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Wondery Presents Jacked: The Rise of the New Jack Sound
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English - December 21, 2020 09:30 - 4 minutes - 4.42 MBSociety & Culture News Politics silvio berlusconi politics history scandal bunga bunga berlusconi silvio italy comedy whitney cummings Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Hosted by Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson.
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. From Wondery and Universal Music Group, Jacked is a story of friendship, gangsters, double-crosses, and big dreams. Listen today: http://wondery.fm/Jacked_Wondery.