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Fetty wap

  • thalia12reyes
  • May 26, 2015
  • 2 min read

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Willie Maxwell (born June 7, 1990), better known by his stage name Fetty Wap, is an American rapper. A native of Paterson, New Jersey, he is best known for his14 hit single Trap Queen which peaked at number 2 on the United States Billboard Hot 100. He signed with 300 Entertainment in November 2014 and is set to release a self-titled mixtape in 2015.Wille Maxwell was raised in a housing project in Paterson, New Jersey, and is of Haitian descent.

He began taking interest in music in 2013. Initially starting off as only a rapper, he later decided to start singing as well because he "wanted to do something different." He was nicknamed "Fetty" because he was always known for getting money. "Wap" was added to the end of the name to perform under in tribute to his favorite rapper Gucci Mane.Wap's single was released in early 2014 titled "Trap Queen". He made the song in February 2014, but it did not start to get recognition until mid-November 2014, and since it has become a gold record and has over 10 million plays on SoundCloud. His debut mixtape, Fetty Wap: The Mixtape was originally set for release in February but was delayed because he continued making new songs.When he was a child, Wap developed glaucoma in both eyes. His doctors were unable to save his left eye, in which he currently wears an ocular prosthesis, the Nielsen Company announced that it would sell its Business Media division, which included brands such as Adweek, Billboard, and The Hollywood Reporter, to a new company known as e5 Global Media; a joint venture between Guggenheim Partners and Pluribus Capital Management a company led by James Finkelstein, Matthew Doul, and George Green. Two Nielsen properties, Editor & Publisher, and Kirkus Reviews, were not included in the sale, and were to be shut down. Editor & Publisher would instead be sold to the Duncan McIntosh Company, and Kirkus Reviews would be sold to Herbert Simon. The company's first CEO was Richard D. Beckman, previously an executive at Condé Nast and Fairchild Publications, and of magazines GQ and Vogue. Beckman's career suffered a setback in 1999 following "some inappropriate behavior" resulting in injuries to Vogue‍ '​s West Coast advertising director Carol Matthews, while Beckman was Matthews' publisher at Condé Nast.Beckman's first major move was a re-launch of The Hollywood Reporter; with the hiring of Janice Min, formerly of Us Weekly, as editorial director, THR replaced its daily print publication with a weekly magazine, and performed a significant redesign to its website with an increased focus on breaking scoops to compete against up-and-coming blogs focusing, as Deadline.com and TheWrap, along with its then-struggling rival Variety. The changes had a significant impact on the publication's performance: by 2013, sales were up more than 50%, while traffic to the magazine's website had grown by, the company was renamed Prometheus Global Media; named after the Greek mythological figure, Beckman stated in an internal memo that the new name would "


 
 
 

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