New York Daily News

Fetty Wap nabbed in B’klyn DWI, racing

- BY ELLEN MOYNIHAN, GRAHAM RAYMAN and THOMAS TRACY With Adam Shrier

ONE-EYED RAPPER Fetty Wap was arrested early Friday for drag racing on a Brooklyn highway while drunk, authoritie­s said.

The 26-year-old entertaine­r, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, was spotted racing 29-yearold Zaine Richards on the Manhattan-bound side of the Gowanus Expressway near the Hamilton Ave. exit about 1:20 a.m., police said.

An NYPD dash cam recorded the “Trap Queen” rapper darting in and out of traffic at 105 mph in his girlfriend’s 2012 Mercedes sports car, prosecutor­s said. Richards, who was driving a 2006 Impala, was allegedly going just as fast.

When cops pulled Wap over, he handed them a suspended New Jersey driver’s license and scored a .09% on a Breathalyz­er test — landing just over the legal limit of .08%, authoritie­s said.

The Billboard Music Award winner told investigat­ors he left a club in New Jersey and was on his way to another night spot in Brooklyn when he was stopped. He also admitted to having two shots of Hennessey cognac before getting behind the wheel, prosecutor­s said.

Cops charged him with reckless endangerme­nt, drunk driving, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, illegally changing lanes and for drag racing. Richards was also intoxicate­d and hit with similar charges, police said.

Wap (photo) released without bail during a brief arraignmen­t in Brooklyn criminal court Friday evening. The judge also warned him that he was not allowed to drive in New York until the case was over. Wap took the wrist slap in stride.

“I guess I'm going to have to start taking Ubers in New York,” he joked as he left court in a red

Mercedes driven by his girlfriend. “Anybody who knows me knows that I don’t put people’s lives in danger.” Wap claimed that the road was clear as he and Richards raced.

“It was 2 a.m. in the morning. There were no cars on the highway,” he said, refuting cops’ claims. “If you live in New York, you know that.”

The rapper, who has amassed an $8 million fortune since debuting on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2015, lost his left eye to congenital glaucoma when he was a child.

He is best known for his rap single “Trap Queen,” which hit No. 2 on the Billboard charts.

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