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New jack saying. teddy riley was the big new jack swing producer. he produced everybody. he had racks in effect and he had his own group. he had heavy d and the boys. it all had this rhythm that made you have to dance . >> new jack swing was someone i could sing with the level of stevie wonder with the break the background of a public enemy and mary those two. no diggity is the masterpiece of the new jack swing era. hip-hop was a male-dominated industry. women would thought, you are not , get out of here. >> female rappers were a thing

♪ ♪ mad thinking about stomping ♪ ♪ i'm from the south bronx ♪ ♪ [ bleep ] compton ♪ >> you going to continue making a lot of money off of this, do you think? >> long as it's violence, it's going to be rap music, gangsta rap music, whatever. >> nwa was always too hot to hold. it had to splinter. and the first person who walks away is ice cube. ♪ tried to kill me ♪ >> same reason ice cube left the group is the reason i left. you know, tired of making other people money. it's my turn. ♪ tonight's the night i get in some -- ♪ ♪ deep cover on the incognito tip ♪ >> suge k...

>> radio has been so long in coming and playing female artists. so it's definitely a different sort of environment and attitude now. ♪ if it makes you happy ♪ >> female artists like sheryl crow or liz phair, even though they had success, they were still routinely marginalized within every aspect of the industry. there was not a lot of space in pop culture for a young woman's thoughts, feelings, voices, to be respected or taken seriously. ♪ i'm just a girl ♪ >> there was such a strange dichotomy to gwen stefani, super girlie but then also kind of tough. and then in front of this band of...

That sounds familiar to me, so maybe this isn't all bad. ♪ i see myself in the pistol smoke ♪ >> you have songs like coolio's "gangsta paradise" which is, on the surface, a heavier song but the hook is so inviting and warm. ♪ been spending most of their lives living in a gangster's paradise ♪ >> hip-hop had hit this point where it had become mainstream, and all of a sudden it starts appearing in other forms of music. there's this kind of rock-rap happening. ♪ sometimes, something kicked ♪ >> there's hip-hop that can be found in pop music. ♪ harrison ford getting frantic like stin...

And it is on the surface a heavier song but the hook is so inviting and warm. >> gangsters paradise. >> hip-hop had hit this point where it had to become mainstream and all of a sudden it starts appearing in other forms of music. there is this rock rap happening. there is hip-hop that can be found in pop music. and there is r&b and rap mixing for new jack swing. teddy wiley was the new jack swing producer and he produced everybody. >> he had his own group guy, he did heavy d and the boys. it all had this kind of rhythm that made you have to dance. new jack swing was someone that