ank: I just honestly just sat with the music too long. I`m one of those guys I`m always trying to surpass myself. Those albums, I yet have those albums, all of those songs they`re still just sitting there. But the more time changes and as I get into different spaces I only need to do new and try new and unlike things and that`s exactly what happened with "Now or Never." Once we got this Atlantic thing going and actually started grooving and movin, it just inspired me to do something else and "Now or Never" is the outcome of that. YKIGS: It`s been over three years since your "Sex, Love & Pain" album and I love you do lots of composition for other artists and act with all of these artists. Do you believe there would be less time in between albums if you just focused on your own music?Tank: The clock really doesn`t interest me. I`ve been blest to be capable to admit 5 years off and I came second with "Sex, Love & Pain" and I had a great showing and it let me acknowledge that I take a place and I own a piazza in music. So I`m not very concerned with the time, I would wish to maybe put out an album every maybe year and a half, two years, that type of thing, in between that get some holiday things going, maybe some soundtrack things going. I`m really happy with simply having a short distance and having people want to see my music.YKIGS: I want to ask you a little more about your songwriting and functional with early artists. How do you shift gears between working on a cast with another artist and then focus on yourself? What`s the balance like there?Tank: When I write songs for other people, I literally write songs for other people. I don`t write what I`d wish to see me sing, I hear to their projects, I hear to things they`ve done, and I say what can they do and where have they been, and can I stretch them a small bit creatively just to read what they do to the next level. I don`t sell anybody me, I`m not out there trying to get a lot of Tank clones when I`m writing and producing for them, I desire to prepare them, them. My music, when I do my music for me, it`s just automatic, I take a matter that I do for me that`s just me, and I simply don`t have that away. YKIGS: I wish to ask you around a call you did a few days back, the song "Strip Club." I was reading you sold that call to Marques Houston and eventually it didn`t have his album. Does this case of thing usually happen?Tank: Yea I took that song back from him. It did not do his album, it was on his album but I took it. *Laughs* So we thought it would be a large book for me once we finished and I was like "Hey if yall think it would be large for me, let`s keep it!" And we soaked it back, Timbaland remixed it, and we went from there.YKIGS: And so it off into "I Luv Dem Girls" on "Sex, Love & Pain" right?Tank: Yep.YKIGS: Does that always happen where you would have a call to an artist and doesn`t get their album. Does that always occur to you?Tank: Yea, but almost of the sentence I don`t use the songs. *Laughs* Because I tailor make records for artists and sometimes it only has their thing on it. I don`t need to be nobody else, and I don`t want nobody to be me.YKIGS: I wish to ask you almost a personal favorite artist of mine that you worked with years ago and that`s Static Major. What was your relationship like with him and what was it like running with him?Tank: That was my guy, it was family so it was slow to do magic with Static, that`s what he knew how to do. I came up listening to songs that Static_my first tour, I was singing songs that Static wrote, big hits that he wrote for Ginuwine and he wrote for Aaliyah. So it was an award and so it off into home and from there it`s just what it was at that point. He`s sorely missed, great writer, great entertainer, great everything. YKIGS: On your second album "One Man" he was credited in the writing credits for "Unpredictable" and "So Many Times" and I was only wondering, because they go like more of your way than his, did we co-write those with you? How did that go down?Tank: No he wrote those himself! I produced "Unpredictable" but he wrote it, and he wrote "So Many Times." That`s all Motionless and that was probably maybe Static maybe coming into my world. We had an admiration for each other`s craft so it worked perfect going into the studio with him. I didn`t second guess anything he wrote or anything he told me to sing, I only did it.YKIGS: I also need to recognize what you think about working with Aaliyah on the songs "I Can Be" and "What If" from her "Aaliyah" album. What do you think most about those sessions?Tank: Well unfortunately with those sessions, she was shooting "Queen of the Damned" over in Australia, and that was only when I was getting set to get a promo, so I didn`t get to get the trip. But she told me specifically what sort of records she wanted, and she kinda wanted a little dangerous, a little sexy, that case of thing. I got to go in the studio and tailor make something for her, that was amazing that she called me from way overseas like "Tank, I need these kinds of records, I live you can save them for me." And I was glad that I was capable to deliver, that they were records that she really loved them when she recorded them, she did her thing.YKIGS: Since you`ve had so many hits over the years, do you find labels coming to you wish "We want to get Tank to go with our artist, we require a hit." Do you notice that character of thing happening more and more often?Tank:Yea, that`s pretty much what I do! Yea so it`s the work that continues, they don`t amount to me for album cuts, they amount to get hit records. We`ve been capable to do well servicing record companies with keen records that they can use to give a large consistency of employment with, so yea they`re still calling.YKIGS: Do you feeling any pressure when they amount to you wish that for a hit, or is it line as usual?Tank: No I but do music, let the music speak for it. We only go in and we simply have fun and we simply make music, music needs no force to cook!YKIGS: I wish to ask you about TGT. Do you look if you guys had remained as a radical and it would have worked out, the good you guys had as a grouping would have worked on radio today? Because there are not many male groups doing music these days.Tank: I believe our three voices on anything would have worked on any radio station, on any TV station, in any area or venue you could conceive of. That was a charming thing that I hope it even has action in happening. We`ve been talk around it and hopefully this matter could even happen.YKIGS: Yea I`m hoping it does too. It`s been about ten days since your debut "Force of Nature." What major differences do you see since you came into the manufacture in r&b and the anatomy of the industry now with r&b?Tank: It`s not at the forefront. Rap has kinda come in and kinda taken over. We get mainstream by telling a rap hook whereas back in the day they weren`t mainstream unless we were on their record. I think the roles have just kinda changed a small bit and we gotta fight a little harder to live but working hard, you simply got gotta get out on the street and and get a campaign, just wish they out on the streets campaigning. It`s working for president now, it`s no longer just about selling records.YKIGS: Do you believe it`s coming back soon, r&b to the forefront?Tank: Yea, definitely. It`s getting set to create a thrill right now. You got a bunch of r&b albums and things like that getting set to get out at the end of the year. Keyshia Cole, andJamie, and myself and 3 is already out, Usher is doing well, Chris Brown getting set to put out another mixtape, Drake getting set to do an r&b mixtape.YKIGS: Tell me almost an artist you`d care to go with that you haven`t got the opportunity to already?Tank: You know I`m trying to, me and Brandy keep saying we`re passing to get together and actually do something, and I`m hoping I can. Then I`m hoping I can act with someone of the likes of Josh Groban or Celine Dion that type, just make some crazy music like that.YKIGS: A lot of your material has leaked on the net over the preceding few days and demos and all of that. How does that strike you, does that bother you?Tank: Well if it wasn`t good music you`d probably hear me. But it`s good music so I see on Youtube and all of those things and mass are saying that they know the music, and when is Tank coming out, that type of thing. It`s almost kinda helped make the expectation for this album. I will say that it was incorrectly done and the multitude that are responsible for that, legal action will be taken, but as an artist and from a present standpoint it`s kept my voice alive.YKIGS: Is there anything else you`d wish to add?Tank: December 14th "Now or Never," or pre-order it now on TheRealTank.com.
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