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California Love
LAist Studios
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Host Walter Thompson-Hernández returns home to L.A. and reflects on how much the city has changed since he was a child.
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| 0:00.0 | To be hot, and that's because we have this... |
| 0:05.0 | California... |
| 0:07.0 | Do you remember this song? |
| 0:16.0 | California... Summer of 96 |
| 0:22.6 | I was 11 |
| 0:24.6 | A distant synthesized |
| 0:26.6 | Otherworldly voice says |
| 0:28.6 | I |
| 0:30.6 | I ran to the radio |
| 0:34.6 | to record the song on a cassette tape |
| 0:36.6 | Every time I heard Dr. Dre's intro. |
| 0:39.3 | Now let me welcome everybody to the Wild Wild West. |
| 0:42.3 | A state that's untouchable like Elliot Ness. |
| 0:45.3 | The track is your ear drum like a slug to your chest. |
| 0:48.3 | It felt like Dre was introducing everyone to the place that we called home. |
| 0:51.3 | And then he said, |
| 0:52.3 | A state that's untouchable like Elianess. |
| 0:55.8 | And I eventually learned who Elianess was, |
| 0:58.0 | a pretty well-known prohibition era agent. |
| 1:05.5 | Dre's voice eventually listed places |
| 1:07.3 | and landmarks throughout the state. |
| 1:11.6 | And made the song feel not just flashy and cool, but also informative. |
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