The Breakfast Club - Family, Love, and Prosperity (sit down talk with Fetty Wap)

Episode Date: February 19, 2026

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This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Over the last couple years, didn't we learn that the folding chair was invented by black people? Because of what happened in Alabama? This Black History Month, the podcast, Selective Ignorance with Mandy B, unpacked black history and culture with comedy, clarity, and conversations that shake the status quo. The Crown Act in New York was signed in July of 2019, and that is a bill that was passed to prohibit discrimination based on hairstyles associated with race. To hear this and more.

Listen to Selective Ignorance with Mandy B from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. America is in crisis. And at Morehouse College, the students make their move. These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson,

locked up the members of the Board of Trustees, including Martin Luther King's Senior. It's the true story of protests and rebellion in black American history that you'll never forget. I'm Hans Charles. I'm in a little like Lamumba. Listen to the A building on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can scroll the headlines all day and still feel empty.

I'm Ben Higgins, and if you can hear me, is where culture meets the soul. Honest conversations about identity, loss, purpose, peace, faith, and everything in between. Celebrities, thinkers, everyday people, some have answers. Most are still figuring it out. And if you've ever felt like there has to be more to the story, this show is for you. Listen to if you can hear me on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Bowen-Yang. And I'm Matt Rogers. During this season of the Two Guys Five Rings podcast, in the lead-up to the Milan Cortina 2020-2016 Winter Olympic Games, we've been joined by

some of our friends. Hi, Bois, hi, Matt. Hey, Elmo. Hey, Matt, hey, Bowen. Hi, Cookie. Hi. Now, the Winter Olympic Games are underway, and we are in Italy to give you experiences from our hearts to your ears. Listen to two guys, five rings on the Iheart radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Let's get to it. I'm a home girl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. You hear that excuse me?

You know if you're going to lie about that, right? Lauren came in. Hi, y'all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is the latest with Lauren the Rosa. This is your daily dig on all things, pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. All right y'all. So today I have another conversation. I promised you guys that I'd be bringing you more of these interviews. And here it is. We sat down. I say we, me and DJ Envy of the Breakfast Club, sat down with FettyWop. Now FettyWap, I don't know who wouldn't know. But for anybody under a rock, FettyWap, huge global artist recently came home from a prison stint where he is now just embracing life and enjoying the fact that not only is he still musically relevant, but he has love surrounded by him with family and community, and he's focused.

So he popped out to American Dream Mall for a DJMV's Black Family Reunion, and we talked just about that, about family, community, where his focus is right now, and he even gave us a little surprise performance as well. So let's get on into the conversation. So first and foremost, we want to thank Shetty for coming. He had things to do, and when I told him this was a Black History, and more family reunion, he said, MVP, I can't miss it, and made sure he was here. Yeah, yeah.

To have this conversation. So the first of foremost, how does it feel bringing in Jersey and seeing all the love? Look at the three floors, bro. Crazy, it's crazy. It felt good, man. It felt good, man. I love you, too, my mom.

I don't know. It feels good. Now, for people that don't know, how did you start rapping? Now, Fettys from where, y'all? Madison, New Jersey. You know that? Patterson in the building on there.

So how did you start off rap? I started rapping with Monty, Monty and Pete Dyes. They was like the rappers at first, so I just like being around them, being around them, just trying things out and trying things out in there. Ma was like, oh, that sounds good, keep going. And then it was like, it switched from like rap into time, I'm like, I'm going to try to sing.

And once I started doing the singing thing, it was just, it was over after that. Now, most people know, of course, they always say you have a disability. Yeah. And you always are keen on talking to kids with disabilities to tell them that they can do it. Yeah, for sure, man. I was going with congeneral glauoma.

So for people that don't know what that is, what is that? It's basically like a disease where you lose both your eyes. Like you lose the, not both your eyes, I'm sorry. You lose a vision of both your eyes. So I was blessed that the doctor was able to save one. So that's how I've been like this since I lost my eye at six months. Six months. Now, one time you had a prosthetic.

