Rapper Rick Ross made a guest appearance on the album's first single ' Dope'. In August 2013, Complex would name the album cover one of 'The 30 Worst Hip-Hop Album Covers of All Time'. I had just tweeted it out like let me see what people think.' However, the originally-released cover would turn out to be the in store retail cover. Tyga later admitted in an interview with MTV that he jumped the gun by releasing the original cover saying, 'Actually that wasn't the official cover, it was never done. However, it was rumored that he used photoshop instead of a live tiger. The cover art features Tyga in a white fur coat and hat at a lavish mansion, while a tiger sits at his feet. On March 6, 2013, Tyga released the album cover, along with a trailer for the album. The tour consists of a month in the United States and a month overseas. Tour Д«eginning the first week of April, Tyga began a world tour, in promotion of the album. The release date was revealed by DJ Khaled at the end of 'Outro' off the Cash Money Records mixtape, titled 'Rich Gang: All Stars'. He then pushed it back to April 9, 2013, to avoid clashing with the release of Lil Wayne's I Am Not a Human Being II, and to clear some of the samples he planned to use on the album. On January 22, 2013, Tyga announced on Twitter that the album would be released on March 26, 2013. In November 2012, during a red carpet interview at the American Music Awards, he announced that the album would be released for March 2013. In January 2013, Tyga announced a Fan of a Fan 2 mixtape with Chris Brown would be finished when the latter was done touring overseas. It features remixes to songs such as 2 Chainz's ' I'm Different', ASAP Rocky's ' Fuckin' Problems' and GOOD Music's ' Clique', among others and some new materials. The mixtape was released on November 30, 2012. Tyga later announced that he would be releasing a nine-track mixtape under the name 187. The mixtape features guest appearances from The Game, Honey Cocaine, 2 Chainz, Future, Kirko Bangz, D-Lo and Joe Moses supporting the mixtape was the single, ' Do My Dance'.

In August 2012, Tyga released the mixtape Well Done 3, in promotion for the album. Doman, Lil' C, SAP and Mars of 1500 or Nothin'.

Production on the album was handled by mostly lesser known producers, along with Cool & Dre, DJ Mustard, David D.A. However, Tupac's voice does not appear on the final album version, they could not clear the vocal samples. 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. Tyga later clarified that this song was not a remake of Tupac's classic record, but would include unreleased Tupac vocals. 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'. The album features guest appearances from 2 Chainz, Future, The Game and Jadakiss. Musician JMSN was confirmed as one of his multiple collaborations to the album, during his interview with Complex. He confirmed that he had worked with a fellow rapper ASAP Rocky for this album, but didn't make the final track listing. On February 7, 2013, Tyga said that he'd was almost finished with the album. The album was named number 28 on XXL's Most Anticipated Albums of 2013 list. 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. It was later certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in March 2020.Д¬EO of Young Money, Lil Wayne appeared on the song '500 Degrees', and served as one of the album's executive producers. 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. The album was met with mixed reviews from music critics. 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. Doman, Mars of 1500 or Nothin', The Olympicks, SAP and Ryan Hunt, among others. 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. It was released on April 9, 2013, by Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records distributed by Republic Records. Hotel California is the third studio album by American rapper Tyga.

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