Mooga  (Audio CD) 
by 40 Cal

One listen to Mooga and you'll immediately recognize Cal's ability to flip creative verses regardless of the beat. To get such a varied sound on Mooga, the emcee and his crew solicited beats through Myspace and other social networking sites. After receiving thousands of submissions from producers around the globe, 18 tracks made the final cut. From the cold, hard beat of "Shooters on Deck," (Which samples a gun getting cocked as the anchor for the beat,) to the horn-drenched strut-funk of "Grown Man Bills" to the reggaeton influence on "Cuarenta," Cal lives up to his idol Big L in his ability to rhyme over anything and kill it. Lyrically, the emcee splits the difference between his battling days and his studio role, creating song concepts and hooks while incorporating some of his more classic battle rhymes (On "Rewind That," he boasts, "I'm spellin Iverson when the beef all done/'Cause you'll be on I.V. in the E.R., son.")