2Pac Featuring Dr. Dre – California Love

September 9th, 2010  |  Published in Music News  |  50 Comments

See Music Videos www.bvmtv.com that you CAN’T See on You Tube! even some X RATED music videos! +Live Chat and Embed video codes. “California Love” is a hip hop song by 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman. The song was released as 2Pac’s comeback single upon his release from prison in 1995. A popular remix version of the song appeared on his 1996 double album All Eyez on Me. This is perhaps 2Pac’s best-known song and his most successful, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks. The song was nominated for a posthumous Grammy Award as a Best Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (with Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) in 1997. The song was actually written and performed by Roger Troutman in the Original Version of California Love, Tupac and Dr. Dre made a modern day version of the song. The original version of the track was not available on any of Shakur’s studio albums, but it can now be found on Shakur’s compilation of Greatest Hits. The tune was adapted from Joe Cocker’s song “Woman to Woman”, and “California knows how to party” lines listing Los Angeles County neighborhoods are sung by Roger Troutman. The vocals “In the City of Compton” and the other cities and “California knows how to party” is adapted from Ronnie Hudson and the Street People’s “West Coast Poplock”. The remix features sample from the song “Intimate Connection” by Kleeer written by Norman Durham and Woody Cunningham. “California Love” was Shakur’s only entry on …

Music video by Dr. Dre performing Been There Done That. (C) 1996 Interscope Records
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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1. NewYorkJetsFan69 says:
   

   September 9th, 2010at 8:18 am(#)

   @snoop0851 thank you!! niggs dont no real music these days. quit riding waynes dick people he aint rap

2. snoop0851 says:
   

   September 9th, 2010at 8:41 am(#)

   @HereForNow15 fuck you. i bet your a fucking child who aint even old enough to appreciate 2pac you fucking whore. why come on to one his videos and say that? 2pac aint dead really…he will always be alive.

3. snoop0851 says:
   

   September 9th, 2010at 9:02 am(#)

   @abcdefghijklmnop9567 thats true. hes gone from this world. but in our minds hes still alive

4. snoop0851 says:
   

   September 9th, 2010at 9:41 am(#)

   @dylanwhaley87 dudh. his name is chris tucker. he did the rush hour movies with jackie chan

5. snoop0851 says:
   

   September 9th, 2010at 10:03 am(#)

   @stylishkrnx07 i live in cali

6. snoop0851 says:
   

   September 9th, 2010at 10:44 am(#)

   @kmart7843 gotta love seeing chris tucker in the video

7. snoop0851 says:
   

   September 9th, 2010at 11:22 am(#)

   @KeyBoardWarriorMuch excuse me. just how old are you? this is true hip hop. go back to sucking on lil waynes dick

8. snoop0851 says:
   

   September 9th, 2010at 11:53 am(#)

   i thought this video was over 10 minutes long? wheres the full version at

9. story7475 says:
   

   September 9th, 2010at 12:00 pm(#)

   true that! click to greatmpify [dot] com to download youtube music to mp3s.

10. vegasprotimmy says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 12:08 pm(#)

    LISTEN UP EVERYONE

    ON SEPTEMBER 7TH EVERYONE WILL GO TO ALL THE JUSTIN BIEBER VIDEOS AND DISLIKE THEM AND LEAVE A BAD COMMENT

    WE NEED TO ATTACK
    THUMBS UP IF U AGREE

    COPY AND PASTE THIS TO ALL GOOD RAPPER VIDEOS

    TUPAC,RAKIM,MOS DE,EAZY E,BIGGIE,AND ECT.

11. HoTLaTiiNo89 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 12:11 pm(#)

    THUG LIFE LIVES

12. DwyaneWade28 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 12:31 pm(#)

    @KeyBoardWarriorMuch how old r u?

13. DwyaneWade28 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 1:13 pm(#)

    @luigeddu28 he made way over 500 songs they should all be included

14. luigeddu28 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 1:39 pm(#)

    California Love” was Shakur’s only entry on Rolling Stone’s 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, ranked #346.

15. luigeddu28 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 2:03 pm(#)

    @KeyBoardWarriorMuch sorry but..
    who the hell are you to say what is not or what is it?
    surely you were’nt born when this song was made..

16. KeyBoardWarriorMuch says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 2:45 pm(#)

    IF YOU LISTEN TO THIS YOU DONT KNOW REAL HIP HOP!!

