FETTY WAP - MILLION DOLLAZ WORTH OF GAME EPISODE 370
73 min
•Mar 15, 20263 months agoSummary
Fetty Wap discusses his nearly four-year prison sentence, the personal and professional toll it took, and his comeback strategy with a new album. He reflects on losing focus after early success, the importance of genuine relationships over transactional ones, and his commitment to avoiding future incarceration while maintaining his signature energy.
Insights
- Success without maturity and proper financial planning creates vulnerability to legal consequences; Fetty's early wealth led to poor decisions that he now recognizes as avoidable
- Prison forces accountability and perspective—Fetty credits his time inside with helping him distinguish genuine relationships from opportunistic ones based on criminal activity
- The music industry's comeback narrative favors artists who fall and rise again; Fetty's second chance is strengthened by public sympathy and the cultural appetite for redemption stories
- Mentorship and paying it forward (e.g., helping PNB Rock) creates lasting cultural capital that sustains an artist's reputation even during incarceration
- Mindset shifts from external validation (money, cars, status) to internal discipline and selective relationships are critical for long-term success post-incarceration
Trends
Incarcerated artists leveraging prison narratives as comeback fuel and authenticity markers in hip-hopShift from lifestyle-driven music to introspective, experience-based storytelling in post-prison artist releasesSocial media's role in spreading misinformation about legal cases and sentences, creating false narratives that artists must actively counterMentorship and artist development as differentiator for legacy-building in competitive music marketsSelective networking and quality-over-quantity relationships as post-prison survival strategy for high-profile figuresPrison as forced financial literacy and lifestyle reset for artists accustomed to unlimited spendingComeback albums positioned as 'part 2' narratives rather than reinventions, maintaining core identity while signaling growthVulnerability and accountability in interviews as trust-building mechanism for artists re-entering public consciousness
Topics
Prison sentencing and criminal justice outcomes for high-profile artistsFinancial mismanagement and tax liability in early-career successMentorship and artist development in hip-hopComeback strategy and second-chance narratives in musicRelationship authenticity and transactional vs. genuine connectionsSocial media misinformation and legal case narrativesPrison mental health and coping mechanismsLifestyle inflation and spending disciplineMusic production and creative process post-incarcerationAccountability and personal responsibility in street cultureFamily support systems during incarcerationReentry challenges for formerly incarcerated celebritiesAlbum rollout strategy and artist positioningCharitable work and disability advocacy (Glaucoma walk)Energy and authenticity as core artistic assets
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People
Fetty Wap
Grammy-nominated artist discussing his prison sentence, comeback, and new album 'Zayvair'
PNB Rock
Artist mentored by Fetty Wap; received features and guidance during his early career
Lil Yachty
Contemporary artist mentioned as part of wave that emerged after Fetty's initial success period
Lil Uzi Vert
Contemporary artist mentioned as part of wave that emerged after Fetty's initial success period
21 Savage
Contemporary artist mentioned as part of wave that emerged after Fetty's initial success period
Kodak Black
Contemporary artist mentioned as part of wave that emerged after Fetty's initial success period
Jay-Z
Referenced as example of artist who maintains longevity without public pressure to fall and rise again
Kanye West
Referenced as example of artist subject to public pressure for downfall unlike other races
Drake
Referenced as example of artist subject to public pressure for downfall and battle narratives
Garth Brooks
Referenced as example of artist who maintains consistent legacy without public pressure cycles
DeMar Hamlin
Referenced as example of someone who experienced near-death and resurrection
Quotes
"I came home from prison. And, you know, a lot of niggas that I used to kick it with, I don't kick it with them niggas no more because the connection we had was based upon some criminal activity."
Fetty Wap
"I ain't never going back to jail, bro. Like, I'm not going back to jail. I don't see no reason to."
Fetty Wap
"This ain't nothing but a minor setback for a major comeback. You feel what I'm saying? But now the difference is that Fetty gonna respect it more."
Host
"I learned how to live as a broke nigga. Fuck, I needed to live a certain way for when I got the money."
Fetty Wap
"My whole thing was like, at that moment, I'm like, damn, I don't want people to think I'm fucked up. I don't want to lose this house. I don't want to lose these cars."
Fetty Wap
Full Transcript
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With more than 2000 milligrams of electrolytes, vitamins, B and C, and zinc, coconut water, and no artificial sweeteners, flavors, or dyes, body armor flash IV keeps you performing at your best. Get body armor flash IV at your local 7-Eleven. You're now tuned into, million dollars worth of game. Let me explain something to you. This is this right here. Grammy nominated artist. Diamond. His diamonds is real. We not talking about moisten ice. Diamond. This is a diamond artist. Hold on. Let me tell you something. First dude from the hood that had apartments in the top 20 in the billboards. Listen, he had condominiums. He didn't rent them. He actually owned these entries. That's how long he was there. He owned them. And now he just rent them out. So he just ripped the shit out so other people could look. This ain't no, he's not no regular dude. This shit ain't regular. This is special. Like I'm talking about Fettie is the different type of artist. He's the artist that when he's doing this thing and when he in a position, he grab other people. Let me help him out. Let me do this for him. Let me get him over. PNB Rock, let's do a tape. Let me do, it's a big difference. And now he home and now he ready to come back and snap. It ain't the regular slap, but he just to, you know how he be slapping you. We can buy this something. I'll be like this when you be running your mouth and you just be, it's one of these songs. You see that? You didn't see that head. That's what he ready to do, man. First and foremost, welcome home, right? We got to welcome him home, right? He back. You could tell he was up to eat. Listen, his commissary bag was serious. Yeah. Cause you see when he got out of jail, that he goes, he was walking like this. I was, he had a strong commissary bag. Cause he was like this. Like, what the fuck was he on? They got steroids in the toilet. He wanted, he would, he listen, he ate a meal. He touched a week. For what reason? I don't know. He turned into a bodybuilding jail. He said, yeah, I'm already platinum over here. Let me go ahead and start doing Lee Haney and shit. Oral Swartz nigger. He was on some other shit. I don't know what that's about, but, but welcome home, brother. Appreciate it. You got to understand this. You kicked doors open and you did some shit coming from Jersey. You just said, I'm that nigger, and I'm going to show you, and you did that. I mean, you did extraordinary things, but you got so much more. It's so much more that you got. So welcome home, brother. Appreciate Sam. We happy you here. All your contributions to the culture would never go unnoticed, especially not from us, not from the people that know. If you know, you know, if you don't, that's cool. But we have you here, man, and just like, we going to talk about the real life. We going to talk about the real you. This ain't no fucking, you know, no commercial shit. This is real life. You from Jersey, we in Jersey right now. So we going to hold it down in that way. But what you want to do first? I want to hear you just give us a little something. You know what I mean? Off the top. Can you do that? Off the top? Off the top. You want to hear your favorite joint? Yes, I do. Okay, it's time for me to go up. I don't think they're ready. If I pop out, would he show up? I don't think he crazy. Get a butter knife and relapse. I might cook up a baby. He was pushing bags up, but now he push up days. I remember having dreams about a male and I'm a Sadie. I remember having dreams about a male and I'm a Sadie. I remember I was waiting for a plug like a blessing. I remember dark days on 22nd. I remember me and Perry on gave me my first strap. I remember it was quadrice. Hold on. I remember. Wait, wait till y'all hear this. Wait till y'all hear. I remember. Just remember I told y'all this that record will without a doubt crack the top 10 on Billboard. Wait till I get my voice back too. Remember. Yeah, baby. Yeah, I