Fetty Wap is "back in the studio," and he tells The Fader "it feels good" to return. He recently released his new album, Zavier, which finds him opening up in ways fans have never seen before.
"The world really don’t know nothing about me. I don’t like to talk about myself," he says. "I’ve never let people in my personal space."
While he's shared parts of himself through music, Fetty says he's “more aggressive but also more approachable" on his new album.
"I'm down to sit down and talk about me now," he tells Fader. "Like, you want to know something, I got you. That's the whole Fetty Wap versus Zavier thing."
"Fetty Wap was more young, reckless, wild — if the homies can't get in with me, we not going," he continues. "Zavier's like, tell the homies if they can't find their way there, they not going. He's on a mature level. He's a grown man. ... He's protecting everything around him this time, but also protecting himself first."
One of the album's most personal moments comes on the song "Remember," where Fetty reflects on the lack of support he felt early in his career.
"I'm basically telling people the love that everybody showing me now when I was home, they didn't show it like that," Fetty says. "I appreciate all this love now, but it wasn't there. This wasn't that then. So I'm [letting] you guys know, this is how I was feeling."
"[T]hat was probably the hardest thing to admit to the world," he adds. "I felt like I was left out."
On how he feels about his "underdog career," Fetty says, "I love being challenged. ... I’ma always find my way out of it. And I’ma come out winning."