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INTERVIEW: Fetty Wap on Returning To Music, New Perspectives, Fatherhood + More
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Podcast Host
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Lauren LaRosa
Let me get this straight. You're in Italy child pretended to be the white Italian man's fiance. Hard to believe.
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Fetty Wap
This is Michael, my nephew.
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Lauren LaRosa
Then you ended up catching feelings for the black Italian Cousin Brothers.
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Fetty Wap
On April 10th she came for the pasta and got lost in the sauce. Please just tell me that you support me.
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Interviewer 1
Damn.
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Commercial Narrator
No.
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Lauren LaRosa
Is he fine though? Come on baby.
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Fetty Wap
You can eat, pray and love me. Baby, you be in Tuscany B13 only Peterson April 10 may be inappropriate for
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Angela Yee
Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club.
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Fetty Wap
Y' all finished or y' all done?
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DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest back in the building.
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Angela Yee
Yes, indeed.
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DJ Envy
The album is out today. Ladies and gentlemen, Fetty Wap back.
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Fetty Wap
Yo, yo, what it is?
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DJ Envy
What's up, brother?
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Fetty Wap
How you feel? Easy on him. Easy on him. I feel good, man. Already.
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Angela Yee
Did you really want to put this album out or you felt like you. You had to?
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DJ Envy
Yeah, that was a fast turnaround.
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Angela Yee
Like, is this a. Like an organic thing or you just like, man, I got it.
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Fetty Wap
This. Nah, it's definitely organic.
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Angela Yee
Okay. Okay.
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Fetty Wap
For sure.
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Angela Yee
Okay.
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DJ Envy
Now, the name of the album is Xavier.
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Fetty Wap
Yeah.
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DJ Envy
What is. Who is Xavier?
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Fetty Wap
Xavier is like my alter ego.
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DJ Envy
Okay.
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Fetty Wap
I'm saying, like, just a moment, short version of myself, like the one that sat back and took his time, the one that just watches his surroundings, you know, more. More mental awareness, just, you know, just not allowing. Not allowing. No BS this time. You know what I'm saying? Just a better version of my old self.
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DJ Envy
Now, how has it been since you've been home, what, a couple months now? How has that feeling been? Cause I've seen even when you move around, you move around a lot lighter. It's more. You really look where you're performing now. It's not just performing in any club and strip club. Like, I see that you're making a conscious effort to do things a different type of way. So explain that and break that down
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Fetty Wap
a little bit, you know? Like, when I was down, I just kept telling myself, like, you know what I mean? Like, if you want to be the best, you gotta treat yourself like the best. You know what I'm saying? No matter how people view you, no matter what you read in the comments, or if you not as lit as everybody else, like, you still have to carry yourself a certain way. And I believe that when you follow that, like, when you follow that mindset, it'll come into fruition for me. So that's just what I'm doing. I'm treating myself like a superstar.
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DJ Envy
Was there a time where you had to cut people off because they came around and they expected old Fetty, the Wild out Fetty. Did you have to cut people off or was it a little easier than that?
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Fetty Wap
It already happened when I first came home. Like, it wasn't. It wasn't no, it wasn't a space to cut you off, like, you know what I mean?
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Angela Yee
It was already gone.
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Fetty Wap
Yeah, it was already there. Like, so, oh, we about to come to the studio. No, you not. You know what I'm saying? Like, we ain't doing that. So it was like, when I was calling, nobody was answering. Now everybody trying to pop back up, like, we ain't having that this time. So, yeah, it wasn't even a great area to have that conversation with nobody.
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Angela Yee
Is there any resentment from people because of that? Because you set those boundaries?
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Fetty Wap
I don't know. I don't speak to him to find out.
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DJ Envy
You know, I wanted to know, too. After you did the first album, your voice sounded a certain way. Right then, right after you did the record. The record that sticks out of my mind is the record with Khaled and those records, it seemed like something changed with your voice. Yeah, what was that? Cause in this project, it seems like
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Fetty Wap
you got it back.
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DJ Envy
And that was my fear. Always with you was like, the first time they heard you, the raw vocals, it sounded different. Then your voice changed. Everything changed. And I was like, well, what was that change? And how did you get it back to.
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Fetty Wap
To this really? It was like I was just trying, like, different things, like, because I was, like, trying to make another trap point so much that I'm like, maybe I should just try something else. And then, you know, if it work, it work. If it don't, then I'll just go back. But I was doing different things so much, I forgot how to. You know what I mean? Like, I forgot how to spin back. But I'm like, ah, you know what? This time I sat back and I'm just like, I gotta get back in that groove. So with this whole project, it was more so, like, let me just try to be more of a creator than a creative than just trying to make songs to put out. You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, that's how I gotta get back in that bag. Like, when I did the trap queen679 and all those records, it was just me having fun, being creative. Like, just doing something different. Like, let me try this out and see how it sound. Like. And that's what I did with this one. Like. So, like, to answer your question earlier, that's why I felt like, no, I'm like, yeah, like, I'm ready for it. Like, you, you know. You know how I record. So I'm. This is nothing new. Like, no, I do that. I'm in there a Lot. I record a lot of records, but this time I took my time recording the records, you know what I mean? Like, even though it happened a little faster, but I felt like, I felt like. Like I found that sound again. Like I found that, that, that. Yeah, so. Yeah, that's. I feel like. I feel like that that voice came back.
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Interviewer 1
Like this time you singing a lot more on the album. Yeah, we get to hear the vocals.
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Fetty Wap
Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure.
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Angela Yee
I try to.
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Interviewer 1
That's like on purpose or is like.
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Fetty Wap
Nah, definitely purposely. I definitely purposely did it, like. Cause you know, I always been like, the melody. Like the melody, dude. You know what I'm saying? But I'm like, I could do a little bit more.
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Interviewer 1
Yeah, you never tapped into. You got vocals on here.
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Fetty Wap
I'm trying to. You know what I mean? I'm trying to. I ain't trying to do too much, you know what I mean? I ain't trying to do too much,
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Angela Yee
but not trying to get you Jack Hal follow on.
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Fetty Wap
Yeah, but you sound good, though. I appreciate that. I appreciate that for sure.
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Angela Yee
How do you measure your, Your own growth as an artist when you're creating a project?
