Rod Wave has a net worth of $10 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. The St. Petersburg, Florida rapper, born Rodarius Marcell Green on August 27, 1998, has built that fortune over roughly a decade in the music business. His main sources of income are album and streaming royalties, touring revenue and a co-publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing signed in 2020. Rod Wave stands 5 feet 6 inches tall and has recorded under Alamo Records, with additional backing at times from Geffen and Interscope.
Quick Facts
| Detail | Information |
| Real Name | Rodarius Marcell Green |
| Net Worth | $10 million |
| Born | August 27, 1998, St. Petersburg, Florida |
| Occupation | Rapper, singer, songwriter |
| Genre | Soul-trap, R&B, trap |
| Height | 5 feet 6 inches (168 cm) |
| Label | Alamo Records |
| Years Active | 2016 to present |
| Children | Twin daughters, Kash and Mocha |
Early Life and Biography
Rod Wave grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida, in a household where money was tight for most of his childhood. His father, Rodney “Fatz” Green, was in prison for part of Rod’s early years, and his mother, Charmaine, raised him largely on her own during that stretch.
He attended Lakewood High School, where he played football before turning his attention to music. Writing lyrics became an outlet for what he was dealing with at home, and by his mid-teens he had already adopted the stage name Rod Wave.
Growing up, he listened to a mix of artists including E-40, Chingy, Boosie Badazz, Kanye West and Kevin Gates, an influence that later showed up directly in his music. Kevin Gates would go on to feature on his song “Cuban Links,” a collaboration Rod Wave has pointed to as a full-circle moment given how much he studied Gates’s catalog as a teenager.
He released his first mixtape, Hunger Games, Vol. 1, independently in 2016. A string of self-released projects followed over the next few years while he built a following in Florida’s local rap scene, long before any major label came calling.
Career Timeline
Rod Wave’s real breakthrough came with “Heart on Ice,” a single from his 2019 mixtape PTSD. The song went viral on YouTube and TikTok and cracked the Billboard Hot 100, turning him from a regional artist into a name label executives were watching. That same run of momentum earned him a spot on XXL magazine’s Freshman Class list, a yearly ranking that has historically flagged which new rap artists are about to break through.
That same year, he released his debut studio album, Ghetto Gospel, which reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200. He followed it in 2020 with Pray 4 Love, home to the hit “Rags2Riches,” and signed a global co-publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing that same year. Around this period he also performed a stripped-down set for NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series, a format that strips away production and lets an artist’s songwriting stand on its own.
His momentum kept building. SoulFly debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in 2021, and Beautiful Mind followed in 2022. His 2024 album Last Lap reached number two on the chart and extended an unusual streak: from 2019 to 2024, he and Taylor Swift were the only two artists to chart a solo top 10 album every single year.
In 2025, Rod Wave contributed the lead single “Sinners” to the soundtrack of the Ryan Coogler film of the same name, where it played during the closing scene. The song earned him his first Grammy nomination, for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
That year also brought legal trouble alongside the professional wins. He was arrested in Georgia in May on charges including aggravated assault, tied to an alleged April altercation, and posted a $50,000 bond the same day. He was arrested again in November on gun and drug charges in Atlanta, on the same day his Grammy nomination was announced, and was released the following day on an $8,000 bond. His attorney, Drew Findling, has disputed the charges in both cases. These were not his first run-ins with police. In April 2024, he faced a weapons charge in Manatee County, Florida, after investigators tried to connect him to a shooting, though he was released once officials said he had been detained based on inaccurate information. A 2022 battery charge from an earlier incident was later dropped.
Net Worth Breakdown
Estimates of Rod Wave’s net worth vary depending on the source and the year the figure was published, which is common for working musicians whose income shifts with album cycles and touring schedules. Earlier estimates from 2020 and 2021 put his worth closer to $1.5 million to $3 million, reflecting where he stood before his first two albums fully paid off. By 2024, most trackers had that number between $4 million and $9 million. Celebrity Net Worth’s current estimate of $10 million reflects several more years of album sales, publishing income and touring revenue added since then.
That $10 million figure also comes with a caveat. Rod Wave is currently in a legal dispute with Grizzly Touring, which alleges he owes more than $27 million in unrecouped advances tied to a touring deal that reportedly guaranteed him more than $40 million for 35 shows, with roughly half paid upfront. How that case resolves could affect his finances going forward, though it does not change the underlying income his music and touring have already generated.
Some of that wealth shows up in his car collection, which has reportedly included a Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, a Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, a Rolls-Royce Cullinan, a Mercedes-AMG GLE 63 S Coupe and a Volvo S90. It is a mix of American muscle and European luxury that reflects a fairly typical spending pattern for a young artist whose income scaled up quickly after years of having very little.
Income Sources
Rod Wave’s income breaks down across several streams rather than any single source. Album and streaming royalties make up a large share, given that five of his projects have reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200. Touring revenue adds significantly more, since arena and amphitheater dates for an artist with his chart history draw substantial ticket sales.
His 2020 co-publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing gave him a direct stake in the songwriting side of his catalog, not just the recording side, which is a distinction that matters for long-term earnings in the music business. That ownership model has a clear parallel in book publishing, where publishing income forms a major part of Colleen Hoover’s wealth.” He also earns from YouTube, where his music videos have generated hundreds of millions of views, and from licensing, including the “Sinners” placement that led to his Grammy nomination.
Social media adds a smaller but real slice of his income. His TikTok account has drawn around 5 million followers and 41.1 million likes across roughly 77 uploads, with an engagement rate above 9 percent, a figure well above what most accounts his size see. Estimates from Social Blade and Influencer Marketing Hub put his earnings per sponsored post somewhere between $8,003 and $12,005, on top of whatever a brand pays separately for the underlying campaign. Merchandise tied to his tours and album cycles rounds out his commercial income, though he has been more selective about formal brand endorsements than many of his peers.
Family
Rod Wave keeps most of his personal life away from social media by choice. He is in a long-term relationship with Kelsey, and the couple has twin daughters, born in May 2020, whom they named Kash and Mocha.
He has an older half-brother from his father’s earlier relationship. Rod Wave currently lives in Tampa, Florida, not far from where he grew up in St. Petersburg.
Physical Stats
Rod Wave stands 5 feet 6 inches tall, or about 168 centimeters, and weighs approximately 216 pounds (98 kilograms). He has dark brown eyes and black hair, and his build has stayed fairly consistent across the years he has been in the public eye.
