Calvin Bellamy (born July 4, 1970), better known as Coo Coo Cal, is an American rapper and truck driver from
Milwaukee
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,
Wisconsin
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. His single "
My Projects" went to #1 on the
Billboard Hot Rap Singles
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chart in 2001.
Coo Coo Cal’s debut album, ''Game'', was released in 1996, on In The Trunk Records. Cal's sophomore album, ''Walkin' Dead'', was released in 1999 on Infinite Recordings.
Tommy Boy Records
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released Cal's third album, ''
Disturbed'' 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 fifth 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 documentary
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.
Discography
Albums
Singles
References
External links
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Living people
African-American male rappers
20th-century American male rappers
21st-century American male rappers
Midwest hip-hop musicians
Musicians from Milwaukee
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 musicians
Rappers from Milwaukee
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