Tanks talks about This is How I Feel songs and the Danja produced Title Track

Check out this interview, where Tank reveals the secrets on the recording process of This Is How I Feel, written by Kris Stephens, Luke James and Tank, Produced by Danja.

Does that come into play on the title track?

Danja actually produced that track. Me, Kris Stephens and Luke James wrote it. It's one of those 3AM records. I don't really record that late. I like to record during the day, when the vocals are nice, fresh and perky. But, that was a 3AM record. Kris said, "I got a line for the verse. Will you just lay this line really quickly?" We were getting ready to leave the studio, and I laid that line and we just never stopped. Once I started getting away from the savior aspect of what I wanted the album to be, and I just started to just make the music I wanted to make, This Is How I Feel just became the perfect title.

You worked with Kris Stephens, but you're great at producing and songwriting as well, so how does this type of collaboration work exactly?

Kris helped me write a lot of the last album as well. I've had her as an artist for a few years now, and my thing with her was to make sure she had a foundation. The thing that kept me alive, period, was that I was able to write and produce. Being an artist doesn't always pay the bills. Being able to write and produce was the foundation I needed to live and help build everything around me. Even to live for that matter. I wanted her to have that, so she wasn't just a struggling artist, but she would be more in control of her own situation, because she would be the driving and creative force behind it. She's young. She's 23, and her ideas progress so fast. We started thinking the same. Her young energy and the things she learned from me, it made for a good combination of something fresh. She helped me do that.

I'm more of a one-stop shop when it comes to producers. I really wanted to A&R my project. I wanted to get with some dope producers. I wanted to hear what some other writers had to say. Me and Danja worked together before but I wanted to get it right this time. Luke James, cause that's my youngster, wasn't a problem to get him. T-Minus I got through a middleman. He's got a certain energy to his tracks, that although they are club tracks, they have some sort of intimate thing to it that makes you feel good. Kevin McCall is on it. Remember the singer Sammie? He helped write my single "Next Breath." It's a little mixture going on. I wanted to get some different vibes and build on what I already had. 

Check out the rest of the interview here via The Boombox.