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Fetty Wap
From the people, Honestly, like, from the people. Like, I like this time around when I was recording, like, I tried to have people I don't know, like. Like people I don't know there. And I just. I just read the energy in the room. Like, if people on their phone too much or they're not paying attention, they scratch it, you know what I'm saying? Damn. Like, if I start, I see people, you know what I mean? Like, ah, yeah, we gonna keep that one. Like, you know what I'm saying? And that's how I kind of know, like, because if you got the gods there, I mean, that's hard. Like, I even say that, bro. Bills on the bus go round around.
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Angela Yee
That's what I mean. How do you know what's real and what's not? Cause you might turn the beat on, they might just bop because they there in the moment. And just being on the phone don't necessarily mean you not listening. That's just sadly the way the world is.
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Fetty Wap
Nah. So throughout the process, like, if you ever been in, like, if you ever been to anybody's sessions, like, no. Some people take two hours to make a song, some people take a day, some people might do it in 30 minutes. Like, you know what I mean? I'm kind of a little bit quicker. But that process of. Nah, bring me back right there. All right, Bring me her hair all Right, Let me do these doubles right here and let me do this. You know, on the outside it's quiet. The engineer gotta hear you. So it's real quiet out there. So people just kind of just waiting. So if they reacting every time that beat drop. Oh, yeah. All right. Nah, like, you know what I'm saying? You kind of. Yeah, they feeling this a little bit, you know what I mean? And then when it's time to do the playback, then everybody just start. I mean, everybody start having fun, they jamming. So like, if, if it's not going that way, even when the playback come, it's like, ah, yeah, maybe that's not the one.
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Interviewer 1
You know, I kind of like that. That's like, like a open mic type of situation. Like, where do you get the people from if they don't know you? Like, ho.
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Fetty Wap
Like, I just invite like, like friends that I met like, like that when I was in prison. You know what I'm saying?
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Interviewer 1
Well, they know you, but they ain't never.
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Fetty Wap
Yeah, exactly. Like, no, I mean, like they family. Like, it was just tell you. I mean, just tell you. They didn't want, you know, yo, my. Yo, my sister want to meet you. You know, I mean, stuff like that. You bring them to the stool, bro. Like, and it'll be like probably like five, six people there. Like five, six, seven people. Not too much. And I'll just see how they react when I'm recording. And it'd be like that, like, or I have like a, a few dudes from like a few like, media outlets and stuff like that. Like, just see how they reacting, you know? I mean, and that's just really how I've been doing it. Like, I just try to, like, I'm trying to get comfortable being uncomfortable, you know what I'm saying?
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Angela Yee
So that's how you grow. That's when you know you're growing, when you're uncomfortable.
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Lauren LaRosa
What music are you listening to right now? Like, inspiration wise. Because a lot of the sounds on this project too, it's like there's a lot of jazzy, like, swing, like, and I'm like, what's his playlist? Like, where is that coming from?
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Fetty Wap
Yeah, I mean, like, I'm really like a, like a late 90s, early 2000s type of dude. Like, that's what I listen to, a lot of that, like, on my free time, you know, I mean, but when it's time, like to make music, I, you know, I still like tune into what's going on now. So I don't be outdated. You feel What I'm saying, And I just try to mix everything together. Like, I. I don't feel like music should have like a. Like a one track, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I feel like it should be. It should be fun, like, to listen to, fun to hear, like, different sounds. So, like, me personally, like, you know, I'm like. When I say, like, early, like late 90s, I mean, like, you know, like Foxy Brown, the Total, and like, Lil Flip and like, you know what I mean? Like, classics. Yeah. Joe, Chris Brown, like, everybody. I just go everywhere. Like, I don't have, like a. It's not really, like, you know, like, I just go on the app. I mean, I don't know if I could say the app up here, like, YouTube Red, and I just press play, and it just keep playing music, you know what I'm saying? So I just, like, I don't limit myself. Like, I don't limit myself to just one thing, but, like, on my personal time, yeah, that's what I listen to. I just be chilling.
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DJ Envy
When you came home, you were well received. When you came home, right? We seen you pop out with a boogie. We seen you pop out with a bunch of people. We seen artists celebrating you, even on this album now. I mean, you got, you know, Wiz Khalifa, Honey Baby, Tink, Max B, you know, Albie Al. You got G herbo. You got so many things. Were you surprised about the love that you received when you came on?
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Fetty Wap
Yeah, of course.
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DJ Envy
Why?
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Fetty Wap
I mean, and I'm gonna keep saying, you know, because you really do know, like, it wasn't like this, you know what I'm saying? Like, even when we did our record, bro, like, you know what I mean? People wasn't really, like, people wasn't rocking with me the way they say they is now, you know what I mean? And it's cool, you know what I mean? And I don't like to be that person, to try to bring that negativity out of it, but I'm just also a real dude. Like, I'm not gonna ever be fake to myself. But, you know, like, I tell everybody, like, I appreciate it so much more than anybody, understand, because that feeling of feeling forgotten, you know what I mean? Or thinking you've been forgotten or just sitting in that, you know, sitting in there and, like, you don't hear yourself or nobody reaching out, and you hear, like, how everybody else. Oh, people just reached out to this person while he was down. I'm like, what's up? Like, you know what I mean? To Come home and it's like, everybody, like, we've been waiting for you. And I'm like, thanks.
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Angela Yee
Yeah. I didn't know y' all didn't make me feel like that when I was down.
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Fetty Wap
Yeah.
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DJ Envy
What do you think changed that? What do you think that. That. That came from?
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Fetty Wap
I. I guess just, like. I don't know. I just. I just never changed, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I never changed when I stood true to who I was, like, you know what I'm saying? Like. And I don't. I don't like to, like. To how you say it? Like, what's the word I'm looking for? Like. Like, congratulate that. But, you know, like, I. I still told them what I did. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I glorified it. Yeah. I don't. I don't want to, like, glorify like, that. That side of it, but, you know, like, I. I did what I had to do. Like, when it was my time to go sit down, I sat down and I. You know, I mean, I did it on my 10, bro. Like, and I guess a lot of people respect that. You know what I mean? And this was what comes with it. I don't know. I don't know how to explain.
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Angela Yee
I think you also remind people of a group. Great year.
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Lauren LaRosa
A great time.
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Angela Yee
Yeah. When you. That. 2015, 2014, 2015, I think people really wanted they, like, I remember that era, absolutely.
