Coo Coo Cal

Coo Coo Cal, the Milwaukee rapper, fuses Midwestern slang with the distinct pulse of South-inspired beats, yielding a unified approach that pulls together several strands of hip-hop. This blend surfaces on the 1999 album Walkin' Dead and on Disturbed, released in 2001 as his initial effort for the Tommy Boy label and featuring an exchange with Chicago rapper Twista on the track "We Ride." Though he takes up familiar hip-hop themes of everyday existence and inner-city hardships, Coo Coo Cal threads his own personality through the material to shape a distinctive style.