Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap

Fetty Wap
Fetty Wap
2015

If you haven't heard the song "Trap Queen" you probably have been living under a rock or in some distant land with zero music. The song has been everywhere and back again thrusting Fetty Wap onto the Trap and Rap scene as one of it's biggest breakout stars. An album was needed and thus an album was made, Fetty Wap. Fetty himself who is infinitely positive brings a different vibe to the usually dower trap genre and it is really hard not to root for the guy who everyone has pegged as a one hit wonder despite making hit after hit. His loyalty to his friends is also legendary with shoutouts galore on this LP for Remy Boyz 1738 and Monty. So where are we with this album, what does it all add up to? Well the record is exactly what you would expect the hits soar and the things in between really don't. We hear the same thing from the rapper song after song and when it works it totally clicks, but when it doesn't it just sort of fizzles along. The album almost dares you not to like it just as you start swaying side to side and grooving right along. It has that hypnotic characteristic of most Trap music, but on a much more upbeat level.

Fetty Wap is the first rapper to have four songs in the top 10, ever. That is something for someone who the rest of the world is ready to write off. "My Way" despite the efforts of Drake and Future is the song everyone sings when they think of Trap music today, and Drake's verse on the song has been omitted from the actual album replaced by Fetty's friend Monty (Who features on nine of the albums tracks). So we come to a point with Fetty Wap where the only option is just to enjoy it. Let loose any preconceptions you may have or any reasons to not like this album and just sit back and enjoy it. Hell that's what Fetty would do anyway.

7.8 out of 10