It was fake, but you decided you didn't have to fake it. didn't need that anymore. Why was that? When did you get the courage and be like, nah, I don't care what people think. I just wanted the people, I just wanted people to see me as I was. I didn't want to look. I didn't want to think it for nobody. Like, that's how I look, this how I am. If you're rocking what, you're rocking what? You're not, you're not. You know what I'm saying?

Y'all can clap for that, clap for that? When you're talking to kids, right, that you're talking to me, you're telling in this message, coming from you, coming from FeddyWat. Like, how impactful is it? Like, what are you seeing kids? What's changing as you're talking for them that you're seeing in them? I mean, um, um, um, This is one kid that I, like in 2016, his mom DM me. And I was like, oh, my son, he's a big band.

He gets bullied a lot. He has one eye and everything like that. So I drove out there to go see him. And I pulled up to a school and I was like, yeah, this is my little cousin. Like, you know what I'm saying? And ever since then, like, he's the coolest kid in school now, you know what I'm saying?

So like, oh, can you call Fettiwall? Can you call Fadiwell? So it's like, I try to just like show people like, you know what I mean? It doesn't matter how you look, what's going on. one of my close friends, he was in a motorcycle where I said that he got his leg amputated. So, like, we used to do this thing on Instagram where it was like the eye and the leg thing.

Like, you know what I'm saying? And it was like just little things. Like he were like, he would like do stuff on my left side. I couldn't see him and I'll take his leg and run. Like, you know what is? But, but like, we just try to make sure people like felt comfortable in their own skin, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's, it's okay to be different.

Like, it's not a bad thing to be different. Like, you know what I mean? That's the message I try to push to the kid. Canadian women are looking for more. More to themselves, their businesses, their elected leaders, and the world are out of them. And that's why we're thrilled to introduce the Honest Talk podcast. I'm Jennifer Stewart. And I'm Catherine Clark.

And in this podcast, we interview Canada's most inspiring women. Entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, politicians, and newsmakers, all at different stages of their journey. So if you're looking to connect, then we hope you'll join us. Listen to the Honest Talk podcast on IHeart Radio or wherever you listen to your podcast. Welcome to the A building. I'm Hans Charles. I'm Minilic Lamouba. It's 1969. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. have both been assassinated.

And Black America was out of breaking point. Writing and protests broke out on an unprecedented scale. In Atlanta, Georgia, at Martin's Almermata, Morehouse College, the students had their own protest. It featured two prominent figures in black history, Martin Luther King Sr., and a young student, Samuel L. Jackson. To be in what we really thought was a revolution. I mean, people would die. 1968, the murder of Dr. King, which traumatized everyone. The FBI had a role in the murder of a

Black Panther leader in Chicago. This story is about protest. It echoes in today's world far more than it should, and it will blow your mind. Listen to the A-building on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or whatever you get your podcasts. What do you do in the headlines don't explain what's happening inside of you? I'm Ben Higgins, and if you can hear me, is where culture meets the soul, a place for real conversation. Each episode, I sit down with people from all walks of life, celebrities, thinkers, and everyday folks, and we go deeper than the polished story. We talk about what drives us, what shapes us, and what gives us hope. We get honest about the big stuff, identity when you don't recognize yourself anymore, loss that changes you, purpose when success isn't enough, peace when your mind won't slow down, fake when it's complicated.

Some guests have answers. Most are still figuring it out. If you've ever felt like there has to be more to the story, this show is for you. Listen to if you can hear me on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world. But in 2017, the FBI got inside. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall.

This MSS officer has no idea the U.S. government is on to him. But the FBI has his chats, texts, emails, even his personal diary. Hear how they got it on the Sixth Bureau podcast. I now have several terabytes.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Now one thing about Fetty that a lot of you might not know. If you're in Patterson, I'm sure you know, you do a lot of giving back. Why is that important for you to do for that community? And why, you know, I spoke to you to the Reckless Club, and you said I would never leave Patterson. Why is that? Why is that?

