{"id":230444,"date":"2026-01-10T06:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/230444\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T06:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:36:07","slug":"fetty-wap-says-50-cent-provided-financial-support-while-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/230444\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetty Wap Says 50 Cent Provided \u2018Financial Support\u2019 While in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhatever I needed, he was right there,\u201d said the &#8220;Trap Queen&#8221; artist, who was released from federal prison\u00a0this week<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/fetty-wap\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fetty-wap\" data-tag=\"fetty-wap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fetty Wap<\/a> had the help of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/50-cent\/\" id=\"auto-tag_50-cent\" data-tag=\"50-cent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">50 Cent<\/a> during his three years in federal prison. In his first interview since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/fetty-wap-released-prison-home-confinement-1235496368\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">being released<\/a>, the \u201cTrap Queen\u201d rap star shared that 50 Cent provided him with both emotional and financial support while he was behind bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201c50 did a lot for me,\u201d Fetty said. \u201cFrom day one, it was like, \u2018Whatever you need, just holler at me.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018All right.\u2019 Then [he] was like, \u2018Where this money going?\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018What?\u2019 I ain\u2019t used to that. I\u2019m used to it\u2019s always the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFetty explained that 50 Cent was \u201cright there\u201d for \u201cwhatever\u201d he needed. \u201cHe answered the phone. He didn\u2019t shy off all the way down to the time I\u2019m about to come home, \u2018How you getting home?\u2019\u201d the rapper said. \u201cAs far as financial and mental help, he was probably there the biggest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t50 Cent shared the clip of Fetty\u2019s interview on Instagram, writing in the caption that Fetty is \u201cready to work. He good I got him, let\u2019s get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFetty, who pleaded guilty to a drug charge in 2022, was released Thursday from a federal prison in Minnesota, where he was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/fetty-wap-sentenced-six-years-plead-guilty-drug-charge-1234740665\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">serving a six-year sentence<\/a>. He will serve the remainder of his sentence, which is due to end Nov. 8, on home confinement in New Jersey, sources told\u00a0Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe said in a statement upon his release that he was looking forward to helping at-risk children find access to education and vision care. \u201cI\u2019m committed to moving forward with purpose and making a meaningful impact where it matters most,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe rap artist received a six-year prison sentence in May 2023 after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/fetty-wap-sentenced-six-years-plead-guilty-drug-charge-1234740665\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pleading guilty<\/a>\u00a0to one count of conspiracy to possess and distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine in 2022. FBI agents\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/fetty-wap-arrested-federal-drug-charges-rolling-loud-new-york-1250000\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested him at Rolling Loud New York<\/a>\u00a0in 2021. He was one of six people charged with conspiring to possess and distribute more than 100 kilograms of substances from New Jersey to Long Island. Fetty was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/fetty-wap-arrested-allleged-death-threat-1394163\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested again<\/a>\u00a0in 2022 for allegedly threatening to kill someone during a call over FaceTime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhatever I needed, he was right there,\u201d said the &#8220;Trap Queen&#8221; artist, who was released from federal prison\u00a0this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[39117,146,40588,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-230444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-50-cent","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fetty-wap","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}