Fetty Wap is opening up about what landed him in prison. In an exclusive interview with @xxl, the “Trap Quen artist reflected on the reason he went back to selling drugs and revealed that he felt like his music wasn’t doing well so he had to go back to “what I know how to do.”
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In the interview with the news publication. Fetty stated, “Nobody made me do it. Nobody forced me to do it, you know what I’m sayin’? When I put myself in that situation, I ain’t really think for the long run. I’m thinking I could just run up a few million dollars, and I’m gon’ be good forever. I ain’t never had no financial guidance, and like a person to really guide me the right way. It was just like everybody just didn’t care. As long as they got they money, they just didn’t give a f**k, you know what I’m sayin’?”
He added, “When I wanted to start doing s**t, this is what I know how to do. It was like, I’m being honest with myself, you know what I’m sayin’? Like, aight, the music wasn’t really doin’ that good. I’m putting out music, but nobody’s payin’ attention. So, I’m like, man, f**k it. I’ma go back to what I know how to do. Instead of pursuing my career harder or going harder to make people listen, man, I kinda was a coward, you know what I’m sayin’? Like if I’m fallin’ off, f**k it, I ain’t about to look like it, you know what I’m sayin’? I was a coward for that. And I was just like, I can’t let my family down. It wasn’t for the, to be like, “I’m outside. I’m outside, n***a, I’m really doin’ this s**t for real.” It wasn’t for none of that.”
During the interview, Fetty also spoke on how it’s nobody’s fault but his that he’s serving a 6-year prison sentence. “Some of the things I think about really is being home. I take accountability for everything I did. I don’t really be blaming nobody for nothing. It ain’t nobody else fault that I’m here, you know what I’m sayin’? However it may have went down, whatever, like with the people and all that, basically, just not standing tall. But at the end of the day, that’s my fault for involving myself around people like that, you know what I’m sayin’? And putting your trust in the people that’s not really real, that’s not really who they say they is. So, my whole thing is like, man, just stop f**kin’ with n***as, man, you know what I’m sayin’? That’s how I feel.”
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“I just reflect on some of the s**t I did in the last few years, how I feel like I coulda took music a lot more serious than I did. And like just keep it that route, instead of this route, you know what I’m sayin’? I’m just grateful that I’m still here; I’m still breathing. I’m able to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
I’m around a lot of people that’s doing real lengthy sentences. Some of the dudes I be kickin’ it in here with, some dudes got 50 years and 30 years, you know what I’m sayin’, some of them got life. One of my mans, who I was in Brooklyn MDC with, right now, he facing 120 years. And he just smiling every day. We just be kicking it with each other. I be telling him about all the music experience I have. I met a lot of genuine people in here. So, you know, they all like, “Yo, bro, when you get out, man, take that serious, man. Stop f**kin’ around with your blessings before you end up losing it for good.” So, you know that’s one of the things that I reflect on—really taking music seriously and going places.”
