Willie Junior Maxwell is known by his stage name Fetty Wap, which is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and also a convicted felon, know his 2023 net worth
Fetty Wap rose to name and fame after his debut “Trap Queen” which reached 2nd position on U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2015. The single was followed up by top 10 hits of the U.S., “679” and “My Way”. All these three songs have been featured on Fetty Wap’s eponymous debut album released in September 2015 and it peaked on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart.
Rapper Fetty Wap net worth in 2023, bio, age, height, wife, real name meaning, songs and albums list
BREAKING: Fetty Wap has been sentenced to 6 years in prison for drug-trafficking 😔 pic.twitter.com/T5yrwDKdnt
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He has been sentenced to six years imprisonment in a drug trafficking case. He pleaded guilty in August.
Fetty Wap’s family and education
Willie Junior Maxwell was born on the 7th of June, 1991 and presently his age is 31 years as of 2023. Fetty Wap was born and brought up in Paterson, New Jersey. Born with glaucoma in both eyes, Maxwell revealed in 2015 in an interview that doctors were unable to save his left eye and instead fitted him with an ocular prosthesis.
Fetty Wap studied at Eastside High School prior to dropping out in order to pursue his career in music. Fetty Wap is a father to six children with five different women. In 2019, he got married to Leandra K. Gonzalez and they have two kids together namely Aydin and Lauren. He is 1.85m tall and his weight is 77 kg.
Fetty Wap career
Fetty Wap developed his interest in making music in 2013. He began as a rapper, he further decided to start singing because he “wanted to do something different from others”. Wap was nicknamed Fetty. “Wap” was added to the end of the name for performing in tribute to Gucci Mane’s alias, Guwop
Fetty’s commercial debut single, which was titled “Trap Queen”, was out in 2014. On the 29th of June in 2015, he released his second single “679”, Up Next mixtape. During the week of July to August 1, 2015, Fetty matched Billboard marks by the hip-hop prominent artists Eminem and Lil Wayne. Fetty’s debut studio album was released on the 25th of September 2015.
On 5th February 2016, he released a new single “Jimmy Choo.” On the 21st of November in 2016, Fetty released a 19-track mixtape titled Zoovier. His “Like a Star” featuring Nicki Minaj and this song was released in late 2016
Fetty combines singing and rapping in his albums.
In an interview with “Global Grind,” Maxwell reveals that ‘Fetty’ is slang for ‘money,’ while ‘Wap’ is a reference to his idol, rapper Gucci Mane, also known as Guwop.
Net worth of Fetty Wap
Fetty is estimated to have a net worth of 1 million dollars.