Rod Wave Talks Launching Mainstay Touring, ‘Sinners’ & Upcoming Album: ‘Taking It to Another Level’

After being forced to cancel his circuit astatine the apical of 2025 owed to accumulation and routing issues, Rod Wave is taking matters into his ain hands with the motorboat of his Mainstay Touring company.

The Florida rapper-singer gave fans a archetypal sensation of the Introduction to the Redemption Experience with a sold-out hometown amusement taking implicit Tampa Bay’s Benchmark International Arena connected Aug. 29.

“I built this s—t up from zero, going from gymnasiums to arenas,” Rod Wave tells Billboard successful the solitude of the arena’s creator lounge pursuing his performance. “I can’t conscionable enactment that successful somebody’s hands who doesn’t adjacent springiness a f—k astir it.”

With Rod Wave taking a much hands-on relation successful his touring, he’s readying to denote much shows for an extended North American tally successful December.

“I’m taking it to different level due to the fact that there’s gonna beryllium truthful overmuch different worldly I’m gonna adhd to it,” helium adds. “It’s not conscionable a wealth drawback oregon a promoter paying maine and I’m coming and doing the show. It’s truly a mode I link with the fans and springiness them an experience.”

Rod continues: “I consciousness the less radical with their hands successful the pot, the amended the amusement it could be. It’s a amended bang radical get for their buck.”

He could person a caller medium to execute the adjacent clip helium takes the stage, arsenic Wave’s Last Lap follow-up is astir “85 percent” finished and he’s hoping for an October oregon November release. “Growth” is the archetypal connection retired of his rima erstwhile describing the album, which volition beryllium a acold outcry from the darker themes of his earlier work.

Dive into Rod Wave detailing his touring company, the chaotic communicative down him landing a opus successful Sinners, his upcoming medium and that leaked Drake song.

Why did you motorboat Mainstay Touring?

I’m conscionable taking implicit my touring business. My archetypal extremity is to thatch the artists however to tour, you know, I’m saying however to beryllium much successful power of a touring business. What adjacent pushed maine to privation to beryllium much hands-on with touring is conscionable the information that my past circuit had to get taken down due to the fact that of the routing. I’m saying putting it successful people’s hands and promoters. I conscionable wanted to beryllium much successful control. My destiny is my touring and my transportation with the fans.

Where bash you spot Mainstay Touring going successful the adjacent 5 to 10 years?

I conscionable spot this bringing much of an acquisition backmost to shows, and an creator really connecting with his fans connected the performance level and coating a vivid picture. People basal retired successful the cold, basal successful enactment for an hr and walk $200 a summons successful this f–ked up a— system to travel spot an artist, but it’s truthful hard. If you spell spot different artists’ shows, their accumulation is shitty. It’s not their fault, due to the fact that they’re not successful control, oregon they don’t person capable [of a] budget, which puts truthful galore hands successful the pot. In the adjacent 5 to 10 [years], I conscionable spot myself turning my touring concern into thing much vivid, much utmost and taking it to different level. Every year, if I marque much money, I enactment it backmost into the show. 

Do you privation to proceed to beryllium hands-on, oregon is it much astir hiring the close radical to execute this vision?

Initially, that is benignant of similar being much hands-on. I privation to spell get the champion radical to bash that. For example, I privation to get the champion accumulation manager and the champion lighting company. There’s gonna beryllium 2 oregon 3 antithetic quotes — and I’m picking the champion of the champion to bring it to life, cutting nary corners.

With the circuit coming up, you said you’re going to denote a clump of dates successful December. What other tin you archer america astir it?

Tonight was conscionable a glimpse of what I’m astir to do. So that’s what I’m trying to bash successful December and forever, springiness fans a existent experience. Whether it’s successful the n...