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Fetty Wap
Yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. Every. Every club. I mean, everywhere I went that year, that year, 2015, 2016, everywhere I went, it was just always fun. Like, we never had incidents at any of my parties, anywhere I performed. That was never a problem everybody had from. Even. Even the security guards was in there. Like. Like, bro, do your job. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like. But it was lit, though. Like, I. I feel like. Like, I don't know. I just feel like I'm just happy, bro. Like, yeah. I mean, like, that's. That's my only emotion I have. Like, I'm just. I'm just happy and humble, like, appreciative to everybody that's been showing me love, all the artists that's been reposting everything, been commenting. Like, I've been seeing everything. And I'll just be like, thank y' all so much. Like, y' all understand how. How appreciative I am of that.
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Angela Yee
How have you adjusted back? Because last time we saw you, literally, I just got home.
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Interviewer 1
Yeah.
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Fetty Wap
Yeah. I Mean, really. Like, I haven't been. I ain't sit down yet, you know what I'm saying? I haven't really sat down yet. I just been going. I just feel like I gotta do it. Like, I don't got time to wait, you know what I'm saying? It wasn't no time to sit down. And let's wait a few months. And I waited four years for this. Feel me? So if anybody had to come home after sitting down for that long and think about it more, like, I don't. I feel like wasting your time. Like, I thought about it every day since day one. Like, all right, this is what I'm gonna do when I get back. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, and when my time came, I took off. Like, it wasn't no sitting down.
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DJ Envy
How important are the numbers, right? Because it seems fast that you just came out, right? Usually when you drop your project, you got, you know, numbers on the board. You got singles playing. And I'm looking at some of these numbers, right? Trap Queen went diamond six, seven, nine. Six million my way. Three million again. Three million. Wake up. Is Platinum Jug's platinum rgf, man trying
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Angela Yee
to correct you, man.
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Fetty Wap
Shop Queen is double diamond 679.
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DJ Envy
Damn. Double damn. All right.
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Angela Yee
I don't think that's fair to compare just to that.
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DJ Envy
I know that, but do you look at that? Do you look at them like, I gotta catch those again?
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Fetty Wap
Nah, those my babies. That's how I look at them. Nobody can't take those from me. You know what I'm saying? No matter what anybody say, it doesn't matter what happened. Those my babies, you know what I'm saying? Like, if it. If those. If them songs never came out, it would never be no what's happening next with Fetty Wap, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, it wouldn't be no. I'm at the Breakfast Club, you feel what I'm saying? So I' ma always be ever. I'm gonna always, forever be grateful of them songs. So, like, and that's the separation that I made for myself coming home. Like, I'm not chasing that again. Like, there's no reason to chase that. Like, whenever I do any new music, it's gonna either end with those songs, like, that's my closing set, you know what I'm saying? Because that's what everybody know me for. Like, when people see me, some kids don't even know me as Fetty Wap. They call me 1738. So you know what I Mean, so like I had to really, like, like, you know, when you, when you chasing something so bad and everybody in your ear like, oh, he's not gonna never have another trap queen, you know, it'll do something to your mental, like, you know what I'm saying? Especially when you're trying to make music, but it's not happening no more, you know what I mean? Like, they just can't. Nobody has that effect on my, on my energy no more, you know what I'm saying? So I'm just like, I'm forever grateful for that. Like, I'm proud, I'm proud to say, like, I'm the one that wrote those records. Like, I didn't have no writers, no, no Ghost Riders. Like I, I did all those records myself, you know, so. Well, Monty got, you know, Monty up there too. But I mean, like, it's. It's a different time for me, bro. Like, it's just a different time for me. It's a different time in my energy, a different time in my spirit, bro. Like, I'm just different. Like, you know, so when I hear numbers, I'm grateful to hear them. Like, a lot of people don't got those numbers. A lot of people don't have double diamonds and diamond records. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, so. And I remember when it was just Fetty Wap, the artist from Paterson. Now it's Fetty Wap the Diamond Selling, Grammy nominated. It's a lot of titles to my name now, you know what I'm saying? So I'm appreciative of those numbers and
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Angela Yee
chasing that keeps you living in the past. Like, if you're truly growing and evolving and you're a whole different human being right now, there's no way you can make that again. And you're not supposed to.
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Fetty Wap
Nah.
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Interviewer 1
Even your remix is like, well, not even your remixes. When you would songs that weren't yours, when you would hop on with other songs, collaborate, like what's. I was just listening to Gold Slugs.
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Commercial Narrator
What?
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Fetty Wap
Oh, yeah.
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Interviewer 1
Like, that's crazy. And that's probably something that you just did. Just here. Here you go.
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Fetty Wap
Nah, I was actually. See, like that was another thing. Like, I remember that day too.
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Interviewer 1
Excuse me, what was that like? Yo, that's one of my favorite songs.
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Fetty Wap
I was sitting in the studio, I'm trying to remember what I was doing that day. I don't remember what song, but I know my people's peoples had hit me like, yo, bro, Khaled sent you something over. I'm Like DJ Khaled, he like, yeah. I'm like, you know, at this time, I'm still like, oh. Like. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's fire. Like. So they sent it over and it's so crazy, right, because they saying gold slugs. I'm like, I'm like, I know when the bullet is gold, but the bullet is silver. What's a gold slug? So if you ever, like. If you ever listen to the verse again, you know, I'm talking about. I'm thinking he talk about go like bullets and guns, right? The whole time they talk about the grills.
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Interviewer 1
Oh, but you didn't know that.
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Fetty Wap
I didn't even know.
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Interviewer 1
I just thought that was your take
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Fetty Wap
on, like, that was your even know at the time. So when I get there, I see everybody with gold grills. I'm like, oh, that's.
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Angela Yee
None of them told you after the fact, Even when they heard the birth, they like, nah, it was so hard,
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Interviewer 1
it don't even matter.
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Fetty Wap
Yeah, nobody. Nobody didn't care. They like, whatever. Like, they. As long as I said, yeah, baby. They was like, all right, we up.
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Lauren LaRosa
But I feel like on this project Nasty. The song with Tink, that song, like, it. I mean, I know you're not chasing it, and it's to hear you say that you are separating. You're not even thinking about that era. That song, when we were playing it in here, I was like, this. It feels like that. Like a whole new level of that. Like, she's perfect for the collaboration, the beat, the vibe, the stuff that y' all talking. It's like, all right, this is about to dominate the summer. That's how I felt when I heard that song. The same way I felt when I first heard, you know, 1738, the trap queens. Like, so it's there naturally.