don't know since I've been home, I'm 120 songs in. God damn. The fuck 120? But let me take you back. Nigga been home two weeks. Yeah, but let me take you back. You put, you know, they put them the platinum bracelets on your wrist. Yeah. You know you're going down. You know you, you know you got to sit down. How did you feel being a father knowing you was going to be, you got the, you got success, but then you got fatherhood. You got all these things mixed up. All these responsibilities, all these people counting on you. What was the feeling? What was going through your mind when they put them, them shackles on you? You knew you was, you knew you was going for a minute. Yeah, someone's they grabbed me. I just, I looked around, said, it's time. It's time. You know what I'm saying? You know what you're doing with you out there and not fail, man. Like if you blind to it, you ain't a real nigga. You know what I'm saying? And whatever a real nigga is, because it's so many people call itself that. But if you, if you know what you're doing out there and when it's time for them to, when it's time for you to go sit down, sit down. You know what I'm saying? Don't start bitching now. Don't start miss my kid so much. Cause if that's the case, then you wouldn't have never been doing what you was doing to get in that predicament. I don't care how smooth when they get it. You know what I'm saying? It's a very few. I don't even know if it's a few. That's probably a death move point of motherfuckers that got away with this shit. You know what I'm saying? And when that, when that time happened, I'm just like, Oh, you know what? Like I got my sister, like, you know what I'm saying? Like this, this, this, this, this was, this was, this is what I trained them for. Like not, not, not, not, not kind of sense, but this was usually you got who my sister. Now I need you to elaborate more in that because you didn't say you had your niggas. You said you had your sister. Yeah. Why did you just say her and you didn't, you had a lack of confidence because I need some, I need some of these cats out here that's operating in the street game. Yeah. That think they, that, that shit. Yeah, you my day one. Yeah, I died for you. Just my, I need, you got to elaborate more in that because you said my sister, you ain't saying no niggas. Yeah. My homies. Most of it, like, don't get me wrong. I got a love for a lot of my niggas. You know what I'm saying? I got a lot of love for them. Like on the outside, they're doing anything for me. When you present, everybody will do anything for you. But when you not around, you on eight time now. You know what I'm saying? My sister moved on my time while she was dealing with a new husband, a new baby pregnant, running around, handling wars and shit for me. So my points can come down and shit like that. I told her, I told her over and over and over again. I'm like, you know, like, doing what I'm doing, it's a possibility that they gonna come grab me. You know what I mean? And it was like, no, they not coming. You know what I'm saying? Nobody really understand, but you like, when you, every time you're getting the car, you walk out the house, you hold up, fuck is that, that car don't belong over here? Like, I ain't done, you know, excuse me, you know your areas, you know where you, you know everything about your block, you know everything where everybody be at anything moving funny where you from, you supposed to be on it. You supposed to be alert. That's what come with the game. If you not prepared for that, you know what I'm saying? You a little soul out there. You know what I mean? So when it happened, you know, I first the tears, you know, everybody had the tears and then it was right in the action. And the first person in the action was my sister. It's deep when you say that because when I was out there doing my thing, running around in the streets, I already knew when it went down. So when it happened, I wasn't shocked. I knew Gil was going to tell on me, you know, I knew he was going, I knew he was going, I did it. So I said, all right, fuck it. So when we got to the district and he did, I said, all right, I'll take it from here, man, go home, man. Because yeah, I've seen it, man, I'm talking about when the detective coming in, he had like, man, that shit was like the size of a Bible with all the shit he said on them statements. That shit was this thick. I was like, fuck you, man. Yeah. I was like, I know he's going to tell a yeah. I'm just being real though. Like, it is what I know, man. The fact that niggas said, yeah, that's good. He's like, I ain't writing no book. No, they definitely do come up with that big ass. You know what I'm saying? But at the end of the day, it's like you was accountable, but to have somebody like her, I just need people to hear that because at the, at the, you know, the other side of the game, people only love you when they see you. That's a fact. And number two, at the, you know, when you get to the inside, as always, the women is right. Ain't nobody out, ain't nobody around no more. And I can only imagine because the feeling I need to know for you to describe to them, the viewer, the feeling that you had knowing that you was on top of the world. You had anything. You was throwing money anywhere. You was taking care of so many people. And now you had to, you know, you're in a different situation when you're moving that, you know what I mean? Doing whatever you're doing. And now you going down like, how did that feel? Cause just like, did you feel like you lost everything? Like, damn. Yeah. Like, you know the saying like you, you pouring, you pouring from an empty cup. You know what I'm saying? And so many words. That's what was, that's what was happening to me. But on the flip side, you know, I'm doing what I gotta do. So it's, you know, it's still coming in. So it's like, my whole thing was like, at that moment, I'm like, damn, I don't want people to think I'm fucked up. I don't want to lose this house. I don't want to lose these cars. I want to keep this jewelry. I want my family to stay good. You know, I made them promises that I ain't trying to, you know what I'm saying? And then there's like, you know, that should come with a price. Like when you, when you cash in checks that your mouth can't, you know what I mean? You cash in checks that you can't cash or you writing checks that you can't cash. You know what I'm saying? That should come to bite your ass. Feel me? So for me, it was like, all right, damn, they done gave me this money. I don't brought all these cars, all these niggas got cars. Well, you know what I'm saying? Some of my baby mom's still in the hood and shit. Like, I'm doing this shit all wrong. Like, so I was just doing everything all wrong. Like, you feel what I'm saying? And when this shit happened, it was like, all right, let me sit back in. Let me sit back and see what's going on. Like, let me really, let me see why I messed up at her. Let me see who gonna reach out. And I should start it with $100 cash house, bro. Like, a yo, a yo call, send me some $100. I didn't say they got you. You know what I'm saying? All right, move on. Yo, jump on the phone quick. Yo, yo, such a such sent that? No. I just call them back to them. I said, you know what I mean? And this was week one. Nick was in there first week. They forgot about the neck. Week one. You feel how much how much money you think you fucked up on the homies when the come up happen on the homies and just just the vibes, just the clubs, just the liquor, just the just a real life style, the lights that all the way around. How much money you think you thought like five and a half, five and a half million just strictly on take this type shit. Take this. Take that. Niggas needed you need to change. All right, come on. We go to the strip club. You in the corner looking with the puppy face. Let me get a dub. I'm gonna get out the house. You know what I'm saying? Oh, it's your birthday. We go shopping. All right, we go to the show. Yeah, come on. We got to go grab some for tomorrow real quick. I like these jeans. Why just get them? Yeah, absolutely. No, because that's what happens when I'm the only nigga performing. But when I'm like, you I got to go get something to wear when we get there. Niggas be sitting there staring at shit. Yeah, that jacket nice. Then you didn't you feel survivors remorse. Damn, man, I'm gonna be fresh as in the shit tonight. Man, go ahead and get the jacket. Then this happens every time now, every show. Now niggas is in their eyeball and shit. Like so that's how we go. Let me ask you this question. You being Grammy nominated biggest artist to hit the scene and like you fuck the game up when you came. You feel me? What prompted your decisions to be like, I'm going in a different route. I'm gonna start fucking with some street shit. I'm you feel what I'm saying? Was the music start slowing up? Was it just was in you? You was just acting out and