News: Fetty Wap Covers VIBE Magazine’s 2015 July Digital Issue

Fetty Wap linked with Vibe Magazine for his new video ‘A Couple Bandz’ which you can see here. He is the latest artist to cover Vibe’s 2015 July Digital Issue. Take a look below where you can see images from the cover shoot and behind the scenes footage and read the full cover story on Vibe.

VIBE: Your grandfather had a church and some of your family members played in the choir. But where did music start for you?
Fetty Wap: Well, my mother, little sister and brother sing, but I liked to play drums. I started playing when I was three years old. Back then, I was watching my uncle play drums and my father play the keyboard in church.

VIBE: There’s a lot of R&B influence in your music. But was it rap music specifically that caught your attention? Or were there other genres that you were into?
Fetty Wap: It was rap, definitely. I didn’t listen to music that much when I was young. It wasn’t until I found out about Gucci Mane. That was really when I got into music. My first iPod just had Guwop’s Chicken Talk mixtape on it at first. I remember when I got it, the first song I heard was “Chicken Talk” with DJ Burn One. Ever since then I was hooked.

VIBE: Who from your childhood encouraged you to pursue music?
Fetty Wap: I ain’t really have no role models like that. I looked up to my brother – we called him Kobe ’cause he was real nice in sports and always had fly sneakers. I just wanted to be myself, though. I was probably like 13, 14 when I started getting into it for real.

VIBE: Did you know from the jump that music was your destiny?
Fetty Wap: I never really thought, I want to be a rapper. I just knew I wanted to be something. Whatever I could get up out of life I was going to get it.

VIBE: How do you respond to critics that are already labeling you a one-hit wonder?
Fetty Wap: Which one of my hits are they talking about? I got a couple of them out [laughs].

VIBE: [Laughs] Word. You’re kind of like the underdog, though I even think you’re an inspiration to disabled kids to believe they can be anything they want.
Fetty Wap: Technically, my eye is a disability. I just ain’t never been the type to accept not trying and sitting on my ass. If I wanted to, I could go downtown and register for that disability check, and just wait for that money every month. But I never did that, never been on disability or any of that. And, you can check the government records on that. Real talk, my first check was from FedEx. I worked there for two days.