Tank And The Bangas - Black Folk ft. Alex Isley, Masego (Official Video)

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Music video by Tank And The Bangas performing Black Folk. A Verve Forecast relase; © 2022 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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[@tankandthebangas]

Listen to "Black Folk" ft. Masego and Alex Isley, and order our upcoming album 'Red Balloon' (May 13) now! tankandthebangas.lnk.to/redballoonID Don't forget to like, comment, and share yall!

[@Nikkiole84]

🖤🤎⚜️

[@swebb1155]

Can't wait 💕

[@HacksawJimThuggin]

So I just looked at the track listing and this song isn't on the album?????

[@francismumbi49]

This is a Banger... Love from Zambia...

[@catherineprince5345]

Ready for it!!!!! 🥰🥰

[@robhynekjewelle5889]

A visual love letter to New Orleans, A lyrical love letter to Black people...So much love.

[@blackceasar2141]

Nicely put

[@ball1106c]

💯 Exactly

[@777NIGHTHAWK1]

YES YESSSSS… ‘BOUGIE BLACK’ ALL OVER GOOD GREAT FEELINGS WANTING NEVER TO DEPART WITH A SOULFUL VIBE❣️🙌🏾 💜❤️🖤💚💛💜

[@mikaeljoachim4279]

hella soulful comment

[@honeybdream]

🖤⚜️🖤

[@cocomamacita365]

Omg this song makes me feel like my scalp is being scratched and oiled 😩🔥❤️🥰

[@homesteadingwithesikrumpua3046]

Omg🏆🏆🥰❤️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@thelandoffunk2496]

Awesome and accurate description!

[@1hinita]

Yall know that feelingfrom getting your hair washed by stylist, like one of those Goodt hair massages and scratch? Yea that lmbo

[@Extraintrovert82]

That is quite the analogy, but YOU ARE SO RIGHT! 😌

[@grandmav6002]

I can relate🥰

[@richardcollins2622]

A celebration of blackness…man, I LOVE my people.

[@angelajohnson8739]

❤🖤💚💛

[@cuddletron]

More black people need to hear this so they can learn to love themselves

[@DiabolikalFollikles]

🎤

[@Fpjao16]

🗣

[@THEE_ONE1]

BLACKITY BLACK BLACK ✊🏿

[@leosantini6162]

amber ruffin!

[@jck_777]

CB4!!

[@jablazin1]

This Is Our Anthem... I love love me some Black Folks.. We are Truly Beautiful People.. 🖤🙏🏾

[@samantha5199]

For real🤎🖤All Day Everyday ❤

[@AsToldByAWidowYTSeries]

This song celebrates and humanizes every part of the black experience. This is such a beautiful tribute to people of color our black folks. thank you for such thoughtfulness in this song.❤❤❤

[@IVValentine]

Honey I'm Black not POC

[@reaganibeh9443]

YES...

[@TyffyC]

This😌🙌🏿

[@Dakarai_Knight]

@@IVValentine Black people are POC. Poc is just a wider term to include black and brown people more broadly

[@IVValentine]

@@Dakarai_Knight To you. I'm Black. Thanks for coming.

[@markhaynes3629]

I love this song so much 😭 I'm a 49 year old black man from 🇬🇧 England 🇬🇧 and this lovely song resonates and connects with me on all levels. I just can't stop crying because we are beautiful people

[@drehardin]

❤💪🏾

[@henryiswynn2756]

Big UP, ALWAYS MUCH RESPECT For The UK 🇬🇧!