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Fetty Wap
Yeah. I mean, that was when that happened. Shout out to my boy Hitmaker. He the one that put that play together, you know what I'm saying? Like, I asked him like, yo, bro, you think you could get. He actually did that for that record and the G Herbo record, I remember. So he put both of those plays together for me. But I'm like, yeah, yo, if you could get Tank, bro, I feel like she'd be. And I think it was like four days later, message came through. I'm like, oh, that's crazy. Like, oh, this is really happening. For real. Like, you know what I'm saying? Because, like, I'm just like, wow. But that record right there, I was just like. I was just Having fun. Like, I was just having fun. Like, and now, you know, I'm a fan of Usher. So I'm like, when I heard that little breakdown, I'm like, I wonder if he gonna be mad if I do this, like, you know, seven o'.
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Interviewer 1
Clock.
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Fetty Wap
Because I don't think nobody ever, like, tried to do that actual part. They always trying to make their own sound of it, like. But I like to give old to the artist. Like, I mean, he's original.
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Lauren LaRosa
I mean, has he heard it?
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Fetty Wap
Yeah, he's the one that approved it.
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Lauren LaRosa
Approved it, right?
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Fetty Wap
So I was like. I'm like, wow. I haven't spoken to him yet, though. But, like, they told me, like, he was, like, excited. Like, yeah, bro, tell Fetty. Let's get it. Like, I'm like, it's lit now.
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DJ Envy
The record with Wiz, Khalifi, how much
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Angela Yee
of the publishing did he keep?
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Fetty Wap
I don't know.
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DJ Envy
The record with Wiz, you sang into that intro.
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Fetty Wap
Yeah.
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DJ Envy
What made you do that? Instead of saying, what made you do the singing to the intro of him rapping as opposed to y' all both rapping on it.
- [21:10]
Fetty Wap
So that record. I actually made that record. I was in the hole. Like, I was in the shoe.
- [21:16]
Angela Yee
Oh, wow.
- [21:16]
Fetty Wap
Oh, yeah. Okay. So white roses. I remember like a tailor and fool for you Always written when I was in the shoe. Well, like, you know, I freestyle, then write it down, but however you want to say it, all those. I was in the shoe, so I had to constantly sing them to myself over and over and over and over again, so I don't forget. And I was in the shoe for six and a half months. So that record right there, it was just one of the moments. And I was like, yo, I remember when we used to listen to Prince of the City. Prince of the City, too. Christian orange juice and all that, you know, star power. And I'm like. I was just. I don't know. Just that one day, I'm just like, I'm about to fade away. And I'm like, I gotta do something for Wiz, bro. Like, nobody don't be showing him love, bro. Like. Like, especially, like all, like, the. The Ford 20 friendly people just put it like that. You know what I mean?
- [22:09]
Angela Yee
People who smoke weed, marijuana.
- [22:14]
Fetty Wap
Like, he was like, a big impact on the 2010s, like, you know what I'm saying? Especially if you was, like, smoking. You feel me? So, like, a lot of people don't be giving him, like, his flowers. So, like, that, like a Taylor joint, it was like, you know, What? I mean, like. And that's my guy, bro. Like, we cool? So I was the first person to get him drink 1738 too.
- [22:34]
Angela Yee
That's interesting.
- [22:35]
Lauren LaRosa
I was wondering when I heard that, I'm like. I was like, I don't remember Fetty Wap being like, for the smokers. Like, what? I was wondering what made you lean so heavily into that sound and into that time period.
- [22:44]
Angela Yee
You were celebrating Wiz.
- [22:45]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
- [22:45]
Fetty Wap
Yeah, for sure.
- [22:46]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. Okay.
- [22:47]
Fetty Wap
Well, now I'm like, definitely. Well, I used to be before.
- [22:50]
Lauren LaRosa
Well, maybe I just wasn't indulging because I just remember it being like, party music, drinking, having fun, and then. 1738.
- [22:55]
Fetty Wap
Nah, like, when I did the Wake Up. Like, I did a record called Wake Up, We Wake up in the Morning, Where's Khalifa High? And you know what I'm saying? I always try to throw him in. In there. Like. So it was like, yeah, now I
- [23:07]
Angela Yee
know you doing music, but is it true you got your GED and H VAC certification in pr?
- [23:10]
Fetty Wap
I didn't get my H VAC certification, but I got my ged.
- [23:12]
Angela Yee
Ged. Okay, okay. I read that.
- [23:14]
DJ Envy
But you took H vac courses?
- [23:15]
Fetty Wap
Yeah, for sure.
- [23:15]
DJ Envy
Had any of your family members call you and be like, hey, how to come and need you to come. Look at this.
- [23:19]
Fetty Wap
We all live in Jersey.
- [23:22]
Angela Yee
You took H Vac courses? What's that?
- [23:23]
Fetty Wap
Yeah, I started it, but. Okay. But when I got my. When I got my date back to come home, I ain't have enough time to finish. Gotcha. Yeah.
- [23:31]
Angela Yee
Was there ever a time where you was thinking, like, man, after this music, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go learn a trade. When I come home, this what I'm gonna do.
- [23:36]
Fetty Wap
Of course that was the reason why I was doing it. I didn't know. Like, I didn't. Honestly, I didn't think none of us, none of this was gonna happen like this.
- [23:43]
Angela Yee
Really?
- [23:43]
Fetty Wap
Oh, really? For sure. Yeah. Like, I ain't think it was gonna. I was gonna come home and it was gonna be like this. Like, I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna just get. Cause all I remember was like, they was like, oh, well, all the equipment is heavy. When we gotta carry, like, the. You know what I mean, fix, like, we gotta take the ACs out and stuff like that. I'm like, I gotta get my weight up.
- [24:01]
Angela Yee
So he worked out.
- [24:02]
DJ Envy
Cause he was like, I gotta go H Vac. I gotta carry hot water heaters out here, all that.
- [24:05]
Fetty Wap
If I gotta start doing stuff like that, I gotta get a little scrum.
- [24:08]
Angela Yee
But I respect that, though. I respect the fact that you was willing to say, you know, I'm gonna
- [24:12]
Fetty Wap
go get a job, right? I'm not.
