“California Love”—Tupac

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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4.7 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Rob Harvilla explores the legacy of Tupac Shakur, one of the most important figures hip-hop ever birthed and a person whose life was defined by contradictions. He breaks down Tupac’s rise in music and Hollywood and his latter-day stint at Death Row Records, including the mega-hit “California Love.” This episode was originally produced as a Music and Talk show available exclusively on Spotify. Find the full song on Spotify or wherever you get your music. Host: Rob Harvilla Guest: Andreas Hale Producer: Justin Sayles Associate Producer: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Emmy Award-winning producer, actor, and comedian Larry Wilmore is back on the air,
0:04.7	hosting a podcast where he weighs in on the issues of the week and interviews guests in the world of politics,
0:10.0	entertainment, culture, sports, and beyond.
0:12.5	Check out Larry Wilmore, Black on the Air on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:17.0	They are known semi-formally as the Filthy Fifteen.
0:22.6	The 15 songs chosen in 1985 by a spry young political activist agency known as the Parents' Music Resource Center to illustrate the toxic, corrupting, indefensible, outrageously scandalous content of modern pop music.
0:43.4	Yes, the much loathed and derided PMRC, formed by Tipper Gore, wife of Senator Al Gore, and Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker, alongside Pam
0:56.5	Howard and Sally Nebius, the PMRC, the public enemy, the run DMC of censorship,
1:04.0	the funky 4 plus zero. When Netflix screenlights a lavish Oscar-bate biopic, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin,
1:12.6	the harrowing opening scene will be Tipper Gore, played by Jessica Chastain.
1:16.6	She can do anything.
1:18.6	Tipper Gore, buying Prince's 1984 blockbuster album Purple Rain for her 11-year-old daughter,
1:25.6	and then sitting down to enjoy Purple Rain with her 11-year-old daughter and then sitting down to enjoy Purple Rain with her 11-year-old
1:30.2	daughter until they got to this song, Darling Nikki.
1:35.2	New one girl named Nikki, I guess you could say she was a sex fiend.
1:41.8	Potentially a literal record scratch moment for our friend Tipper gore if only she could reach the record player in time to prevent prince from singing the next line
1:52.1	what is the most perverse magazine what is the most perverse magazine?
2:01.5	Nikki could be reading in the hotel lobby while she's Time.
2:06.9	Time magazine.
2:08.4	Not even Newsweek.
2:09.8	Time.
2:10.8	The is God dead issue of Time magazine.
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