Key Takeaways:

• “Feed the Streets” blends Rod Wave’s signature emotional storytelling with cultural references and private grief.
• The shock Christmas drop arrived forward of his forthcoming album, Don’t Look Down.
• Rod Wave’s “Redemption Experience Tour” wraps in early January with two exhibits in Miami.

If there’s one factor you possibly can rely on Rod Wave to do, it’s drop new music to soundtrack the colder months. On Thursday (Dec. 25), the Florida rapper returned with “Feed the Streets,” a single to carry followers over till his subsequent album, Don’t Look Down, arrives.

Rod Wave opens the monitor sing-rapping about Key Glock shedding Young Dolph and the influence of his own uncle’s death. Between footages of him boarding jets and turning up backstage in within the Cam Grey-directed visible, he delivers, “I got old n**gas mad cause I can’t be controlled / Trynna teach my generation, they been lost for so long / They all scared of me ’cause I got the game in a choke.”

Elsewhere within the tune, he name-drops Tupac Shakur, Malcolm X and Suge Knight, and others. “Feed the Streets” is the primary single that followers have gotten since October’s “Leavin,” which dropped alongside Rod Wave’s “Redemption Experience Tour” announcement. Watch the music video for the newest providing beneath.

Rod Wave’s “Redemption Experience Tour” is scheduled to finish with two consecutive nights at Miami’s Kaseya Center subsequent Thursday (Jan. 1) and Friday (Jan. 2). Before that, he’ll carry out at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on Sunday (Dec. 28) and once more on Monday (Dec. 29).

As Rap-Up previously noted, it’s the “Sinners” artist’s first run of exhibits below his newly launched Mainstay Touring. He created the corporate after being sued by Grizzly Touring for $27 million — plus extra damages — over his axed “Last Lap Tour.”

Although Don’t Look Down nonetheless doesn’t have a launch date, Rod Wave shared the that means behind the LP’s title with Complex final week. “A lot of people get in this position that we [are] in, bro, and they fumble it by just thinking too hard,” he defined. “I just don’t want to get caught up thinking about the next move.” He additionally confirmed that one of many songs on the album shall be titled “Redemption.”