you just was being reckless? What would you know what I'm saying? Comfortability. Comfortability. It's crazy is that gonna sound to a lot of people. Comfortability. Once once once my fucking stop hearing me. It was like, all right, well, look, I'll give it to you like this. If I'm not mistaken, because I don't want to say an exact number. But I think at a certain point, I think I got to almost like 250, 300 of the show. And I was back in 2015. So that was you know, it's all in the same brand. Y'all is a little different zeroes. But that was this max on the show. He was like 250 dollars a show. Because he was going bars. Like, no, just to y'all about the same coin. But your joints and have more zeros. So what's that? The standard y'all like 250. Y'all can start a group called 250. You know what I mean? But you're 250 different here. You feel I say, yeah, yeah. No, man. But then you know, like I'm putting out. I'm putting out albums and shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, so it's like, I did the I did the butterfly effect. I did the film my fans three. I did the, you know, the vibes, the king zoo. And you know, I didn't really hit me. Hit me until I went to jail. And I'm like, yo, you never heard this song. They like, nah, I'm like, how the fuck? So then you know, I'm calling like, Hey, says you call up, call them, tell them to put the, you know, put the show on the tablet. You know, like, you hear it. Like, but in the States, you know, in the state prison, they got it on J.K.A. They got it in the first they didn't have it. So I'm not asking all these young niggas. They're like, yeah, no, we know it's 1738. I'm like, nigga, that's not even the name of the damn song. But it was just like, that's when it really let me know that I wasn't bugging. Because everybody telling me, bro, you was doing this, you was doing this. Yeah, my fuck, I was doing that shit in 2015, 2016 to about 2017. It was over like 2017. That's when the little Yachty's and little Uzi Burks and all of them. That's that was daytime 21 Savage Kodak black. That's all they tell me. I'm saying like, people don't understand that part. So they just look at the but you did this, you had these back to back in 2015. Like, you know, I'm saying. So when it's time to get book is yo, tell Fettie we got 5000 for him. I'm the fuck like, I just did 250. You know, I'm saying. And like, it was like, I'll go make 250,000 right now. You know what I'm saying? Like, I could do this shit right now. 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. How much was the tax bill for all the houses at the time? He was like, damn, for all the houses. Yeah, man. It was a lot. That shit was heavy. It was a lot. So I'm just like fucked up right now. Like, I don't got it for that. Like, you know what I'm saying? That's that's what that's the day he went from Fettie Wap to Fettie. No. No, I'm just playing. I never I never said a lot of people thought I did though. I don't know what you were selling out of the I just thought that would be a good lie. It's crazy. Cause you know, I went through that. I went through that a lot in there too. This episode of me and OzRefra game is brought to you by Stuller Blue. Crafted with 100% Colombian coffee, each can is good source of protein and comes in two smooth flavors, espresso, cafe mocha and espresso sweet cream. But the great thing about Stuller Blue is that the benefits go beyond the great taste themselves. 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It was crazy because when Gil got like the time, they thought Gil snitch. Oh, the fuck? 90 something pounds of weed, but it was regent. You know, that's like getting locked up with like jaywalking. This equivalent to jaywalking. So they I was telling you, he's like, no, yeah, Reggie. Oh, then people was like, they thought he had like some exotic weed. They're like 90 pounds of reggie. That's like a slap on the go. He was taking it. Just keep driving. Don't you believe that? So they didn't really believe that. He was in the pit. He didn't know what the fuck the way it was. One thing I learned about one thing I learned about social media. For some reason, everybody on social media is a lawyer or a judge. I don't like these dudes never, they never was in the law library and everybody. No, because he supposedly got this because I my man, you was locked up for some for some breaking in somebody's house and you don't know law. You just down the county. But they tell you, he's no, he posted got what's the name man. They were supposed to give him 50 years. Like you don't even know what he got locked up. Everybody in there is a lawyer. So I said, I had a couple, I had a couple of squabbles. Yeah, about that. Yeah. You had to put your paperwork down. Yeah. That's it. You know, that's the drivers license, registration. Did they ask for your shit when you got there? You gotta have that shit out, huh? 30 days. 30 days to get that shit. You ain't walking that yard. It's over with. Okay. Now, when you get there and you like, how was you, was you beating yourself up a lot and saying to yourself like, God damn. No, honestly, like, I just like, from, I don't know. I guess it's just because like the type of, like the type of man I am, it's just like, this my fault. Like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like, at a certain, at a time, it don't matter who told. Oh, some niggas told on you? I mean, I don't matter. No, I'm saying, I'm not saying no names, but some niggas did tell on you. Yeah. Oh, okay. I don't see. I don't know the case. You know what I'm saying? I don't be a niggas business man. I just heard Fetty got booked. Damn, fucked up. It's like that though. It's it like that where like, I put it to like this, I'm sitting in Brooklyn and a motherfucker tell me, yeah, man, I just seen you got caught on a jet with 200 bricks of fentanyl. That's what they said. Damn. And I'm like, nigga, I ain't been on the jet in like four years. You know what I'm saying? I'm talking about like, you know what I mean? Like for real, like, yeah, bro, for real. Like, look, this, this is what I got charged with. This was this will happen. Like, oh, you ain't even yeah. Like, you know what I'm saying? But it just, it's just people hear shit and it just it turned into a whole different kind of but I was like crazy shit like that. Oh, he had he brung all the shit to Roland Laos to meet somebody and distributed that like shit like, bro, I'm telling you so many so many different things. Like, and it's like, bro, all I did was go do it, go to do a show. You know what I'm saying? Like, so like for me, it just like at a certain point, you can't be mad at nobody but yourself. Like, damn, they told him, he's his favorite. That's his favorite. Because he was walking through the prison, right? He walked past the old nigga cell one time. And the old nigga said, look at time machine. He like time machine. He said, yeah, nigga, you the happiest nigga in jail. You the happiest nigga in this joint. You just walk around smiling all day. He like, oh, I did that shit. I'm supposed to be saying, oh, I ran up in that joint over here with the gun out. They didn't I didn't get away. They caught me. My ankles have been shit. Always. No, he ain't telling me. I mean, they are that way. Fuck down. Yeah, I mean, but I did this shit. So when you sit here like, fuck, I'm gonna be mad at you. For me, his accountability as a man, first and foremost, you know what I mean? Yeah. A lot of times the worst part of being about going to jail when you famous is that the niggas in jail make you feel like another ass nigga. Damn, as fuck as you doing here with us, man, like they really tell you like you better than us. Like, nigga, you ain't supposed to be here. Nigga, you had an opportunity. You really out there. That really be like, damn, because niggas really be like, damn, don't you in with us, man? You diamond nigga. You're a platinum artist, man. You can't be. I know you got a lot of this. You got to sit there and be like, especially like, where it happened out of the most being a transit center. Like in the transit center, you know, you stuck with a whole bunch of different niggas. Some niggas going to the pen, some niggas going to the medium, some niggas going everywhere. You know what I'm saying? And like, it be like, it was this dude from Philly. He up in Lee County right now. Like I told him, I said, I'll never forget him. Like you feel me? Because he was Marcelli. He was all waiting to get shipped out. He was Marcelli. He was like, he was like, uh, yo, man, when you get back out there, bro, remember I told you this, bro, the world yours. Like the world yours. You stood up, you did your time. You ain't bitching in here. I see you walking around. You smiling. You working out. You don't look like you don't try to be better than niggas. He said, that's only you. I took you as a cellie, man. Like I could have took my man as a cellie. I'm like, now you're out the young boy