[@henryiswynn2756]

404 Thang ATL!!!!

[@YakiniMorgan]

Yes, my brother especially now that we so called African Americans, Hispanics and native Americans have awakened to know that we are the true Israelites of the Bible, the 🍏 of the most highs eye. If you are a descendent if African slaves then you are a Hebrew Israelites also, I often wondered why does the so called African Americans aka black people in America lead the world in music, sports, dancing, etc. It's about 2 billion Africans in the continent of Africa and about another billion across the globe so why does the ones from America. The Bible says " and Judah will lead them all" African Americans aka Hebrew Israelites are from the tribe of Judah, same as Jesus. Those edomites aka white folks have lied about earth's first born, they lied on Jesus name which was changed in the 1400 by Constantine because the letter "J" Isn't in the Hebrew language, they lied about his ethnicity, which in revelations it states he is black. They called us bi-words likblack, nigga, negro etc they said we were cursed and the seeds of ham who disrobed "NOAH" BUT didn't tell us that we are the Israelites and that in det. 28. 15-68 it states that God did curse us but because of that we sinned against God and that we were to be brought to slavery again on ships to be bought and sold. They forgot to mention that the most high says " to prepare for slaughter for the edomites and their children for the sins of their fathers. It's also written in revelations that" I KNOW the blasphemy of them that say they are jews but aren't but are from the synagogue of Satan. #IUIC#'WATCHMEN FOR ISRAEL # SONS OF ZION# SONS OF THUNDER# SICARII ETC. WE ARW WOKE NOW MY BRITISH BROTHER!! " bring it out"

[@angelajohnson8739]

Yes we are❤!!!

[@ebenet01]

This is ART....a love letter celebrating Black Folks.....a memory of blackness!! Love EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS ❤

[@snoepie123]

I have been married to a black man en the best memories that i have is his mother who loved me just like i was a black women. Im from Hungary. She told me never been treated to like i did in her life. I will never forget this. I have to cry if i think about it...She past away while ago

[@BadGyrlBren]

All their albums are uniquely special. It's a gift!

[@sdvonne5298]

I'm an islander and this song speaks to me..... Black folk are BEAUTIFUL!!!

[@munyaradzijani7409]

Zimbabwe, down in Africa approves. Love for ALL the black people around the world ❤

[@thegermthatlivesinsideyour9328]

And white people too buddy!

[@anna-mariadavis5914]

Thank you love you too ❤️🧡

[@BB-it4pj]

Love to you too brotha!

[@sibongiletasilaphiri7521]

Zambia right here 🌻🙏🏾🇿🇲

[@worldhealthrn]

Okay Zimbabwe! We see you! two wonderful months of my life spent in the charming Harare 👍🏾🙂

[@thehealthydad]

Am I the only one that cried hearing this? I love being Black, the original people have feelings deeper than blue. #ilovemesomeblkfolk

[@melviesmith2247]

Nope I just did like I haven't heard this song for the 1000th time. The words just resonate.

[@colettetaylor1028]

So much Black Excellence here! Representing for the 504 Babyyyyyy! ⚜

[@tamekao2520]

Black American culture at its finest. This song is everything!!!!

[@rogers6141]

i love the specificity

[@sowetwonow]

South Africa loves Tank and the Bangas ❣️

[@ms.joyngcobo2126]

South African here👋🏼 and you're absolutely right, I love Tank and the Bangas, first fell in love with them on NPR tiny desk years ago , they're amazing!

[@nothandongwane8607]

Dude.... I know right❤

[@sifisomavimbela8838]

Fosho mntungwa

[@awbside4485]

It’s February 1st and this will be played all month because I LOVE BLACK FOLK! ✊🏾❤️🖤💚🫶🏾

[@Mrpete215]

Vocally, Visually and Linguistically beautifully stunning…

[@dxwallace55]

yep......

[@africanbella28]

Well said👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@elevateyourglow]

This made me cry 🥹❤️😍👏🏾👏🏾 Growing up in the hood as a kid I didn’t like being black. Now as a 34 y.o woman, I know our story and journey is one of the most beautiful tales ever told. Well Done Tank & The Bangas 🔥🔥💕💕💕

[@claricek2653]

Yes we have so much to be proud of This is why so much is going into keeping the real whole history hidden ..SMH

[@nachoblack]

🖤🌹

[@nathanielmartin8585]

Songs like this make me proud to be a BLACK FATHER. I love me some BLACK folks.From the 504 to the 202. One Luv✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

[@queenteireigns6212]

This song is therapy. Thank you.

