Do you think he was clownin or respecting the GOLDEN STATE?

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 said:

Interesting, I thought Puffy wanted it on there but probably regreted it later.

pejman said:

Puffy wanted it on there&Knew what it was meant to say.You don't throw a Subtle Jab like that without intent you know?

mistermaxxx said:

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

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??

pejman said:

Biggie like 2Pac knew what was gonna go down I'm afraid to say.

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.

Both - it's fake, fluff & fun. He dug it & wasn't scared of it (the rivalry shit)...




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[This message was edited Fri May 9 3:38:23 PDT 2003 by CalhounSq]

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]