Van Full of Pakistans
Van Full of Pakistans | |
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Studio album by | |
Released | May 25, 1993 |
Recorded | 1992–1993 |
Genre | Alternative hip hop |
Length | 56:41 |
Label | Rowdy Records |
Producer | Spearhead X Da King & I Sylvan Sargeant The Soul Merchants |
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Robert Christgau | ![]() |
Spin | (mixed)[2] |
Van Full of Pakistans is the debut album by alternative hip hop group Y'all So Stupid, released on May 25, 1993, through Rowdy Records. The album was mostly produced by Spearhead X, who plays the narrating prank caller on every skit, and also contains production by DJ Majesty and Sylvan Seargeant.
The album's title track peaked at #23 on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.[3] Chris Applebaum directed the music video for Little Caesar Productions.[4]
Background and reception[]
The group was formed in 1991 when rapper H2O moved from Brooklyn to Atlanta, where he met members Unkle Buk, Sha Boogie, Spearhead X, and Logic. They were signed to Rowdy Records in late 1992. Roni Sarig, in Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and How Hip-hop Became a Southern Thing, called the album "a less political, more fun-loving take on the upwardly mobile alt-rap being created by Arrested Development."[5]
The title track was ranked #96 on Complex's list of "The 100 Best Hip-Hop One Hit Wonders," in 2012.[6] LA Weekly included the album on its list of "The 5 Best Summer Rap Albums You've Probably Never Heard."[7] Fact, in its article on the most overlooked hip hop albums of the 1990s, wrote: "This is a rap album that was widely rediscovered in the early 2000s and began changing hands for impressive sums, perhaps because it’s a perfect teleportation device to a period when the music was about having fun and experimenting."[8]
Track listing[]
# | Title | Songwriter(s) | Producer(s) | Notes |
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1 | "Introduce Me" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Spearhead X |
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2 | "85 South" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Spearhead X |
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3 | "Interlude" | |||
4 | "Van Full of Pakistans" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Spearhead X |
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5 | "Interlude" | |||
6 | "Bowl of Soul" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Spearhead X |
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7 | "Interlude" | |||
8 | "The Plant" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Da King & I |
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9 | "Interlude" | |||
10 | "Bootleg Beatdown" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Da King & I |
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11 | "Interlude" | |||
12 | "Family Tree" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Spearhead X (Co-produced by The Soul Merchants) |
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13 | "Dirt Road White Girl" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Spearhead X |
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14 | "Interlude" | |||
15 | "Monkey Off My Back" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Spearhead X (Co-produced by The Soul Merchants) |
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16 | "Interlude" | |||
17 | "Super Nigga" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Spearhead X |
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18 | "Y'all" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Spearhead X |
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19 | "On & On" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Sylvan Sargeant |
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20 | "Interlude" | |||
21 | "You Wouldn't Understand" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Spearhead X |
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22 | "85 South (Remix)" | S. Bailey, R. Days, R. Senhouse |
Spearhead X |
Personnel[]
- Y'all So Stupid - Co-Producer, Background Vocals, Creative Direction
- H2O - Lead Vocals
- Logic - Lead Vocals
- Unkle Buk - Lead Vocals
- Spearhead X - Producer
- Da King & I - Producers
- Sylvan Sargeant - Producer
- The Soul Merchants - Co-Producers
- Darin Prindle - Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer
- Thom Kidd - Recording Engineer
- Ted Sabety - Mix Engineer
- Paul Rankin - Assistant Engineer
- Phil Tan - Assistant Engineer
- Jason Shablik - Assistant Engineer
- Brett Richardson - Assistant Engineer
- Claude Austin - A&R Director
- Kim Lumpkin - Album Coordinator
- Glen E. Friedman - Photographer, Art Director
- Dallas Austin - Executive Producer
References[]
- ^ "Robert Christgau: CG: Yall So Stupid". www.robertchristgau.com.
- ^ Sutton, Terri (1993-07-01). "Van Full of Pakistanis Review". Spin. Vol. 9 no. 4. pp. 82–3.
- ^ "Y'all So Stupid Chart History".
- ^ "Production Notes". Billboard. Vol. 105 no. 10. 1993-03-06. p. 42.
- ^ Sarig, Roni (September 7, 2007). "Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and How Hip-hop Became a Southern Thing". Hachette Books – via Google Books.
- ^ Cantor, Paul (15 May 2012). "The 100 Best Hip-Hop One-Hit Wonders". Complex.
- ^ "The 5 Best Summer Rap Albums You've Probably Never Heard". LA Weekly. July 7, 2016.
- ^ "The Most Overlooked Hip-Hop LPs of the 90s: Part 2 - Page 11 of 11". August 24, 2012.
- 1993 debut albums
- Rowdy Records albums
- Hip hop albums by American artists