- [24:14]
Lauren LaRosa
Let me get this straight. You in Italy, ciao pretended to be the white Italian man's fiance? Hard to believe this is Mike on my nephew. Then you ended up catching feelings for the black Italian Cousin Brothers.
- [24:28]
Fetty Wap
On April 10, she came for the pasta and got lost in the sauce. Please just tell me that you support me, girl.
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Commercial Narrator
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Lauren LaRosa
Is he fine though? Come on baby.
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Fetty Wap
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- [28:29]
Fetty Wap
Once I put my pride to the side, like, once I remove pride out of the topic, bro, I started living my life, bro. Like I'm saying, I'll just be happy. I'll be chilling. I mean, like, I'll be feeling. I look in the mirror, I look good, I feel good, I smell good. I'll just be chilling, like, yeah, and that's just that pride of Prior. Prior to dim your light, prior to take that glow from you. You know what I'm saying? Like, you feel like you too good to ask anybody for help. I'm not. That's not me no more. You know? I mean, like, I don't care how people view me. And certain aspects. I say like that in certain aspects of my life. I don't care how people view me. I mean, like, I know how it feels to to have a lot. I know how it feels to have nothing. I know how it feels to feel like nothing. I know how it feels when people feel like they got the power over you, you know what I'm saying? I've been in that situation for four years of my life where people telling me where to stand up, people telling me when I could leave and go out to eat, people telling me when I could go work out or come back in the unit, you know what I'm saying? Or just constantly raiding myself just because they just want to go home. And, hey, guess who style I hit today, you know what I'm saying? Like, I've been through that, and it's the corniest thing in life. So now I'm just living my life for me. Like, I don't. Nobody could. Nobody could ever make me feel that low again. And I promise I'm never gonna let nobody get that power again.
- [29:42]
Angela Yee
When did you get your dream for music back? Like, when did you say, you know what? I'm get a music thing?
- [29:47]
Fetty Wap
It's crazy. When I left here, like, after we did the interview is when I left here, you know, that was. If I'm not mistaken, that was the day I went straight to the studio, and that's when I laid down. Like, I laid down all them songs that day. Really?
- [30:01]
Lauren LaRosa
Did the Max B collaboration come from y' all meeting him?
- [30:03]
Fetty Wap
Yeah, for sure.
- [30:04]
Lauren LaRosa
I was wondering that. Okay.
- [30:05]
Fetty Wap
Wow.
- [30:05]
Angela Yee
What was it about? What was it about doing this interview?
- [30:10]
Fetty Wap
It was just the energy, bro. Like, the energy, man. Like, y' all just showed me mad love, you know what I'm saying? Like, y' all ain't have to trust me. Listen. We listen to y' all every morning, so, you know, it could get rough up here. You know what I mean? Get rough up here.
- [30:24]
Interviewer 1
Like, definitely.
- [30:25]
Fetty Wap
And. And. But the way y'. All. The way y'. All. The way y' all just brought me back home, bro. It just was like. It was all love. So it was like, you know, like, I want. Like, I want to hear me. I want to be in that top 30 countdown. Like. Like, you know what I mean? Just. Just challenges, man. I just like to challenge myself, you know? And then it was like, everybody, like, all right, what's up? Like, you know, then the whole 2015, 2016, 2026 thing, I'm like, nah, I got. Let's. Let's go have some fun.
- [30:54]
DJ Envy
That's what made me happy. When he came to my. The black family reunion I did at the mall in American Dream to see the kids from age 5 to 40 year old people. 50 year old people.
- [31:05]
Interviewer 1
Yes.
- [31:06]
DJ Envy
It was like they were just so. I mean, he had the mall stopped and it was just multiple floors, multiple floors. But it was like when I seen a five and six year old kid, knew every record, knew every word, it was really surprising. And I seen your face, it was just like, holy shit, you know what I mean?
- [31:20]
Fetty Wap
Cause it's a little bit unbelievable. A little bit, you know, like. Like the time frames don't match up. And that's what always get me, you know what I'm saying? Like, like I meet a lot of people that are like, oh, you shaped my high school years, you shaped my college years. But these kids ain't in college or high school yet. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's like, how do you. Like, you know what I mean? Like, and like for me, it's like, wow, like what they call, like, like generational, like different generations. Like, like I made it to two different generations of. Of life. Like, you know, I mean, and that's. That don't happen for a lot of people. So, like to. When I walked in here, I'm not expecting that. Like, you know what I mean? I'm like, what is going on? Like, like, this is crazy. But, you know, it just, it was just like, I'm just happy, like, you know what I mean? Like, I'm just happy for all of it. Like, for sure.
- [32:09]
Interviewer 1
Your first time, your first time performing, you know, since you've been out, were you nervous leading up to it?
- [32:16]
Fetty Wap
To actually perform? No. To be around, like, have people that close to me. Yeah. Yeah.
- [32:22]
DJ Envy
What made you nervous about that?
- [32:24]
Fetty Wap
I've been in prison for four years, you know what I'm saying? I got you.
- [32:30]
DJ Envy
So you living a friend, Defoe.
- [32:31]
Angela Yee
You don't know who's there, who's not, like social anxiety.
- [32:33]
Fetty Wap
Yeah. Cause you know, you just. You got the group of people you be with, you know what I mean? I put to you like this. If it's too many people on the yard, something about to happen to somebody, you know what I'm saying? Like, something about to happen to somebody, like, you know what I mean? So you. It. And, and you know, a lot of people go, oh, well, you wasn't even down that long. I was down long enough to understand what was happening, you know what I mean? I was down. I was. All right, all right. Yeah. All right, come on, we gonna play the back wall.
- [32:59]
Angela Yee
You did, you did like four, right?
- [33:00]
Fetty Wap
Yeah.
- [33:00]
Interviewer 1
I hate.
- [33:01]
DJ Envy
That's not that long.
- [33:02]
Angela Yee
I Hate when people say, like, that long. All right, you go do it then.
- [33:06]
Fetty Wap
But you got people that, you know, you got people that's been in there for a long time. Time, but, you know, they school you, like, you know what I mean? So, like, to come right out, I think it was literally the next two days or the next three days or something like that. And we walking there, I'm thinking they gonna have a little section. I could probably just. Let me. Let me ease into it as soon as I walk in. I'm talking about right here.
- [33:24]
Interviewer 1
Damn.
