On April 22, 2006 the group went to Elysian Park, Los Angeles, California

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 to film the music video with director Damon Johnson for the only single on the album, "Cali Iz Active". Many West Coast hip hop

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 artist were featured in the music video including Ice Cube

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, WC

WC (rapper)

William L. Calhoun Jr. , better known by his stage name WC , is an American rapper. He was born in Texas, but moved to South Central Los Angeles at an early age. He originally was a rapper in the group Low Profile, and later formed his group WC and the Maad Circle, which also included fellow rapper...

, DJ Quik

DJ Quik

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, Tyrese Gibson, Too Short, Xzibit

Xzibit

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, Tha Outlawz, B-Real

B-Real

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, Warren G

Warren G

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, Strong Arm Steady, Roscoe

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, Daddy V, Yo-Yo

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, JT the Bigga Figga

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, MC Eiht

MC Eiht

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, Jelly Roll, Fredwreck

Fredwreck

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, Dilated Peoples

Dilated Peoples

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, Bishop Lamont

Bishop Lamont

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, Glasses Malone

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 and J Wells. Ronald Isley

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 also appeared in the video.

In the music video for the song, WC and DJ Quik can be seen Crip Walk

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ing and Blood Walking respectively.

The song was performed live on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

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 on CBS

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 with guests Dave Foley

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, Regis Philbin

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, Tha Dogg Pound, Snoop Dogg and John Landis

John Landis

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.

It samples "Radioactive" by Royal Cash 

Album chart performance

US Chart positions
Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...	Top Rap Albums	Top Independent Albums
28	5	4	1

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Cali Iz Active video footage from DubCNN includes backstage, filming, MTV interview

Technical credits

BATTLECAT

Computer, DAW, recording hardware

• Apogee A/D converters
• Apple Mac G5 with Digidesign Pro Tools|HD system running Pro Tools 7.1 at 96 kHz
• Apple Mac G4 PowerBook running Digidesign Pro Tools LE

Console/mixer

• Mackie D8B Digital 8-Bus Mixer
• SSL G series console

Samplers, drum machines, turntables, DJ mixer

• Akai MPC3000 sampler/drum machine
• Pioneer CDJ-1000 CD turntables
• Rane Empath mixer
• Technics SL-1200
  Technics SL-1200
  The Technics SL-1200 MK2 MK3 MK4 MK5 MK5G M5G MK6 LTD & GLD are a series of turntables manufactured since October 1972 by Matsushita under the brand name of Technics. S means "Stereo", L means "Player". Originally released as a high fidelity consumer record player, it quickly became adopted among...
  
  turntables

Synths, modules, software and plug-ins

• IK Multimedia SampleTank 2 software
• Korg MS2000 synth
• M-Audio Oxygen8 MIDI controller
• Moog Music Minimoog Voyager synth
• Native Instruments Battery 2 software
• Propellerhead Reason 3.0 software
• Roland JV-2080 synth module
• Steinberg Cubase SX3 software
• Studio Electronics ATC-1 synth module
• Waves Platinum Bundle plug-ins
• Yamaha Motif ES6 synth

Mics, preamps, compressors, EQ

• Avalon Design Vt-737sp preamp/compressor/EQ
• Neumann U 87 mic
• PreSonus BlueTube preamp

Monitors

• Pioneer Electronics TADs
• Yamaha NS10s

FREDWRECK

Computer, DAW, recording hardware

• Apple Mac G4 with Digidesign Pro Tools|HD running Pro Tools

Console/mixer

• Mackie D8B Digital 8-Bus Mixer

Samplers, drum machines, turntables

• Akai MPC3000 sampler/drum machine
• E-mu Systems SP-1200 sampler/drum machine
• Technics SL-1200 turntables

Synths, modules, software and instruments

• Access Virus synth
• ARP Pro-Soloist, Solina String Ensemble synths
• Clavia Nord Lead, Nord Lead 3 synths
• Fender Jazz Bass, Precision Bass, Rhodes Suitcase Piano
• Fender Stratocaster guitar
• GForce Minimonsta
• Hohner Telecaster guitar
• IK Multimedia Miroslav Philharmonik
• Korg Triton synth
• Moog Music Minimoog Voyager synth
• Native Instruments Absynth, Guitar Rig, Kompakt
• Novation SuperNova synth module
• Oberheim OB-8 synth
• Roland Juno-106, XV-5080 synths
• Sequential Circuits Pro-One, Prophet-5 synths
• Studio Electronics ATC-1 synth module

Mics, preamps, compressors, EQs

• AKG Acoustics C 414 mic
• API 550 EQ
• Avalon Design Vt-737sp preamp/compressor/EQ
• Moog Music Moogerfooger MF-101 Lowpass Filter
• Sony C800G mic

Monitors

• Mackie SRM450 powered speakers
• Yamaha NS10s

External links

• Cali Iz Active video
• Sales charts