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When Biggie made the song "Going Back To Cali".... Do you think he was clownin or respecting the GOLDEN STATE? -------------------------------------------------
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A Combo.He seemed to dig the Place for it's vibe&element but you also got a sense that He thought of it in a Hollywood Sense.you could tell He dug it but He also just thought of it as a place to visit.cleaver usage of Roger Troutman btw on Biggie's part.I think Puffy was pulling&tugging on Him to drop that cut though.it added fuel to the Whole Puffy&Suge Battle. mistermaxxx | |
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mistermaxxx said: A Combo.He seemed to dig the Place for it's vibe&element but you also got a sense that He thought of it in a Hollywood Sense.you could tell He dug it but He also just thought of it as a place to visit.cleaver usage of Roger Troutman btw on Biggie's part.I think Puffy was pulling&tugging on Him to drop that cut though.it added fuel to the Whole Puffy&Suge Battle.
Interesting, I thought Puffy wanted it on there but probably regreted it later. -------------------------------------------------
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pejman said: mistermaxxx said: A Combo.He seemed to dig the Place for it's vibe&element but you also got a sense that He thought of it in a Hollywood Sense.you could tell He dug it but He also just thought of it as a place to visit.cleaver usage of Roger Troutman btw on Biggie's part.I think Puffy was pulling&tugging on Him to drop that cut though.it added fuel to the Whole Puffy&Suge Battle.
Interesting, I thought Puffy wanted it on there but probably regreted it later. mistermaxxx | |
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mistermaxxx said: pejman said: mistermaxxx said: A Combo.He seemed to dig the Place for it's vibe&element but you also got a sense that He thought of it in a Hollywood Sense.you could tell He dug it but He also just thought of it as a place to visit.cleaver usage of Roger Troutman btw on Biggie's part.I think Puffy was pulling&tugging on Him to drop that cut though.it added fuel to the Whole Puffy&Suge Battle.
Interesting, I thought Puffy wanted it on there but probably regreted it later. maybe Biggie shoulda held back from comin out to Cali so soon especially since his album had already leaked out to the wrong hands...but maybe he didn't know that himself..coulda shoulda woulda -------------------------------------------------
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I always wondered why he would do a song bout Cali... I thought it was more or less to smooth over the whole east coast west coast bullshit... Ya know? As to say he wasnt involved in it... make sense?? He calls me "Holi" cuz he says everyday w/ me is like a Holiday... | |
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pejman said: mistermaxxx said: pejman said: mistermaxxx said: A Combo.He seemed to dig the Place for it's vibe&element but you also got a sense that He thought of it in a Hollywood Sense.you could tell He dug it but He also just thought of it as a place to visit.cleaver usage of Roger Troutman btw on Biggie's part.I think Puffy was pulling&tugging on Him to drop that cut though.it added fuel to the Whole Puffy&Suge Battle.
Interesting, I thought Puffy wanted it on there but probably regreted it later. maybe Biggie shoulda held back from comin out to Cali so soon especially since his album had already leaked out to the wrong hands...but maybe he didn't know that himself..coulda shoulda woulda mistermaxxx | |
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The April 2003 issue of XXL Magazine, Gabriel Alvarez wrote a feature on the making of Life After Death with new interviews from producers/guest artists who appeared on it.
Here is what was said about this track on page 124: GOING BACK TO CALI Produced by Easy Mo Bee Easy Mo Bee: I always wanted to do something with Zapp's "More Bounce To The Ounce." I wanted LA's attention. There was a lot of tension, East Coast/West Coast. My manager at the time was from LA. He was like, "Look, in LA, at the block parties and house parties, when 'More Bounce' came on, that was the joint that made everybody go crazy. That was always the LA anthem." You got this East Coast/ West Coast tension bullshit, and I felt that maybe through music or a beat, anything that gets everybody on one accord, or in harmony... I was in the car by myself, listening to the radio. I think I was listening to 98.7 Kiss and I think they threw ["More Bounce"] on as an old joint. I'm riding in the car just zoning, like I never heard it before. I was talking to myself in my head, like, "You ain't never did anything with that. The reason why you ain't never used it before is because too many people already used it." But everybody had basically looped it. Nobody ever choppped the record up as if it was "Funky President." So I had an idea to make the drums travel the same way that the record normally goes, but have the bass line doing something totally different. When they gave me back the finished song, they were like, "Yo, you ain't hear that shit? Big destroyed your shit." When I heard, "I'm going going / Back back / To Cali Cali," I said, "Awww shit, man! What y'all doing?" I felt like, are we starting trouble here? Because at that time, there's two different ways you could've took "I'm Going Back To Cali." You could take it like, "I'm going back there to run shit," or you can take it like how he expressed it in the record, for the women and the weed. Basically, if you listen to the record, it's not negative in any respect. But just the title... I ain't gonna front, it scared me a little bit. I was like, Yo, is this the healthy thing to do right now? Puffy: Everybody always feared when we would go to California, and have problems, and we were very conscious of it, but we were trying to make it positive. That was just saying that we was going back to have a good time. He was saying he had love for Cali. Just because he had a problem with one person, he wasn't gonna start saying he didn't like all of California. | |
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Both - it's fake, fluff & fun. He dug it & wasn't scared of it (the rivalry shit)...
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Puffy: Everybody always feared when we would
go to California, and have problems, and we were very conscious of it, but we were trying to make it positive. That was just saying that we was going back to have a good time. He was saying he had love for Cali. Just because he had a problem with one person, he wasn't gonna start saying he didn't like all of California.[/quote] I wonder what LL meant in his original track [This message was edited Fri May 9 10:38:44 PDT 2003 by pejman] -------------------------------------------------
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