The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Fetty Wap on Returning To Music, New Perspectives, Fatherhood + More

Episode Date: March 27, 2026

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Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a special guest back in the building. Yes, indeed. This album is out today. Ladies and gentlemen, Fettywop. Back. Yo, yo, what it is. What's up, brother? How you feeling?

Fetty on them. Easy on them. I feel good, man. Already, did you really want to put this album out? You felt like you had to. Yeah, that was a fast turn around. Like, this is this a, like an organic thing? Or you just like, man, I got it. No, it's definitely organic. Okay, okay. I wanted to. For sure. Okay.

Now, the name of the album is Xavier. Yeah. Who is Xavier? Xavier is like my alter ego. Okay. I'm saying, like just a more mature version of myself. The one that sat back and took its time, one that just watches his surroundings, you know, more mental awareness.

Just, you know, just not allowing no BS this. You know what I'm saying? Just a better version of my old self. Now, how has it been since you've been home with a couple months now? How has that feeling been? Because I've seen even when you move around, you move around a lot lighter. Yeah. It's more you really look where you're,

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 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 got to 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're not as, as lit as everybody else, like, you still have to carry yourself a certain way. And I believe that when you follow that, When you follow that mindset, it'll come into fruition.

So that's just what I'm doing. Like, I'm treating myself like a superstar. Was there a time where you had to cut people off because they came around and they expected old fettie, the wild-out fettied? Did you have to cut people off or was a little easier than that? It already happened when I first came home. Like, it wasn't the space to cut you off. You know what I mean? It was already gone.

Yeah, it was already there. So, oh, we're about to come to the studio. No, you're 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's trying to pop back up.

Like, we ain't, we ain't happening at this time. So, yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't even a great area to have that conversation with nobody. Is there any resentment from people because of that? Because you set those boundaries? I don't know. I don't speak to him to find out. 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 Cali and those records it seemed like something changed

with your voice what was that because in this project it seems like you got it back and that was my fear always with you was like the first time they heard you

the raw vocals sounded different and then your voice changed everything changed and I was like well what was that change and how did you get it back to this?

Really it was like I was just trying like different things because I was like trying to make another trap queen so much that I'm like maybe I should just try something else and then you know what man 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 spend back but I'm like ah you know what this time

I sat back and I'm just like I got to get back in that groove so with with this whole project it was more so like let me just try to be more of a creator than a creative than then just just trying to make songs to put out you know what I'm saying so I'm like that's how I got to back in that bag. Like when I did the trap queen six, seven, nine and all those records, like, it was just me having fun being creative, like, just doing something different.

Like, let me try this out and see how it sound. And that's what I did with this one. So, like, to answer your question earlier, that's why I felt like, you know, I'm like, yeah, like, I'm ready for it. Like, you know, you know how I record. So I'm, I'm, I'm in there a lot.

I record a lot of records, but this time I took my time recording the record. You know what I mean? Like, even though it happened a little faster, but I felt, I felt like I found that sound again. Like I found that I found that I like that yeah, bang, you know, a little bob so yeah, that's,

I feel like that, that voice came back like this time. You're singing a lot more on the album. Yeah, we get the head of vocals. Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure, for whatever. That's, like, that's, like, that's just. No, definitely purposely. I definitely purposely did it, like, because, you know, I like, I always been like the melody,

like the melody, you know what I'm saying, but like, I'm like, I could do, I could do a little bit more. Yeah, you never tapped into. You got vocals on here. I'm trying to, you know what I'm trying to. I ain't trying to do too much. I ain't, you know what I mean?

I ain't trying to get you Jack Hollow on? Yeah, you know what I mean? But you sound good, though. I appreciate that. I appreciate that for sure. How do you measure your own growth as an artist when you creating a project? From the people, honestly.

Like, from the people, like, this time around when I was recording, I tried to have people I don't know. Like, people I don't know there. and 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. Damn.

You know what I'm saying? Damn. Like, if I see people, you know what I mean? Like, oh, yeah, we're going to 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 haven't said that, bro, bills on the bus to go ride around. That's what I mean. How do you know what's real and what's not? Because you might turn the beat on, he might just bop because they're there in the moment. And just being on the phone don't necessarily mean you're not listening. That's just sadly the way the world is.