- [33:25]
Fetty Wap
Yo, hold up, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? Back up, bro. It's crazy, but it. It was just, you know, it was just a little, like, a little uncomfortable at first. Yeah. So they had. I had, like, told me, let me go, like, by the DJ booth. I know all the DJs that was over there. So I'm like, I feel a little bit better right here. That's why that video is from me of the DJ booth. Because I'm like, yeah, I can't stand right there. I can't do that.
- [33:50]
Lauren LaRosa
What are you doing for yourself just in relation to that, right? Like, because there's going to be certain things that will trigger you or I don't know if it's a trigger or just kind of make you uncomfortable in that way. Like the social anxiety or maybe a certain sound certain times of day. Like, because you've been, you know, locked up for the time that you've been locked up, is there things that you're doing, like therapy or. Like, how are you dealing with that?
- [34:10]
Fetty Wap
For me, how I do it, like, certain times a day, I just make sure. I try to, like, at least go, like, go stand on the balcony. Like, I just like, stand on the balcony and just look out, look outside. Like, 4 o'. Clock, 4 o'. Clock. 9:30. 12, 3 and 5. Feel me? Like those certain times, like, if you got anybody that's in the feds, they'll tell you those times. Times, like it's. It's count time, you know what I'm saying? So you kind of like. Or like when doors slam a little hard, like, you know what I'm saying? You kind of jump like, you know what I mean? Like, look back. I mean, like, it just when you outside, you staring at, like, if everybody else walking, you see a few people standing still, like, all right, what he doing over there? You know what I mean? You ain't probably even doing nothing, but you just like, it's like. But it's getting better Though over time. Like even yesterday, my sister like, what you looking at? Like I know you spotting something and I'm just like, no, I'm just trying to figure out why they standing right there like that he over there standing by the wall by the fan. Like you just. Like I said, mental awareness. And I, I love it though. Like, I don't feel like it's bad. Like I feel like it's good to be aware of your surroundings. Especially like when you, you know, certain type of person. Because I don't be with a lot of people. Like, I don't run around with like, just like today I don't have security out there. Just me and my sister. You know what I'm saying? Me and my sister, we gonna jump back in the truck, go back to Jersey. Like. But yeah, I mean, you know, certain little things are still like days like. So Monday is like mystery Mondays, Tuesdays, chicken patty Tuesdays Wednesday, burger Wednesdays, chicken nibble on Thursday, Fish Friday. So now I just try to eat different things. Like I eat. You don't try to eat those on the. You know what I mean? Like. Cause it'll bring you back like that menu sound fire. No. Yeah, yeah, I ate it all.
- [35:58]
Angela Yee
Is there anything new that you're still getting used to? Like, what else are you still getting used to?
- [36:05]
Fetty Wap
Really? I just, like, just, Just the kids, bro. Like, like these little kids just be running up on me. 1738. I'm like, Bro, how do you know me? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like. But it's like the tik Tok. Like I've been doing that a lot. Like, like my little kids like, like that.
- [36:22]
Interviewer 1
Yeah, I saw the one you did.
- [36:24]
Fetty Wap
You getting it? I'm learning it. Like I just been like. And everybody like, yo bro, like you just been having like. Yeah, I'm just having fun. Like I'm. I'm just enjoying it. Like you know, and I like, I just did a. I think it was last Sunday. I just did a walk for like a glaucoma walk for the little homie baby Hayes, you know, eight months old, he got. He was born with congenital glaucoma. We got the same, Same exact. I don't want to call it disease. No condition. Condition. Yeah. You feel me and his, his sister, his sister was there and we did like, we did the little tik tok and everything like that. It was a good turnout. So like. Cuz that's how I've been really like moving around. Like I. I just try to. I just been trying to have fun while still working and, you know, I mean, just staying focused and doing something positive.
- [37:12]
Interviewer 1
How is fatherhood?
- [37:14]
Fetty Wap
I mean, it's good. Yeah, it's great. I can't complain, you know, I mean, like, you know, every now and then you got, like everybody got, everybody got their own issues. But I feel like as of lately, like, you know, me and the mother of my children, we just, we talk, we talk to each other in real life and not on social media, right? So that's how it's supposed to be. I mean, that's been, that's been a good thing, you know what I'm saying? And I just try to keep it like that, you know, Like I'm not the best person in the world, you know, I'm never claiming to be the best father in the world, you know what I'm saying? But I'm gonna do what I gotta do every time I'm called on, you know what I'm saying? And they understand that. What's going on for me, I'm running around right now with the, with the album and all that, doing press, running everything. So they ain't been, you know, I mean, but all the kids older, they got phones. I facetime call them when I couldn't, like, you know, I mean, like, it's just been it. Fatherhood is just as a blessing, like, you know, I mean, just to have, just to have the kids. Just call your dad. What's up? Like, what are you doing? Yeah, it's great.
- [38:16]
Angela Yee
One of your baby moms got mad as soon as you came home, right?
- [38:18]
Lauren LaRosa
Well, so we talked about that last time you said was Masika. And then. But then after that there was. I don't know which. What her name is. The other light skinned girl, right? She got on social media too. She made a video and she was upset and she was talking about. I forget her name though some of the. One of your baby mom's light skinned. I think she has like red hair. She had black hair at the time. She changed her hair colors a lot. She lives in Jersey. She's from Jersey.
- [38:41]
Interviewer 1
Probably like that's all of them.
- [38:43]
Lauren LaRosa
No, I can't remember her name. But she was upset. It was kind of. It wasn't even about you seeing the kids. It was something with her talking about you were running around with people who you shouldn't have been running around with who weren't holding you down. And she felt like she deserved like,
- [38:53]
Angela Yee
I don't know nothing about that. I was just thinking like, get a brother a minute. He just Came home.
- [38:58]
Lauren LaRosa
But then we saw you with your kids, with Masika, and you know, all of that worked out.
- [39:02]
Fetty Wap
So, I mean, like, no, like I said before, like, I don't talk about. I don't talk bad about them at all. Like, I will never speak bad about them. When I was down, they held my. They did what they had to do. They great mothers. My kids are healthy. They growing, they glowing, they beautiful. They know who I am. They love me. They made sure they know to love me. They didn't forget me. They didn't let them forget me. So I'm forever grateful of my kids, mom. So I don't have nothing bad to say about them at all.
- [39:33]
Lauren LaRosa
I saw you say at one point too, I think it was on Gilly and Wallow that you had, like, told, like, your kids you didn't even want them coming to see you after a while.
