Rod Wave

CTL-E-5748 · Person · musician · present (birth year contested)

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07014 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5748.

Rod Wave, born Rodarius Marcell Green on 27 August in St. Petersburg, Florida, is an American rapper and singer whose trap-soul blend pairs rap cadence with R&B confession. Signed to Alamo Records through Hit House Entertainment, he broke through with "Heart on Ice" (2019), which went viral on TikTok and reached No. 25 on the Hot 100. His albums run Ghetto Gospel (2019), Pray 4 Love (2020), SoulFly (2021), Beautiful Mind (2022), Nostalgia (2023) and Last Lap (2024). Nostalgia debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 137,000 first-week units — his third consecutive No. 1 — and Last Lap debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums with 127,000 units. His birth year is contested between 1998 and 1999 across sources and is carried here unresolved.

The record

• Also known as: Rodarius Marcell Green, Rodarius Green

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Rod Wave entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5748 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 227 (Rappers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American recording figure. Vital status: LIVING — Last Lap album and tour, October 2024; further chart activity reported in 2026 secondary coverage. CONFLICTS CARRIED: Birth year: 1998 (Wikipedia, National Today) versus 1999 (multiple biography sites). No primary source located; the year is not asserted. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Nostalgia debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 137,000 first-week units (September 2023), his third consecutive No. 1; Last Lap opened with 127,000 units (October 2024) — Billboard reporting, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5748-rod-wave.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Rod Wave" — born Rodarius Marcell Green, 27 August 1998, St. Petersburg; Alamo signing; discography — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Wave (build store)
• Billboard report via Z89 (October 2024) — Last Lap 127,000 units; No. 2 Billboard 200 / No. 1 Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums — https://z89online.com/2024/10/rod-waves-last-lap-leads-top-rb-hip-hop-albums-chart/ (primary source · build store)

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