Nervous Fetty Wap greeted with cheers at hometown concert

FILE - In this July 14, 2015 file photo, Fetty Wap attends the BODY at ESPYs party in Los Angeles. Hundreds of young people eager to see popular rap artist Fetty Wap at a free concert in his hometown of Paterson, N.J., have turned out for the event on Thursday, Aug. 27. (Photo by Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP, File) FILE - In this July 14, 2015 file photo, Fetty Wap attends the BODY at ESPYs party in Los Angeles. Hundreds of young people eager to see popular rap artist Fetty Wap at a free concert in his hometown of Paterson, N.J., have turned out for the event on Thursday, Aug. 27. (Photo by Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP, File)

By Associated Press August 27, 2015 2 min read

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) – Popular rap artist Fetty Wap was greeted with wild cheers Thursday as he put on a concert for a crowd of high school students in his New Jersey hometown of Paterson.

Wap, who was born Willie Maxwell, has had a lot of success without releasing an album, selling 2.2 million tracks of his hit “Trap Queen,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

On Thursday, he returned to Paterson to put on a free show for the city’s high school students – and he was nervous.

“I got a confession to make,” he said at Bauerle Field near Paterson’s Eastside High School, according to The Record newspaper (http://bit.ly/1EnBd0x). “I performed for 60,000 people. I performed in almost every state, and this is the first time I’m ever nervous. … You all are a tough crowd to please.”

The crowd cheered.