Latest Release
- 14 SEPT 2023
- 18 Songs
- Decided 2 · 2023
- Nostalgia · 2023
- Nostalgia · 2023
- Nostalgia · 2023
- Nostalgia · 2023
- Nostalgia · 2023
- Nostalgia · 2023
- Nostalgia · 2023
- Nostalgia · 2023
- Nostalgia · 2023
Albums
Music Videos
- 2021
Artist Playlists
- Part aching singer, part hardened rapper—and all heart and soul.
- The images that give context to the Florida crooner’s trap ballads.
- Grab the mic and sing along with some of their biggest hits.
Singles & EPs
Appears On
More To Hear
- A chat with Lil West and Rod Wave, plus the Top 5 US/UK collabs.
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About Rod Wave
If he can help it, Rod Wave keeps himself out of the studio. It’s too busy, too impersonal—not the kind of place where you can open up. Which is kind of what Rod Wave does. So he vets the beats on headphones, rents a hotel room with his engineer, turns the lights off and lets it go. “There’s people who could make a living getting in there and talking about they pain, they life, they story, they struggle,” he told Apple Music in 2020. “It kinda made me open up more. Like, it’s okay to be yourself; it’s okay to talk about what you go through, because ain’t nobody perfect. Everybody want to get on these songs and s**t and walk around like they perfect. That ain’t what it’s about. That’s just vampire. It don’t even exist.” Born Rodarius Green in 1999 in St. Petersburg, Florida, Rod Wave is part of a pack of younger rappers—including YoungBoy Never Broke Again, NoCap, and Moneybagg Yo—taking the street confessionals of forebears like Boosie Badazz and Kevin Gates in new directions, broadening the emotional range of hip-hop with the vocal catharsis of classic soul and, in Wave’s case, even a touch of country. It can be ugly, it can be raw—he meditates on friends lost to violence (“PTSD”), he describes breaking into houses to help out his family (“Popular Loner”). But Wave’s music also has a quietly redemptive streak: His load might never be light, but at least he can leave some of it on record.
- HOMETOWN
- St. Petersburg, FL, United States of America
- BORN
- 27 August 1998
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap