{"id":708760,"date":"2026-06-17T03:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/708760\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T03:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:35:10","slug":"rod-wave-announces-dont-look-down-album-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/708760\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Wave Announces ‘Don’t Look Down’ Album Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRod Wave\u2019s<\/a> next album is on the way. The Florida rapper\/singer announced Tuesday (June 16) that his Don\u2019t Look Down<\/a> project is set to arrive before summer ends on Aug. 28.<\/p>\n

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\n\tRod released a bittersweet trailer to coincide with the announcement, which takes place at a funeral and finds the \u201cHeart on Ice\u201d artist plotting with his crew.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNo more sneaky business, no more side deals. Keep building our own machine. Keep going and don\u2019t look down,\u201d Rod says in the clip before being asked about his next move. \u201cAlbum.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe trailer closes with a preview of a soulful track, which appears to be on Don\u2019t Look Down. A press release confirms that a single is \u201ccoming soon.\u201d \u201cI am the chosen one\/ The only one they\u00a0banking\u00a0on\/ Real s\u2013t that raw s\u2013t they\u00a0waiting\u00a0on,\u201d he croons. <\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard<\/a> caught up with Rod Wave at a homecoming show in St. Petersburg, Florida, last year, where the Grammy-nominated artist spoke about the growth he felt going into this LP. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGrowth,\u201d he said when describing the project. \u201cI feel like every album, as I grow older, is different. I paint a different picture, because I\u2019m a different version of myself. Every album\u2019s a different chapter. I feel like it\u2019s all real-life stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 27-year-old continued: \u201cWe all can agree that life goes up and down. So every year, what I basically do is I just talk about where life has taken me up to that point, and people connect with it. We\u2019re all growing up together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRod Wave\u2019s most recent album, Last Lap, arrived in 2024\u00a0and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. <\/a>Watch the Don\u2019t Look Down trailer below. <\/p>\n

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