LL Cool J’s ‘Going Back To Cali’ (1988) is the best thing he ever did. Rick Rubin produced the track and appears in the video. Director Ric Menello, perhaps best known for his ‘(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right To Party’ video, took the opportunity to pay tribute to his heroes Michelangelo Antonioni, Claude Chabrol, and Federico Fellini.
“The theme was alienation and sterility. It was about hot people looking at each other and not seeing each other.” [+]
Menello died last year at age 60. His final film, The Immigrant, which he co-wrote, starred Jeremy Renner and Joaquin Phoneix and scored 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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