No, so throughout the process, like, if you ever been to anybody's sessions, like, you know, 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, no, bring me back right there. All right, bring me here, right.

Let me do these devils right here. And let me do the, you know, on the outside, it's quiet. You know, the engineer got to hear you. So it's real quiet out there. So people just kind of just waiting. So if they react, then 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, you know what I mean? Everybody start having fun. They jamming. So, like, if it's not going that way,

even when the playback come, it's like, all right, yeah, maybe it's not the one. I kind of like that's like an open mic type of situation. Like, where do you get the people from if they don't know you? Like, who are you? So, like, um, I just invite, like, friends that I met, like, that when I was in prison, you know what I'm saying?

Well, they know you, but they never. Yeah, exactly. Like, you know what I mean? Like, they'll just tell you, you know what I mean? Just tell you people there. They want, you know, my sister want to meet you, you know what I'm saying? Stuff like that you bring to the stew, brother. And it would 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'll be like that. Like, all I have, like, a few dudes from, like, a few, like, media outlets and stuff like that. Like, just see how they react. 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. Yeah.

That's how you grow. That's when you know you're growing when you're uncomfortable. 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 jazz-y, like, swing, like, and I'm like, what's his playlist? Like, where is that coming from? Yeah, I mean, like, I'm really like a late 90s, early 2000s type of thing. Like, that's what I listen to a lot of that, like, on my free time, you know what I mean?

But when it's time to like to make music, you know, I'm like, I'm I still tune into what's going on now so I don't be outdated, you know what I'm saying? And I just try to mix everything together. Like, I don't feel like music should have like a one track. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I feel like it should be fun, like to listen to, fun to hear like a different sound.

So like, me personally, like, you know, I'm like, when I say like early late 90s, I mean like, you know, like Foxy Brown in total and like low flip and like, You know what I mean? Like, 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 into the app.

I mean, I don't know if I could say the app like YouTube read. 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 living myself to just one thing. But like on my personal time, yeah, that's what I listen to. I'll just be chill.

When you came home, you were well received when you came home, right? We seen you pop out with A-Booky, we seen you pop out with a bunch of people, we've seen artists. celebrating you even on this album now i mean you got you know whiz califa honey baby tink max b you know alb you got a g herb oh you got so many things were you surprised about the the love that you received when you came on yeah of course why i mean and i'm gonna keep saying you know because you really do know like uh 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. Like, you know what I mean? And I don't like to be that person, like to try to bring that negativity out of it. But I'm just also a real dude. Like, I'm not going to 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

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. Yeah, I didn't know. Y'all didn't make me feel like that when I was down. What do you think changed that?

What do you think that came from? I guess just like, I don't know, 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? And I don't like to like, how you say, like, what's the word I'm looking for? Like, like, congratulate that.

But, you know, like, I still told them what I did. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I did. Oh, glorify. Yeah, I don't want to, like, glorify that side of it. But, you know, like, I did what I had to do. Like, when it was my time to go sit down, I sat down. And I, you know what I mean?

I did it on my 10, bro. 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. I think you also. remind people of a great year. A great time.

Yeah, when you, that 2014, 2014, 2015, you know, I think people really wanted, they like, I remember that era. Absolutely. Yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. 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 party. Anywhere I performed, that was never a problem. Everybody had, even the security guards was in there. Like, bro, do your job. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, but it was lit though. Like, I feel like, like, I don't know.

I just feel like I'm just happy, bro. Like, yeah. You know what I mean? Like, that's my only emotion I have. Like, I'm just, I'm just super happy and humble, like, appreciative to everybody that's been showing me love. All the artists that's been posting 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 appreciative I am of that. How have you adjusted back? Because last time we saw you literally, I just got home. Yeah, yeah. I mean, really, like, I haven't been, I ain't sit down yet. You know what I'm saying? Like, I haven't really sit down yet. Like, I've just been going.

Like, I just feel like I got to do it. Like, I don't have time to wait. You know what I'm saying? There wasn't no time to sit down and let's wait a few months. And, like, I waited four years for this. Mm-hmm. So if anybody had to come home, after sitting down for that long and think about it more.

