Top 73 Quotes & Sayings by Fetty Wap
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.
The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.
There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'
You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.
I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.
I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.
I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy.
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog.
I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.
I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
Oh man, I would definitely love to work with Kanye on something. But it really is all up to him, so whatever he wants to do, I'm with it.
I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
I'm just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it's cooked, I'm going to serve that meal that everybody's been waiting for.
When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.
Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
Can't nobody do what Fetty Wap does. So when I go to the studio, it may be four to five hours max, probably three days out the week. I used to go to the studio for 10 to 15 hours, and I would do five to 10 songs. Now I go for four to five hours and I do, like, 15 to 20 songs. I'm an ad lib guy. Most people know me for my ad libs.
I don't care about being Fetty Wap. Like, this doesn't mean anything to me. My plan was to make sure that my son would be good, and I have a daughter now, so now she's included into the equation, and the work I do as Fetty Wap made me care.
To see that people appreciate the work that I put in to make these songs for them, that's what makes me care. I don't care about being Fetty Wap.
Im not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
I don't spend that much time in the studio. When I first started doing music, I was in the studio every day just trying to build my portfolio. But now, even though I haven't totally mastered my craft, I'm at a pretty high level.
I just consider myself an artist. I dont really rap. I dont really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.
I went from trying to get people just to listen to my music, not necessarily knowing me, to this. I didn't want to be known, because I didn't want to be Fetty Wap... Me, I'm just a background guy.
I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing.
The music world taught me a lot.It taught me how much happiness it could take from you. J. Cole said it in that interview: People forget their happiness and what makes them happy. Like, what you really wanted to do it for.
I've had two jobs my whole life. I worked at FedEx for, like, two days, and I worked at Popeye's for a week. I just needed a check. It was a standard thing for people where I'm from. Well, people from there that did what I did for a living, you know what I'm saying? Go get you a quick check when you mess your money up.
The best thing that happened is I kept my promises. I ain't run out on nobody.
I'm surprised I'm still living. I ain't really make the best of decisions in my life, but for some reason, it missed me. It's weird - that's what I always think, like, "Maybe something's going to happen."
Theres a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
I don't like all this business stuff. I like stocks.
Fetty Wap is just a face. It's just a name and face.
Once I got to the age where I was like, "I could just do it by myself," they was like, "Go do it."
My mom, my father, my little sisters, and my brother - I don't got that much family. I'm not really a family person. I just do my own thing. But I've just been spending time with my mom, especially since the [September motorcycle] accident happened. I drive all the way down there to Georgia just to check up on her. You just get tired of being that person that you thought you were. I don't feel no different. I see the music, because I made it. I don't really see the fame.
You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris...
I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite.
I live my life until there's no more living to be done. Because you never know when it's going to stop. Wake up tomorrow and it could all be gone, bro. All the cars, all the motorcycles, everything. All the memories. We could go into a state of emergency, you know, and the world goes to war. The money won't count for nothing.
A lot of people got something to prove. If I had something to prove, I proved it already, so why do I have to go showboat? Like, I don't say I got the hottest song in the world. And, personally, I think otherwise.
After the years of me trying to figure out what I wanted to do with myself, I knew I had to go back and fix some things. I can't just be super-rich or whatever and not do the right thing.
Fetty Wap's not one person. Fetty Wap consists of a tight family. When I go out as Fetty Wap, I represent the whole family. The family is RGF [Fetty's original label, RGF Productions].
As I started getting older and started to learn about the world, my friends would tell me about video games and dirt bikes and stuff, and I'd be like, "Oh, I got none of that." I started asking questions, like, "Why we can't get this stuff?" And it was like, "Well, we work hard to make sure da da da..."
I went to Paterson Public School No. 6. At the time, it was the worst school in the city. Ain't nobody want their kids to go to School 6; it was that bad. But it was where we lived. If you grow up in a bad area, there are bad things around it.
If I wanted you to get a job, I would ask you to get a job. I'm also not stupid. I'm not going to overwork myself. If I have to chase the money, then I can't do this no more. That's not what I signed up for. I didn't sign up to tire myself out.
Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I aint gonna live the next one.
I really moved fast, bro. I don't want a big selection, because I don't want myself in between nobody else's problems, basically. Like, if I know these two people going at it, I'm not about to make a song with either one of them.
When I go to clubs, I dont have to wait outside.
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? Those are the types of issues I have.
I'm big into stocks. I've invested in a lot of stocks. One day I was talking to my accountant, and he was like, "Yo, what if I could turn a million dollars into $20 million?"
I do everything the same, like nothing ever happened to me.
You start to stress yourself out about the people around you. You start to think, like, "What do you really want from me?" And then you forget that you, at some point, asked them for something. At some point you needed them to take you in because you ain't had nowhere to go. And now you turn around and question their loyalty to you, and those were the only people loyal to you. The only people that really loved you are still there, and you tanked on them. I'll never let that happen.
I don't beef with people, because I don't be around people. Nobody can't say nothing about me, because ain't nobody know nothing about me.
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