Tank and J. Valentine Are R&B's Family Reunion

If you've spent any time in R&B over the last two decades, you already know these two names. R&B Money is what happens when a Grammy-winning singer and a multi-platinum songwriter decide the genre's history deserves better than liner notes and think pieces. Produced under The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts, the show sits Tank and J. Valentine down with the artists and executives who built modern R&B, and just lets them talk.

Tank

Tank built his career as a singer, songwriter, and producer, and he's one of R&B's most respected voices for good reason. His catalog includes albums like Force of Nature and Now or Never, records that helped keep grown-folks R&B alive while the genre kept getting declared dead every few years. He's a Grammy winner, a small club to be in, and decades into his career he's still the one artists want to talk to about the craft, not just the fame.

On R&B Money, Tank plays the role of the guy who's lived it. He's not interviewing his guests so much as reminiscing with them, artist to artist. That's the personality read that holds up here: someone secure enough in his own catalog to spend an episode hyping up Donell Jones or Joe Thomas instead of making the conversation about himself.

Find him on Twitter and Instagram, where he's still deep in the music conversation between episodes.

J. Valentine

J. Valentine is the pen behind more hits than most casual listeners realize. As a multi-platinum songwriter and music executive, his writing credits stretch across some of the biggest R&B and hip-hop records of the past twenty years. He shaped the songs other artists got famous singing, which gives him a different vantage point than Tank's: less about the mic, more about the machine behind it.

That perspective makes him the right partner for this show. Where Tank talks performance and legacy, J. Valentine gets into the business side: the writing sessions, the executive calls, the decisions that turn a record into a hit. He's the industry-insider half of the duo, and the show benefits from having both angles in the room at once.

Tank and J. Valentine, together

Put them behind one mic and you get something like a writers' room crossed with a family reunion. Tank brings the artist's memory, J. Valentine brings the executive's context, and together they cover R&B's sprawl from Keith Sweat to Pink Sweat$, as the show itself puts it. They're business partners first, and that history shows in how loose the conversations are. Nobody's performing for the room.

Recent guests like Donell Jones, Joe Thomas, and A.Chic give a sense of the range: legacy singers, songwriters, and executives who built the sound this genre runs on. If you love R&B and want the stories behind the songs, not just the songs, Tank and J. Valentine have earned the right to tell them.

The family reunion isn't slowing down, either. R&B Money is still posting on a roughly weekly basis, with the most recent episode landing September 3, 2026.