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-year-old 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 “My Way” 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 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 number two on the Billboard charts.
With Adam Shrier
