Club
Tank Lyrics


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[Mac]
No Limit black sheep, played the back seat for months
Stayed away from the Tanqueray, bitches and blunts
Still Mac nigga, ain't nothin changed
Got the rings and the gold chains
Now bitches wanna know my whole name
I penetrate em, then I disintegrate em
I let the next nigga date em, cuz I don't hate em
I spit voodoo, to the most hard to get hoes
And at the end of the night, I rippin off clothes
You fuckin with the realest, from lyrical spillers
To killers and dealers and cap peelers, and street guerillas
From villians to chillers, we made millions
And paid killers to protect scrilla
So what the fuck you talk about winners?
You hear that word camouflage when you hear my name
I represent the shell shocked cuz it's in my veins
(No Limit soldier) is on my left arm, I took it in blood
Throw your hood up if you a thug
And all them niggas say

[Chorus - Mac]
(Woah!)
You see a soldier on the streets holler
(Woah!)
You hear them soldiers on them beats holler
(Woah!)
Every time them soldiers speak holler
(Woah!)

[Kane & Abel]
Load your weapons, grab your gats
We sprinkle daily verbs over tracks
Hit the chest like heart attacks
When my lyrical hammer cock back
And leave bullet holes in your Bourbons and 'Lacs
The only thing we give them hoes is a dick and a smack
Gangstafied Kane & Abel you know the camouflage assassin
Blastin and mashin, kidnappin and head bashin
Razor blade slashin, the endo blunt passin
For the cash and, woah it's bout to happen
What you want (?) ugly with that 223
Hit em up in 3-d, now it's banned from tv
Niggas playa hated, I sho hated
Spark the weed, cremated
See this game, we regulated

[Mr. Serv-On]
Nigga, you know me
The nigga that spell everything out? (Nah)
The nigga that'll run through your motherfuckin set and bang
Your hoe motherfuckin out (Fuck yeah nigga)
The nigga that's catchin these niggas and beatin em down
Cuz they wearin Tanks, they don't know what the fuck it mean
Nigga, that's the fuck, that's about punchin your fuckin mouth
The nigga that'll tear the club up
Nigga, I don't give a fuck if you bangin or slangin
Nigga when I put this Tank up nigga you get rowdy as the fuck
But if you think I was gonna leave this motherfucker without
Spellin a line
K-L you done lost your motherfuckin mind
Stop the track cuz these niggas don't know about my click black
I down with the M to the A to the C
It's the S to the E to the R to the V
Fuckin with the T to the A to the N to the K
And when I come through motherfucker and I raise my Tank up high
You best believe some a you coward motherfuckers gon die

[Chorus]

[Big Ed]
Nigga what I claim?
Nigga I claim TRU!
I hang with niggas that's killas with TRU tatoos
I got my name Big Ed from what I put between hips
I got my name Assassin from the way I empty out clips
Wear the No Limit soldier, thuggin at heart
Hittin niggas with throw aways when I toss em I break em apart
Niggas get your guns up if you rowdy
And when Assassin hit the stores, buy the album if you bout it
Bout it

[Snoop Dogg]
Rowdy gangsta in this motherfucker, loco
So I can come through and keep it TRU and do what the fuck I
Must
I bust, I keep it TRU from the 'ginnin
Snoop Dogg, the representer from Long Beach city
A TRU tank dog, bank y'all in y'all face
If y'all try to come close, y'all can't run this race
I place my self above the stack
With my homeboys Mac and sack you fact, we strap for strap
We got your back, don't even flip out or trip out
Or dip out, these niggas lookin at me strange
My game to maintain, I let it go, I sell it don't tell it
Y'all can't touch it motherfucker, or bail it, for real

[Mia X]
Biggest mama, drama two guns here I come
Put down for my last son, the camouflaged one
Mac the don, get your shine on cuz it's your time
And I'ma get my rhyme on and spit like nine
Cocked nine millimeters the ghetto diva
Mia X-rated, golden platinum plated
Face it, when they hear me on the K-L track
All them niggas grab they head and jump back
Hollin Woah cuz it's goin down like lips to dick
I'm so tight I make you bitches never wanna see the mic
And spit, the matter lesson rhymes next to mine
I'm mama superior, you hoes is fearin the
Lyrical warfare I exhale
Some fake bitches like you name is Mel




