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has been sentenced to six years behind bars Federal prosecutors were seeking the minimum
five years in prison the Patterson New Jersey native pled guilty in August to conspiracy to
distribute and possess cocaine he and several others were accused of driving to Long Island
and buying Cocaine by the kilogram and then reselling it in both New Jersey and New York
in 2020 so again he will be sentenced to six years fetty fetty fetty eight years ago he was enjoying
all his Newfound success Atop The POP charts and now he may end up being a top Behind Bars
but seriously what happened rapper singer and songwriter Willie Maxwell II was born and raised
in Paterson New Jersey he would become famous under his nickname fetty WAP fetty for confetti
as in paper dollars WAP for his affinity for OG trap artists Gucci Mane AKA guwop fetty was
raised by a truck driver father and secretary mother church was a major Staple in his life
where he attended regularly with his family his grandfather was a bishop his mother sang in the
choir his father played the keyboard his brother played bass and his uncle play the drums fetty got
into playing the drums as well and became pretty good at it so much so that his uncle began to let
him play every Sunday he attended Eastside High School before dropping out in the 10th grade and
if you're wondering yes that's the same school depicted in the 1989 film Lean on Me starring
Morgan Freeman as principal Joe Clark forget about the way it used to be this is not a damn democracy
we are in a state of emergency and my word is law there's only one boss in this place and that's me
the hnic are there any questions the Rough and Tumble area he grew up in provided the perfect
setting for fetty to begin selling drugs he told billboard.com I felt like I'd rather
get money than an education when I did have people to listen to I didn't listen to them
anyway all we knew was drug dealing getting ran down by the police and how much we gonna
smoke today at one point he was practically homeless sleeping on Friends floors it wasn't
until 2013 that fetty began to wrap his head around music being a viable career option for
him initially starting off as a rapper he later decided to start singing as well two years later
fetty's career would explode with the release of his debut single trap Queen It ultimately
went on to be a top 10 hit spent 25 consecutive weeks there and peaked at number two everybody
[Music] the song included on his mixtape titled up next had an initial Online release in March 2014
before its official drop on a small independent label in April it didn't gain major attention
however until mid-november of that year in the same month fetty secured a recording contract with
300 entertainment trap Queen was then re-released that December and became one of the biggest rap
anthems ending up at the number four position on Billboard's year-end Hot 100 singles of 2015. in
November 2019 it went 10 times Platinum achieving Diamond status an obvious physical attribute that
fetty is known for is his missing left eye after being born with congenital glaucoma in both eyes
doctors were unable to save the left one and instead fitted him with an ocular prosthesis
before his first birthday as a result he endured a difficult childhood dealing with school bullies
in elementary school he brawled regularly once even throwing a desk at another kid
but he gradually became more comfortable with his disability and as an adolescent abruptly decided
one day to remove his prosthetic eye because he quote didn't want to look like anybody else end
quote since he didn't lead with that story when trap Queen took off people started to speculate
what happened one rumor had him losing the eye to a bullet fetty though took it all in stride
he told USA Today it helped build my following people started getting interested and they fell
in love with the music in the process of trying to figure out what had happened beside his right
eye fetty has a tattoo of the number 1738 the number a reference to the Remy Martin Cognac
is also referenced in his debut head he also took a page from the brand while naming his New Jersey
Squad the Remy boys he explained Vlad TV in 2015 1738 is the finest liquor in the urban
District if you go to the liquor store and you get a bottle of 1738 it's going to be the most
expensive Remy and that's what we planned out to be be we the finest we taste the best and
everything fetty's self-titled debut album was released in September 2015. it debuted at number
one on the billboard 200 and has since gone on to achieve double Platinum Status three other
singles were released from the project 679 and my way both made it into the top 10 on both the
Hot 100 and R B hip-hop charts the fourth single again became a top 40 pop head he received two
nominations at the 58th Grammy awards for best rap performance and best rap song for trap Queen
just after the tremendous success of the hit a string of personal and professional issues
began to plague the rapper's life in 2016 fetty got into some trouble concerning the
accompanying music video of his single wake up he went back to his alma mater Eastside High School
to film The Project it features him walking through the halls of the school as he sings
Let's Get Wiz Khalifa High while admiring a stripper dancing on a pole in a classroom
while no students participated in the taping it landed the principal in hot water and he
