[Intro]
(Pipe that shit up, TnT)
I don't know, like
I just don't, I don't get people (D. Major, baby)
I don't fuck with nobody, I don't be around nobody
I just like being dolo, you know?
People, I don't know, I just don't understand 'em
Maybe it's they don't understand me
[Chorus]
Weight of the world on your shoulders and you're feeling all alone
You got it, my nigga, just hold on
Thug life ain't dead, I'ma be this way until they kill me
'Til then, I'ma make these niggas feel me
My nigga it's a wild, wild lifestyle
A wild, wild lifestyle
I don't get along with my peers, I'm at war with myself
So fuck you and everybody else
[Verse]
Okay, I finally get the meaning of fighting demons (Fighting demons)
Late at night, I ain't sleeping, I'm up thinking (I'm up thinking)
I'ma ball all season for last season (Yeah, yeah)
Back when I was on the bleachers, they left me needin' (Yeah)
Thug life ain't dead, niggas scared, that's how I feel (I feel)
I don't fuck with my peers, never did, and never will (I never will)
And I can't keep a bitch 'cause I be peepin' shit
I ain't with all of that beefin' shit, I'd rather leave a bitch
In the city, brought my glizzy with me, I'll delete a bitch
Niggas hating on a daily, but be on some feature shit, leecher shit
Niggas mad at me but I can't understand 'em
How you mad at me and I'm tryna feed my family?
And my school didn't feel like high school 'cause niggas fake
So I would skip classes and break in houses to get paid
Told my mama one day, one day, I'ma be straight
Stack up my chips and I'ma move far away
[Chorus]
Weight of the world on your shoulders and you're feeling all alone
You got it, my nigga, just hold on
Thug life ain't dead, I'ma be this way until they kill me
'Til then, I'ma make these niggas feel me
My nigga it's a wild, wild lifestyle
A wild, wild lifestyle
I don't get along with my peers, I'm at war with myself
So fuck you and everybody else
[Outro]
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
You know, I'm a popular loner, you know
Maybe it's me, maybe it's not, you know, maybe it's me
Fuck it
Rod Wave released Popular Loner on Thu Mar 14 2019.
The moments of inspiration for this song was just like, I was just thinking about stuff that I’d been through, you know what I’m saying? Like, I had a conversation with my mom, we was talking about like, growing up I never really had no real friends that I hung around, or like I kicked it with every...
I met TNT off YouTube, like bro, I was just surfacing through beats and I seen the title of his beats, and I clicked on it, and I said I like this sound, so then we reached out to him, from there just built a relationship. I got a good relationship with TnTXD. I got that beat through the email, like...
The process of recording the record for me on any song, but on that one, it was just real easy, because I make my song before I go to the studio. I record them, like, I play the beat in the background and I just record it, you know what I’m saying. So, before I even go to the studio all my songs be...
Popular loner to me is just a dude who has a lot of eyes on him. You know what I’m saying? But this eyes to the sky. The popular lone comes from like I’m alone. Like I’m popular–my name. I’m known and getting more from it every day, but I don’t even really want to use it. You see what I’m saying? I...
On July 26, 2022, “Popular Loner” was certified gold by the RIAA.