Calvin Bellamy (born July 4, 1970), better known as Coo Coo Cal, is an American rapper and truck driver from
Milwaukee
Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, Milwaukee ...
,
Wisconsin
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. His single "
My Projects
"My Projects" is the lead single released from Coo Coo Cal's second album, '' Disturbed''.
The song was a moderate crossover hit, peaking at number 81 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, it was, however, a bigger success on the rap charts, reaching nu ...
" went to #1 on the
Billboard Hot Rap Singles
Hot Rap Songs (formerly known as Hot Rap Tracks and Hot Rap Singles) is a chart released weekly by ''Billboard'' in the United States. It lists the 25 most popular hip-hop/rap songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stati ...
chart in 2001.
Coo Coo Cal's first album, ''Walkin' Dead'', was released independently in 1999.
Tommy Boy Records released Cal's second album, ''
Disturbed
Disturbed may refer to:
Books
* ''Disturbed'', a 2011 novel by Kevin O'Brien (author)
Film and TV
* ''Disturbed'' (film), a 1990 film starring Malcolm McDowell
* "Disturbed" (''Numb3rs''), a 2009 episode of ''Numb3rs''
* "The Disturbed", a 2 ...
'' on September 18, 2001. The album spawned Cal's most successful single to date, "My Projects", which topped the
''Billboard'' Hot Rap Singles chart.
After leaving Tommy Boy in 2002, Cal released a follow-up to ''Walkin' Dead'' entitled ''
Still Walkin'''. A fourth album, ''All or Nothin’'', followed in 2004. In 2018, Coo Coo Cal returned to release a new single, “Home”, on Tone Struck Entertainment and a
tell-all
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documentary.
Discography
Albums
Singles
References
External links
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Living people
African-American male rappers
Midwest hip hop musicians
Musicians from Milwaukee
Rappers from Wisconsin
Tommy Boy Records artists
Gangsta rappers
1970 births
21st-century American rappers
21st-century American male musicians
21st-century African-American musicians
20th-century African-American people
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