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Heavy D

One of the voices of New York's New Jack Swing scene of the early 1990s, Heavy D (aka Dwight Myers) became a big, strutting showman lighting up dance floors with the genre's mix of hip hop, R&B and dance music. Inspired by the early rap pioneers, Myers teamed up with three dancers to become Heavy D and the Boyz and was signed to Uptown Records where he gained a cult following thanks to debut album Living Large (1987) and his reworking of Jean Knight's funk classic Mr. Big Stuff. More positive and pop friendly than most of the gangsta rap stars of the time, second album Big Tyme (...