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Watching The Astros
With Rapper
Cal Wayne

Sitting in the backseat of his Buick, he juggled multiple cell phones and social media accounts, the full-time work of being a hustling musician. The songs sell themselves — if he can get them to people’s ears. His music is best described as journalism, telling the struggles and joys of living in Houston in 2017. The songs are documents. His latest album, “Ghetto Superstar,” is as close as the Third Ward will ever get to having a full-time beat writer: Someone who lives and works in the place he writes about, and someone whose fans believe gets it right.

Wright Thompson
Senior Writer
ESPN.COM