I'm a regular person who just makes nice music.Collection: Music
I don't need no extra attention from nobody. I'm good.Collection: Good
That's how I feel sometimes. I don't want to be around nobody. I just want to be alone.Collection: Alone
Music is a way of opening up.Collection: Music
Life comes with pain.Collection: Life
Life goes up and down. So I just incorporate it with my music. I'm just blessed.Collection: Music
Street Runner' is a personal song about the sacrifices I made to pursue this career that I have now. All while never forgetting about the family and loved ones I'm doing it for.Collection: Family
You listen to my music, I'ma tell you how I'm feeling, the pain that I go through on a daily basis, my real life, you know what I'm saying? Reality - I feel like a lot of people living in fairytale land, wonderland.Collection: Music
You can always read a person by what comes out his mouth.
I hate attention, man.
I just wanted to make music, because it's how I get stuff off my chest. I want it to always feel like my escape.
I remember getting evicted and all kinds of stuff. Police coming to get me out of my house, telling me it's time to go. I remember all of that.
The single 'Pray 4 Love' was a summary for the album, but there are a lot of different messages about the way to deal with relationships from dealing with your homeboys to dealing with your pain. This is life that we all go through.
My lady, my mama, my grandma, everybody think I'm crazy.
I can't get on the Internet without seeing my face or name.
When I do my music, I don't even go to the studio. It's just me and my engineer in a dark room somewhere, recording.
I've never really been able to open up and record around people.
I liked Kanye West when I was coming up.
I never really was like, 'Let's me and this rapper link so the song can go crazy and everybody can listen to it.' I never made music for that purpose.
I'm a rapper and an artist, but I'm a human. That's what people forget. That's why I try to make them remember.
R, Rod Wave, that comes from one of my homeboys gave me that name 'cause I used to be scared to upload my music. I just used to make music and just to listen to it myself. So one day, he just uploaded it and gave me my name. I came back to school, everybody was like, 'Rod Wave!' I ain't know what the hell they was talkin' 'bout.
Every show my heart's beating real fast, my palms sweating. I'm uncomfortable and I'm trying to get off the stage as fast as possible.
I think I been chosen to be a 2020 XXL Freshman 'cause, you know, I been rocking with XXL since I started, you know what I'm saying? They respect grind, you know?
I listen to everything that sounds good with a story. I even listen to Adele. I listen to all kinds of music. Everything with a story that I can listen to and close my eyes and visualize it. I just love music.
I just love making music, bruh.
Somebody who really influenced me since a kid was Lil Phat. He was just telling his life story.
I can definitely write a book. Growing up, I really learned that. The stuff I was reading were urban books and I definitely got into it a lot.
I feel like before music, I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I didn't know where I was going to end up. I was scared to even have people depending on me.
I remember my first time in the studio, I wasted like six hours. There were too many people in there. I was kind of shy.
I never thought I would be on the tour or that people would want to talk about my album. It was never about that.