Like, I don't know, 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 setting down. How important are the numbers, right? Because it seems fast that you just came out, right?

Yeah. Usually when you drop your project, you got, you know, numbers on the ball, you got singles playing. And I'm looking at some of these numbers, right? Trapp Queen went diamond. 6-7-9, 6 million. My way, 3 million. Again, three million.

Wake up is platinum. Jug's platinum. This man trying to correct you, man. Who is it wrong? Chop queen is double diamond, six, seven, nine went down. Damn, double, damn, all right. I don't think that's fair to compare

just to that. I know that, but do you look at that? Do you look at them like, I got to catch those again? No, those are 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 are my babies. You know what I'm saying? like, if those, if them songs never came out, it would never be no, what's happening next with Fettywark. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, it wouldn't be no, I'm at the breakfast club,

you know what I'm saying? So I'm going to 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 going to either end with those songs. It's like, that's my clothes and set. You know what I'm saying?

Because this is, this is, that's what everybody know me for. Like, when people see me, some kids don't even know me as FettieWap. They call me 1738. Yeah. So, you know what I mean? Like, so, like, I had to really like, like, you know, when you, when you're chasing something so bad and everybody in your air, like, oh, he's not going to never have another trap queen. You know, it would 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 to say, like, I'm, I'm the one that wrote those records. Like, I didn't have no writers, no ghost writers. Like, I did all those records myself, you know, so.

Well, Monty got, you know, Monty up there too. But, you know what I mean, like, 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 of 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 FettyWop the Artist from Patterson. Now it's Fetty Wobb, the Diamond selling Grammy nominate. It's a lot of titles of my name now. You know what I'm saying?

So I'm appreciative of those numbers. And 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. Nah. Even your remix is like, well, not even your remix is when you would,

songs that weren't yours, when you would hop on with other songs, collaborate, like what, what, what's, I was just listening to. Go Slugs, what? Oh, yeah. Like, that's crazy. And that's probably something that you just did. Just, here, here you go. Nah, I was actually, see, like, that was another thing.

Like, I remember that day, too. Excuse me. What was that like? Yo, that's one of my favorite songs. 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. um my people's people's had hit me like yo bro uh calis centrist or i'm like DJ Callet

you like yeah i'm like you know at this time i'm still like oh like what like you know what like that's fire like so they sent it over and it's so crazy right because they're saying gold slugs i'm like i'm like i know when the bullet is gold but the bullet is silver what's the gold slug right so if you ever like if you ever listen to the version you know what I'm talking about I'm I'm thinking they talk about goat, like bullets and guns. No, it's all they talk about the grills. Oh, but you didn't know that. Yeah, I didn't even know.

Oh, I just thought that was your take on. Like, that was your shit that you did. So when I get there, I see everybody with goat grills. I'm like, oh, that's something they're talking about. None of them told you after the fact, even when they heard the birthday, it was like, nah. It was so hard it don't even matter. Yeah, nobody didn't care. They like, oh, whatever.

Like, they just as long as I said, yeah, baby, they were like, all right. Yeah, that's what it was. That's great. But I feel like, um. 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 when we were playing it and here i was like this it feels like that a real like a whole new level of that like she's perfect for the collaboration the beat the vibe the stuff that you're 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 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. Herbal record. I remember, so he put both of those plays together for me.

But I'm like, yeah, yo, you get tanked, bro, I feel like she would 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. And, you know, I'm a fan of Usher. So, I was like, when I heard that little breakdown, I'm like, I wonder if he's going to be mad if I do this. You know what I'm saying? And I got it. Because I don't think nobody ever, like, tried to do that actual part.

They always try to make their own sound of it. Like, but I like to give old to the artist. Like, you know what I mean? He's original, you know what I mean? Has he heard it? Yeah, he's the one that approved it. Approved it. Right.

Yeah. I was like, I'm like, wow. I haven't spoken to him yet, though. Okay. But, like, they told me, like, he was, like, excited. Like, yeah, bro, tell Fetty, let's get it. Like, I'm like, wow. That's dope.

Now, the record with Wiz Khalif. I put you to the public, and did he keep? I don't know. The record with Wiz, uh, you sang into that intro. Yeah. What made you do that instead of saying, you know, what made you, you know, do the singing to the intro of him rapping as opposed to you got both rapping on it?

