Rod Wave Credit: Photo via Rod Wave/YouTube
Less than a year ago, Rod Wave was bumping Justin Bieber into second place on the Billboard 200. After a summer marred by an arrest for battery by strangulation, the St. Petersburg rapper gone global plays Tampa’s Yuengling Center at the University of South Florida on Saturday, Dec. 3 arena in support of a new album Beautiful Mind, and fresh off the release of his latest EP, Jupiter’s Diary: 7 Day Theory.
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This article appears in Dec 1-7, 2022.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...