L.L. Cool J-Going Back to Cali SINGLE 12”

L.L. Cool J-Going Back to Cali SINGLE 12”

Taken from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of the Twentieth Century Fox Film LESS THAN ZERO

Cover has normal wear and tear for the age. Cover is graded VG. Record is graded VG.

“Going Back to Cali” is a 1988 single by LL Cool J from the Less than Zero soundtrack album as well as his third album, Walking with a Panther. The song was co-written and produced by Rick Rubin. It peaked at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #12 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and was eventually certified gold by the RIAA on May 28, 1991 and platinum on May 30, 2017.

The song features LL Cool J vacillating about moving to California, rapping in the chorus, “I’m going back to Cali”, followed by “I don’t think so”. In the verses, he describes a trip to Los Angeles in which he meets several women but is scared off because they are too sexually aggressive. The basic concept for the song was Rubin’s, based on his own ambivalence about possibly moving from New York City to Los Angeles.