[@douglasthompson1988]

It really is ‼️💯

[@NNavyBBlue]

Def everything that needs to be addressed in therapy and celebrated in therapy. Therapy needs to be both.

[@aqueelahmuhammad3493]

This right here. I can feel my soul healing listening to this.

[@erikadavis4696]

I LOOOOOOVE MY DAMN PEOPLE!! ✊🏾❤🕉

[@Onepieceistheworstfuckinganime]

Silence dark

[@justanotherhiatus]

I’m not even from New Orleans but the short time that I did live there made me feel so at home. The soul of that city is truly something special 💜💚💛

[@levelup3696]

They really are some amazing people down there! 💗

[@rizmarie8136]

Same, yes!

[@walkupwrite4715]

This is timeless art! Wow, I’ve never been more proud to be Black than I am in this moment listening to this song. We are a majestic people!💜💜💜

[@TheMusicalEmpress]

Still on this in 2023, like a once a day type of thing!💃🏾🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@dewrite504]

Dope on all levels. I was born and raised in the N.O. I kept hearing this song on 91.9(WCLK) in Atlanta. Didn't know who it was until Morris Baxter said it on-air this morning. That's how you pay homage to your city and culture without being vulgar!!! Wonderful 👏🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥⚜⚜⚜⚜⚜⚜⚜⚜⚜⚜

[@jaypendleton4969]

Heard it the same morning and had to find out who it was very glad I found it

[@patriciacannon1829]

I heard Morris B. play this too🙂. Brings back memories of when I lived in NOLA years ago. So much luv in this music.🥰

[@atlboy2002]

I JUST heard this on WCLK in the ATL this morning and have been listening on repeat!!! AWESOME SONG 🎵 ❤👑🦁✊🏾

[@unifiedtechnology7848]

Waaaaaay better than what's been coming out of Atlanta mainstream music

[@kisha4474]

I heard it from Morris as well!

[@jodyharris9731]

I love being black. I love my melanin. We need more music like this!

[@atlboy2002]

Love my Israelites ❤✊🏾!! Let’s repent and come back to the Most High!!! Our redemption is coming 🙌🏾

[@tajmabruno]

Made me tear up. So beautiful and authentic

[@essjayem6498]

YES! Authentic!

[@catherineprince5345]

Me, too, Taj! Such a great song and great musicians!!!

[@youngbuddha5455]

Real tears...

[@jodyharris9731]

Me too. I cried.

[@venusmercury6257]

My soul needed this I miss the renaissance era🌺

[@kam1su2]

This song feels like home.

[@reneegraham8509]

Salute to the cultural nuances.

[@kinamonika]

Facts!

[@ipuke_glitter]

❤ This song is just too beautiful ❤ It's so soothing and uplifting. I am Black and Mexican, born and raised in a predominantly white and Asian area. When I was about 12, it was 2006, and many of us know that the early to mid 00s were not kind to poc, where Eurocentric beauty standards were more pushed than now. I didn't like being a person of color and I'm so ashamed now that I ever thought this way. I'm 30 now and fully happy and at terms with who I am. Black will always be beautiful and don't let anyone dim your light and tell you otherwise. ✨️ Thank you for this amazing song!

[@nicolebond3992]

This song is like a big warm comforting hug. Makes me feel good all over. I’m loving it.

[@thegermthatlivesinsideyour9328]

We just need a love letter to white folks now. They get so much hate these days yet without them we couldn't enjoy the convenient luxuries of modern society

[@amethystrose7647]

Ain't nothing like us!!!!! We are one of a kind, gifted, eccentric, we are the Gods and Goddesses of earth!!!!

