Wait Some More.
Rolling out hits like rolling pins do dough, the T in TGT, Tank is making it right now like his clever concept for music during lockdown and love in times of corona. Coming off the 'Elevation' of perhaps his most prolific project yet (you heard the title track, 'Champion' crown, or 'You Mean More'? 'No Cap' indeed), the 'Sex Love and Pain' and 'Sex Love and Pain 2' singer producing jams, goes slow again like all those making love the right way to start things off tonight. Some said this 'Savage' was getting too nasty like 'When We', 'F It Up' with 'Nothing On', but you can't deny keeping it with that slept on classic like the back of his jacket. But now 'Stronger' like a Motown special, Tank's taking it back to the ivory like this 'Ebony' cover star did his classic cover of Bonnie Raitt's 'I Can't Make You Love Me', perfect like Prince's. 'Now Or Never' with the R&B King of three next to the pre-Usher M.J. dancing of Ginuwine and the movie multiple megastar of Tyrese Gibson. All whilst everyone else is tanking like NBA players pre-playoffs would of been doing right now trying to hit the lottery when this man's got the winning ticket. Now punch these numbers for your Spotify streams. A milli about to be served like McDonald's reopened for this all American athlete who looks like he's never eaten anything with "MC" in front of it.
'While You Wait' marched into the third month of 2020, roaring like the twenties this was Gatsby supposed to be. Right when COVID-19 hit and locked down we needed something to stay at home with like the one we hold close for these bedroom sessions. The extended play featured new classic cuts like the 'Perfect' song of the same name. The 'Self Esteem' boost we all needed growing gross quarantine beards (men AND women) like, aren't we all staying at home with our Gillette's and the one person we should really be bothered about looking good for anyway. And the 'Facetime' we all crave from friends and family and lovers as distant as Marvin Gaye on Zoom like the Commodores or a TGT Soul Train award show cover of the same song. And you just know one piano perfect E.P. deserves another for the 'One Man', 'Force Of Nature' who has given us the Nat King Cole, Sinatra standard Christmas ('A Classic Christmas Night') and Valentines ('If You Were Mine') ones featuring his own compositions and covers of someone like Adele and the soundalike Sam Smith, like chocolate and egg nog. The first one 'While You Wait' came out at the start of quarantine and now even coming out like it was all 'Worth The Wait' the second sequel arrives just at the right time like you only wish the flight you booked last year would. Even though we should wait inside some more while captain saves 'em like dun, da dunnnnn!
Worth it though. Whilst we all should still be staying home and safe whilst we still can...or at least at 6 feet (how far? Imagine Allen Iverson laying out Laker Lue for the step over and there you have your answer), Tank opens up some new music at a time were we all need some positivity right now as we celebrate black artists like pride. Because Black History matters like Black Lives and you best believe this man is making it like a soul soldier with an artillery of albums. And if you think that army notion is a cliche-especially in these reviews-then you'd be right...because it's all true like his 'Our Song', "dum, dum, da dum", 'Wedding Song' marriage to Zena Foster. "Think I found something just my type/And you don't have to look no more/Think I found something like my wife/Because that's what I've been waiting for," he sings on the, "if I had a chance in you/there's nothing I wouldn't do", on the 'On My Love' emotion devotion opener, before being taken away with talent Ashley Jayy for...well, 'Take Me Away' which could start a prolific songwriting partnership like the one he's crafted with former teen pop idol Jojo ('Somebody Else' with the 'Leave (Get Out)' singer is truly something else and worthy of their own collabo album like 'Three Kings' or a John Legend and Mary J. Blige, 'King and Queen' record). Standing up from the piano to the one mic coffee roasted cover of the second 'Wait', Tank brings it all by himself on 'For Mine', but he saves the very best for last both on this E.P. and the double act of the locked down and opened up power couple of beautiful ballad plays. 'Value' will give you that 'Self Esteem' ("I'm worth more than what you're offering me/And I won't be defeated") as Tank shows he can afford another album this November as he continues to elevate the game, himself and anyone listening in need of that inspiration and communication in this self-isolated time of yearning for solidarity. Now isn't that worth the wait in gold records for this platinum star? TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'On My Love', 'Take Me Away (Feat. Ashley Jayy)', 'Value'.
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