No qualms for Tony! Toni! Tone!, an Oakland, California trio comprised of brothers, Raphael ( Saddiq) and Dwayne Wiggins, and their cousin, Timothy Christian Riley, as after a successful string of R&B hits, found themselves reshaping the soul formula their way and confidently going forward into the '90s with their game-changing third album Sons of Soul. Akin to the moment where Black artists found home in synth-funk and New Jack Swing in the '80s after disco's demise in the late 1970s, the New Jack Swing artists in turn had to find footing once the '90s came into fruition. With the appearance of grunge rock and the rise of West Coast gangster rap, the "innocence" of pop-rap and the images of suave and suited up guy groups were being pushed out for grittier fare, changing the tone of soul music yet again and leading it towards its oncoming mutation. Entering into 1993, New Jack Swing - a once dominant force in music that managed to successfully spill over from the 1980s into the 1990s - was slowly going into decline.
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