coming here. Like, you know what I'm saying? And we was chopping it up all the way till they can't pick this up that morning. Like they come grab you like three o'clock in the morning type of shit. You know what I mean? And he just kept telling me over and over again, like, bro, this shit yours, man. This yours. But when you get out there, remember I told you, man, this shit yours, man. Like, feel me? Like I don't do my whole life way. Man, I got millions of dollars, but I can't do nothing with it in here. That's all he kept telling me. And I'm just like, like, bro, I ain't even, I just don't be mad. Like I just don't be mad. And like, and it goes back to what I said in the beginning, like, my sister was my backbone through this shit. Like you feel me? Like, maybe if I didn't have her, things would have been different. Maybe I turned out different. But it was just like, you know, I'm saying certain things was happening. And I'm like, you know what? Fuck this shit. Like my pride was just my pride was so hard that when it fun, when I finally, when I finally got rid of that pride shit, man, that's when my big got easier. Like, you know what I'm saying? Hey, yo, man, take that watch, go sell that shit. Take this, go sell that shit. Take this, go sell that shit. And it's like, all right, I'm good. Let's just, you know what I'm saying? Just make sure you put this, this what I'm spending on commentary. Then you know, now, once I get to my spot is, yo, who, who, who comments every time I'm buying, I'm buying five, six, I got about 30 bags of the floor. Like you making the hook up any night. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You, you start to, if you were hustler, you were hustler, you just gonna, it's gonna come to you. You know what I'm saying? Whatever you're doing in there. I had two stores, whatever. Like I got my little man's running the store. You know what I'm saying? Makes you. At Bumble, we're all about helping you find someone who vibes with the real you. This year, meet real people on Bumble who actually want you for you. Whether you're looking for big soul shaking love or phone casual dates on Bumble, clear and honest intentions lead to better matches. 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They caught that nigga at the top of the gate ring, clown movie, but allegedly they didn't. I'm 240 pounds, bro. Like, I ain't going nowhere fast. I'm not even used to this weight yet. I'm walking, I'm trying to get tired and shit. So it's like, they brought me in the hole. They sent me in there. I was in there for six months. I ended up, I beat it though. Like I beat the shots, whatever. But during that time, we don't been through some, like they had like some big ass hurricane shit down there at this time. It was 24, I think that was 2024. They had some big ass hurricane shit down there, man. Like jail, lost power, they came through, bro. They gave us one bread, like literally, bro, like one bread, like took the, you know how the bologna come in the package, the two slices, they opened that shit up and put one bologna and one bread in the bag. Like this was you eating all day. Like that was just one meal. Like it wasn't like he was getting three of these. They just come through and one of them shit. So now they getting this bitch breaking off corners of bread to, you know what I mean? Like, I was fucked up in there, bro. Like that shit, that shit fucked me mentally in there. You feel me? Because I can't leave out this bitch. My celly dude is weird shit when he eating on pit road. Shut the fuck up nigga. Like you feel me? Like, and then it's like, damn spas on this nigga. This is the only nigga I got to talk to in this motherfucker. So it's like three, you remember, we both in there for seven months. You feel me? So a month and a half, we just, nigga, yeah, nigga, like, all right, we ain't, we just ain't gonna speak. I'm gonna get up, grab some juice, take beef in the kitchen. But it just, you know, you be going through shit mentally. Then I might got some mail coming in. No, I might got mail coming in. He ain't had no mail coming in that week. He, damn man, this shit fucked up on the white fuck with me. This nigga, Fetty, you know what I mean? Like shit like that. Like, what the fuck is he saying? Like, you want to check this shit out on me? Like, you know what I'm saying? But like, little shit, like, you know, it really fucked with you, bro. Yeah, it's like, damn, they like being at home all day with your wife. Eventually y'all gonna get to a fucking argument about something. Yeah, the power come back on and they finally give us a little, little, little shoe conversation, every shit, you know what I mean? And this particular shoe, they give us a radio. Fill me. So when we get the radio, the little wind up joint, boom, I'm just listening to music. I'm listening to music and I'm listening to all the new shit that's got at the time. I think that shit with that like helped me or some shit that was going crazy. They kept playing that shit over and over again. Like, so you kept hearing help me, help me. I'm like, damn, turn this shit the fuck up. I don't want to talk about being helped right now. That's just getting me depressed, you know? And they gave us the yellow pad and I'm just in that bitch and I just started going like, and I just started thinking like, and that's where the whole I remember shit came from. Like, just thinking about all the shit you remember. Yeah, real shit though. I'm like, even I knew you wrote that in jail though. Yeah, even in the song, like when I said that shit, like I was having dreams about a million of Mercedes, like, like, no, I said, I said, I was, I said, I was counting up a million of my Mercedes. My first Mercedes I got was a 2015. It was a 2015 on 507 Black Edition C63. Fill me two door joint. And that's when I first got my first, my first in my county in that car, sitting in my driveway in Hackersack. Fill me, well, not the driveway, the little parking garage in Hackersack, the first million I counted in that shit tears all over that shit. Just counting. Fill me like, then I can't believe this shit. Like, you know what I'm saying? And then there's like, I remember like, my men's, my uncle had a CLK 430 back in the week, had the CLK with the bubble out of the fraud gods and shit. And I was like, I want that shit. It was just like everything was just coming to me like, and that's where you're the second line. I remember having having dream about a meal and everybody's like, people probably gonna think I'm talking about a million dollars. I'm talking about a meal. Like I'm home. Like I was fucked up. I remember dreaming about a meal and I'm a Sadie. He's like, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, slice a bread. Remember when I had a meal. So it was like, that's, that's what really kick started that thing, bro. And it was like, I'm in there like, I'm in there and then one night they played my song in there, bro. Like the next nigga over, he banging on the wall, yo, yo, yo, get up, get up, listen, yo, turn the radio, such as they playing and shit. Excuse me. This is the first time I heard my song since I've been in jail. You feel me? Where was going on? The mic said the film. Keep it real. You gave a concert up there. Nigga, nigga, nigga, he was up in the hole. After I heard the song, I'm like, I could do better than this. And that's what sparked everything. I mean, that's what sparked everything. I just start going crazy after that. Like, I'm not chasing Trap Queen no more. I got a chase. I got on because I created a sound. Like, you know what I'm saying? I created a different sound and nobody had that sound. So now when I get back, I got to create another sound and it's another record called White Roses. You feel me? And that's that sound. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, it's just different, man. Like I ain't, I ain't fucking around with this shit no more. You feel me? Because I, there's my second chance. You know what I'm saying? And everybody in the music industry know how important that second chance is. Like, if it don't happen, pack it up, nigga. You know what I'm saying? Like pack it up, go do something, start streaming or do something else because this ain't it. Like, it's over. I don't see that happen to multiple artists. You know what I mean? So for me, it's like, I'm not going back to jail, bro. Like, you feel me? Like, I'm not going back to jail. I don't see no reason to. You know what I mean? I learned how to live as a broke nigga. Fuck, I needed to live a certain way for when I got the money. You feel me? Like, but some people, some people not real enough to admit that. I mean, they got to have, they got to have that shit for everybody. Like, and I tell my fuckers every day, everybody see me right now. Right now, I'm in a chicken store. Like, I'm, yeah, let me get an all-piece hot wings, two, uh, sweet potato pods, black and mad and the sharp and chopper wedge mystic. That's my go-to meal. Like, you know what I mean? I don't, I don't steak in lobster shit. 