By the time of their coming-of-age in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, a unique style of dress, lyrical articulation, and attitude had developed, that not only stood out from their parents’ generation, but also their older siblings who invented a New Jack Swing R&B sub-genre just a few years earlier.ġ992 marked a year when a new tone was set over the R&B landscape. This generation spent its early youth in the previous decade of the ‘70s, immersed in the atmosphere where funk, soul, and disco artists like Parliament-Funkadelic, Rufus, and Chic ruled the airwaves and provided the soundtrack to parties that lasted for days at a time. One of the major characteristics of ‘80s babies, particularly when they were in their teens and twenties, was the almost constant need to define and distinguish themselves. Blige’s debut album What’s the 411?, originally released July 28, 1992.
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