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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Adrian Horton

Rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to six years in prison for drug trafficking

Fetty Wap.
Fetty Wap. The 31-year-old rapper’s 2015 hit single Trap Queen concerned love entwined with drugs. Photograph: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

Fetty Wap, the rapper best known for the 2015 single Trap Queen, about love entwined with drugs, was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday for operating a cross-country drug trafficking operation.

The 31-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, pleaded guilty in August to a conspiracy drug charge, admitting to participating in a large-scale scheme trafficking of at least 500g or more of cocaine. The charge carries a minimum five-year prison sentence.

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