Battle anybody, hip hop or glock
On TRU I'ma close your shop, woah

Overall Meaning

The song "Club" by Tank is a collaboration by several artists from the No Limit label, including Mac, Kane & Abel, Mr. Serv-On, Big Ed, Snoop Dogg, and Mia X. The lyrics from each artist showcase their unique styles and personalities. Mac, in the first verse, talks about his success as a rapper and brags about his sexual prowess with women. Kane & Abel rap about their street activities as "camouflage assassins," using violent imagery and gun references in their lyrics. Mr. Serv-On raps about his loyalty to his crew and his readiness to fight and protect. Big Ed brags about his nickname and reputation as an assassin, while Snoop Dogg talks about his gangster roots and staying true to his identity. Mia X, the only featured female artist, showcases her powerful voice and confidence in her rhymes.


Overall, the song portrays the aggressive and rough lifestyle that the No Limit artists were known for at the time. The song's lyrics revolve around street violence, drugs, and sexual exploits, while also showcasing the individual styles of each artist.


Line by Line Meaning

No Limit black sheep, played the back seat for months
I've been laying low and off the radar for a while


Stayed away from the Tanqueray, bitches and blunts
I'm trying to stay out of trouble and avoid distractions


Still Mac nigga, ain't nothin' changed
Despite being out of the spotlight, I'm still the same person


Got the rings and the gold chains
I have some flashy jewelry now


Now bitches wanna know my whole name
People are starting to pay attention to me again


I penetrate em, then I disintegrate em
I have a reputation as a ladies man who doesn't stick around


I let the next nigga date em, cuz I don't hate em
I don't get jealous or possessive over women


I spit voodoo, to the most hard to get hoes
I have a way with women that is hard to explain


And at the end of the night, I rippin off clothes
I have a reputation for being very sexual


You fuckin with the realest, from lyrical spillers
I'm part of a group of talented rappers


To killers and dealers and cap peelers, and street guerillas
Some of my associates are involved in illegal activities


We made millions
Despite the risks, we've been very successful


So what the fuck you talk about winners?
I don't have time for anyone who isn't making moves


You hear that word camouflage when you hear my name
I am part of a group of tough guys who wear camouflage gear


Load your weapons, grab your gats
It's time to get ready for battle


We sprinkle daily verbs over tracks
We are skilled rappers who add our own flavor to everything we do


Hit the chest like heart attacks
Our rhymes hit hard and fast


When my lyrical hammer cock back
When I start rapping, it's like pulling a trigger


And leave bullet holes in your Bourbons and 'Lacs
Our rhymes leave a mark on people


The only thing we give them hoes is a dick and a smack
We don't have much respect for women


Gangstafied Kane & Abel you know the camouflage assassin
I am a tough, military-style gangster


Blastin and mashin, kidnappin and head bashin
I am dangerous and not to be messed with


Razor blade slashin, the endo blunt passin
I'm a smoker and can be violent


Nigga, you know me
I am a well-known rapper


The nigga that spell everything out?
I am known for my clear and direct lyrics


Cuz they wearin Tanks, they don't know what the fuck it mean
People are wearing my merchandise without really understanding its significance


Nigga, that's the fuck, that's about punchin your fuckin mouth
I have a short fuse and am willing to fight


Nigga, I don't give a fuck if you bangin or slangin
I don't care what your gang affiliation is


I'm so tight I make you bitches never wanna see the mic
I am a very talented rapper and have intimidated others with my skills


Battle anybody, hip hop or glock
I am willing to take on anyone in a fight or a rap battle


On TRU I'ma close your shop, woah
I am part of a powerful group that can take down anyone who opposes us




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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

Lazix VonBerg

@8:04 don't slot Keen Jagged for any AoE/Cleave dps weapon. This perk is ONLY good in single target. The internal cooldown means it's ONLY ever on 1 enemy. Weapons that can hit multiple enemies should NEVER slot Keenly Jagged, and tanks should probably NEVER run a weapon that only hits 1 target. (Unless you're bow tanking Wyrm)

BiS tank Longsword perks are Refreshing Move, Hated, Trenchant Rend.
You should be heavy attacking as part of your rotation anyways, and more rend boosts your whole group's DPS. The uptime on Trenchant rend isn't the best, but it's decent. If you prefer a different perk, you can replace this one, but IMO the other 2 are required.
Hated allows you to keep threat over higher dps builds.
Refreshing Move is... as explained, pretty required.