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I know how that feeling felt when I jumped in my first Ferrari. That shit motivated me to go get another one. You know what I'm saying? I know that feeling when I got my first major feature. Like, damn, like they fucking with me. You know what I'm saying? So when it came to, it's a lot of people, I did shit for it, man. Like, but with rock, it was just like, when I heard him, when I first heard his music and shit, I forgot exactly what song it was back then. Because I don't think it was like out yet. He just came home at the time. You feel me? So we did the jealous record. Now, the crazy thing about that jealous record that I was about to be my next senior, like that was going to be the next one I was running with. And I'm like, now I'm fucking give it to bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, you just gave me a job. Yeah, that's the work and improve when you're making them all jealous. You know what I'm saying? Like, the bar man's more jealous. I forgot what he named it. But after that, I just seen him go. Like, and I told him, like we had a conversation. We was out in LA. I just met him in LA and shit. And I'm just like, yo, bro, I told him all the mistakes I made, like as far as other artists and how I felt my fucking just playing me. So I'm like, I fucking ain't fucking with niggas, ain't fucking with me. Like, you know what I mean? Like, don't don't make that mistake I made. You know what I mean? When that when that time comes for you, you work with everybody, bro. Build them relationships, build them friendships. Because at the end, that's that's that's what's going to count. I mean, that should count more than the money. Like, and even even not to go back to jail, like even my even my friendships and relationships are built prior to jail and after jail, it kept me going. You know what I'm saying? Like, because people you understand, like, you been to prison. So you understand, it's motherfuckers in there that got some real paper in there, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? Yes. And when like I said, when you let your pride down, bro, my fuck is like, Hey, what's what we doing? What you need, bro? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, you feel me? Like, I was just fortunate enough that I ain't have to you know what I mean? I ain't have to lean on nobody for no bread. Yeah. But it was just like, then I got some real friends that's like, these niggas like my brothers, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, like, should you live with the same motherfucker every day, two years straight? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, when y'all help send for each other. Yeah, that's a fact. You know what I mean? Like, and then you know, they got this car shit in the face where you know, I mean, you with you, which where you from, like, if you blood, you blood, you creep, you creep, whatever. Some, some jails might be bloods and crypts run together. Some jails might be opposite, wherever the case may be, as you in different cars. But y'all niggas build this, build this relationship where it's, man, whatever, how the shit go, this shit just gonna go like that. Like, you know what I'm saying? You go up, I go up, nigga. We just gonna crash out. You know what I'm saying? Like, and that's it. That's from these niggas know me better than niggas I've been around my whole life. You know what I mean? Like, you know, that conversations with them niggas sitting in that cell that you never had with your niggas on the streets. That's a fact. Your niggas on the streets with a weed at nigga. Hey, man, these perks nigga, go get 1942 nigga. You sitting in there. You all got shit to talk about you. Yeah, when I went to my nephew gave free graduation. You know, is y'all in here sitting here talking about shit y'all would never talk about on the street. Busted down a suit pack and I'm fucking, man, lockdown three, four months, we busted down a suit pack. Niggas down to their last suit pack, we splitting, we splitting that shit down the middle, literally. Like, and I'm not joking. Like, I don't know who these women are in your life, but they're sitting right here. But I can tell they got a lot of love for you. Because when you were sitting here telling the jail story, they was like, they just felt so sorry for y'all. That's sister right there. Oh, that's sister right there. Oh, that's why sister sitting there like, I wonder what that was about since he home now. Are you can, you can tighten up since but since definitely she will. I'm telling you pregnant. I want to salute the since man. Real. I was gonna see me and shit like that's what's up. I'm flying out to come see you. Is that like your real sister? Yeah, that's my baby sister, Jones six. She's Jones six. I'm Jones seven. Okay. That's what's up. Because you know, we live in the world now where motherfuckers be like, what's up twin? And I'm like, you niggas don't look nothing to like other fucking jobs. You know what I'm saying? That's your real sister. Yeah, that's my real sister right there. That's what's up, man. Now you said I had the same life as her. She married now. Nigga done took the Stole. What was it for you when you first first got out man, seeing your kids man? Man, that shit was I don't even know how I explain that man. Like when I first got the I think it was more so get being able to see them and not and somebody telling me visit over. You know what I'm saying? That was the that was the that was the shit right there. Because I ain't really want to see my kids when I was in jail. Why? Like at first at first when I seen them, it was like, all right, that's cool. I'm what it is. I want to see my babies bring them up here to come see me. When you watch them walk out that door and you know, the little ones, you know, they so come on. And you're like, I can't come when you coming home. You know, man, how you how you tell your baby like, yeah, I'll see you in three years. Real talk. You feel me? And then just it just like watching them grow up through a phone. You know what I'm saying? Watching them grow up through a cell phone. How much time you did? I did almost four years straight. Okay, so you go to you could have went to jail. Where your kid was eight. Now you kid 12 when you come home. Now that's what happened. My son was 10. My son was 10. I think my son was 10. He 14. My daughter was 14. She 18. I hate you know, Sam, my other daughter was six. She's about to be 11 right or she was seven. She's seven. She's about to be 11. And next Friday, Friday. The hardest time, the hardest time when you go to jail, when you visit somebody, your people's and it's when they visit over, man. Because y'all in jail, y'all in your actual environment that y'all in somewhat got used to. But as somebody that's coming to visit, like your cousin or your brother or your pop, when it's time to leave, you really be like, damn man. Little cuss really gotta go back to jail. Like this crazy like he's really going back in there like, and that shit really like, fuck with your mind. Like y'all might just think like, no, that that shit really be like, you'll be like, damn, you just got to kick it with him. He on some street normal shit. What's up, baby? And then it's like, all right, this shit over with. All right, cuz, yeah, I gotta, I gotta go back to jail. Like that shit crazy. Like you be leaving out there, joint, you be getting in the car. You be like, damn, cuz really in some crazy shit. Right. Like I'm ready to go smoke some weed. That nigga's ready to go make a cheat sheet on a block with like 2000 niggas. So like, God damn, like, should be crazy, man. It don't even just so, just so you know, it don't even just be crazy for y'all. It be crazy for the person that's coming to visit y'all when they got real love for y'all because the reality of it is, man, I just came up. We just kicked it. We just had a real live conversation. Like we out like we had the crib and then it's like, no, nigga, back to reality. This shit over with. Get your ass back in jail. It's like, oh, they let you know. Damn. If I'm in this one of that now, who, who was you when you went in and who are you when you walked out? Man, I walked in. I walked in as a lost nigga, man. You know what I'm saying? Came home as Fetty, man. Like, like a focus Fetty. Like not the, not the hair. Here you go. Everybody here like that. Them days over with like, I got love for you, bro. I got, you know what I'm saying? You need $10 or some shit like that. Cool. You know what I'm saying? But as far as y'all fucked up, but you've been fucked up for three and a half years or some shit. You know what I'm saying? Because I was fucked up. I mean, like, I don't, I don't know what people was thinking. Like, and I used to hear it in jail. Man, you rich as hell. You know, they based you up