[@Wes-y4b]

should be number 1 on the every list and billboard

[@aaronbell7035]

🖤BLACK🖤is YOU 🖤BLACK🖤is ME 🖤BLACK🖤is US I🖤MY BLACK FOLK KEEP PUSHING IM ROOTING 4 YOU🧘🏿‍♂️🎧🎶🎶

[@najaiaengram1961]

THIS IS A MASTERPIECE! WHY ISN'T IT BLOWING UP??

[@obsidianlane2101]

Because it’s spreading the vibrations of US lovin’ on US! The powers that be would rather see us spread hate to each other

[@dariangregory6182]

You know why

[@RobertLewis-lm2lr]

To all black and brown people: You're fabulous and brilliantly blessed in every way. They can't touch "We".

[@ElliotCharles0]

I'm not black, but Tank and the Bangas have been in my top 10 favorite artists since i discovered them from their appearance on Tiny Desk.

[@Courtney_Mercury]

I shed a tear watching these visuals and taking in the lyrics🥲 I can’t describe how beautifully complex, yet simple we are as a people. I will unapologetically admit that God knew what he was doing when he made me Black🫳🏾✨🫴🏾🖤 🥰

[@Akasha2023]

This comment touched my core I'm right with you what you said Ase'🧿

[@MrJohnMoIII]

A grown azz mans man and so happy to hear this it brought happy tears to my eyes from the struggle…. Thank you Lord for my black skin!!!

[@samantha5199]

Amen 💪🏾🙏🏾

[@siphokandebele]

A beautiful ode to black folk, such a great & poetic song. Tank & The Bangas, well done 🔥

[@hakeemyaylo8804]

Ouuuuu The melanin is Devine 😌✊🏾💜 Black is Devine King 🤴🏾 & 👸🏾 status

[@PROD5VE]

2022 is the year I produce a song for Tank And The Bangas 🙏🏼

[@Qu33n]

Tank is a Southern musical conservationist! We (the down South-Louisiana natives) appreciate her!

[@andreatyler5851]

Thick plaits swinging and sneaky uncles... I can listen to these lyrics daily

[@bxdale83]

I stumbled across this song/video looking for some Alex Isley music and all I have to say is "WOW"! Never heard of Tank and the Bangas before this but now I'm a fan 🔥🔥

[@yankeegurl611]

I HIGHLY suggest Tank and The Bangas tiny desk. It is phenomenal and made me an instant fan 🙌🏾

[@musicloveranthony]

If you get the chance to see them live, I def recommend

[@tinaamariee832]

Do yourself a favor go watch their Tiny Desk. It’s one of the best I’ve ever seen

[@hviolet4419]

@@musicloveranthony I’m going to see them in a few days! I can’t wait!

[@tinker2217]

Oh you gotta check out their TINY DESK 🔥🔥

[@ShowKase]

"For they are the people that were made from the darkest parts of the sky". Now THAT is some LYRICS. Damn.

[@lesego4802]

Masego’s verse is just 🥹! such a beautiful tribute. Much love from overseas…. South Africa ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ricardomikebarna3767]

This song deserve every award that might be nominated 🔥

[@NylaM00n]

Sometimes ill be like I hate my skin color but THIS SONG THIS SONG RIGHT HERE got me feeling like an African queen fr

[@hawkone1949]

You are indeed an African queen.

[@africanbella28]

You are beautiful no matter what your skin color is!!! Remember black is the essence of beauty. That’s why everyone wants to look like us💕

[@alvaroocampo6876]

The keyboard quotes the opening chords from Miles Davis' Blue in Green as played by Bill Evans in 1959's album Kind of Blue.

[@dr.b1346]

My favorite jazz song❤....please explain...dont get your comment???

[@alvaroocampo6876]

@@dr.b1346 it's common in hip hop and jazz to quote famous songs, i ain't saying it's the exact same chords but a different voicing/inspired by it. I really am a bassist so can't really tell the exact notes. blue in green it's one of my favorite joints too

[@dr.b1346]

@@alvaroocampo6876 cool.

