Rod Wave Retraces His Steps From Survivor to Thriver in His New Video

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Video: Rod Wave – “Bottom Boy Survivor”

The Alamo Records Signee Drops a Moving Visual For the Closing Track of His PTSD Mixtape

7.26.2019

Critical Praise:

“The 19-year-old can rap at a brisk pace like an ATL rapper, hit a falsetto like a R&B singer, and often digs deep to unleash a gravelly voice that sounds like he’s the lead in a country rock band…he already possesses one of the best voices in the South.” – Pitchfork

“If you’re not familiar with the sounds of Rod Wave, he’s certainly one of the most talented acts to come out of Florida in some time.” – The Modern Life Mag

“One of Florida’s finest musicians” – ELEVATOR

The Video:

Pioneering an emotional and expressive strain of Southern Rap, Florida rhymer Rod Wave wears his heart on his sleeve. Reflecting on his path from poverty to prominence, Rod Wave shares “Bottom Boy Survivor,“ his latest video. With a guitar-laden, countrified instrumental courtesy of TNT, Yung Tago, & Trillo, “Bottom Boy Survivor” gets its power from Rod’s emotive singing and poignant lyrics. For a man who suffered so much hardship in his youth, conquering the rap game only provides only a brief distraction from the memories his of his past: “You see a bottom boy survivor/Even though he’s at war, he keep it solid/Even though he take L’s, they’re all in silence/Even though he been quiet, he been cryin’.” In the video, Rod returns home to Florida, standing tall as grainy images of his old neighborhood scroll by on screen, representing the past he can’t escape. “Bottom Boy Survivor” is the concluding track of PTSD, his recent mixtape.

Released in June, PTSD collects Rod’s soulful, introspective, and hard-hitting recent singles, including his mission statement “Popular Loner” (6.9 million YouTube views and a recent Genius Verified video), the guitar-speckled recounting of his rise “Tru Story,” and the brilliantly-sung “Hard Times” (1.4 million streams on its official YouTube audio). The new mixtape shows Rod’s romantic side the devotional love song “Paint The Sky Red,“ reaches a celebratory peak with “Calabasas,” which features an appearance from rap legend E-40, and shows a great deal of self-awareness on the Pitchfork-approved “Heart On Ice.“ With production from Go Grizzly, TNT, D Major, Yung Tago, and more, PTSD is available everywhere via Alamo Records.

Rod Wave is currently on the road, headlining the “Heart On Ice Tour,” which tours several cities around Florida and Georgia before bouncing to the West Coast in August, including a date in Los Angeles on August 23rd at Catch One.

Watch “Bottom Boy Survivor”: https://youtu.be/Pnouif95B6A

Buy/Stream PTSD: https://smarturl.it/rwptsd

Buy tickets for the “Heart On Ice Tour”: http://www.eventbrite.com/d/united-states–florida/rod-wave

PTSD Tracklist:
1. Popular Loner (prod. TNT & D Major)
2. Hard Times (prod. TNT & D Major)
3. PTSD (prod. MacOnDaTrackk)
4. Heart On Ice (prod. Speaker Bangerz, Malik, & DiCaprio Beatz)
5. Paint The Sky Red (prod. Yung Tago & WassupBans)
6. Calabasas f/E-40 (prod. John C & Fittfi)
7. Proud Of Me (prod. Go Grizzly & Squat Beatz)
8. No Love (prod. DamnBenny! & Popstar Benny)
9. How Would You Feel (prod. Yung Tago)
10. True Story (prod. Golden.Tae)
11. ATR For Life (prod. TnTXD & MikeMadeThe808’s)
12. Bottom Boy Survivor (prod. TNT, Yung Tago, & Trillo)