Tank and the Bangas live at Blue Note New York

[@quitamoon]

So beautiful and so healing. Thank y'all for being in it to serve the art and fun

[@poeticcups]

I’m so in love with Jelly and Tank 😍🤤

[@voyager1369]

#ILoveTankAndJelly

[@voyager1369]

p.s. I think I've got a crush on Albert!

[@noody2081]

Tank and the Bangas Plus Anderson Paak. = Best Concert Ever

[@bogadooshmooney2713]

BEAUTIFUL !!!

[@bogadooshmooney2713]

BRILLIANT...

[@Mr21Nubia]

Creative and just plain genius

[@fedup9073]

These are my peeps!!!

[@amarosoares2535]

Amazing outkast cover😍

[@Goldenhicks1]

This is my new favorite band!!! Hands up! Big ups to the raw talented ones!!!

[@fountain855]

Such a beautiful rendition!

[@madiyahjames9233]

Killed it

[@BiBlackCar1]

I still was supposed to be at this concert here but I had to go back home to Minnesota to put my father to rest and then when I got back home in DC I was going to try to go to the concert there and it was totally sold out ahhh

[@starlighter3]

God bless your father.

[@collegescholarship1539]

I hope you get to see them next week. They are back in DC

[@ShePressure28]

Love Love Love Tank and the Bangas!!! Bringing in the New Year playing their beautiful music!!!!!!😘😍🤣😍😘

[@therebirth2008]

Love❤Love!!!✊🏽

[@Galanty]

Tank and Jelly = beautiful Music

[@joshmiller3510]

Wow, is all I have to say.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@esotericgreene]

I LOVE YALL....I LOVE YOU.

[@deso224]

Master class

[@drjohnson2020]

I’m in love with the whole band!!!...❤️😍❤️ When are y’all coming to Atlanta???....😩

[@teeseay2001]

I'm so ready to see yall on Ellen

[@BiBlackCar1]

I mean but come on they did outcast I know they're listening to this and I just like to laugh and saying how beautiful

[@אריהארמוזה]

Keyz Keaton צ ם

[@sararivz668]

❤️❤️❤️

[@BeaverontheBeats]

Another vid from Blue Note here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnuufWdtr5ijo9U + Australian shows here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGnJqaSFbc9rr68 + kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXnUZ6iOhNZ6b9E

[@brindlebriar]

"Hey Ya" is the anthem of black people who are experimenting with just being people again. Instead of emissaries of blackness. Black people who are willing to be people. Regardless of political views. "Just" people, and in so doing, become a thousand times more than a collective identity ever could hope to be. Transcendent, individual, brave. The song itself is mostly nonsense. It is its very silliness, it's non-allegiance to anything, it's refusal of the rules of convention, that has caused it to become a symbol of the individualist whim. And you can see that mindset at play in the groups, like Tank and the Bangas, who cover it. And I think that's why they cover it. It's an anthem. An anthem to an alternate universe, an alternate way from the thousands of good little angry proud hip-hops who dot all the 'i's and cross all the 't's. And my God, it's refreshing. Genius is back, and it's refusing to be fettered.

[@sapphirejones7302]

brindlebriar thanks for your opinion...but please don't "enlighten" black about what a black singer is saying. She's actually singing a rap song that's about fucking. Smh...but thanks for the misseducation.

[@brindlebriar]

Request denied. I won't cow-tow to your racist dumb-assery, slave-boy. Choose better. Be a person. If your body were in a dungeon shackled to a ball and chain, but your mind were free of the 'I am black people,' mind-cage, you'd be, on balance, much freer than you are. Be you, dumbass. If you want to critique my observation, feel free. But if your critique is that I'm of the wrong race to have an opinion on the subject, the only statement you've made is that you're a slave-boy to the identity-group that has replaced your self and become your master. Choose better. Be a person.

[@sapphirejones7302]

brindlebriar Lmao thanks for the laughs...you won't address that you were wrong though. Address the issue. I called you out. Hey Ya is a song about one night stands. It's about wanting to fuck, NOT wanting to know the person... so yes white man trying to hand out bullshit and call it meatloaf, YOU have no right to misseducate people on the black anything! Enough said!

[@brindlebriar]

It's _not_ about just wanting to fuck and not wanting to know the person. AND, it's _not even a rap song._ But more importantly, that's completely irrelevant to my original post, because what the song is about has nothing to do with my OP. I could not possibly be 'wrong,' based on what the song is or isn't about, since I didn't mention what the song is or isn't _about._ I said it's become an anthem for those who are black but are tired of identity politics and want to try just being people - unlike yourself. That has nothing to do with what the song is or isn't about. But that concept is clearly too hard for you, so I'm going to help you out with what the song is about. I wasn't going to mention any of this, out of kindness to you, because I feel like I'm picking on a mental child. One, two, three! My baby don't mess around Because she loves me so This I know fo sho! - [He's saying his girlfriend doesn't cheat on him, because she loves him.] But does she really wanna But can't stand to see me walk out the door -[He's wondering if she _wants_ to cheat on him, but doesn't do it because she doesn't want to lose him.] Don't try to fight the feeling Because the thought alone is killin' me right now -[He's saying, if that's how she feels, she should go ahead and do it because the thought alone is already killing him anyway.] Thank God for Mom and Dad For sticking to together Like we don't know how -[He's saying he's glad his parents remained together, though he's not sure if he and his gf will managed it.] Hey ya! Hey ya! Now, to _you,_ all of this means the song is "about wanting to fuck, NOT wanting to know the person." But the lyrics don't say anything like that. There _is_ mention of fucking later in the song, but nothing whatsoever about not wanting to know the person. The closest he comes to _that_ is saying he doesn't want to meet her MOM and DAD. Are those the same to you? If you're not keen to meet a girl's mom and dad, that means you don't want to know her? So, read the lyrics or listen carefully, if you want to learn what a song is and isn't about, so you can go about attacking people for imagining that they don't know what it's about. What a sad life. But at least do it right. Cause you got it wrong, bro. AND you're far, far _more_ wrong than that about trying to tell people they can or can't have an opinion, based on their race. As for me, even if I'm wrong about what the song is about, my original post is still 100% right, because it has nothing to do with what the song is _about._ Now, that's some fucking ownage right there, that I just laid down on your sorry ass. It took me 2-3 minutes. I typed "Hey ya lyrics" into Goggle and read them. You could have done it yourself and saved yourself the embarrassment. So, say "Yes, master," and we'll call it a day.

[@jjjkkklll180]

Love your reading of "Hey Ya"; it's really an interesting reading of the song. But, I'm a bit saddened by your use of the word "slave-boy" because Sapphire disagrees with your reading -- You've undone your original argument, which (coincidentally) happened to be quite strong! Again: Great reading!