[@cedricholloman2830]

Good ear. #1 Jazz Album of all time.

[@emerald_skai205]

The 3:40-3:45 mark oooweee those brothas were FIONEEEE!!!

[@cynthiadelandro6635]

This song makes me very emotional 😢

[@NB-nh2sf]

Great tribute to Black American culture.

[@dizzidiamond1738]

Maaaaan Tank and the Bangas makes music and makes it good. Epitomizing the hell out of Black excellence. I. Love. This.

[@GivingGodwhateverhewants]

Makes me feel like I’m walking on the cold cement floor of the projects with the evening sun raying off of it.🥰

[@lashaunmiller4258]

Wooooow!..2.6 million likes..In 6 days!...Yesssss!!!..I love this song!..And I Love Being BLACK!!!✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿✌🏾😍❤💜🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@blueak3111]

Tank, you can always make me cry.

[@sabinadesir173]

Universal love letter to a shared black experience. I'm in the UK and this sounds like home. Beautiful..and thank you!

[@haroldarchie3859]

This is beautiful both sonically and visually. Cant get enough of this video.

[@kingofhearts1072]

Even though most of them don't get as much MAINSTREAM exposure, I'm so glad that we still have REAL artists. So DOPE that they used SPOKEN word at the beginning of this, which is not done in mainstream music(no I'm not talking about rapping).

[@sbss924]

This song has me in tears. TEARS of pure JOY!!!!

[@candicejeremie877]

I feel this in a different way as I am from the Caribbean, but it's the same...You know?! It is exceptional storytelling and I am here for it!

[@TinyT0ny]

even over here, as an AfroGerman - I got the goosebumps - I just feel it! - this is so well done, I can smell a breeze of PinkLotion :)

[@GodisGreatt]

This reminds me of the 202, childhood Summers in SE DC! 🥰♥️💚🖤💛 Love that Alex and Masego were added features to this beautiful song!🎧

[@wonderfultink]

OMG Yes !! Southside DC.

[@garytucker3563]

Chocolate Ciddy fo' eva youngin'!!!!

[@jalanwb7469]

souf side 🙌🏾

[@rashondalee4544]

Really???!!! I had a similar kindred feeling that it would be my song when I travel and am in the DMV area❤❣️ it reminds of it

[@seanmanning8800]

They don't know bout the Delaware Ave Crew youngn

[@sistamacras1264]

WE are everywhere and WE are everything! #ILovebeingBLACK

[@latashasmith1778]

I’m from 🇬🇧 and I came across this song at a time in my life where I was overwhelmed with sadness at being black and being a woman due to the injustices I faced but this song kept me going through my depressive episode and made me appreciate how dope it is to be black. I’m sad I missed you in September but hope to you guys another time

[@armonwilliams4735]

Don't ever forget you are special, and you should celebrate your place and propose on this earth, both as a black woman, and as a person embracing your full humanity!

[@jetunb]

Every. Single. Time. I hear this song, I cry. Thanks T&B

[@Jbo6287]

This is now my Anthem. It fills my heart.

[@thegreatbax3861]

I can't relate to the American experience, but somehow this song makes me feel seen. Thank you. Love Accidental Therapist x

[@NstntVntage]

This...It feels like a hot comb and Blue Magic. Love, love LOVE this!

[@samantha5199]

What do you know about that Dax grease😂

[@davionhambrick8627]

This is beautiful. Makes me feel so nostalgic

[@hottafyah6278]

So beautiful! a love letter to the dopest people on earth

[@thegermthatlivesinsideyour9328]

And White People are the smartest

[@khadijahk.5322]

A WHOLE VIBE….✌🏾

[@thegreatestbassist]

OUR PEOPLE should listen to this track SEVERAL TIMES A DAY.........Maybe then, WE'LL STOP KILLING EACH OTHER AND MOVE AS ONE........Peace & Blessings from PHILLY!!!!

