- In 1996, his elder sister, ten years senior to him, who was living in France for years, moved back to Kinshasa. One day she saw him finger drawing on the sand and told him that he had the gift to become an artist and that he should keep at it. He did not take it to heart because he planned on becoming an electromechanical engineer until the artistic inquiry took over him in high school.
- Rodney speaks five languages, among which in order of learning, Lingala, French, English, Kikongo, and Japanese. He is fluent in the first three and can speak enough Kikongo and Japanese to get around.
- Rodney says that two of the dreams he will never see come true are meeting Michael Jackson and having both his parents attend a red carpet with him. Both his parents will never do it together, as his mother passed away in the summer of 2018, soon after he finished his summer program with the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles.
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