- [39:39]
Fetty Wap
Nah. Yeah, I did.
- [39:41]
Lauren LaRosa
So what. What were the conversations? What are the conversations? Like, just about that time. Because they're probably wanting to know what that time period was like for you.
- [39:46]
Fetty Wap
No, they knew what was going on. Like, I still spoke to them over the phone, but as far as, like, coming to see me in prison, nah, you know, it's just. It's like when that visit over, man, like. Like I said, they got the power. You know what I mean? Like. Like, one thing I can say, though, the only good thing is, like, they allow you to have your kid with you the whole time.
- [40:08]
Interviewer 1
Like, you can see them, touch them,
- [40:10]
Fetty Wap
you can hold them the whole time. They can sit on your lap right there the entire time. You know what I'm saying? But when it's over, it's over.
- [40:17]
DJ Envy
Yeah.
- [40:17]
Fetty Wap
And when they say, all right, daddy, come on, like, you, nah, I can't come right now. So when you come in, like, I mean, I don't want to keep having this conversation every week. Then I go back. They could just be somebody playing at the wrong time. I mean, I'm mad that I can't go with my kids if somebody say something crazy now. You know what I mean? Now something gotta happen. You know what I mean?
- [40:41]
Interviewer 1
Yeah.
- [40:41]
Angela Yee
So I was gonna ask, does that make the bid harder or easier? Would you rather not see him at all or see him every now and then?
- [40:47]
Fetty Wap
Nah, it make it easier.
- [40:48]
Angela Yee
Okay, okay.
- [40:48]
Fetty Wap
And make it easy. Cause you're not looking forward to it. You know what I'm saying? Like, you're not looking forward to it. And then, like, if you got people in the fast, man, you know, like, if you know, you know, man, like you could talk to your kids every day. You know what I'm saying? You could see your kids every day. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, so if you're not making that effort, unless you just don't got no money, like, I'm. I wouldn't say it like that, but, I mean, be a laundry dude, like, or. Or do something. It's a lot of. It's a lot of jobs in jail you could do to be able to talk to your kids. Got you.
- [41:19]
Interviewer 1
We got any music videos coming out?
- [41:21]
Fetty Wap
Yeah. Oh, actually, two of them.
- [41:24]
DJ Envy
White roses is dope.
- [41:25]
Fetty Wap
Yeah. White roses. So can I say the theme of that? So I wait.
- [41:30]
Interviewer 1
All right, let me. Let me set it up. What's the theme of that?
- [41:33]
Angela Yee
The theme of what?
- [41:34]
Fetty Wap
The music video.
- [41:35]
Interviewer 1
Music video for white roses.
- [41:36]
Angela Yee
I know. I'm asking her.
- [41:39]
Interviewer 1
It be on my ass. Okay, all right, let me. What's the theme of that? That music video of white roses.
- [41:44]
Fetty Wap
White roses was,
- [41:47]
DJ Envy
by the way.
- [41:49]
Fetty Wap
So we went with, like, the sinless things, man. The sinner stains. Yeah, yeah. Like, I seen that when I was down. So I'm like, yo, I want to do something like that. And it just so happened, like, the. The song kind of like fits the timeline of that. That, like that swing jazz joint. I mean, so it came out dope, though. That's like my first real, like 13 hour day video.
- [42:14]
Interviewer 1
I was like a whole production.
- [42:15]
Fetty Wap
Yeah, that was crazy.
- [42:16]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, that's that song. Love song and fight back love song as well, too. I mean, you always been talking to the ladies, but this sounds like a more mature love conversation on these songs on this new album.
- [42:27]
Fetty Wap
Yeah, for sure.
- [42:27]
Lauren LaRosa
Is that inspired by anything or anyone?
- [42:31]
Fetty Wap
No, it's just really. I just like to have fun. Like, I like to have fun. I like to make people feel good, you know what I'm saying? The only one that would be. And the only one would be for someone would be food for you. That was an actual letter I wrote for somebody and I turned it into a song.
- [42:47]
Lauren LaRosa
Oh, that's the one. That's kind of like the snap swing. Okay.
- [42:50]
Fetty Wap
No, no, that's White roses.
- [42:51]
Lauren LaRosa
Oh, okay.
- [42:52]
Fetty Wap
Yeah. Food for you is like. It's like the linger flip. The cranberries from the cranberries. Linger. Yeah. So that's like that one.
- [42:58]
Lauren LaRosa
The reason why I asked that, because in white roses, you said this person helped you heal your broken, broken parts. And right back, you're talking about somebody held you down, waited for you to come back. Now she's there.
- [43:07]
Fetty Wap
So I was like, he said he
- [43:08]
Angela Yee
wrote the song for somebody. Ask him who he wrote it for.
- [43:10]
Lauren LaRosa
No, food for you is for somebody. He said the other ones aren't. But who's fool for you for.
- [43:13]
Fetty Wap
For as a person?
- [43:16]
Lauren LaRosa
Okay, she has arms and legs, eyes, nose.
- [43:20]
Interviewer 1
Dang.
- [43:21]
Fetty Wap
Nice. She pretty?
- [43:23]
Interviewer 1
Oh, she going to say that she got arms and legs? What if she was a paraplegic? What if she didn't have legs? Lauren. And he had to be like, no, she in a weird chair.
- [43:29]
Lauren LaRosa
Vague. Not trying to be, like, not inclusive.
- [43:32]
Angela Yee
Crazy.
- [43:32]
Lauren LaRosa
Got to be specific, but end up discriminating. Is she still around right now?
- [43:36]
Fetty Wap
I mean, she's somewhere around.
- [43:38]
Lauren LaRosa
Is she still in your life actively as a person that you.
- [43:41]
Fetty Wap
Yeah.
- [43:41]
Lauren LaRosa
Are invested in?
- [43:42]
Fetty Wap
No, no, not like that. I mean. Wait, what you mean, like, are you dating?
- [43:47]
Lauren LaRosa
Are you guys still dating? Is this woman still, like, is that your person right now? Are you kind of like, how is dating been since you've come?
- [43:52]
Fetty Wap
She can always be my person.
- [43:54]
Interviewer 1
I love that. Okay.
- [43:57]
Angela Yee
Yeah.
- [43:58]
DJ Envy
Set you right up, huh?