[@obsidianlane2101]

Everything u said!! I LOVE US!!!! Reading the comments WE ARE SO BEAUTIFUL I LOVE SONGS CELEBRATING US..We need this.. we are all we got plus our ancestors!

[@thegreatestbassist]

@@obsidianlane2101 I TOTALLY AGREE, BELOVED. PEACE FROM PHILLY!!!

[@aarinfoster8290]

The is an titillating ode to the simplistic complexities of the soul, authenticity, and strength of black people with Tank and Bangas narrating the triumphs and downfalls of blackness in a unique mix of sweetened frustration. Alex Isley is the soultastically beautiful conscience of it all and Masego breaths his melancholic vocals to be the chaser to digest this sonic smorgasbord with ease.

[@traceykilgore8081]

I love this song... It describes Who We are and What incredible people We are and have ALWAYS been!!! IT MAKES ME PROUD!!!!!!!! Thank you TANK , ALEX ISLEY and yes the MASEGO himself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@poshchocolatesuperstar]

Dammit, this song make me cry everytime I listen to it and this video just feels me with so much Black Joy. Ahhhhh, this is truly a soulful, spiritual praise song of our people.

[@courtneyjeffries390]

This is a beautiful video about us beautiful black folks. I like how they have Alex Isley on the hook. She has a beautiful voice.

[@craigslistreplies3485]

I had to rewind 3:40 SEVERAL times. I will take Zaddy and his son 😘

[@reddherron3373]

Ummm this innanetter thanks u…that’s a real fine twinning right there! 🙌🏽😍

[@dr.b1346]

I'll just take the dad!!

[@lonelyenchantress2172]

I know right, ill take the son cuz I like em young 😘😁

[@cklundskow92821]

WOW, WE ARE BEAUTIFUL! Now this is us, all day, everyday and twice on Sundays!❤️✊🏼❤️✊🏽❤️✊🏾❤️✊🏿❤️

[@unitywidlund2229]

Love love love me some Alex Isley 💕😌

[@Dayosonic]

Black sound like black hair and hot comb smell , black sound like healthy organic food in my stomach, mad love from Westside Africa, 🇳🇬Nigeria.

[@noidsupremo3936]

i'm from South Africa and this is one of my favourite tracks ever.Very dope collaboration I love how Alex isley and Masego spice it up....total perfection

[@RM-lj8bv]

PERFECT VIBE

[@Jasimonster]

I got the privilege of hearing this live best experience in my life

[@mochamama8176]

All the good things about being black. Men and women: Take pride in your natural beauty and share its loveliness.

[@hopesdaughter5947]

This takes me right back to 1998 standing on NYC stages, like the Nuyorican and the Bowery Poets Cafe and Peppers off Canal Street with my African percussionists performing, reciting my poetry. Feeling so right in my spirit. 🎤🖤🙏🏽✊🏽💪🏽👸🏽☮️

[@rdreher760]

We all that! Luv you….there’s no one like you on this Earth!!! We are original, beautiful, colorful people.

[@WhizMitchell]

I've known about this group for at least a few years now, and this is the best thing they've put out yet. Black don't crack!!! Love this song.

[@zsazsadora5155]

ANY SONG WITH ALEX ISLEY WILL BE A BANGER PERIOTTT!!! COMPLETE FIRE!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@2x_World]

The amount of love in this song is literally enough to make me shed a tear every time

[@thegermthatlivesinsideyour9328]

You must be black

[@daphney_elaine]

Finally a beautiful depiction of US… This makes my heart flutter…❤️‍🔥

[@aes5350]

I need that shrimp poboy!

[@moniquefalu7296]

This is Soul Deep Beautiful ❤

[@moto_wend7172]

this feels like a big hug... i'm obsessed with this beautiful song 💙💙💙 ty!

[@radorezz7627]

Come on black folks! Let's get this to 2 million views

[@banji4to]

Another Banga from Tanka and the bangas