Cal Wayne

Cal Wayne confesses over percussive beats, reliving some of lives most heartbreaking moments.
Not to spoil it, but to those of you who requested this review: THANK YOU! Ghetto is easily one of my favorite albums of 2018. Call me ‘ghetto’, but I could relate to the non-boasting-all-truth story telling that Cal Wayne employs to share his life’s struggles. - Brianca Jay - The Core 94

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. - Wright Thompson - ESPN

Third Ward Houston’s Cal Wayne has perfected storytelling in his own way while representing a sound that is oh so Houston. Currently preparing to release his album Didn’t Know on October 30th, Cal Wayne recently gave us a bit of what to expect with his single, “Look What It Did” featuring OMB Bloodbath. If the album is anything like the single, Cal Wayne has a really dope work of art on his hands. . Check out the visuals for “Look What It Did” and keep up with Cal Wayne to make sure you hear the album when it drops! - Hustlegrade.com

Cal Wayne still goes to the studio and aggressively put in work because of his passion for the music and love of his neighborhood of Third Ward in Houston, Texas.
His latest single “Look What It Did” is the first track from the soon to be released album Ghetto Royalty The David Ruffin Eddie Kane Jr. Story. - The Hip-Hop Publicist

“As I remember it, J. Prince of the Rap-A-Lot Records empire was the very one to coin the phrase “reality rap”. On one hand, the term is a cop-out designed to excuse the promotion of rampant drug dealing, imprisonment, and death. On another hand, and this was Lil J’s exact point, these are the things that are actually at work in the hood. So why blame anyone for merely wanting to document “reality”? At any rate in 2011, Killa Cal Wayne has forcibly snatched the baton previously carried by the likes of Scarface and Z-Ro and continues to run cutthroat circles around the track of reality rap. From his base of 3rd Ward Houston, where few apologies exist, Killa Cal Wayne reminds us that yes, we still have a problem and no, the art of expressing the ground-level carnage has yet to run its course…” - Texas Rapps

“There were a ton of performances at the party, the most surprising of which being the ten-minute explosion Killa Cal-Wayne put on. Two things about his performance you didn’t expect: 1) He has a noteworthy ability of being able to translate his brand of thug-rap to a live show, which has been a hindrance for a lot of similar artists not named Trae or J-Dawg. With the exception of the first minute or so where he was performing the perfunctory Song About Swag, he managed to corral the type of aggressive, emotive earnestness that made his About My Brother’s Business mixtape enjoyable.” - Houston Press