I mean, if it wasn't for Patterson, I wouldn't have that grit. Like, I wouldn't be who I am. I wouldn't be able to stand up the way I stand up. You know, like coming from these type of areas like Patterson, Norfolk, Orange, Irvington, Jersey City, like, Trenton, like, all the, all the areas where they dub us, like, the bad cities, you know what I'm saying? You got to have a certain type of backbone to be able to grow up, and especially me, my name's Willie.

Like, you know what I mean? The one-eye Willie is kind of crazy. But, you know what I'm saying? Like, so growing up like that, you know, it kind of, it gives you a, it gives you a type of, like, a sense of like, you know, I could do whatever I want to do, you know what I'm saying? If it wasn't from Patterson, I wouldn't be, I would be Fetty Wall. You know what I mean?

So when it comes to giving back to. to my city, like, I know what it feels like to go to school and not have anything, you know what I'm saying? Or my mom working overtime and just being able to feed us to pay rent and my dad's like, you know what I'm saying? So I know that feeling and anything I could do to help a mother that's, that's, that's breaking her back for her kids, a father that's, that don't have the mom around, or whatever the case may be, like, I just try to make sure, like, I could do something. Like, if I can't do it for the whole city, if I could do it just for a few people, I'm okay with that, you know what I'm saying?

So it's always a for me to get back to my city. What has it been like for you, right, being back here in the city at home? But honestly, everywhere, I have a nine-year-old nephew. He's actually eight. And he called me the other day because he saw that you were on a breakfast club. And he was asking me, why did not call him?

And I'm like, how do you even know who Fethiwap is? And he said because of TikTok. And everybody's walking around saying, hey, what's up, hello? At his school, what is that like for you? It's like, you get a resurgent so many times. Like, how does it feel right now for you coming, like you were walking home to that?

Honestly, I don't even know how to explain the feeling. Like, from being incarcerated, feeling like you've forgotten to come home and see all this love, like, you know what I mean? It's just like, wow, like, you know what I'm saying? 10 years, it's, well, it's 2026 now, so it's 11 years. Like, you know what I mean? 11 years ago when I dropped that song, the whole Fetty Wop album.

So to keep seeing it, like, come back and come back, Like, I remember, like, one time it was like, do you guys remember when 30 Wats says 17, 38? Like, you know what I mean? Like, it was a whole meme going around. So it's like just to keep seeing it happening. And then, like, even my niece and my nephews, like, you know what I'm saying? They, Uncle, we like this song.

I'm like, it was only like two years old. Like, you know what I mean? Like, it feels good. And then therefore, the beep in the hometown because it's a stigma that everybody says, like, oh, don't go back to your hometown because they're the ones that's going through some shit. I don't believe that. Like, I don't believe that.

Whatever type of energy you put out to the people in your city, that's the type of energy you're going to receive. And I don't feel like I gave out energy where I'm not allowed or I can't come back home. So it's like just to be here and just like, wow, all right, 10 years later, we said, I want you to be mine again, baby. You know what I'm saying? It feels good, man.

I do have to ask, when you started rapping, did you ever expect this? Did you see this? Was this on your bingo car? Like, I'm going to be a multi-pillar. platinum bar. Did you see that at all? Diamond. You did see it? No, what, Don't know?

It's a diamond. I'm sorry, man. He said, It's a diamond. Now, it didn't mean. That's all, two, three, four. Diamond. Did you ever see that on your car? No, not at all, man. Not at all. I just remember, I'm like, yo, I'm like, I just want a Ferrari, right? Like, I just want to, I just want to know what it feels like the driver Ferrari. You know what I'm saying? And it's just, I don't know. Now it's just like, wow. Like, I really don't have, like, I'm not one of those guys that I really like, know how to explain what he's feeling.

