Single-ul "California Love" a fost lansat în data de 3 decembrie 1995, piesa fiind produsă de Dr. Dre și inclusă pe albumul All Eyez on Me.
- My American Heart covered this song for the Punk Goes Crunk compilation album.
- A spoof version with different lyrics was featured in the South Park episode "Night of the Living Homeless". In another episode "#Rehash", an instrumental remake was used when a Hologram of 2Pac came down the stairs of the Marsh House after sleeping with Sharon.
- MMA/UFC bantamweight fighter "The California Kid" Urijah Faber uses the song as his entry music before each fight.
- It was performed by Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.[15]
- It was one of the songs featured in Holler if Ya Hear Me, a 2014 jukebox musical of Tupac's work. The cast performed the song on Good Morning America on July 8, 2014.[16]
- The song also appears in the films Valentine's Day, Iron Man 2, Marmaduke, Battle: Los Angeles, CHiPs, and Scoob!.
- A sample of it is used in a commercial promoting a series between the Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Francisco Giants on ESPN.
- A sample was also used at the beginning of German Singer Sarah Connor's "He's Unbelievable".
- The recording of the song and "Hail Mary" are briefly portrayed in the film Straight Outta Compton.
- It was played at least once during every batting practice prior to the baseball games, in the 1997 season for the Cleveland Indians at Jacobs Field.
- Honey G covered the song in the first live show of series 13 of The X Factor.
- The song appeared on the April 30, 1996 episode of sitcom Moesha, in the ditch party scene.[17]
- The song appeared on an episode of The Jamie Foxx Show.
- The song appeared in The Simpsons episode "Angry Dad: The Movie".
- Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Kenley Jansen uses the song as his walkout music.
- The Oakland Athletics play the song every time a home run is hit by one of the players at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum.
- This song was played in 2Pac's biopic, All Eyez On Me, with 2Pac fresh out of jail, and recording the song with Dr. Dre.
- Eve and Julie Chen covered the song on their show The Talk as part of Chen's New Year's Evolution to learn how to rap.[18]
- Ellen DeGeneres occasionally "dances" through the audience section of the studio of her talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, while her DJ plays this song, between the opening monologue and her first guest.
- The song is used as the theme of the "Hip Hop Heaven at Half Eleven" segment of the Craig Charles House Party show on BBC Radio 2, on Saturday evenings.
- This song was featured in the Netflix tv show Daybreak.
- This song was featured in the movie Scoob!.
- California Love [Official/"Full" Original Track] – 6:29 (the unmodified, uncut original track, released only on promo vinyl records)
- California Love [Remix/"Full" Original Track] – 6:25 (the unmodified, uncut remixed track, released on All Eyez On Me)
- California Love ["Original"] – 4:45 (the "original" released track, shortened down from 6:29 to 4:45)
- California Love [Short Radio Edit] – 4:01 (modified version of the cut "original" track [shorter, modified outro])
- California Love [LP Instrumental] – 4:15 (instrumental version of the "original" track)
- California Love [Short Remix Edit] – 4:07 (remixed version of the "original")
- California Love [Remix Instrumental] – 4:12 (instrumental version of remix)
- Writer – Tupac "2Pac" Shakur (2nd Verse); James "J-Flexx" Anderson (1st verse)
- Keyboards – Sean "Barney" Thomas
- Percussion – Carl "Butch" Small
- Producer, mixing, featuring (Rap) – Dr. Dre
- Vocals, talkbox – Roger Troutman
- Background vocals – Danette Williams, Dorothy Coleman, Barbara Wilson
- Engineer – Keston E. Wright
- Engineer – Rick Clifford
- Assistant Engineer: Alvin McGill
- Production assistant – Larry Chatman
- Video direction – Hype Williams