So, um, that record, I actually made that record. I was in the hole. Like, I was in, uh, a show. Oh, wow. Oh, okay. Yeah, so white roses, I remember, like a tailor, and Fool for You, all was written when I was in a 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, y'all, I remember when we used to listen to President Prince of the City, Prince of the City, too,

Cushing 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, oh, I'm going to show him to fade away. And I'm like, I got to do something for whiz, bro. Like, nobody don't be showing him love, bro. Like, especially, like, all, like, the 420 friendly people. Yeah. Yeah.

People who smoke weed. The stoners. The stoners, yeah. Yeah. Like, he was, like, a big influence. 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, it's flowers.

So, like that, like a Taylor joint was like, you know what I mean? Like, and that's my God, bro. You know, we're cool. I was the first person to get him a drink 1738, too. That's interesting. I was wondering when I heard that, I'm like, I was like, I don't remember FeddyWap being, like, for the smokers. Like, what I was wondering what made you lean so heavily into that sound and into that time period?

You were celebrating Woods. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, okay. But no, I'm like definitely, well, I used to be. But maybe I just wasn't indulging because I just remember it being like party music, drinking, having fun. And then 1738 was the drink. No, like, when I did the wake up, like, I did the record for a wake up. When we wake up in the morning, where's Khalifa high?

You know what I'm saying? I always try to throw them in there like, so it was like, yeah. I know you're doing music, but is it true? You got your GED and HVAC certification? I didn't get my HVAC certification, but I got my GED. Okay, okay. I read that. But you took HVAC courses.

Yeah, for sure. Any of your family members call you and be like, hey, how do you come in each? We all live in Jersey. You took age back courses. Yeah, I started it, but when I got my date back to come home, I ain't have enough time to finish. Got you.

With the ever time when you was thinking, like, man, after this music, I'm going to go learn a trade. When I come home, this is what I'm going to do. Of course. That was the reason why I was doing that. I didn't know. Honestly, I didn't think none of this was going to happen like this. Really?

Oh, really? For sure. Yeah, like, I didn't think it was going. I was going to come home and it was going to be like this. I'm like, no, I'm going to just get. Because all I remember was, like, they was like, oh, well, all the equipment is heavy when we got to carry, like, you know what I'm going to take the Aces out and stuff like that. I'm like, I got to get my weight up.

So he worked out because he was like, I got to go HVAC. I got to carry hot water heaters out of it. If I got to start doing stuff like that, I got, you know, I got to get a little scrown. But I respect that, though. I respect the fact that you was willing to say, you know, I'm going to go get a job. Right. I'm not. Celebrate your pride with the station that's as bold, vibrant, and diverse as you are.

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that have made F1 a delightful, decadent dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to no grip on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Once I put my pride to the side, like, once I remove pride out of the topic, bro, I started living my life, bro. You know what I'm saying? I'll just be happy. I'll be chilling. You know what I'll be feeling. You know, I look in the mirror.

I look good. I feel good. I smell good. I'll just be chilling. And that's just that pride of, prior to dim your light, prior to take that glow from you, you know what I'm saying? Like, you feel like you're too good to ask anybody for help. I'm not, that's not me no more. You know what I mean?

Like, I don't care how people view me. And in certain aspects, I say like that. In certain aspects of my life, I don't care how people view me. You know what I mean? Like, I know how it feels to have a lot. I know how I feels to have nothing. I know how it feels to feel like nothing. I don't 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 can leave and go out to eat, people telling me when I can go work out or come back in a unit, you know what I'm saying? Or just constantly raiding myself just because they just want to go home and hey, guess who's cell I hit today?

You're like, 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 with me. Like, I don't, nobody could ever make me feel that low again. And I promise I'm never gonna let nobody get that power again. When did you get your dream from music, When you say, you know what, I'm gonna get a music thing?

It's crazy. When I left here, after we did the interview, it was 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 of them songs that day. Really? Did the MaxBee collaboration come from y'all meeting here? I was wondering that. Wow.