Like, you know what I mean? I kind of just like, it feels good. It's like, you know what it does? And what does Jersey mean to Fendiw? Anybody from Jersey here? What does Jersey mean to Fediwa? Jersey mean life, man. This is my whole life.

Like, I represent Jersey. I got a tattered on my stomach, like a big new jersey man. Yeah, so you know what I mean? It's like, this is my whole life. I love everything about the Jersey. I love all the four seasons. I love the nine degrees outside.

You know what I'm saying? Like, I love the bodegic. You can get that nine degrees, man. Hey, listen. It's cold, man. Hey, I appreciate it. I appreciate it. You know what I'm saying?

A lot of places I've been there don't get the experience, you know, the cold. So, like, everything, the chicken stores and, you know, a piece hot wing, little. That's my thing right there, you know what I'm saying? So it just, I love Jersey. I saw the video at Harvard, the club of New York, and you were singing. It was another place of Lotus. That was the first video, and that was viral, right? And people were like, oh, my God, the voice is still there.

the energy is still there. How has it self? I'm a little bit of everything. You don't know what to be on stage. I'm not you're not going to lie about that. It was weird. You know what I ain't doing it in four years. So it's like, I don't know if that's going to sound the same.

I might sound a little different or something. But it just, I was just flowing. I was just having fun. Like, just everybody's singing with me. It was like, all right, let's get, once you're getting that bopps, it's like, all right, let's do what I do. You know what I'm saying? Like, I was just having fun.

And then the 2016 challenge was like, like a few days right before that. And then it's like in time it was just impeccable. I don't know. All I said was like, you know, we're going to bring back that 2016. And then it just like,

yeah, it was like a whole 2026, 2016 thing. Like what's going on? I don't know. I didn't even post mine yet. I don't know. We're still waiting. Canadian women are looking for more.

More to themselves, their businesses, their elected leaders, and the world are out of them. And that's why we're thrilled to introduce the Honest Talk podcast. I'm Jennifer. for Stewart. And I'm Catherine Clark. And in this podcast, we interview Canada's most inspiring

women. Entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, politicians, and newsmakers, all at different stages of their journey. So if you're looking to connect, then we hope you'll join us. Listen to the Honest Talk podcast on I Heart Radio or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Welcome to the A building. I'm Hans Charles. I'm Mnalec. Lambe. It's 1969. Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr. had both been assassinated, and Black America was out of breaking point. Writing and protests broke out on an unprecedented scale. In Atlanta, Georgia, at Martin's Almemata, Morehouse College, the students had their own protest.

It featured two prominent figures in black history, Martin Luther King's senior, and a young student, Samuel L. Jackson. To be in what we really thought was a revolution. I mean, people would die. In 1968, the murder of Dr. King, which was a year, which was a revolution, you know, in the United States, traumatized everyone. The FBI had a role in the murder of a Black Panther leader in Chicago. This story is about protest.

It echoes in today's world far more than it should, and it will blow your mind. Listen to the A-building on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What do you do in the headlines don't explain what's happening inside of you? I'm Ben Higgins, and if you can hear me, is where culture meets the soul, a place for real conversation. Each episode, I sit down with people from all walks of life, celebrities, thinkers, and everyday folks, and we go deeper than the polished story. We talk about what drives us, what shapes us, and what gives us hope.

We get honest about the big stuff, identity when you don't recognize yourself anymore, loss that changes you, purpose when success isn't enough, peace when your mind won't slow down, faith when it's complicated. Some guests have answers. Most are still figuring it out. If you've ever felt like there has to be more to the story, this show is for you. Listen to if you can hear me on the I-HeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world. But in 2017, the FBI got inside. This is Special Agent Regal. Special Agent Bradley Hall. This MSS officer has no idea the U.S. government is on to him. But the FBI has his chats, texts, emails, even his personal diary.