@18:40 Clearout has always had almost 0 knockback (IN EXPEDITIONS). There are and were specific enemy types that DID get knocked back, such as corrupted mages, and lost bombers, but many times you WANT to knock those back. I've been using Clearout for YEARS in expeditions, and it's phenomenal. The recent buff to the perk is just a cherry on top of an already great skill.
BiS Warhammer perks are Sundering Clearout, Trenchant Recovery, Hated
Trenchant Recovery is fantastic when weaving heavy attacks between hammer skills for more CDR, and longer Grit window.
Hated is self explanatory. You NEED hated when tanking for strong dps players in high end groups, or you'll loose agro almost instantly.

@27:45 This is a mole hill I'm prepared to die on. ENFEEBLING SKEWER ON WEAPON IS A COLLOSAL WASTE FOR ANY BUILD. Enfeeble caps at 50%. The ONLY time you need more, is if the target is empowered, which DOES happen, but you still DO NOT need the perk on spear. Perforate enfeeble, + Enfeebling Skewer (ON ARMOR) does the exact same job, without sacrificing a weapon perk slot. There are MANY MANY other sources of enfeeble, almost every weapon has SOME measure of enfeeble they can apply and sustain in cases where a target is empowered. You DO NOT NEED enfeebling skewer on the weapon EVER. IF you need a spear perk on weapon for more survivability, Fort perf is better on boss fights, and Leeching Cyclone is ACE for trash pulls. But please for the love of all that is holy stop perpetuating the patently ignorant meta of slotting enfeebling skewer on the weapon.
Shockwave: 10% enfeeble
Roaring Rupture: 10% enfeeble
Grasping Vines Heartrune: 20% enfeeble
Shield Rush: 20% enfeeble
Enfeebling Maelstrom: 16-27% enfeeble
YOU DO NOT F(*&^ NEED ENFEEBLING SKEWER ON WEAPON. All these other sources of enfeeble, are AOE, and PROBABLY already in play in your group, or SHOULD be in play in your group.
Sorry about the rant, if you can't tell, I feel some kinda way. It's basic math and common sense, and yet so many people are blindly committed to the dead meta, I just don't understand. Running enfeebling skewer on the weapon IS "absolutely huge". It's nuking a dead horse from orbit with an ICBM. The horse is already dead. Stop it. Get some help.

GEAR: I disagree with a lot.
Sword: Fort Shield Rush is REQUIRED, Resolve is okay at best, and empowering whirling blade is probably sub-optimal. I'd rather have a defensive armor perk or a good weapon perk in it's place. The empower is conditional, and tank's dps isn't a massive concern. It's not BAD necessarily, I just don't agree that it's good, or optimal to slot it.

Empowering Armor Breaker: Is a trash perk. Don't waste your time. You have to break a block WITH the armor breaker ability in order to benefit from it at all, and in 95% of cases you'll be better served by slotting a different perk in either armor or weapon.

Penetrating Wrecking Ball: Same argument as above, tank dps isn't a priority. Additionally Wrecking Ball isn't a high damage ability to begin with, and that isn't substantially changed by slotting this perk. IMO, this is a wasted perk on a tank character. This perk ONLY ignores 40% of the armor for the skill's damage, and doesn't apply a rend or anything. It ends up being less than 200 bonus damage per skill activation. Personally I'd rather slot a defensive perk on armor, and NEVER slot this on weapon.

Greatsword: None of the weapon perks should ever be on the weapon. Rupture IS good, but the magnitude of the slow is irrelevant. The only relevant factor is that it applies an area slow, which then allows other dps to benefit from attribute passives to deal more damage at a higher uptime. The tank or hammer dps should be knocking everything down and stunning regularly enough that bonus slow magnitude wouldn't ever be noticeable.

Spear: You've already read my rant, if you got this far.

Gear: Medium Artifact pants, with +10 to all attributes are BiS. They make hitting 25 attribute benchmarks massively easier, including the 25 focus/dex and 50 focus.

