"California Love" was voted the 11th best single of 1996 in the Pazz & Jop, an annual critics poll run by The Village Voice. The music video was released in December 1995. It also won the 1996 MOBO Award for Best Video. The first video can be found on the DualDisc of All Eyez on Me and the second video can be found on Tupac: Live at the House of Blues DVD. The rest of the music video takes place as if it were a home video celebrating 2Pac's welcome to Death Row and features several cameos, notably Roger Troutman who is now playing the piano, and guest appearances from DJ Quik, Big Syke, Deion Sanders, Danny Boy, Nadia Cassini, Jodeci, B-Legit and E-40. Dre, who tells him to get over to his summer house because he's throwing a house party. When he wakes up, he finds himself in his bed beside a woman. The premise is that the desert scenes of the previous videos were merely a nightmare 2Pac was having. The second video is based on the remix version of the song from the album All Eyez on Me and is a continuation of the video's story. An alternative version, featuring the remix song re-cut, removes the final caption and features 2Pac and Dr. It ends with a cliffhanger cut by a "To Be Continued" closing. The casting includes musician George Clinton as the evil tribal chief, actor Chris Tucker (then known for his role in the 1995 film Friday), Tony Cox as the dwarf soldier and Roger Troutman (formerly with the band Zapp) carrying a talk box. The video takes place in a desert in the year 2095. She was expected to direct the video, but she removed herself from the project and was replaced by Hype Williams. Shakur's longtime friend, actress Jada Pinkett Smith, came up with the concept inspired by the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Two versions of the music video were filmed.
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Ralph Tee from Music Week 's RM Dance Update rated the song four out of five, describing it as "a fusion of funk and hip hop on this excellent rap cut about the splendour of the US's sunshine state." He added further, " Dr Dre's production sparkles on this potential hit which takes the vocoder and horns from Zapp's 'So Ruff So Tuff' ( Roger Troutman also appearing in the Mad Max-style video) and on its best mix the sticky bassline from Kleeer's 'Intimate Connection' underlines it all." Music videos In the song where Troutman sings "shake it, shake it baby", he interpolates the chant he used on his 1982 Zapp single, "Dance Floor".
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The chorus, " California knows how to party", was sung by Roger Troutman using his characteristic talk box and was taken from the 1982 song " West Coast Poplock" by Ronnie Hudson & The Street People which was written by Ronnie Hudson and Mikel Hooks. The remix version contains a sample taken from Kleeer's 1984 song "Intimate Connection". The original version contains a sample taken from Joe Cocker's 1972 song "Woman to Woman". The weekend after the song was completed the video was then recorded. Dre's in house studio, 2Pac came in and wrote his verse straight away it took him just 15 minutes to write his verse. Dre album The Chronic II, while the remix was included on 2Pac's All Eyez on Me. The original was released as a double-A side single together with "How Do U Want It" and intended for the Dr. Dre and has been suggested to be one of the reasons for the fallout between Dre and 2Pac a few months later. Producer Laylaw also did an additional remix of the song which is often erroneously credited to Dr. Dre's session while at Dre's in-house studio and asked Dre to put him on the song. The only copy of this session is now in the possession of DJ Jam, Snoop Dogg's personal concert DJ. The first version of the song has three verses featuring Dr. Dre on All Eyez on Me-the other one being "Can't C Me". "California Love" was one of two songs produced by Dr. Aside from the extended track being on limited quantities of vinyl promo records, very few uploads to YouTube exist of the original, 6:29-length extended song, performed without Shakur. This particular version was never released to the public and is now only available on 12-inch promo vinyl records. The original version also exists in extended form and is 6:29 in length. Dre's shelved album The Chronic II: A New World Odor (Poppa's Got A Brand New Funk), but it can now be found on Shakur's compilation of Greatest Hits and on the United Kingdom version of All Eyez on Me. The original version was not available on any of Shakur's studio albums due to it being intended for Dr.
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