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Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:34 am

I hail from Antioch, Cali and have an interest in music. I usually like hip-hop/rap with good beats, and I recently got into New Jack Swing because of GTA: San Andreas. Man, I liked it from the start because of the great beats, so I decided that I'd get some of my own. Sure, I used to like Rump Shaker when I was 4 or 5, but missed out on this genre because I guess it was fading when I was old enough to remember stuff and think. I never really listened to the radio much, either. Basically I'd listen to what my brother was listening to.

New Jack artists who have songs I like are cool are Guy, Keith Sweat, Aaron Hall, Basic Black, Johnny Gill, Timmy Gatling, Ralph T, BBD, Samuelle, Today, Wrecks-N-Effect, and others.

Jada · Post by **Jada** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:58 am

Hello Steve and welcome to NJS4E where you will learn everything you need to know about New Jack Swing, It's good to see someone here in California loves New Jack Swing as much as I do, I love the groups you've mentioned in your greeting, so I see you have already made yourself quite comfy so I hope I will see more post from you to see what your all about with you musical taste

DJ Freez' · Post by **DJ Freez'** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:44 am

Thanks for the introduction and a big welcome here! It's always good to find out that a 'new generation' is picking up NJS too.

swingbeatlover · Post by **swingbeatlover** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:00 am

Welcome to NJS4E Steve

That GTA soundtrack is certainly a good way to start your NJS collection, if you check ebay or any other auction site you'll find several compilation albums worth picking up. Mainly they have the better known tracks but when your starting a collection you need all those. Best ones to look out for if you haven't already got them are the Mastercuts comps. there were four of these and they had some very good mixes on them.

VOLUME ONE

VOLUME TWO

VOLUME THREE

VOLUME FOUR

DJ Freez' · Post by **DJ Freez'** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:18 am

So is this the 'GTA: San Andreas' soundtrack we're talking about then?

JOde · Post by **JOde** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:23 am

Hi Steve,

GTA San Andreas has a great soundtrack, with alot of emphasis on NJS. Keep that hunger alive for quality music.

Welcome to the family!

swingbeatlover · Post by **swingbeatlover** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:44 am

Freez' the GTA soundtrack is done like all the others, radio style. The NJS one is CSR 103.9 Here's the track listing;

SWV - I'm So Into You
Soul II Soul - Keep On Movin
Samuelle - So You Like What You See
En Vogue - My Lovin'
Johnny Gill - Rub You The Right Way
Ralph Tresvant - Sensitivity
Guy - Groove Me
Aaron Hall - Don't Be Afraid
Boyz II Men - Motown Philly
Bell Biv Devoe - Poison
Today - I Got The Feeling
Wrecks 'n' Effect - New Jack Swing
Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel

The others are pretty good too. There is old skool Hip Hop and Soul/Funk. You can check the listings here;

http://www.gtasanandreas.net/soundtrack/

KC-Shaft · Post by **KC-Shaft** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:07 pm

Big welcome Steve, enjoy your stay.
I'm not really into Gamecomputers and playing games, so I gotta ask, does one hear the tracks while playing? Cos if that's the case, I'm gonna get myself a PS2 just for this

swingbeatlover · Post by **swingbeatlover** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:13 pm

KC, one of the things you do in GTA is steal cars, you need them to get about the city to complete your mission. While in the car you can tune the radio to different stations, all of which play varying types of music. Very cool really

I did a review on Soul2street about the old skool rap album you can get. Here's the link to it;

http://soul2street.com/viewtopic.php?t=346

K-Bee · Post by **K-Bee** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 4:55 am

Gamer or not! Y'all outta get both the GTA San Andreas as well as GTA Vice City soundtracks. Honestly, trackwise they're some of the best 90s and 80s compilations available covering just about every style being popular during those decades.

Oh and btw - welcome to NJS4E Steve

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:02 am

This seems like just the right forum for me. I like the music covered in this forum and I can talk about it without people criticizing my taste.

DJ Freez' · Post by **DJ Freez'** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:52 am

You had people criticising your taste?

You might have some people here who will tell you they don't like ballads

or someone slandering Bobby Brown or other artists

, but we're not really hostile

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Steve · Post by **Steve** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:00 am

No, it's just that much of the forums have very general topics like hip-hop, but not much R&B and New Jack, etc. More modern stuff in general. Nevertheless, I'm here.

And I don't think they were truly criticizing it. They probably just made a judgment without really checking out my stuff because it didn't match their "smug standards."

swingbeatlover · Post by **swingbeatlover** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:39 am

DJFreez' wrote:You might have some people here who will tell you they don't like ballads

Who???????????

StevieSwing · Post by **StevieSwing** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:50 pm

Welcome Steve to Njs4e , i see you've been a fair bit of posting so big thanks for that & i'm sure you'll get any help or info you want around here from many of our regualr member's !