“I was like, ‘This gon’ be the one that’s gonna get us where we need to be at,’” Wap remembers. He still remembers the snowy day in December 2013 when he first played it to Monty, in the unfurnished Paterson apartment where they were staying. (Fadd barely speaks English, but they later linked up to work out a royalty-sharing agreement.) Wap’s camp brought the beat to a New Jersey producer named Brian “Peoples” Garcia, who touched it up, and before long Wap made a rough cut of Trap Queen. Wap found the beat for Trap Queen online, courtesy of an unknown Belarusian producer named Tony Fadd, who posted it on his website. “I was lucky to have a carpet.” What little funds he had, he squirrelled away after his son was born to make sure he could support him. “I didn’t even get to use no bed,” he says. At one point, practically homeless, he slept on friends’ floors. His teen years were a mess he dropped out of high school and began dealing drugs. Wap played in his high school band, too – until he got into another fight and broke his hand. “You had to get nice to play on Sundays,” Wap says, and his uncle made him practise diligently until he got up to speed. His dad played keyboards, his brother played bass, and his uncle was the lead drummer. Wap’s first exposure to performance came while banging the drums in the band at his childhood apostolic church in Paterson, called Solomon’s Temple.
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Which all raises the question: how did the bullied and broke Willie Maxwell II become celebrated hitmaker Fetty Wap? It’s all the more extraordinary, then, that he has been on a nearly unprecedented roll when it comes to lighting up the US charts.
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Photograph: Michael Schmellingīut Wap is unfamiliar with that song in fact, he has been rapping for only about three years. New Jersey has a rich hip-hop history Lauryn Hill and Jay Z are among those to have called it home, and the genre’s first hit, Rapper’s Delight, was created there.įetty Wap in Los Angeles, April 2015. While most rappers will while away an afternoon talking about their influences and hip-hop heroes, Wap has little regard for many besides Gucci Mane – whose alter ego Guwop informs Fetty Wap’s moniker (“Fetty” means “money”). He has got little polish, and maintains eccentric habits such as riding quad bikes at high speeds on New Jersey streets and pavements. It has been a whirlwind for the ascendant MC, whose love songs and tough raps are as unusual as his personality. (Though Wap visited mum and baby at the hospital, he has yet to publicly claim the child.) His publicist, however, lets it be known that he’s not interested in talking about his brand-new baby girl, Khari Barbie Maxwell, born to Masika Kalysha, star of reality show Love & Hip-Hop: Hollywood the week before.
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He is soon reminiscing about his five-year-old boy Zoovier (who is now old enough for Wap to call when he is on the road) and his one-year-old daughter Zaviera (with whom he once made it rain cash at a New Jersey mall). “I heart weed,” he snickers, posing for a photographer. Inside the trailer he is sharing with Chris Brown, he has just finished smoking a joint, and is in a good mood. In fact, Wap would just as soon skip interviews altogether, although I get a chance to pick his brain in early April before the iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Los Angeles Forum.