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OMDB by Rod Wave

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Rod Wave

OMDB

Release date: 26th March 2021

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About This Track

Rod Wave builds 'OMDB' around a sample of Drake's 'Over My Dead Body', the interpolation anchoring a reflection on sudden elevation and the cost it carries. The production, courtesy of A$tod and Yung Tago, sits somewhere between trap and soul, giving Wave room to move between rap and sung melody. The chorus lifts the sampled hook cleanly, but the real weight sits in the verse, where Wave traces the arc from small-venue shows to six-figure paydays, the speed of ascent itself becoming a kind of vertigo. The song's emotional centre isn't celebration but a sort of bewildered resilience. Wave acknowledges the pressure, the noise, the people who shift their stance once success arrives, but frames it all as something to move through rather than be moved by. He's conscious of the machinery around him, the blogs and the memes and the hangers-on, but the song doesn't dwell in bitterness. Instead it settles on a quieter claim: that he's the same person, regardless of what the world now sees. That steadiness, held against the chaos of fame, is what the track is really about.

"OMDB" is a track by Rod Wave, from the album SoulFly, released 26th March 2021. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Rod Wave

Rod Wave

Lyrics

OMDB

[Intro]

(Ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy, that probably Tago)

[Pre-Chorus]

How I'm feeling, it doesn't matter

'Cause you know I'm okay (Yeah, yeah)

Instead, I ask myself, "Why do you worry?" (Worry)

You know, you know I'm the same (You know I'm the same)

[Chorus]

Still, I know you don't love me, baby (Yeah)

They try to take you away from me

Only over my dead body

[Verse]

Wake up and look inside the mirror and it blows me (Blows me)

Outta all the niggas out the trenches, God chose me (Chose me)

I got the city on my back, and the city told me (Yeah)

No matter the pressure or the stress, won't bеnd or fold me (Fold me)

So much that come with bеing famous, it can drive ya crazy (Crazy)

Go check the drugs my brother takin', he's hallucinatin' (Hallucinatin')

How the hell you go and tell Nana I sold my soul to Satan?

That just how rare it is for niggas out my town to make it

Somebody grab him and pinch him, please, this ain't a dream (This ain't a dream)

Stay off the internet, king, this life ain't what it seems (Ain't what it seems)

Fuck all the blogs and the memes out there laughin' at me (Yeah)

I just woke up six million-plus on my way overseas (Yeah, yeah)

I remember five hundred dollar shows, I hit the roads for these (Roads for these)

Now I get a hunnid a occasion in the quarantine (Quarantine)

We used to be the underdog but now we standing tall (Standing tall)

The stage collapsed, the only time you'll see me fall

And niggas who ahead of me (Yeah)

Was already two years ahead of me (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

I got 'em reaching out for recipes

I got some other niggas scared of me (Yeah)

They used to toot they nose at me (At me)

But I ain't let it get the best of me

Same niggas toot they nose at me, can't even stand next to me (Yeah, yeah)

You know good dope gon' sell itself, I just served you a circle (Circle)

Youngin' turned nothing into something, the life of the turtle

[Pre-Chorus]

How I'm feeling (I'm feeling), it doesn't matter (Don't matter)

'Cause you know I'm okay (Okay, yeah, yeah)

Instead, I ask myself, "Why do you worry?" (Worry)

You know, you know I'm the same (Ooh, ooh-ooh, ah)

[Chorus]

Still, I know you don't love me, baby (I know you don't love me, baby)

They try to take you away from me (Away from me)

Only over my dead body

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Track details

From SoulFly

2021
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Album
SoulFly
SoulFly
Rod Wave
Release year
2021
  1. —Sneaky Links
  2. —Calling
  3. —Invisible Scar
  4. —OMDB
  5. —All I Got
  6. —Shock da World
  7. —What’s Love??
  8. —How the Game Go
  9. —Street Runner
  10. —Richer
  11. —Believe Me
  12. —Blame on You
  13. —Changing
  14. —Don't Forget
  15. —Gone Till November
  16. —Pillz & Billz
  17. —SoulFly
  18. —Moving On

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
40, A$tod, Anthony Palman, Chantal Kreviazuk, Drake, E.S.G. (TX), Rod Wave, Yung Tago
Lyricist
Rod Wave
Producer
A$tod, Yung Tago
Vocals
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Mixing Engineer
Travis Harrington
Recording Engineer
Travis Harrington
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