New Jersey rapper Fetty Wap has created a buzz for himself with his song "Trap Queen."
The song, which currently has more than five million views on YouTube, has gotten Fetty Wap noticed by many.
The rapper has appeared on various radio shows but has always dodged one question: How did he lose his eye.
During a new interview with Shade 45's DJ Self, Fetty Wap finally revealed how he lost his left eye.
"I tell everybody it's nothing because it's really nothing to me," he says within the 2-minute clip. "What happened is, when I was little I had gotten into a little accident and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes. The doctor saved one, I was blessed to still have my vision. That's it. That's the story."
Before Fetty Wap's reveal, rumors swirled around the rapper's eye, but growing up in Paterson, N.J., the rapper decided to let people believe he was shot.
"I never got shot in my eye, basically it was a prosthesis and the song was getting hotter, the pictures were getting viral, I just let it build up, it wasn't nothing," he said.
Check out Fetty Wap's interview with DJ Self of Shade 45 below.