1:09.6	And then he just fell into my arms.
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