Fetty Wap blew up nearly overnight with his hit singles “Trap Queen” and the Drake-assisted “My Way (Remix)” and since claiming some fame in the rap game he has been asked about being a role model.
The New Jersey-based artist recently spoke about having fans–particularly younger ones–look up to him during a meet and greet at Young & Reckless clothing store.
“The most impossible thing in the world is I never thought I would be this person that a lot of these kids [that] I hear them tell they parents, ‘I want to be like Fetty Wap,’ and I just be sitting back like I’m an old kid,” he said via a segment of today’s (July 15) DX Daily. “I have my little boy run up to me every time he see me and be like, ‘Daddy, I want to be like you.’ It’s just weird. Now there are certain things I can’t do or move how I want to move. I can’t say all the things I want to say. I can’t really be me because I have to show kids… You don’t always have to act wild or act out to think that’s you. Everybody can change and I feel that through out that process I’ve changed a lot, especially towards the kids.”
Fetty Wap also explained how it’s a mutual relationship of respect between himself and the kids who are fans of him and his music.
“People ask me for pictures, I tell them, ‘No.’ As soon as a kid comes up to me, I be like, ‘Yeah,'” he said. “It don’t matter because that might be the only opportunity I get to see them see me… I wouldn’t call it a role model. I would just say that they help me better myself trying to be a role model.”
Watch the full DX Daily segment below:
Kids want to be like him, yet he’s being investigated by police for assault and he wants his women to be “trap queens”. He might want to work on his role-modeling skills.
He obviously said there are certain things he can’t do now
Please stop listening to this type of music so it can go away. People like this are infesting Hip-Hop…also, I promise you not one kid has ever said he wants to be like this guy.