Van Full of Pakistans

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.

Van Full of Pakistans
Studio album by
Y'all So Stupid
ReleasedMay 25, 1993
Recorded1992–1993
GenreAlternative hip hop
Length56:41
LabelRowdy Records
ProducerSpearhead X
Da King & I
Sylvan Sargeant
The Soul Merchants
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Robert Christgau[1]
Spin(mixed)[2]

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
1 "Introduce Me" S. Bailey,
R. Days,
R. Senhouse		 Spearhead X
2 "85 South" S. Bailey,
R. Days,
R. Senhouse		 Spearhead X
3 "Interlude"
4 "Van Full of Pakistans" S. Bailey,
R. Days,
R. Senhouse		 Spearhead X
5 "Interlude"
6 "Bowl of Soul" S. Bailey,
R. Days,
R. Senhouse		 Spearhead X
7 "Interlude"
8 "The Plant" S. Bailey,
R. Days,
R. Senhouse		 Da King & I
9 "Interlude"
10 "Bootleg Beatdown" S. Bailey,
R. Days,
R. Senhouse		 Da King & I
  • Contains a sample from "Fairchild" by Willie West
  • Contains a sample from "Handclapping Song" by The Meters
11 "Interlude"
12 "Family Tree" S. Bailey,
R. Days,
R. Senhouse		 Spearhead X
(Co-produced by The Soul Merchants)
  • Contains a sample from "The Thing" by The Jazz Crusaders
  • Contains a sample from "Ode to Billie Joe" by Lou Donaldson
  • Saxophone played by Amy Lee Schwartzberg
13 "Dirt Road White Girl" S. Bailey,
R. Days,
R. Senhouse		 Spearhead X
  • Contains a sample from "Textures" by Herbert Hancock
  • Bass played by Debra Killings
14 "Interlude"
15 "Monkey Off My Back" S. Bailey,
R. Days,
R. Senhouse		 Spearhead X
(Co-produced by The Soul Merchants)
16 "Interlude"
17 "Super Nigga" S. Bailey,
R. Days,
R. Senhouse		 Spearhead X
18 "Y'all" S. Bailey,
R. Days,
R. Senhouse		 Spearhead X
19 "On & On" S. Bailey,
R. Days,
R. Senhouse		 Sylvan Sargeant
20 "Interlude"
21 "You Wouldn't Understand" S. Bailey,
R. Days,
R. Senhouse		 Spearhead X
  • Bass played by Debra Killings
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
  1. "Robert Christgau: CG: Yall So Stupid". www.robertchristgau.com.
  2. Sutton, Terri (1993-07-01). "Van Full of Pakistanis Review". Spin. Vol. 9 no. 4. pp. 82–3.
  3. "Y'all So Stupid Chart History".
  4. "Production Notes". Billboard. Vol. 105 no. 10. 1993-03-06. p. 42.
  5. Sarig, Roni (September 7, 2007). "Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and How Hip-hop Became a Southern Thing". Hachette Books – via Google Books.
  6. Cantor, Paul (15 May 2012). "The 100 Best Hip-Hop One-Hit Wonders". Complex.
  7. "The 5 Best Summer Rap Albums You've Probably Never Heard". LA Weekly. July 7, 2016.
  8. "The Most Overlooked Hip-Hop LPs of the 90s: Part 2 - Page 11 of 11". August 24, 2012.
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