on the conversation. You know, I was in there, don't get it fucked up. You know, I was having my fun. I'm buying. I got some sneakers and all this shit. And you know what I mean? But what they thought I had on you. But it's always like that. Yeah. Even when you're on the streets and you getting money in what they think you got, you really don't got. So it's like now for me, who I am today, man. I'm like, I'm mentally aware of everything. Like, I'm fully focused, man. Like I'm, I'm just, I'm just different. I don't even know how to explain that shit to you, man. Like, you know, I'm saying, like, I want the jail fucked up, bro. Like I want the jail in the fucked up with a fucked up mindset. Like, so much shit happened so fast that I didn't even have time to process that shit until I got to jail. Like, you know, I'm saying, like, for most before I got arrested, I just lost my daughter. You know what I'm saying? And then a couple months before that, I lost my grandma. Then a couple months before that, I lost my little brother. Like it was just like, all that shit was just coming fast as hell. Like just happening, happening. And during all of this shit, I still got to figure out how to make sure everybody eat. Like, you know what I'm saying? I got to make sure everybody good. Like, like everybody lean on me, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? But I took that shit that, like, I didn't take it as like, damn, man, why the fuck everybody need me? It's like, that shit was kind of my drive. Like, you know what I'm saying? That shit was my drive. It was something to make me look forward to the wake up. Like, I got to go get it. Like, you know what I'm saying? Now it's like, I got to go get that shit for me. You know what I'm saying? Like, and people tell me all the time, don't fucking take me all the time. Like, damn, bro, I thought when you come home, we was gonna know how the fuck did you think that? Like, what made you even think some shit like that? You know what I'm saying? Even the way I speak to niggas now, they ain't fucking on, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? Because before, it was always like, yeah, I got you. Yeah, I got you. Like, you know what I'm saying? I got you. Even if I ain't even have it right there, just come see me in two days. I got you. Shit like that. Now it was, you know what I'm saying? Yo, we trying to come around. For what? Some of the best shit he ever said in a lifetime was he said, I came home from prison. And, you know, a lot of niggas that I used to kick it with, I don't kick it with them niggas no more because the connection we had was based upon some criminal activity. That was the only connection we had out here in the streets is that you was doing illegal shit. I was doing illegal shit and we was trying to make illegal money. Now I'm not on that side of defense no more. So me and you really don't got nothing to fucking we don't have no connection. We don't have nothing to talk about my nigga because I'm on a positive path and you still on some dumb shit. So why the fuck with me and you ever kick it? But we never really had a solid relationship. Our relationship was based off of criminal activity. That's a fact. So when you say, I come home now when your mindset is different and that just means you grew the fuck up in prison. You realize a lot of them niggas that was with me wasn't with me. That's a harsh reality when you got to realize that a lot of the niggas that I was looking out for fee and putting money in a pocket, making sure niggas was cool doing all this them niggas wasn't with me because a nigga that's witchy is with you. Feel what I'm saying? Now you back home. A lot of niggas is with you or trying to get with you. See the difference. So the reason why he was able to glow and grow and elevate is because that nigga stayed nigga free. You got to understand that nigga would come in the studio, right? It could be me sitting here talking to five of my homies ain't none of these niggas street niggas. He's ex-in-in-the-bus to me niggas because I'm out. I've been around 5,000 niggas my whole life. I'm out. I don't hang with niggas. I hang with you. It's crazy that you say that, right? My first session home in the studio, I'm in the booth. The way my studio built, you walk in and then you got another section. So once you get past this other section, I can't see past that wall. I just know I walked in with four people. That's all I know I walked in with four people. It's tournament season and every game feels like an upset waiting to happen. But there's a clear number one seed in the snack bracket, Blue Diamond Omens and more. This ain't no play in nut mix. 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The second, the third day, 10 niggas in the studio now. All right, damn, niggas starting to catch on to the little routine. All right, look, let me allow you niggas real quick. What y'all here for? Feel me? What the fuck is niggas here for? Yo, what's the hit when I was in the joint? Yeah, because I gotta be, I gotta be careful how I speak. You know what I'm saying? Because inside aggression meets aggression. You feel me? But niggas can't run and go get no gun. Niggas, you gonna take this ass with you, you either gonna go pick your knife up or you gonna take this ass with them. Whatever you want to do this shit. Outside, all the niggas I do is wait for me in the bushes. You know what I'm saying? So when I say I elevated, I always think ahead. I can't bitch your ass nigga. Get the fuck out. You know what I'm saying? Or I smack the shit out of nigga now. You know what I mean? Shit like that, you gotta be careful how you move. So let me allow you niggas, bro. If niggas ain't here to work, bro, get up out of here. You know what I'm saying? When I tell niggas, yo, come through and come listen to the music and all that other shit. Then it could be 40 niggas or whatever the case may be and everybody listening to the song. But tell them, bro, everybody get up out of here. Because I think it was my first week home, I see somebody post it. You know, I'm like, I'm not trying to, I don't want nobody here now right now. I'm trying to get the shit together. You know what I mean? And I think either my sister or somebody called me. And yo, such and such as posters, I'm telling them to stop. Yeah. What the fuck? Like, this might not even be a song that ever come out. Like I'm just working the kinks out. Like I'm trying to get back in my just been a feature for somebody right that I'm trying to, you know, saying they trusted me with the song. Right. Now, now my man leaking it. Yeah, that's connected to me. But people don't think like that. They don't think or they only think about itself. Next to bro, like, bro, get the man like, but it's this my studio. You know, I'm saying, unfortunately, for my, for my circumstances, I'm going through right now. This is the only place I could go record at. You know what I'm saying? Like, and it's my studio. I'm not about to go rent, go pay for another studio. I got my own damn studio. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, I got to be careful how I speak to niggas and how I move around niggas because I know we could come with this shit. Let me ask you this. How is it you're going into this? First of all, you got a new project coming. How was it you're going into that? How did you take what energy did you take into the new project? I got to win. I mean, from producing and all that, I got to win. I got to go for it all, bro. Like, I don't I don't have stuff shit, man. Like when it when it came to the trap queen in the mileway and six seven nine, that shit came from motivation for people telling me my shit was white. Hmm. You know what I mean? Like, even when it came down to certain labels and they and they nah, we get back with you. And when that trap points to go off is oh, shit. And then the question was, all right, well, what's next? Yeah, I'm about to show you my fucking son. You know what I'm saying? And I will what's next after this? And I know we he on or something. You know what I'm saying? So my mindset was always a tech, bro. And I feel like right now, I feel like everybody dealt with me. There's a lot of people showing me showing me love that want me to win. You know what I mean? But I like to, for me, I don't know what it is about me. I like to read the comments that that people try to scroll past or people like to delete. You know what I'm saying? I like to read those because that's that's my motivation. But you got to understand too, right? You in a great space right now. Because how how our people work is we cheer you to the top. And then once you make it to the top, we want to see you come back down to the bottom. But see now you's good because you're down at the bottom. So now guess what we're going to do now? Cheer you back up to the top. That's just how our people work. You feel what I'm saying? Then we done seen him fall off. Damn, man, he won't want to jail, man. Damn, man, it's fucked up, man. Let's go. So you ain't got to worry for the next couple years. You're going to be good. It's when you get back to the top. That's when you got to worry about the nigger saying he did it again. Let's bring the nigga back down to the bottom. But that's how our people work. So other races, they don't work like that. Garf Brooks could be Garf Brooks forever. You feel me? Jay-Z can be Jay-Z forever. He can't Kanye can't be Kanye forever. Drake can't be Drake forever. Think about that. We as black people, we was dying to see Drake fucking do some battle. Think about that. Not me personally, but as black people, look how many people jumped on board. The minor ain't nothing came about that nigga fucker with no kids or nothing. So, but you can have a whole arena singing that shit. And it's probably a minor ain't none of that came out. Supposed to have a fake baby on his eye. Ain't none of that came out. So black people run with the live fast and in there run with the truth long as it's up to bringing the nigga down. And the last, you know, well, I don't playbots you like that. Like, especially. So, you know what I mean? But that's just the reality of it. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's just the reality of it. My father's a put smud on your name and if it whether it's right, wrong and different, it don't matter. It's people on social media love a beautiful lie. They love a beautiful lie. I could make up some shit right now and it had no truth to it. And it don't matter. Gilly said it. Gotta be somewhat true. Niggas don't give a fuck, man. So let me ask you this. What's the name of the album? You know, and why did you name it that? Should the name of my album cause they fear. So a lot of people, a lot of people who know me. No, that's that's my name. Like, no, like that's my name. That's the Z fear. Z fear. Z. A. V. I. Y. Y. O. Z. V. So it's like, it's my alter ego. No man, like, what's the difference between Z Abraham Fetty? So Fetty, Fetty is like the, the younger version of me. Like he that's, that's the, that's the fun version. That's the, you know, I'm saying, like, let's move around, let's do something. Let's hop in the Ferrari, drop the tops. Let's go draw a fast. You know what I'm saying? They're trying to get drove in a Maybach. You know what I'm saying? Like, tasty trade has a suite of probability tools so you can make smarter picks for your portfolio, though it can't help you fill out your NCA bracket. 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Yeah, I ain't trying to speed through life no more. You know what I mean? Like sitting in there and asking my sister, hey send me some pictures. You don't got no pictures because I'm on street nigga mentality or the top of the world. I don't take pictures, bro. I take pictures with people. But when I'm going places, I don't been to some beautiful places, don't got nothing to show for. I can't even show you a picture of it. You know what I'm saying? I just know I was there because my passport said I was there. I mean, I like to say they was a fair. It's just smarter than Fetty Wap. Yeah. But none of that shit would be too serious for me because the reality of it is, bro, you make good energy music. Energy. Good great energy. Energy is what make my fuckers feel you make my fuckers want to be in tune with you. Don't never lose your great energy. No, never. You feel me just because you want to jail. All the jail gonna make you do is make better decisions. No, no, no, I'm not saying anything. I'm just saying. I'm just saying because I want you to overthink this shit like I'm just gonna enjoy this. Fetty had that good fucking energy, bro. You feel me? It was going too fast. That shit you you soon as you hear that you like all this that good this that shit. Yeah, I mean, it's got some little soulful shit to it too. You don't want to lose that that part of you. You feel it. I'm just I'm just I'm just a I'm just a more mature and more experienced person of Fetty because Fetty was a nigga that came off like he let it have some fun. He let it you know, he might have been a little bit of immature. He needed some growing up to do. But that happens when you take a kid straight from the ghetto and then he don't know he's going to be the biggest nigga in the world next year. Who the fuck know that you go from man, if I could just get one of these joints to pop off next to you, you know, bitches is falling out for you. You like, damn, this shit going crazy. I didn't know it was gonna go this fast. The fucks going. So, you know what I'm saying? Sometimes you wasn't ready. You might not been ready for it. And then you might have to go through what you had to go through to gain the experience. Because let's be for real. This ain't nothing but a minor setback for a major comeback. You feel what I'm saying? But now the difference is that Fetty gonna respect it more. When he get the money, he gonna respect the money more. When he meet the friends, he's gonna respect his friendships more. When he get the opportunity, he gonna respect the opportunity more. When he doing his shows, he ain't gonna fuck these 250 up this time and go back down to 5000. He ain't no, no, no, he gonna play this shit right. That's all jail did for you. God said, I gotta slow you down, nigga. Because you are Uber talented, nigga. And you acting as though you are regular nigga out here. When in actuality, when shit slow down, all you had to do was say, let me lock the fucking and go back to work and do what I do. And this shit would have opened right back up for you again. You feel what I'm saying? But you probably didn't have any patience. You probably wasn't, you was in a different mindset. Something came down the pike that was some easy money on shit. Sweet. I'm gonna do that. But now you in different person, but don't never lose that great energy because that great energy is what set all of this shit off. You feel what I'm saying? When we heard that motherfucking energy come across that motherfucking radio come across that motherfucking social media, niggas like, oh, this is that shit like you got that great energy broke, keep that shit. You know what I'm saying? And only let the jail shit to tear you from the bad decisions you make. One thing that I'm going to take from this interview, you say, I ain't never going back to jail. I looked you in your eyes when you were saying that I ain't never going back to jail, man. I ain't gonna go back to jail for shit. That's what he said when he came home. I ain't gonna give a fuck. I ain't going back to jail for nothing. I believe you. Most niggas come back home. I ain't going back to jail. That should take three months. Then they be with the perks at nigga. Somebody hand me the pistol, nigga. I gotta get some money. I really believe you. I really believe that you sat in that joint and said, when I get out this bitch, I'm never going back ever again. You niggas ain't going never see me. I ain't never write no more letters asking my sister for no more fucking pictures. I don't want no more motherfucking comments say none of that shit. I believe you, bro. You feel what I'm saying? Now, if you could describe to the fans, what the album gonna be about? Man, it's crazy that you just said that. The album great energy, man. My first thought, especially coming home was like, I'm gonna tell them my story. I'm not a storytelling artist. It's just not who I am. I'm saying musically. I'm not a storytelling artist. But with that one track, I felt like I covered a lot of bases with that one track. I remember. I heard it. So with that, it was more so like, let me do what I know how to do, man. And I just make people want to dance, make people want to smile. When they get in the car, and that road trip just turn that shit on and press play. And for me, the whole Zayvair album was just like, you know how I could put this, if I could have renamed it, it would be Fetty Wap 2. Like, you know what I'm saying? My first album was called Fetty Wap. It'd just be Fetty Wap part 2. You know what I mean? So with Zayvair, it's just a more mature sound. A lot of them records on my first album. I was just going in there having fun. You know what I'm saying? I was going in there having fun. I wasn't even really saying too much or nothing. As long as I had a catchy melody, I'm like, all right, fuck it. I'm gonna just sing this shit. This song's up there. If you go back and listen to it, I wasn't talking about shit. I just was really enjoying myself. That's what I'm saying. No, I went back to that. But this time, I got some shit to say. You know what I'm saying? You've been through some shit, man. Yeah, you feel me? When you was making Fetty, he was fucked up. You was broke trying to get on. Now, you don't see millions of dollars, a bunch of cars, the jewelry, the women, the cities, the countries, prison, fucking, the fucking noodle packs, hot stingers, fucking. I get busy with that