Hear how they got it on the Sixth Bureau podcast. I now have several terabytes of an MSS officer, no doubt, no question, of his life. And that's the unicorn. No one had ever seen anything like that. It was unbelievable. This is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its fault of secrets.

Listen to the Sixth Bureau on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, what we're going to do is we're going to ask two questions from the audience. We're going to allow the audience members to ask FettieWOP two questions. So put your hands up if you have a question and then we're going to rock out, all right? Pick it in it. Pick one like this young lady right here. Okay.

What is your question for Freddie? Nice and loud, please. I'm gonna perform for you? I'll do so. Wow. One other question. One other question. We got another question.

You see anybody? See anybody going on? You ain't doing that to me. Just tell me where to go. I don't see it. I'll see it. Right right there. Young man right there.

What's your question, brother? Can I get on stage? before. You know the words? You know the words? All right. He said he knew the words. I got it.

You want to do it? Let's do it. You got... Trapped Queen, let's go. I need everybody to sing along. Everybody to stand up, please. Hold on, before we do this, I asked Fettie not to perform.

I said, this is something different. This is Black History, Monfe. But he said, he said, he got to do it. So one time, I need everybody to stand up. Please don't knock everybody over. Let's go. Let's do it, huh? Hey.

Hey, I want y'all sing around, y'all ain't call. Speaking, What it is? 1738. I'm not, you know, I'm right out of summer, hey, sit too pretty ass, soon as you came in the dog.

I just wanna chill about this saccharol Married to the money, introduced to my style, show the hard of women, I thought I hope you guys I hope you guys I know

I know you can't really from the interview but the way that the crowd everybody was just great to see I think impacts and music artists is a conversation that people have now all the time like do these artists have impact to the point where their songs will last, the feeling will last, the influence will last.

Fettywap got it. He shut them all down. I mean, four floors of people stopped, got quiet, sat on the edge of the seats just to hear that conversation. So shout out to Fetty. I'm Lauren La Rosa. This has been another episode of the latest with Lauren La Rosa. I tell you guys, every episode y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about all the things, but y'all choose to be right here with me. And for that, I appreciate you guys. I'll see you in my next episode. Over the last couple years, didn't we learn that the folding chair was invented by black people because of what happened in Alabama? This Black History Month, the podcast Selective Ignorance with Mandy B, unpacks black history and culture with comedy, clarity, and conversations that shake the status quo.

The Crown Act in New York was signed in July of 2019, and that is a bill that was passed to prohibit discrimination based on hairstyles associated with race. To hear this and more, listen to Selective Ignorance with Mandy B from the Black Effect Podcast Network, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. America is in crisis. At a Morehouse college, the students make their move. These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, locked up the members of the Board of Trustees,

including Martin Luther King's Senior. It's the true story of protests and rebellion in black American history that you'll never forget. I'm Hans Charles. I'm in Lick Lamouber. Listen to the A building on the IHeart Radio, app, Apple Podcasts, or whatever you get your podcasts. You can scroll the headlines all day and still feel empty.

I'm Ben Higgins, and if you can hear me, is where culture meets the soul. Honest conversations about identity, loss, purpose, peace, faith, and everything in between. Celebrities, thinkers, everyday people, some have answers. Most are still figuring it out. And if you've ever felt like there has to be more to the story, this show is for you. Listen to If You Can Hear Me on my Eye Heart Radio. app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

I'm Bowen-Yang. And I'm Matt Rogers. During this season of the Two Guys Five Rings podcast, in the lead-up to the Milan Cortina-2026 Winter Olympic Games, we've been joined by some of our friends. Hi, Boen, hi, Matt. Hey, Elmo. Hey, Matt, hey, Bowen.

Hi, Cookie. Hi. Now, the Winter Olympic Games are underway, and we are in Italy to give you experiences from our hearts to your ears. Listen to Two Guys Five Rings on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This is an IHeart podcast.

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