was ultimately placed on administrative leave with pay pending an investigation as to how the video
was allowed to be shot at the school later fetty spoke at a Patterson Board of Education meeting
apologizing to the city the principal and dozens of the principal supporters in a statement sent to
billboard fetty offered if I disrespected anybody I came today to apologize but I also wanted to let
people know that I'm a product of my environment also that year fetty was hit with a major lawsuit
regarding trap Queen a Danish songwriter claimed he bought exclusive rides to the beat in 2014 from
Tony fad who produced the song More Drama followed in 2017 when TMZ discovered that love and hip hop
reality star and on-again off-again girlfriend Alexa Skye hit fetty with an official cease and
desist order claiming that she had nothing to do with the leak of an intimate video featuring
the two of them and that he was likely response possible for it then fetty was found guilty for
defaming an ex-employee who was a former tour staffer she alleged that he promised to pay
her up to 10 percent of the money he made from his performances and she ended up using her own
money to cover tour expenses he owed her about 242 thousand dollars and on top of that falsely
claimed she stole from him he ended up owing her 1 million dollars in November he was arrested after
being pulled over on a Brooklyn Highway he was subsequently charged with drunk driving reckless
endangerment aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle illegally changing lanes and drag
racing two years after that fetty was arrested in Las Vegas after three Hotel employees alleged
that the rapper assaulted them he apparently hit a parking attendant after getting involved
in a verbal dispute and ultimately committed battery on two other employees unfortunately
that incident wasn't his only reported case of assault fetty was sued in 2020 for apparently
assaulting a woman in his Los Angeles home the previous year the woman claimed that fetty had
strangled and punched her totally unprovoked after consuming several alcoholic beverages
and it eventually escalated to him threatening to take her life there are actually many more stories
I could tell but ain't nobody got time for this in a 2016 interview with interview magazine fetty was
quoted as saying nothing bothers me bro I don't have issues I always tell my mom I don't have
regular problems I have problems like what type of girl is going to say they're pregnant by me today
as of the filming of this video fetty is the father of six children with five women in
early 2018 it looked like fetty was going to be celebrating the arrival of another bundle
of joy with Alexis after she named him as the father of her daughter Elia the following year
it was proven that he was not you are not fetty appeared on the third season of The h1's Love and
Hip Hop Hollywood which documented his strained relationship with masika Kalisha another baby
mama he also appeared on the ninth season of Love and Hip Hop New York which documented his strain
relationship with Alexis in September 2019 fetty privately married model Leandra k Gonzalez one
year later they officially divorced Leandra who was the one who filed alleged in legal docs fetty
was a booze hound an abusive cheater he denied all of the allegations in July 2021 it was reported
that fetty's daughter Lauren had passed away at the age of four while TMZ reported that her death
certificate stated she died of complications of A congenital heart arrhythmia her mother took
to Instagram to slam the report she stated that the autopsy hadn't come back as yet and accused
the Tabloid of stealing her daughter's death certificate and revealing the cause of death
before anyone was ready fetty finally released his follow-up album titled the butterfly effect
in October of that year marking his return after releasing nearly a dozen mixtapes over the last
six years that same month fetty was indicted along with five others on a drug trafficking
conspiracy charge he pled not guilty and was released on a 500 000 Bond one week later the
following year he was put back in jail after violating the terms of his pre-trial release
prosecutors say he threatened to take the life of a man during a FaceTime call in 2021 after
that incident fetty pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and
faced a minimum of five years behind bars on May 24 2023 fetty WAP was sentenced to six years in
prison his lawyer argued that he'd been supporting many relatives and children and that he had needed
money to sustain them once the pandemic ended live entertainment prosecutors had pushed for a longer
term saying that fetty used his Fame to glamorize the drug trade while making millions from his
music One prosecutor in particular asked the judge to remember the collateral consequences of drug
abuse and pointed out that many people suffered during the pandemic but they didn't turn to
peddling poison the judge called the case one of the most difficult she's had to decide in 30 years
on the bench noting that fetty overcame obstacles to achieve unbelievable Fame only to throw it away
she noted his loving supportive family many of whom had written to her and his relationship to
his children but said his crime was serious and his actions while out on bail raised
serious questions fetty himself apologized to the communities and families of drug users he heard
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