Janet Jackson releases Control

February 1986: Number 12 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of R&B and hip-hop musicMichael's baby sister was grown up, no longer answering to her recently divorced husband, singer James DeBarge, or her father, and now ex-manager, Joe. An emancipated modern pop star still needed the occasional bit of help, though. Cue the producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, former Prince proteges and key players in R&B's annexation of the charts. This would be the core of Janet's subsequent six-y...

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