Tank has launched yet another singing challenge and this time he’s channeling New Edition with a cover of their 1988 anthem “Can You Stand the Rain.”
The R&B artist took to Instagram on Monday (March 6) to kick off the challenge which featured him on his home piano singing along to the New Edition hit while simultaneously challenging the likes of original group member Johnny Gill, New Edition Story actor Luke James and “abused angel” Kevin Hart.
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“I’m calling out the originator @realjohnnygill22 I’m calling out his stunt double @wolfjames,” he wrote. “I’m calling one of the coldest young voices in the world @musiqcity and i’m calling out the man with the voice of an abused angel @kevinhart4real #cystrbreathingchallenge LETS GOOOOO!!! R&B MONEY!!”
Those Tank called out are yet to respond but fans got a laugh out of Kevin Hart being labeled as an “abused angel” by the singer.
“This is my favorite kind of peer pressure,” one person responded in his comment section.
Tank is looking to follow up on the success that his previous “Can We Talk?” Challenge. Going viral via TikTok in late 2021, singers showed off their vocal talents while covering Tevin Campbell’s silky chorus on the song of the same name.
Meanwhile, Tank unleashed his R&B Money album last August with assists from Chris Brown, Rotimi, J. Valentine and more. In a 2022 interview with Variety he called for labels to invest more dollars into R&B artists.
“We gotta get back to the expensive part of our music,” he said. “The priceless, which we like to call R&B money. That’s where the money is. The money is a byproduct of helping people create those experiences and wanting to continue to experience that. They’ll buy into it if it feels good, if it connects.
“Record labels are in this to make money. Radio conglomerates are in this to make money. Venues are in this to make money. A rap record that was made for $2,500 in somebody’s basement sold a million copies. An R&B record made in the biggest studio in the world, had already spent $1.2million, sold the same one million records.”
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He added: “As rap takes over, all of a sudden melodic rap sneaks in. Now, people would rather hear rappers singing bad than singers singing good.”