What was it about doing this interview? It was just the energy, bro. bro, like the energy, man. Like, y'all just showed me my love, you know what I'm saying? Like, y'all didn't have to. Trust me, listen, we listen to y'all every morning. So, you know, it can get rough up here, you know what I mean? You get rough up here.

Definitely. And, and 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 to hear me. I want to be in that top 30 countdown. I'm like, you know what I mean? 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, 2016, I'm like, no, I got, let's go have some fun. That's what made me happy when he came to my, the Black Film reunion. I did it at the Mall, an American Dream, to see the kids from age five to 40-year-old people, 50-year-old people. 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 I mean

Because 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 shape my high school years You shape my college years But these kids ain't in college or high school yet 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, generational, like, different generations. Like, I made it to two different generations of life. Like, you know what I mean? And that's, that don't happen for a lot of people. So, like, when I walked in here, I'm not expecting that. Like, you know what I mean? I'm like, what is going on? 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, sure. Your first time performing, you know, since you've been out, were you nervous leading up to it? To actually perform, no. To be around, like, have people that close to me, yeah.

Yeah. What made you nervous about that? I've been in prison before, yeah. Oh. You know what I'm saying? I got you. I got you. So you're like a friend of four.

You don't know who there was not. Like social anxiety. Yeah. Because, you know, you just, you got the group of people you'd be with. You know what I mean? I put it to you like this. If it's too many people who are 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, and you know, a lot of people go, well, you wasn't even down that long long. I was down enough to understand what was happening. You know what I mean? I was down. Come on, we're going to play the back wall. You did, you do like four, right?

Yeah. I hate when people say that's not that long. I know, I hate when people say shit like that. I don't even go down that long. All right, you're going to do it this. Yeah. about people that's been in there for a long time. But, you know, they're school.

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 walk in there, I'm thinking they're going to have a little section. I could probably just, let me, let me ease into it. As soon as I walk down, I'm talking about right here. Damn. Yo, ho.

Like, like, like, you know what? Like, you know what I'm saying? Back up, bro. It's crazy. But it was just, you know, it was just a little, like a little. Uncomfortable at first. Yeah, so I had like told me, let me go like by the DJ booth where 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 like that 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 a 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? So, for me, how I do it, like, certain times a day, I just make sure I'll try to go, like, go, like, go stand on the balcony. Like, I just, like, stand on the balcony and just look outside, like, 4 o'clock, 4 o'clock 9, 30, 3 and 5. You know what I mean, like, those certain times, like, if you've got anybody that's in the feds, they'll tell you those times, like, it's count time. You know what I'm saying? So you kind of, like, or, like, when.

door 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's just, when you outside, you're staring at, like, if everybody else walking, you see a few people standing still, like, all, what are you doing? You know what I mean? You ain't probably even doing that.

But you just like, it's like, but it's getting better, though, over time. Like, even, yesterday, my sister, like, what's you looking at? Like, I know you spotting something, but I'm just like, no, I'm just trying to figure out why he's standing right there like that. You know, sitting by the wall, by the thing. Like you just, like I said, mental awareness. And 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, a 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're going to 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. So Monday is like mystery Mondays, Tuesdays, chicken patty Tuesdays, Wednesday, burger Wednesdays, Burger Wednesdays, Chicken on the bone Thursday, Fish Friday. So now I just try to eat different things. Like I eat burglow. Eat those on the day.

Like, you know what I mean? Like it'll bring you back. That meant you sound fire. No. Yeah. I eat it all. Is there anything new that you're still getting used to? Like what else are you still getting used to?

Um. Really? I just like. Just the kids, bro. Like, like, these little kids just be running up on me. 17, 30, yeah? I'm like, bro, how do you know me? Like, you know what I'm saying?

Like, but it's like the TikTok. Like, I've been doing that a lot. Like, my little kids, like that. Yeah, I saw the one you did. You're getting it. I'm getting it. I'm learning. I'm learning it.

Like, I've just been like, and everybody like, yo, bro, like, you just been having. I'm like, yeah, I'm just having fun. Like, I'm just enjoying it. Like, you know? 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. He ate months ago.

He was born with congenital glaucoma. We got the same. He got the same. Like, I don't want to call it disease. Condition. Condition. Yeah, you feel me? And his sister, his sister was there.

