Experts Doubt Authenticity of Lost Notorious B.I.G. song “Going Back to Cal Poly”
San Luis Obispo, CA – A group of audio engineers from Cal Poly [California Polytechnic State University] announced today that after thorough investigation, they don’t believe that the new posthumous Notorious B.I.G. song, “Going Back to Cal Poly” is authentic.
The song, a re-fashioning of the previous Notorious B.I.G. song, “Going Back to Cali”, took the Cal Poly campus by storm when it suddenly appeared on file sharing sites last week.
Notorious B.I.G., also popularly known as Biggie Smalls, allegedly recorded the song on March 8, 1997, only a day before he was slain in Los Angeles. The info circulating about the song said that Biggie stopped by the campus during his west coast trip and was enamored with the campus. He apparently liked it so much that he promised Cal Poly president Warren J. Baker that he’d record a song about it and also play a show at the University next time he was on the west coast.
The song is essentially an ode to the University and contains lyrics that highlight the school’s history:
“When the land grant hits ya, the Poly gets built-a,
Campus so Large, 947 ac-as,
Either I’m witcha or against ya,
Chowin’ Down on that Backstage Pizza”
It also mentions the Big West Conference, of which Cal Poly is a member:
“If I got to choose a school, I’m wit Columbia
I live out there, so don’t go there,
But that don’t mean a n**ga can’t rest in the Big West,
See some nice breasts n’da Big West.”
Another favorite part of the song among students is the mention of different campus dorms and restaurants, as well as the school’s motto, “Discere Faciendo”, which is Latin for “To Learn by Doing”.
“Frequently stuff balls in Res’dence Halls,
Goin’ all the way if I take her to J’s Patisserie
Spend about a week in dorm Yosemite
San Luis Obispo, Discere Faciendo”
Being that the song was about Cal Poly, professors and students involved with the school’s Audio Engineering Society decided to analyze the song in order to confirm or deny its authenticity.
After a week of careful examination, Professor Rudy Charlesworth finally made a ruling, saying, “While we can say with absolute certainty that the gentleman rapping on this song was fat, we don’t believe it to be Notorious B.I.G.. I know this isn’t the news that all of us here at Cal Poly were hoping for, but on the bright side, some other fat rapper out there has a soft spot in his heart for our school, which is great.”
Had the song been authentic, it would have added even further to Biggie’s already large posthumous catalog. In 1997, his vocals were featured on five different tracks of the Puff Daddy [now known simpy as Diddy] album “No Way Out”. In 1999 Bad Boy Records released “Born Again”, which combined previously unheard Biggie material with a slew of different collaborators. That trend was continued with 2005’s album “Duets: The Final Chapter”.
Those lyrics sound like the Notorious B.I.G. I knew and loved. Especially the part about the patisserie. He loved those pastries.