Amulet: WRONG! Divine >>>> Health. Your max HP is almost irrelevant unless you're getting 1 hit killed. The bonus healing from Divine is VASTLY more valuable than higher base health. Health is an "I guess it's not totally worthless" B tier perk. I would say, Protection>Divine> Fortified> Stam Recovery>REFRESHING RECOVERY> Health. Health should be SUPER low priority in ANY environment where you have healers actively trying to keep you alive. If you're solo out in the open world... do you, max HP totally makes sense there. But in an expedition or pvp (assuming you have a healer that is competent), you absolutely don't need health on amulet.

Earring: I disagree. Bugger nimble it's worthless. Test it yourself if you want, but the stamina recovery speed is negligible; you're talking barest fractions of a second faster. Nimble would need to be 30%+ for me to even consider it worth taking. BiS is Refreshing Toast, Purifying Toast, Despised. I like Fortifying Toast, but I would rather have a way to cleanse roots from Ice and Nature mutations, than simply ANOTHER fortify. Regenerating is trash, if you ever need this perk, you should be complaining about the healer, OR you're an idiot and not standing in Sacred Ground. You have Divine, and bonus incoming healing from SnS tree, and optionally from 50 focus, there's no (good)reason to slot regenerating.


Ring: I think Enfeebling is higher priority than Leeching, or even Hearty. I can cope having less stamina, but increasing enfeeble duration for everything I apply is huge. I would say Enfeebling > Hearty > Keen Awareness > Leeching. Personally. SnS crit mod is 30%, and the base tree has +10% to crit chance. As a tank you SHOULD almost never have opportunity to back attack an enemy for auto crits, so having good base crit chance is probably the best way to boost threat via damage. I know a lot of people swear by leeching, and they're the same people that swear by regenerating, and enfeebling skewer on weapon... to those people... I say: "Get better healer friends".

EDIT: Consumes
PSA on Oakflesh and Gemstone Dust: THESE ARE NOT ABSORB. They are in fact boosts to your armor, i.e. a fortify specific to elemental or physical armor. This information is important to know if you're optimizing, because absorb caps at 50%, many mutation runners have a resting absorb of 50% or higher against the mutation element, but gemstone dust stacks for bonus mitigation, because it is not absorb, regardless of what the tooltip says.



All comments from YouTube:

toomanyb33rs

Don’t forget the blight potions at caretaker! As a healer main, it sucks seeing my heals barely having an effect on anyone. I’m looking into trying tanking though. Thanks for the guide!

Harrison Evans

I know it's probably a lot of effort on your behalf but if you made a series where you did a run through of each dungeon on m2-3 and kinda what to do as a tank that would be unreal! Keep up the great content!

Knowlesy Knowles

Absolutely stunning guide, thank you so much for such great information, easily laid out and clearly explained

Bill Dylan

Great all around tanking video. Works for everything except speed runs but thats premade anyway. Keep the good work up! Im so glad we dont have to farm all enemy typ gearsets and that they reduced the hassle with consumables, the double coating application could be removed but thats just me beein picky. The game keeps getting better, lets hope that they keep doin so !

Some Random Guy

My favorite part about the DPS Tank builds that have become “norm” or popular is that while they are the most optimal they are incredibly inconsistent for those of us who have to pug mutations and have less than adequate teammates.

Id argue that while 300-300 is good the 50 focus bonus isnt something to shrug off. Its considered a beginner tank attribute but when playing with randoms it matters from my experience. When i manage to get a company run i often can drop it but i feel like its a safe place for people pugging

Warbelian

I find that the issue to get the 50 focus is currently the magnify, in order for me to go 50 focus i gotta be on 400 con and 150 str which brings my dmg down, so maintaining agro can be hard at time.

bar212121

This is probably the best class wide build video I’ve ever seen in new world

OfficialDaBaws

im currently rocking a 200/200/200 split with GS/SNS and having a blast. currently there are quite a few perks on the shield that carry over when using the GS such as heal on block and empower on block and in defiance stance you are perma blocking when swinging heavys so its pretty nice

Calistin

guessing your split is str/dex/con?

OfficialDaBaws

@Calistin yeah

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