Rapper Fetty Wap has announced a new album, entitled Zavier, just two months after he was released early from a six-year prison sentence.
Fetty Wap has announced a new album, just two months after his early prison release.
The 34-year-old rapper was sentenced to six years in jail for drug trafficking in May 2023, but he was freed early in January and placed on home confinement.
Fetty – who was born Willie Junior Maxwell II – has now revealed his new LP, Zavier, will drop on March 27th.
Speaking in an Instagram video about his upcoming music return following his prison stint, he said: “When you lose the money everybody think that’s the worst part.
“When you lose them shows and calls stop coming through, the room start to get smaller, the noise fade away, and when it get real quiet that’s when it hit different.
“You see, I got so used to hearing Fetty everywhere I go, before I even knew who Zavier was.
“Somewhere in all that, I became a character in my own life. People really loved what I could provide for real, not who I really was.
“Then the chains come on, stage disappear, the applause stop, Fetty start sounding real different when it ain’t attached to nothing. No money, no lights, no attention, it’s just you.
“Gotta ask yourself, do you even know who that is anymore?
“Cuz when they take everything away, all you got left is a person your mama named you.
“People call me Fetty. But the people who know me call me Zavier.”
He added in the caption: “Never said this out loud before…Fetty x Zavier
“Zavier out on March 27th”
In 2023, Wap was sentenced after he was found guilty of operating a drug trafficking operation across the US.
He pleaded guilty in 2022 to a conspiracy drug charge.
The Trap Queen hitmaker – who released his eponymous debut album back in 2015 – said during his sentencing hearing: “I hurt my community, people who look up to me. My family and myself. I am truly sorry for any pain I caused.”
The music star and five co-defendants were initially arrested in 2021, when they were charged with conspiring to smuggle heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine from the West Coast of the US to Long Island in New York State.
