Billboard has released an interview with rapper Fetty Wap. His quotes and excerpts below.

On getting bullied for having one eye:
“When I was little, I used to get punked,” says the 24-year-old, while in Dallas shooting the video for “My Way,” his second Billboard Hot 100 top 10. Eventually he began defending himself, once throwing a desk at a tormentor. “Ever since then, I’d just be fighting whenever somebody talked about my eye -- I used to fight a lot.” he stopped wearing the prosthesis because he “didn’t want to look like anybody else,” he says.

On growing up with drugs:
Born Willie Maxwell, Fetty was raised by a truck-driver father and secretary mother in a neighborhood where “people get shot, do drugs, sell drugs and fight every day,” he says. In 10th grade, he dropped out of Eastside High School, the troubled institute immortalized in 1989 film Lean on Me, and began selling drugs around 12th Avenue and East 22nd Street, a notoriously rugged area. “I felt like I’d rather get money than an education,” he says. “When I did have people to listen to, I didn’t listen to them anyway. All we knew was drug-dealing, getting ran down by the police and ‘How much we gonna smoke today?’ ”

On not caring about album sales:
The lack of big-name guests could hurt his record’s commercial prospects, but he doesn’t seem concerned. “I don’t give a goddamn if the album don’t make it nowhere,” he says. “I don’t care if I don’t sell 100 copies if all my family bought it. None of that extra shit matter to me, bro, as long as I get a chance to live a dream a lot of people didn’t.”

On 'Trap Queen':
“If everybody was to catch on to the [references in the] song, it wouldn’t have been that big,” admits Fetty. “At the end of the day, it’s my personal love story. Can’t nobody tell me how to be in love.” (He remains friendly with the woman who inspired “Trap Queen,” but is currently single, and has a 4-year-old son and an infant daughter.)