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This video game brings my story to life beyond the music." Composition Listen to Street Runner by Rod Wave, 613,357 Shazams, featuring on Rod Wave Essentials, and Polo G Essentials Apple Music playlists. All while never forgetting about the family and loved ones I'm doing it for. According to Wave, "Street Runner" is a personal song about the sacrifices I made to pursue this career that I have now. "Street Runner" inspired the design of a video game of the same name, which Rod Wave launched in a collaboration with Krool Toys to promote the song on March 17, 2021. The song peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was produced by Karltin Bankz, LondnBlue and TnTXD, and samples "Mixed Signals" by Ruth B. Check out “Street Runner” below." Street Runner" is a song by American rapper Rod Wave, released on Maas the lead single from his third studio album SoulFly (2021). That doesn’t seem to be what Rod Wave is going for here.) The album will arrive later this month, and other than a lone Polo G feature, it’s all Rod Wave. (Despite the title, I don’t think the album will be too influenced by Max Cavalera’s post-Sepultura nü-metal band. The next Rod Wave album is called SoulFly. Given that Pray 4 Love isn’t even a year old, I don’t think anyone’s too mad. The “Street Runner” video is mostly footage of Rod Wave flying around in private jets and being successful, but it opens with a note to fans apologizing for any delays. The song ends with a long and presumably-genuine voicemail message that makes it clear someone is missing him, too. The track samples “ Mixed Signals,” a 2017 track from the singer-songwriter Ruth B, and it finds Rod Wave crooning about achieving his dreams but still missing someone. (Successful people can still be sad, but it’s not always something that the world wants to hear.) On his new single “Street Runner,” heh finds a new tone - a happy, bittersweet feeling. It would be a bit weird, maybe, if the now-massively-successful Rod Wave came back after Pray 4 Love singing about how sad he still is.

But none of that has dimmed Rod Wave’s star, and now he’s getting ready to release a new album. Rod Wave has been through some calamities since he came to fame, like the car crash documented on the single “ Through The Wire” or the stage-collapse at the show that shouldn’t have been happening during a pandemic in the first place. On the albums Ghetto Gospel and Pray 4 Love, Rod Wave perfected his approach: Sad, bluesy, tender songs sung over trap beats. In the past year and a half, the rap-adjacent Florida singer Rod Wave has become a huge star.
