Track Listing
1. Intro
2. Put the Lead on Ya - (featuring Dru Down)
3. I Got 5 on It - (with Michael Marshall)
4. Broke Hos
5. Pimps, Playas & Hustlas - (featuring Dru Down/Richie Rich)
6. Playa Hata - (featuring Teddy)
7. Broke Niggaz - (featuring Knucklehead/Eclipse)
8. Operation Stackola
9. 5150 - (featuring Shock G)
10. 900 Blame a Nigga
11. Yellow Brick Road
12. So Much Drama - (with Nik Nack)
13. She's Just a Freak
14. Plead Guilty
15. I Got 5 on It (Reprise)
16. Outro
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Dru Down, Eclipse, Knucklehead, Richie Rich, Shock G, Teddy | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Luniz: Yukmouth, Knumskull.
Additional personnel: Piano Man (keyboards), Nik Nack, Knucklehead, Eclipse, Michael Marshall.
Producers: DJ Fuse (tracks 1, 7, 10); Tone Capone (tracks 2-3, 15); Shock G. (tracks 4, 9); N.O. Joe (tracks 5, 8, 11); E-A-Ski, CMT (track 6); Terry T. (track 12); Gino Blackwell (track 13); DJ Darryl (track 14).
Engineers: Michael Denton, Darrin Harris, D Wiz.
Recorded at Pajama Studios and Infinite Studios, Oakland, California.
Samples include "What You Won't Do For Love" (as performed by Bobby Caldwell).
In the tradition of artists like Too $hort, Dru Down and E-40 who have raised Oakland's rap scene, Luniz are another of California's "light it up and smoke it" crews. On OPERATION STACKOLA, Knumskull and Yukmouth beef up their region's catalog with a new-school type of gangsta/playa hip-hop.
OPERATION STACKOLA correctly represents its West Coast family on "Put This Lead On Ya," which features the mack of the year, Dru Down, and uses the vocals of the late Eazy-E. "Broke Niggaz" also salutes their left coast forefathers by using material performed by Ice Cube. The topics might be typical of a gangsta rap act (only a little less graphic), but their sound is more funk-oriented, with production courtesy of N.O. Joe, E-A-Ski and Digital Underground's Shock G.
For their debut, Luniz dig deep in the crates for the basis of their music. "I Got 5 On It" is a close relative of Club Nouveau's "Why You Treat Me So Bad," and "Playa Hata" takes its track directly from Bobby Caldwell's "What You Won't Do For Love." "Broke Hos" oddly reverses the role of Gwen Guthrie's "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent" and supports the theory that a gold digger can be of either sex.
Luniz bring forth a combination of rhythmic funk, laid-back rhymes and a whole new vocabulary. OPERATION STACKOLA takes their playa-infested city of Oakland another step forward in the hip-hop game.
Editorial Reviews
Recommended - ...Luniz aren't gangstas, but playas....The lifestyle depicted on OPERATION STACKOLA involves claiming Welfare and carrying a bus pass so that you can still afford to smoke Indo and drink Tanqueray and wear the latest Phat Farm....A moral cesspool...
Melody Maker (03/23/1996)
7 (out of 10) - ...1995 is the year of OPERATION STACKOLA....a balanced attack of Yukmouth's laid-back delivery and Knumskull's pinched vocal pitch....the Luniz do mental atomic pile drivers on ears and heads while ripping up microphones...
Rap Pages (09/01/1995)
3.5 Mics - Dope - ...The Luniz...take the typical Oakland sound to another level...a combination of insane lyrics and street-core knowledge....tight lyrics and tight tracks...a must to compete in this diverse rap game...
The Source (08/01/1995)
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