DEF: LL Cool J “Going Back to Cali”

As a lead or featured artist, New York-born musician LL Cool J has hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart sixteen times. The first three of those hits came in the 1980s, and on this date in 1988, LL Cool J’s second Top 40 hit, “Going Back to Cali” from the film Less Than Zero, climbed to a peak position of number 31. “Going Back to Cali” by LL Cool J is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.