Just as he had the charisma to keep up with his equally hunky friends in TGT, Tank’s alternately soaring and hushed baritone has served him well in his collaborations with superstar MCs, including Drake on Tank’s trap-infused 2011 hit “Celebration.” Released in 2019, Tank’s ninth album ELEVATION struck a savvy balance between slow-burning displays of his seductive powers and gentler love songs that show the full range of both his abilities and his sensitivity. With all the mind chatter and busy-ness we have these days it can be difficult to recognize the signs that are all around, so its important to get quiet and listen. I like to describe each child as having an emotional love tank. After establishing himself with three increasingly sophisticated and libidinous solo albums for Blackground Records, he teamed with the “Pony” rider and Tyrese in TGT, the R&B supergroup whose debut Three Kings topped Billboard’s R&B album chart in 2013. Everyday there are signs, messages, and guideposts that will inspire you to act, but you only notice them if you are open. Listen to any conversation on the street and you're likely to hear statements like. With its sultry-sounding production by Cardiak and decidedly NSFW chorus, “When We” was steamy even by the standards he set with bedroom-ready ballads like “Please Don’t Go” and “Sex Music.” Clearly, Tank-who was born Durrell Babbs in Milwaukee in 1976-learned some valuable lessons on setting a mood when he first broke into the music business as a backup singer for Ginuwine. He certainly left no doubts about the kind of heat he can generate with “When We,” a 2017 single that became his biggest hit in a decade. Were big believers that while we face extraordinary problems, and you know, listen, that, that we are headed pell-mell towards, um, a, a catastrophic climate change, we have seen a 50 decline in, in biodiversity on this earth in the last 40 years, a, a decline of over 60 of living creatures on this earth in the last 40 years. One of the smoothest operators in modern R&B, Tank is a master at keeping his cool even when he’s turning up the temperature.