Following up 2009's NY-centric Backpack Dreams & Hip Hop Wishes, Baton Rouge lyricist Max Minelli once again pays homage to a distant coast and deconstructs the regional rap divide in the process. For California Dreams he's expanded the theme by hopping on both classic West Coast rap instrumentals with impeccable if fairly conservative taste—Snoop, Short, Compton's Most, Domino—and extra-genre songs about the state like "Hotel California" and "Look At California."