Films and TV shows that feel like California Love by 2Pac (feat. Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman)

A victorious, sun-soaked celebration of coming home to California, with cruising, party-loud swagger and hard-won pride.

1. Boyz n the Hood (1991): The definitive South Central LA story from the same West Coast rap world, with Ice Cube and the neighborhood's pride and pain.
2. Straight Outta Compton (2015): Dr. Dre's rise and the birth of West Coast rap, which leads straight into the Death Row sound of this track.
3. All Eyez on Me (2017): Tupac's own biopic, covering the prison release, the Death Row move and the era this song was made in.
4. Friday (1995): A sunny, funny day in the LA neighborhood, released the same year, with a G-funk soundtrack.
5. Menace II Society (1993): The harder side of 90s LA, with the struggle behind the swagger; Tupac's Poetic Justice co-star era.
6. Poetic Justice (1993): Tupac stars in a road trip up California's coast, set to the same early-90s West Coast mood.
7. Training Day (2001): A tense, gritty tour of LA streets with West Coast hip-hop attitude.
8. Snowfall (2017): 1980s South Central LA with ambition, street life and the West Coast hip-hop culture that grew from it.