And we did it, like, we did the little TikTok and everything like that. It was a good turnout. So, like, because that's how I've been really, like, moving around. Like, I just try to. I just been trying to have fun while still working and, you know what I mean? Just staying focused and doing something positive with my son. I love it. How is fatherhood?

I mean, it's good. Yeah. It's great. I can't complain. You know what I mean? Like, you know, every now and then we got like everybody got, everybody got their own issues. But I feel like as 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 not supposed to be. You know what I mean? 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 going to do what I got to 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 the press running

and everything. So they ain't been, you know what I mean? But all the kids older, they got phones. I face time, call them when I can. Like, you know what I mean? Like, it's just been. fatherhood is just a blessing. Like, you know what I mean?

Just to have the kids just call your dad, what's up? Like, what are you doing? Like, I'm like, I'm going to get you. I mean, like, yeah, it's a great. It's a great thing. One of your baby moms got mad as soon as you came home, right? Well, so we talked about that last time he said it was Maseka. Yeah, we did.

And then, but then after that, there was, I don't know which, which her name is, the other Likskin girl. 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 skin. 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 probably like, that's all of me. 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 more.

I don't know about that. I was just thinking like, get a brother a minute. He just came home. But then we saw you with your kids with Masika and, you know, all of that worked out. So. I mean, like, you know. 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, they did what they had to do. They were great mothers. My kids are healthy and growing. They're glowing. They're glowing. They're beautiful. They know who I am. They made sure they know they 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. I saw you say at one point two. I think it was on Gillian Wallow. that you had, like, told, like, your kids, you didn't even want them to see you after a while?

No, yeah, I did. So what were the conversations like just about that time? Because they're probably wanting to know what that time period was like for you. No, they knew what was going on. Like, I still spoke some over the phone. Yeah. As far as, like, coming to see me in prison, no.

You know, it's just, it's like, when I visit over, man, like I said, they got the power. You know what I mean? Like, like, one thing I can't say, though, the only good thing is, like, They allow you to have your kid with you the whole time. Oh, and you can see them, touch them. You can hold them the whole time.

They can sit on your lap right there at the entire time. You know what I'm saying? But when it's over, it's over. Yeah. And when they say, all right, daddy, come on. Like, no, I can't come right now. So when you're coming, 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. can't go with my kids and somebody say something crazy now. You know what I mean? Now, something got to happen. You know what I mean? I was going to ask, does that make the bid harder or easier?

Would you rather not see him at all or see him every now and then? No, it make it easier. Okay, okay. It make it easy because you're not looking forward to it. Right, right, right, right. 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 can 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 going to say it like that, but going to mean be a laundry dude, like, or do something. It's a lot of, it's a lot of jobs in jail you can do to be able to talk to your kids.

Got you. We got any music videos coming out? Yeah. Oh, actually, two of them. Her white roses, though. Yeah, white roses. So can I say the theme of that? So I wait.

Yeah, good. All right. Let me set it up. What's the theme of that? The theme of what? The music video for White Rose. I know, I'm asking her, she did. Yeah, maybe on my ass a bit.

What's the theme of that music video for White Roses? White Roses was the... All of it was going to be in there. So we were like the Senders things, man. The Senders thing. 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 song kind of like fits the timeline of that that swing jazz, you know what I mean? So it came on dope, though. That's like my first real, like, 13-hour-day video. That was like... The whole production.

Yeah, that was crazy. Yeah. That song, love song, and right back love song as well. 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. Yeah, for sure.

Is that inspired by anything? Or anyone? 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, the only one would be for someone

would be fool for you. That was an actual letter I wrote for somebody and I turned it into a song. Oh, that's the one that's kind of like the snap swing. No, no, no, that's White Rose. Oh, okay. Yeah. Fool for you is like the linger flick.

Cranberries from the Cranberry's linger? Yeah, so that's like that one. The reason I ask that, because in White Roses, you said, this person helped you heal your broken part. and right back you're talking about somebody held you down, waited for you to come back, now she's there. So I was like, oh, he said he wrote this song with somebody,

ask him who he wrote it for? No, fool for you is for somebody. He said the other ones aren't, but who's full for you for? As a person. Okay, person. She has arms and legs, eyes, nose. Yeah, she's pretty. Oh, so she's pretty.

