{"id":761987,"date":"2026-07-14T08:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761987\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:09:11","slug":"viral-waffle-house-employee-rockstar-riley-says-he-wouldnt-quit-over-1m-record-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761987\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Waffle House Employee Rockstar Riley Says He Wouldn&#8217;t Quit Over $1M Record Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Viral Waffle House Employee<br \/>\n                          I&#8217;d Still Work At Waffle House With $1M Record Deal<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              July 14, 2026<br \/>\n                            12:00 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ac2639be6b8749d1bcb57dea7399d1e0_md.png\" alt=\"071326 rockstar riley kal main\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Waffle House better give Rockstar Riley a raise and a lifetime supply of waffles &#8230; because the guy going viral for rapping his Waffle House-themed song says a seven-figure recording contract isn&#8217;t enough to make him quit his day job.<\/p>\n<p>The viral rapper tells TMZ &#8230; he would still work at Waffle House if a record label came to him with a $1 million deal.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Twitter Tweet.<\/p>\n<p>While it may sounds crazy, Rockstar Riley says he loves his Waffle House so much, he wouldn&#8217;t walk away &#8230; telling us the work environment feels like a community.<\/p>\n<p>The dude says he&#8217;s seen servers and cooks put their families through college and pay off medical expenses, all while working at the famous chain restaurant.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ICYMI &#8230; Riley is going viral for his Waffle House mixtapes &#8230; and people are wanting to see his song professionally recorded and used in a commercial.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, that would be a dream for Riley if it were to happen &#8230; but it sounds like it wouldn&#8217;t completely change his life.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b3e63c76f7894cf9a8916080ca8c0049_md.png\" alt=\"071326 rockstar riley kal sub\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And, get this &#8230; Riley has eight songs dedicated to Waffle House &#8230; he says he made them with the intent to hand them to upper management so they could be included in the restaurant&#8217;s jukebox at any or all establishments across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Dude is dedicated to Waffle House!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viral Waffle House Employee I&#8217;d Still Work At Waffle House With $1M Record Deal Published July 14, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-761987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}