{"id":805418,"date":"2020-03-18T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=969226"},"modified":"2020-03-18T14:05:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:05:47","slug":"nearly-one-billion-streams-later-rod-wave-is-still-praying-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/nearly-one-billion-streams-later-rod-wave-is-still-praying-for-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly One Billion Streams Later, Rod Wave Is Still Praying For Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A switch has been flipped for Rod Wave<\/a>. The Florida rapper\/singer isn\u2019t a household name just yet, but in terms of his streaming numbers, he\u2019s a star in all the ways you can count. Last week, he was the 7th most popular artist on the YouTube charts with 29.2 million weekly views, which places him ahead of industry stalwarts like Future and Post Malone. His last album, Ghetto Gospel<\/em>, has almost one billion streams, according to Alpha Data, the analytics provider that powers Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s charts<\/a>. On Audiomack alone, Wave receives from 2 million to 4 million plays a day, reports The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>. In February, his song \u201cThief In The Night<\/a>\u201d received a Cole Bennett-directed, Lyrical Lemonade music video \u2014 a popular, tastemaking pit stop for most rappers looking to give a single a near-guaranteed boost. The next month, DaBaby crashed the Charlotte stop of his Ghetto Gospel tour.<\/p>\n

Wave\u2019s latest release, \u201cPray 4 Love,\u201d isn\u2019t his best song, but it\u2019s a goo primer on why the 20-year-old artist is quickly becoming one of 2020\u2019s most lethal streaming threats. The song\u2019s subject matter features the core tenets of YouTube-rap: trust issues (\u201cWho can you trust in this cold, cold world, better get a blanket\u201d), wariness around beautiful women (\u201cAnd these hoes look so heaven-sent, but be so devilish\u201d), and rebuking fame just as you\u2019re on the cusp of it (\u201cLike ain\u2019t no love in this shit \u2019til you get rich and famous\u201d). These lyrics are backed by a Tre Gilliam beats that\u2019s equal parts somber and propulsive, featuring a pitched-up vocal sample that\u2019s contorted into a squeal. It\u2019s not until the song\u2019s conclusion that Wave breaks out his smooth, gospel-tinged singing voice<\/a>, by far his strongest asset.<\/p>\n

Pray 4 Love<\/em>, Wave\u2019s second studio album will release on April 3rd.<\/p>\n

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A switch has been flipped for Rod Wave. The Florida rapper\/singer isn\u2019t a household name just yet, but in terms of his streaming numbers, he\u2019s a star in all the ways you can count. Last week, he was the 7th most popular artist on the YouTube charts with 29.2 million weekly views, which places him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 00:08:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}