Fetty Wap

Fetty Wap single-handedly put his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey on the map in 2014, when the rapper, born Willie Junior Maxwell in 1991, kept reposting his “Trap Queen” single on the internet, until it rose to No.

2 on the pop charts in 2015.

Fetty means “money,” Wap is a tribute to the rapper's hero Gucci Mane’s alter ego, Guwop—and money’s what Wap started making with “Trap Queen.” Here was a love song set in a drug den, and the way the rapper chanted his heartfelt gratitude to his “partner in crime” made it seem like he was slinging domestic values—loyalty, love, and even the way she cooks “pies,” A.K.A.