page_title: Hotel California (Tyga album)
section_title: Recording and production
hierarchical_section_title: Hotel California (Tyga album) / Recording and production
caption_attribution_description: Lil Wayne performing at Rogers Arena in Vancouver.
context_page_description: Hotel California is the third studio album by American rapper Tyga. It was released on April 9, 2013, by Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records; distributed by Republic Records. The album features guest appearances from Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, The Game, Jadakiss, while the production on the album was handled by DJ Mustard, Detail, Cool & Dre, David D.A. Doman, Mars of 1500 or Nothin', The Olympicks, SAP and Ryan Hunt, among others.
  Hotel California was supported by three singles: "Dope" featuring Rick Ross, "For the Road" featuring Chris Brown, and "Show You" featuring Future; while serving as the promotional single was "Molly" featuring Cedric Gervais, Wiz Khalifa and Mally Mall.
  The album was met with mixed reviews from music critics. Commercially, it was less successful than his second studio album, debuting at number seven on the US Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 54,000 copies in the United States.
context_section_description: On November 24, during his tour vlog, Tyga announced Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne, to be featured on his upcoming album. The album was named number 28 on XXL's Most Anticipated Albums of 2013 list. On February 7, 2013, Tyga said that he'd was almost finished with the album. He confirmed that he had worked with a fellow rapper ASAP Rocky for this album, but didn't make the final track listing. Musician JMSN was confirmed as one of his multiple collaborations to the album, during his interview with Complex.
  The album features guest appearances from 2 Chainz, Future, The Game and Jadakiss. The Tupac feature on the song was one of the most talked about announcements, with the song sharing the same title as Tupac's 1996 diss record, "Hit Em Up". Tyga later clarified that this song was not a remake of Tupac's classic record, but would include unreleased Tupac vocals. He intended to have the song feature Nicki Minaj, but he decided to use Jadakiss as the guest vocalist to sing with the Tupac vocals. However, Tupac's voice does not appear on the final album version, they could not clear the vocal samples. Production on the album was handled by mostly lesser known producers, along with Cool & Dre, DJ Mustard, David D.A. Doman, Lil' C, SAP and Mars of 1500 or Nothin'.
caption: CEO of Young Money, Lil Wayne appeared on the song "500 Degrees", and served as one of the album's executive producers.
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