17. C6evolution2008 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 3:35 pm(#)

    Still loving this song….this was about the last time autotune was cool…

18. kmart7843 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 3:38 pm(#)

    Can you dig it!… MAN!!!!!!

19. sk8erdude1360 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 3:54 pm(#)

    @KeyBoardWarriorMuch justin bieber is a gay fag with a girls voice

20. TheBsyboy says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 4:07 pm(#)

    34 people missed the like button

21. qmike24 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 4:31 pm(#)

    California…knows how to party !

22. maxgunn555 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 4:53 pm(#)

    anyone know how to set youtube so that it always plays highest possilbe resolution?

23. KeyBoardWarriorMuch says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 4:59 pm(#)

    If Justin Bieber was featured in this it would be the BEST SONG EVAH!!

24. halidgrg says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 5:18 pm(#)

    @chris1111111000 xaxaxaxaxaxa
    cartman for life.,…
    R.I.P Pac

25. MsYanaah says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 5:34 pm(#)

    skit bra låt den dör aldrig

26. goardo5 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 6:01 pm(#)

    @schoolrumble12 he also died of aids

27. UnIkKaTiL1988 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 6:46 pm(#)

    hey does somebody know this guy on the video dre is watching?
    need some gansgta old school rap,who can help me?

    thx

28. chimaira1993 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 7:45 pm(#)

    i search sound like 4:20

29. MAGDALENA0722 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 7:59 pm(#)

    ILLUMINATI OR NOT, I LIKE THIS VIDEO,LOL

30. odin422 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 8:41 pm(#)

    @schoolrumble12 suck my fat dick bitch.

31. brandeno15 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 9:18 pm(#)

    @HipHopBigM its not lucifer its the eye of horace

32. schoolrumble12 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 9:39 pm(#)

    @IAmBronzeMagic5 think about it if HE really is part of the illuminati then why would he mention it in his songs? arent they supposed to be secret? is obvious that people during the chronic days were making up shit like that too. so he was being sarcastic

33. schoolrumble12 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 9:58 pm(#)

    @odin422 stfu your not ll cool j

34. schoolrumble12 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 10:47 pm(#)

    @13GAHSG rockefeller was one of the richest people in the world so stop hating

35. schoolrumble12 says:
    

    September 9th, 2010at 11:17 pm(#)

    @brandeno15 jay z ghostwrote Still D.R.E so fuck you

36. thatkkidproduction says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 12:03 am(#)

    @xSouthSide13 yeah you have a good point but dre is a true hustler and his original lyrics are great but your right he’s a much better producer

37. xSouthSide13 says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 12:22 am(#)

    @thatkkidproduction Dr.Dre isnt a good rapper since his main activity is to produce Eminem

38. Airbornebull says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 1:06 am(#)

    @Jeffrizel1986 It isnt going to start. lol this was 1996 and he was saying by 2000 and not its 2010 and they are saying 2012 and after that its gonna be 2020, etc

39. Airbornebull says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 1:42 am(#)

    @iCheckVtec how is he in it?

40. Airbornebull says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 2:40 am(#)

    @TheSiCkSiDeRiDeR how he sell out?

41. Airbornebull says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 2:44 am(#)

    @IAmBronzeMagic5 lol

42. Airbornebull says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 3:35 am(#)

    @13GAHSG He is talking money comparison

43. timbo830 says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 4:17 am(#)

    @HipHopBigM ha

44. 2012ERojas says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 4:38 am(#)

    “One of the worst music video id ever seen.”

45. 13GAHSG says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 4:48 am(#)

    sellout much? “Im like a black rockefeller” ..? fuck the rockefellers!!

46. 13GAHSG says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 5:23 am(#)

    @NickDonovanz so it seems

47. IAmBronzeMagic5 says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 5:44 am(#)

    aint tryna stick around for illuminati…proof for me!

48. odin422 says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 5:58 am(#)

    @iCheckVtec 1:33-1:38 this was written in 1995, HE AINT FROM COMPTON!

    WAKE UP.

49. odin422 says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 6:14 am(#)

    @MAGDALENA0722 Illuminati got your mind, soul, and your body.

50. odin422 says:
    

    September 10th, 2010at 6:59 am(#)

    1:33-1:37 WAKE UP this was 1995 when he wrote this, HE AINT FROM COMPTON.

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