Fetty Wap shot to fame in 2014 with the release of his hit song, “Trap Queen.”
The song peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Then, in 2015, two more of his singles, “679” with Remy Boyz and My Way” landed within the top 10 on the chart.
As Fetty’s star was on the rise, so was his booking fee. In a recent interview with Million Dollaz Worth of Game, the New Jersey rapper said that at one point, it cost $250,000 to book him.
Unfortunately, that changed quite fast. During his conversation with hosts Gillie Da King and Wallo267, Fetty revealed that in just a few years, the SoundCloud generation reigned supreme.
“By 2017, it was over. 2017, that's when the Lil Yachtys and Lil Uzi Verts and all of them, that was they time. 21 Savage, Kodak Black, that's all they time. You know what I'm saying? People don't understand that part,” the 34-year-old said at the 13:50 minute mark of the video above. “When it's time to get booked, it's, ‘Yo, tell Fetty we got 5,000 for him.’ What the fuck?”
“My sister called me one day. ‘Hey, bro, they just came to the house. You got to pay some taxes and all this other shit.’ I said, ‘Ah, damn,’” he continued. “It was a lot. I'm just like, I'm fucked up right now. I don't got it for that.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Fetty shared that his sister, Divinity Maxwell-Butts, was the only one who held him down when he was incarcerated.
“My sister moved on my time while she was dealing with a new husband, a new baby, pregnant, running around handling warrants and shit for me so my points could come down," Fetty said.
In October 2021, Fetty Wap received a six-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to a drug trafficking conspiracy tied to a network that distributed cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and crack cocaine across parts of the US from June 2019 to June 2020.
He was first released on bond, but was later taken back into custody in August 2022 for violating the terms of his release. He subsequently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine and was sentenced in May 2023 to six years in prison.
While it was anticipated that he’d remain in prison until 2029, Fetty’s release date was moved up, and he was transferred from federal prison to home confinement on Jan. 7.