stinger. Lighting cigarettes off off the bread package, the batteries and shit. You don't see some shit now. So now you got a lot more to talk about, but it's still got to be that good energy. Still always got to be that good energy. It's gonna be fun, man. Absolutely. I got to speak because I heard, he don't know I heard a few records that he got. You feel what I'm saying? And that shit hot? I feel like I just, like, because, and then I, you know, I like to listen to what the young niggas listen to. You know what I'm saying? And I'm like, all right, you know, if I could just incorporate my own sound with that, without trying to follow them, I'll be able to figure this shit out. You know what I'm saying? So I feel like a few drinks up there, you know what I mean? You got one joint that's straight R&B. Oh yeah. I'm talking about, I ain't even know it was Fetty until I do a motherfucker told me. I'm like, who the nigga said that's Fetty. I should have turned into Brian McKnighton. But it's gonna be something that's going to shock the people. Because I don't even think they know you got that type of talent. Yeah, no, I never showed it before. I never showed it before. That's why that's what I'm saying. Like, I still kept it, I still kept it fun, man. I kept it fun. Like, I kept it fun. I just, I just tried to go as versatile as I could. Like, I like, I got a few drinks up there where I'm singing and rapping on, but I'm singing and rapping on some fun shit. Like, it ain't like I'm trying to be no fucking Stiles P. It's like that, you know what I mean? I ain't trying to have bars and all that. I'm just, I'm just doing what I do, man. You know, I'm talking about women. I'm talking about having fun with your girl. I'm talking about spending money. I'm talking about real life shit. What people do. You know what I mean? People doing real life. Oh, could this vintage store be any cuter? Right. And the best part? They accept discover. Accept discover in a little place like this. I don't think so, Jennifer. Oh, yeah. Discover's accepted where I like to shop. Come on, baby. Get with the times. Right. So we shouldn't get the parachute pants. These are making a comeback. I think discover is accepted at 99% of places that take credit cards nationwide. Based on the February 2025 Nielsen report. Yeah, because I started feeling like that's that feeling. You fly out to Miami, you go get you, go get you a little car. You drop the top is night time. You're driving through, you know what I'm saying? You just you're chilling like, and that's some ass on the beach. Let you spray it out on the beach. Fuck around. Put something in the right thing. Be having a baby now. Now much later. But that's enjoying life, man. If for sure. And I always say this all the time. You only die once, nigga. You're only gonna die one time. It's only one nigga I ever knew that's gonna die twice. That's DeMar Hamlin. 99% of us gonna die one fucking time. So you better let it shit out every day. It's shit. You think I get to having God gonna be like you had a hell of a ride? Yes, I did. Come on in. I'm ready. Let's go. Thank you. Shit. I ain't these niggas gonna die. God gonna be like, nigga, you didn't do shit. You wasted your whole goddamn life down there. Come on in, nigga. Yeah. Yeah. No, man, we live in me. Fuck that. Sitting around waiting to die, man. I'm living every motherfucking day we get. So now you back out on these motherfucking streets, dog. You better live, brother. Yeah, I mean, live. Don't you? I mean, you find and now you probably find peace that peace for me is just me chilling with two, three of my sisters. And your peace for me used to be me with 45 niggas supplying them with all the weed and the perks and lean and everything. Shit. That ain't peace. So fuck it. Before we get out of here, Fede, what you want to tell your fans, man? Man, I just want to say thank you all, man. Thank you all for just believing in me again. That's the biggest part about coming home for me, just having people that believe in me. Feeling like everybody forgot about you, feeling like all the niggas that you put on forgot about you to just to hear like just the music, like all the TikTok dances and all this other shit like that. Like I said this years ago, like if it wasn't for y'all saying 1738 wouldn't be no me, like, you know what I'm saying? And I just want to say something most to them. Like your address the house or something? No, that's the Rummy bottle. Yeah. He definitely was on some shit back then. He's singing numbers off of Rummy and Brummie. 1738 time down. You was on some shit. That nigga just admitted he was a full blown drunk. He only did so the numbers on the Rummy bottle. That nigga was lit lit back then. I'm talking fuck with that. Your address that nigga like no. I want to mention I got a walk coming up. I know it's in Philly. It's March 22nd in Philly. Yeah, for sure. And you're walking for a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. So it's no the actual month of Glaucoma is in January. Yes. But due to like the weather and shit like that, they had to push it back. So I was born with congenital Glaucoma. You know what I'm saying? Like I've been like this my whole life. You know what I mean? Like anything I got to do with and I don't like that. I don't like to like to single out certain disabilities, but this is my disability that I dealt with my whole life. So anything I got to do with this type of disability, this certain disease of Glaucoma, because it's multiple diseases. And I actually just found that out. I didn't even know. I didn't even know that. Like nigga told you that Jill. Yeah, I just thought that shit out. But when they asked when they asked me to come through, it was like a no burning. You know what I'm saying? Like and I just want to tell the parents I appreciate them for letting me be a part of that. Because it means a lot to me just like it means a lot to them. Let me ask you a question. How far are y'all walking? 3.5 miles. March 22nd. Make sure you put that down on the calendar for us. I'm gonna go through and walk with Thetti on my fucking 22nd of March. I see you out there. Yeah, man. I'll be cooking these young niggas. You know how that goes, man. But yeah, I'm coming to walk with you, man. Now I might have a motherfucking car or something way on the back block following this. Get two bottles in, nigga. Feet start fucking barking out there. Nigga dip right off. We're killing it in the car with his feet fucking up. But I'll be out there to walk with you on the 22nd, brother. Real talk. And it's gonna take you longer than a motherfucker because you stiffen in a motherfucker since you came over. You came over from jail with the jail walk all the way. Nigga walked him in the label like a cool gang member. Nigga's was happiest. That's some pull ups, man. Pull ups. Got me wild, but I was loaded with sale when I went in. I know. You as fluid as a motherfucker when you walked in it, then came out there. I said, damn, Fenty was in it motherfucker. Do a push ups, chin ups, pull ups, dips, everything in Yeah, everything else. Everything else. But shit, man, we appreciate you for coming and kicking with us, bro. I appreciate you having me for a while, man. The album is on the way. I'm just gonna call it. I remember. I'm just calling it. I'm calling it. If I remember, got the right video to it. Thy ticket, Lady Jennifer of Coolidge. Well, many thanks. Good sir. Here is my discover card. They accept discover at Renaissance fairs? Yeah, they do here. Discover is accepted at the places I love to shop. Get it? With the times. With the times? You're playing the lute. Yeah, and it sounds pretty good, right? Discover is accepted at 99% of places that take credit cards nationwide. Based on the February 2025 Nielsen report. It will be top 10. Those visuals will be so good. The song is already so great. But it's just a real resemblance of what he went through in prison. And the things he remember while he was in there, the things he just like Walo said, man, the place you're going to think at the most is prison. That's a fact. You got a lot of fucking time on your hands and a lot of thinking that you're going to do. That's a fact. So I just want to tell you, that's my favorite song as of right now, even though the song where you're singing, singing, that's your hot too. I forget the name of it's called like white something. White roses. White roses. Yeah. You talk about the pretty white toes with the polish on them. Yeah. Yeah, I know what's going on. But shout out to your man. Welcome home, brother. Appreciate it. And I ain't going to tell you, go be great because I already knew you're going to be great. I heard the records, platinum record incoming, at least platinum. This is me and I was worth a game. That's fatty. And it's just like that. Right. You've saved carefully for your future, your plans, your peace of mind. Now there's good news. 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