She's pretty. Oh, so she was pretty. What if she was a paraplegic? What if she didn't have legs? Lauren, he had to be like, no, she's in a weird shit. Then what? I was trying to be, not trying to be like, not inclusive. Yeah.

Is she still around right now? I mean, she's somewhere around. Is she still in your life actively as a person that you are invested in? No, no, not like that. I mean, wait, what you mean? 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 home?

She can always be more person. I love that. Okay. Yeah, baby. Set you right up. No, I'm just trying to figure out what that part of your life has been like. It's just very probably. She's trying to figure out who it is. Don't listen to her.

Yeah, that's it. It's always going to, like, you know, like, I feel like once everybody start, like, knowing who you with, everybody starts 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 on her peace. Gotcha. If she wanted me to say her name, she'll tell me, and I'll say it. Yeah.

No, Xavier's a new chapter, right? If this was the chapter that people remember you by, what does it say about who FettyWop really is? Well, if people are going to remember me about Xavier, then people are not going to remember Fetty Wap. People only remember Fetty Wap for those numbers you were talking about. Zayvier is a different person. Like I said, definitely, like, more mature,

like with the way I handle certain things. Like, what we were talking about earlier, as far as, like, my kids' mom, like, you know what I mean? Like, no matter what we go through, I would never ever allow anybody to, you know what I'm saying? Like, well, not in front of me. You know what I mean? Like, I don't care how people viewed them.

You know what I mean? We could be, we could hate each other at the moment. But for what they did for me when I was gone with my children to make sure they was okay, I'm going to always forever hold them down. You know what I'm saying? Like, you got to have growth with that. Like, you know what I'm saying? You got to be able to separate the little boy feelings from the man feeling.

You know what I'm saying? And, you know what I mean? It took a little time for me to do that. You know, so it's like, uh, um, 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, ah, yeah, I love my her. I love the her. I'm gonna 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. Let's go to the LQ, let's go to the pool hall. That'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's 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, well, I'm up in there.

Like, you know what I'm saying? We're pulling what's up. Like, I mean, like, I'm trying, I'm trying really, really go up, bro. Like, 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 affect my brand to where it's elevating the brand, I'm not going. Like, you know what I mean? And that's just how I'm on it.

Like, it's not one time since I've been down when I used 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 see him in a strip club. You know what I'm saying? Like, I've never seen him do nothing that didn't benefit his brain. 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 he got to a billion doing that, I'm going to do the same thing because I'm trying to get there. Absolutely.

What joint you want to play off the album? What you want to hear, brother? We could play that nasty, man. Nasty. And it's going to be nice, right? And it's going to be nice, right? It's a nice outside. That's right.

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 the cameras are not on. And when I've 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? A kid had no idea.

But he was asking the kid like, so what do you like to do? Well, I do this. And it was just like a connection. but you didn't have to. Like, you know, you could have just got out of there. You, you know, you did what you had to do. But I respect that because for that kid when you left, he was happy and a pig and I don't know what.

But I respect that the most because you make those connection with your fans and a lot of people don't. He's going to remember that for the rest of the night. I'm going to curse because I'm talking about a kid. You said a pig and you don't know what? That could be a blanking. You know what? Is that like something from y'all time?

From y'all time. You know what? I was just trying to give you some problem. That's all we're talking to say. Fetty. Fettie loved the kids. I can say something. Yeah, go ahead.

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, and that even took the time out to listen to the song. I felt like it was good enough that they wanted to be on it. So all the producers that helped me with this project, I just want to thank everybody for just showing me love. I said, oh yeah, I'm free to God.

You're going to love you for having Al Biaf on the real ones I got I got all man from Jersey we got a honey baby Honey baby yeah I love hard luck my boy old scama from the Ziplockema Killing it too I got both of my sisters up there and my older brother Monty on Monty on no Monty it ain't no FettyWob album without Monty too no you know he up there that I don't even count

All right it's the breakfast club it's FettyW All right every day I wake up The Breakfast Club You're finished or y'all done? 10, 10 shots, five, city hall building. How could this have happened in City Hall? Somebody tell me that.

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