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new jack, n. and a.
Brit. |ˈnjuː dʒak|, U.S. |ˈn(j)u ˈdʒæk|
[‹ new adj. + Jack n.1
Probably arising from the long-established uses of Jack n.1 as a generic familiar name or form of address (especially to a stranger). The music style New Jack Swing was created c 1988 by musician and producer Teddy Riley (b. 1967). Jack is popularly presumed to have originated from the name of Michael Jackson (b. 1958), U.S. pop singer (who later worked with Riley), though this seems to be a subsequent rationalization.]
A. n.
1. Brit. slang. A novice member of a football club. rare.
1949E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 3) Add. 1118/1 New jacks, junior players in a football club.
2. Chiefly U.S. slang (esp. in African-American usage). A newcomer, a recent arrival, a novice; esp. one who is a member of a street gang or involved in criminal activities.
1988W. Drayton et al. Don't believe the Hype (song, perf. ‘Public Enemy’) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 256 They still consider me a new jack All the critics, you can hang 'em I'll hold the rope. 1994Essence (Nexis) May 74 He had always hustled something—watches, fake jewelry—but he was a new jack in the drug culture. He caught on quickly, though, and his business boomed. 1996Milwaukee Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 7 Feb. In addition, the authors indicate that adult gang members, whom the authors now call ‘new jacks’, cared only about hustling another dollar. 2000T. Conover Newjack i. 10 My very first—horrifying—day of on-the-job training, when I accompanied a novice officer, or ‘newjack’, who barely knew what he was doing.
3. orig. U.S. = new jack swing n. at Compounds. Also: a performer or fan of this music.
1990Orlando Sentinel Tribune (Nexis) 9 Mar. 14 ‘Kool According 2 a Jungle Brother’ swings, too, but it's anything but new jack. 1992N. George Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohos (1994) i. 85 Both are new jacks who fuse hip hop and r&b. 1994Vox 121/5 Indie soul and New Jack..has been the Movin' On brief so far and it continues the theme with listenable, if erratic, grouping. 2000N.Y. Mag. 6 Nov. 57/3 We'll play hip-hop, new-jack, house, hybrids from all over the world, anything interesting.
B. adj. (attrib.). Of or relating to novice gang members or their related subculture; (also) of or relating to new jack swing or its related subculture.
1988E. Sermon & P. Smith You gots to Chill (song, perf. ‘EPMD’) in B. Adler Rap! (1991) 67 Funky beat maker, new-jack exterminator. 1989USA Today 7 Sept. 1 d5 Brown demonstrated what the ‘new jack’ dance craze is all about—he took the stage in a flying leap and followed with footwork that was the fanciest this side of Michael Jackson. 1992N. George Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohos 32 Mason, a large new jack drug dealer, is convicted of ordering his murder. 1993Sunday Times 28 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 50/2 Serious new jack hustlers can protect themselves from drive-by slaying with an authentic {pstlg}800-plus bulletproof vest as worn by NWA's Eazy E. 1993Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 26 May 3 e/2 New jack performers Jodeci and Mary J. Blige, rappers Heavy D and Das EFX, and the Fly Girl dancers of ‘In Living Color’ have turned hip-hop away from its fixation on high-tech athletic shoes by sporting rugged black military and hiking boots. 2000Rolling Stone 3 Aug. 51/1 His first solo album, The Carnival, creat[es] a big top where everyone from a New Jack rhyme spitter like Small World to crusty Brit rockers like Pink Floyd can coexist.
Compounds. New Jack City n. U.S. slang (freq. in African-American usage) an urban district rife with violent crime, drug use, and street gangs.
1989Village Voice (N.Y.) 11 July 34 A new economic and psychic urban environment: *New Jack City. New Jack City exists wherever there's a crack house, a back room stuffed with stolen VCRs and family jewelry... New Jack City exists in Harlem, the Bronx, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit, Los Angeles, [etc.]. 1989B. M. Cooper & T. L. Wright New Jack City (film script) 110 If we as a nation don't begin to confront the problem of crack and other drugs realistically..then New Jack City will continue to thrive. 1999Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 25 Feb. c2 It's serious in documenting the certainty that a New Jack City, a crime-riddled ‘darktown’, exists in every major metropolis in this country.
new jack swing n. orig. U.S. a form of music combining elements of rhythm and blues, soul, and rap music; cf. swingbeat n.
1989Gannett News Service (Nexis) 14 Apr. Music industry folk call Guy the originators of the ‘*New Jack Swing’, a term coined to describe their brand of hard-hitting R&B. 1991N.Y. Times 24 Nov. ii. 32/5 His most prominent collaborator..is Teddy Riley, the architect of new jack swing, which attaches lover-boy crooning to the choppy, electronic beat of hip-hop. 1994Guardian 29 Dec. 8/1 New jack swing has mutated into the much softer swingbeat, currently the biggest-selling US pop music. 1998Newsweek 22 June 77/1 The disc also evokes ‘Lion King’-esque Africa vocal music and new-jack swing. |