NEW YORK — Rapper Fetty Wap has been arrested in New York City on federal drug charges, an FBI spokesperson said Friday.
The rapper, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, was arrested Thursday at Citi Field, where the three-day Rolling Loud hip-hop music festival is taking place, FBI spokesperson Amy Thoreson said.
Details of the charges against Maxwell were not immediately released. He was expected to be arraigned on the charges later Friday.
A phone message seeking comment was left with an attorney who has represented Maxwell.
Maxwell, 30, rose to prominence after his debut single “Trap Queen” reached No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 2015.
He has had other brushes with the law, including a 2019 arrest in Las Vegas for allegedly assaulting three employees at a hotel-casino. He was previously arrested in November 2017 and charged with DUI after police say he was drag racing on a New York City highway.
Maxwell experienced personal tragedy in October 2020 when his younger brother, 26-year-old Twyshon Depew, was shot and killed in their hometown of Paterson, New Jersey.
Then in June 2021, Maxwell‘s 4-year-old daughter, Lauren, died.