Fetty Wap is at present behind bars for trafficking medicine, which has given him the time to ponder his actions and acknowledge the significance of his profession in music.
On Tuesday (November 21), XXL revealed the 32-year-old rapper’s first interview since he was despatched to jail earlier this 12 months. In the chat, he was requested what he’s been interested by throughout his time away from the highlight.
“Some of the things I think about really is being home,” he answered. “I take accountability for everything I did. I don’t really be blaming nobody for nothing. It ain’t nobody else fault that I’m here.
“However it may have went down, whatever, like with the people and all that, basically, just not standing tall. But at the end of the day, that’s my fault for involving myself around people like that. And putting your trust in the people that’s not really real, that’s not really who they say they is. So, my whole thing is like, man, just stop fuckin’ with n-ggas, man. That’s how I feel.”
He added: “I just reflect on some of the shit I did in the last few years, how I feel like I coulda took music a lot more serious than I did. And like just keep it that route, instead of this route. I’m just grateful that I’m still here; I’m still breathing. I’m able to see some light at the end of the tunnel.”
He additionally acknowledged that regardless that he shall be locked up for over half a decade, which is able to undoubtedly hinder his profession, he’s nonetheless lucky when in comparison with a few of these round him.
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“I’m around a lot of people that’s doing real lengthy sentences,” he defined. “Some of the dudes I be kickin’ it in here with, some dudes got 50 years and 30 years, some of them got life. One of my mans, who I was in Brooklyn MDC [a federal administrative detention facility that holds prisoners with pending cases] with, right now, he facing 120 years. And he just smiling every day. We just be kicking it with each other. I be telling him about all the music experience I have.
“I met a lot of genuine people in here. So, you know, they all like, ‘Yo, bro, when you get out, man, take that serious, man. Stop fuckin’ around with your blessings before you end up losing it for good.’ So, you know that’s one of the things that I reflect on — really taking music serious and going places.”
In May, Fetty Wap was sentenced to 6 years in jail for his position in serving to run a drug ring out of Long Island. He pleaded responsible to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or extra of cocaine, for which prosecutors argued for an extended sentence by claiming that he had used his platform to “glamorize the drug trade” whereas making hundreds of thousands from his music after blowing up in 2015.
He was arrested on federal drug prices at New York’s Citi Field in October 2021 as he was gearing as much as take the stage at New York’s Rolling Loud Festival.
After his arrest, the FBI recovered 16 kilograms of cocaine, 2 kilograms of heroin, fentanyl capsules, two 9mm handguns, a rifle, a .45 caliber pistol, a .40 caliber pistol, ammunition and $1.5 million in money.
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