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Album Review: Tank - Sex, Love & Pain II

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"Frank Ocean and The Weeknd among others consigned slow, saccharine sex jams to the past years ago."

If you're an artist whose career hasn't reached the heights you'd hoped, Tank is an unfortunate moniker.

Physically imposing, productive, and nearly two decades deep into an R&B career; our hero's shot at the A-list appears to be in the process of — ahem — tanking. The-Dream, Frank Ocean and The Weeknd among others consigned slow, saccharine sex jams to the past years ago. #BDAY, a hashtag equipped with a Chris Brown guest spot, may be the most cynical song we hear this year. Fuckin Wit Me is a sexual CV whose title is edgy to only the most naive of nine-year-olds. Nothing to see here, folks.