Rod Wave - Street Runner

What this video is

Released March 10, 2021 as the lead single from SoulFly, 'Street Runner' arrived during the tail end of COVID-19 social-distancing restrictions on live music, making its documentation of masked/distanced concerts a rare time-stamp of the pandemic-era touring experience. Rod Wave had broken through nationally via TikTok virality ('Heart On Ice,' 2019) and was positioning SoulFly as a mainstream consolidation moment.…

Why it matters

Rod Wave's 'Street Runner' is a landmark example of trap soul's mid-career confessional mode: the sub-genre's characteristic blend of melodic R&B delivery over trap production is here paired with a visual language borrowed from documentary film rather than rap video spectacle. The Billboard Hot…

The director

Eye 4 Production is a music video production entity credited on IMDb as primary director of this video. Rod Wave (born Rodarius Marcell Green, St. Petersburg, FL) co-directed and co-shot the video alongside videographer Yawn Rico, a recurring collaborator in…