- [43:59]
Lauren LaRosa
No, I'm just trying to figure out what that part of your life has been like. It's just very private.
- [44:03]
Angela Yee
But you're trying to figure out who it is. Don't listen to her.
- [44:04]
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, that too.
- [44:05]
Fetty Wap
It's always going like, you know, like, I feel like once. Once everybody start, like, knowing who you with, everybody start having an opinion on something. Like, yes, Lord, I like to. Some people like living in their peace. And I try to let her live in her peace. Got you. If she wanna. If she want me to say her name, she'll tell me and I'll say it. Yeah.
- [44:26]
Angela Yee
Xavier is a new chapter, right? If this was the chapter people remember you by, what does it say about who Fetty Wap really is?
- [44:36]
Fetty Wap
Well, if. If. If people gonna remember me by Xavier, then people not gonna remember Fetty Wap. People only remember Fetty Wap for those numbers he was talking about. I mean, Xavier is a different person. Like I said, definitely, like, more mature. Like, with the way I handle certain things. Like what we was talking about earlier as far as, like, my kid's mom. Like, you know what I mean? Like, no matter what we go through, I will never, ever allow anybody to. You know what I'm saying? Like, well, not in front of me. I mean, like, I don't care how people view them. And I mean, we could be. We could hate each other, Gus, at the moment, but for what they did for me when I was gone with my children, to make sure they was okay, I will always forever hold them down like, you Know what I'm saying? Like, and you got to have growth with that, like, you know what I'm saying? You got to be able to separate the. The. The. The little boy feelings from the man feelings. That's right. You know what I'm saying? And, you know, I mean, it took a little time for me to do that, you know? So it's like just me as a person, just who I hang with. Like, you gotta. At some point in life, you gotta understand, like, yo, what. What y' all doing? I'm not on that no more. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I ain't doing that no more, bro. Like, I'm trying to go up. Like, I'm trying to go up, like, oh, yeah, I love my hood. I love the hood. I'mma always, always come back home. You know what I'm saying? But as far as. We just. We just like, bro, let's go. Let's go to the lq. Let's go to the pool hall. Let's. Like, bro, I got. I'm trying. I'm trying to be in the rooms, like, you know what I'm saying? I'm trying to be in the rooms. I'm trying. Yo, every time they see me, oh, he next to such and such, and he over there with such and such. Even if we don't. I don't even know him. Like, well, I'm just there, like, wop in there, like, you know what I'm saying? We pulling. What's up? Like, I mean, like, I'm. I'm trying. I'm trying to really, really go up, bro. Like, I ain't. I'm not playing around. Like, I don't have no time to be chilling. I don't have time to just be. Let's just. Let's go to the strip club and I don't got time for none of that. Like, if we're not making no money, I'm not coming, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? If it's not making sense, I'm not coming. I mean, if it don't. If it don't affect my brand to where it's elevating the brand, I'm not going. Like, you know what I mean? And. And that's just how I'm on it. Like. Like, it's not one time since I've been down when I use the phone, have I ever seen Jay Z just pop up at a random strip club for free. Like, you know what I'm saying? I don't even ever think I seen him in a strip club, you know what I'm saying? Like, I've never seen him do nothing that didn't benefit his brand, right? You know what I mean? And, like, I'm not no Jay Z at all. Like, you know what I mean? But I like to follow. I like to follow greatness. So I'm following the way I see people move, like, you know what I'm saying? And if. If. If he got to a billion doing that, I'm gonna do the same thing, because I'm trying to get there.
- [47:19]
DJ Envy
Absolutely. What joint you want to play off the album? What you want to hear, brother?
- [47:24]
Fetty Wap
We could play. We could. We could play that Nasty, man, because. And it's gonna be. It's gonna be nice, right? It's nice outside. That's right.
- [47:31]
DJ Envy
Well, let's get into it right now. It's Nasty featuring Tink. We appreciate you for joining us. I just want to say one thing. One thing I do respect is I like to watch people when. When the cameras are not on, and when I seen you leaving an event, a kid stopped you and just said, you know, they wanted a picture. And what impressed me is you sat there and you spoke to that kid for a minute, right? Kid had no idea. But he was asking the kid, like, so, what do you like to do? Or I do this. And it was just like a connection where you didn't have to, like, you
- [47:59]
Angela Yee
know what I mean?
- [47:59]
DJ Envy
You could have just got out of there. You did what you had to do. But I respect that because for that kid, when you left, he was happy. I don't know what.
- [48:07]
Angela Yee
But.
- [48:09]
DJ Envy
But I respect that the most because you make those connection with your fans, and a lot of people don't.
- [48:12]
Fetty Wap
So I respect that for the rest of the world.
- [48:14]
DJ Envy
I didn't want to curse because I'm talking about a kid.
- [48:16]
Angela Yee
I don't want to say pig. And you don't know what. That could be a metaphor.
- [48:19]
Lauren LaRosa
Is that like something from y' all time?
- [48:20]
DJ Envy
From y' all time? You know what? Forget it, man. I was just trying to give you some problems. That's all I'm trying to say.
- [48:27]
Angela Yee
Loves the kids.
- [48:29]
Fetty Wap
I can say something.
- [48:29]
Interviewer 1
Yeah, go ahead.
- [48:30]
Fetty Wap
Yo, I just want to give a shout out to all the artists that's on the project. You know what I'm saying? Everybody that took their time out to send back their verses, that even took the time out to listen to this song, felt like it was good enough that they wanted to be on it. To all the producers that helped me with this project. I just want to thank everybody for just showing me love. You feel me? So I said, oh yeah, and free the Gods.
- [48:57]
Angela Yee
Jersey gonna love you for having LB Al on Real ones.
- [49:00]
Fetty Wap
Yes, sir. I got. Oh man. From Jersey, we got Honey Baby, Honey Baby. Hard luck. My boy Oscar from the Ziploc.
- [49:06]
DJ Envy
Oscar killing it too.
- [49:07]
Fetty Wap
I got both of my sisters up there and my older brother Monty Monte on no Monty. It ain't no Fetty Wap album without Monty. You know what I mean? You know he up there. That don't even count.
- [49:18]
DJ Envy
All right, it's the Breakfast Club. It's Fetty Wap.
- [49:21]
Fetty Wap
Hold up.
- [49:22]
Angela Yee
Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club.
- [49:25]
Fetty Wap
You all finished or y' all done?
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