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April 1, 1999

Britney Spears Returns to No.1; Blackstreet Crack the Top Ten
March 31, 1999

One More Time, Again

Britney Spears returns to No.1; Blackstreet crack the Top Ten

Level II

For the past few years, R&B has been on the job, but distracted -- by the world domination of hip-hop, by the memory of R&B past, by the often weak embraces of teen pop. Teddy Riley sees things clearly, though: As the inventor of New Jack Swing, he's one of the few people around who both acknowledge...

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The brainchild of producer Teddy Riley (Bobby Brown, Michael Jackson, etc.), Blackstreet was the sound of Riley getting back into the groove of performing, which he hadn't done since his former group Guy broke up. After single-handedly defining the New Jack Swing sound that swept R&B in the early '90s, Riley stretched out musically on his group's four studio albums, the best of which is Another...

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