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The Notorious B.I.G.

Going Back to Cali

1996 · via The Roots

The Notorious B.I.G. recorded “Going Back to Cali” in 1996. The Notorious B.I.G. wrote it with Easy Mo Bee and Roger Troutman. This is the first recording of the song. Also recorded by Vitamin Dub (2006) and Woody X The Notorious B.I.G. (2012), among 14 recordings on file. The Roots’s “My Shot (Rise Up remix)” in 2016 is built on it: this song’s writers are on that record’s credit.

The Notorious B.I.G. – Going Back to Cali
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The remix's credit sheet already crowds in Busta Rhymes, Prodigy, Havoc and Lin-Manuel Miranda, and under all of them runs a Biggie track that Easy Mo Bee and Roger Troutman helped write. Start with the floor the whole thing stands on.

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▶Going Back to Cali (Radio Edit) [2014 Remaster]
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Written by Easy Mo Bee, The Notorious B.I.G. and Roger Troutman.

First recorded by The Notorious B.I.G. in 1996: this is the first recording.

Built on this record

The Roots’s “My Shot (Rise Up remix)” (2016) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

Other recordings on file

14 recordings of “Going Back to Cali” on MusicBrainz in all.

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The Roots' "My Shot (Rise Up remix)" carries the writing credit of an earlier track, "Going Back to Cali." Who first recorded that one?The Notorious B.I.G.
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