Tank And The Bangas - The Heart, The Mind, The Soul (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Tank and the Bangas confirm a three-part spoken word collection—The Heart, The Mind, The Soul—is set for release via Verve Forecast. In celebration, the first installment, The Heart (with James Poyser) is out now. From it, you can check out “A Poem Is” below.

All three parts will be unveiled by August 30, with the full project and bonus tracks set for release October 11. Each installment finds Tank working with a different collaborator—the first part to be released, The Heart, was produced by James Poyser. The Mind pairs her with Iman Omari, followed by The Soul with producer and jazz musician Robert Glasper.

The Heart’s opening track, “A Poem Is,” boasts a feature from Jill Scott—an appearance that directly aligns with Tank’s mission to magnify poetry as a music genre. “I want for poetry to get that much more respect and for even more young people to get into the expression of poetry,” Tank expresses. “I want it to be seen as even more cool again. Poetry has always been my first love because it loved me back, it loved me before music even. now I get to share more of that part of myself with the world, in hopes that you love it to. Everything in this world has its place, the HEART deals with matters of my heart, my relationships with men and the one with myself. The MIND lends itself to the things I think about living as a woman in this world, and the relationships I’ve gone back and forth in my mind about. And the SOUL is a form of subconscious and conscious free flowing poems about myself and the city that raised me.”

TRACKLIST

1. Tank And The Bangas - A Poem Is
2. Tank And The Bangas - They Don’t See/Whole Foods
3. Tank And The Bangas - Enjoy The Ride
4. Tank And The Bangas - Open To Thyself
5. Tank And The Bangas - Starting Over
6. Tank And The Bangas - Ghetto Earth
7. Tank And The Bangas - Remember
8. Tank And The Bangas - Who Ha?
9. Tank And The Bangas - Little Things
10. Tank And The Bangas - You’re In Way Over Your Head
11. Tank And The Bangas - Am I Still New Orleans



Thanks to the Original customer.