The principal of Paterson, NJ’s Eastside High has been suspended after Fetty Wap filmed a music video inside the school.
The “Trap Queen” crooner revisited his high school days in his new video “Wake Up.” The rapper filmed the video in his old highschool in Paterson, North Jersey Eastside High School where he dropped out to promote his song.
The video included strippers working the pole in the cafeteria, students consuming alcohol, and teachers hitting smoking marijuana in class.
This didn’t sit well with Donnie Evans, the Superintendent of the Paterson School District, Evans placed Eastside principal Zatiti Moody on an indefinite suspension while district officials investigate whether or not Fetty Wap was granted permission to shoot the video and adhered to school rules.
Fetty defended the video in a statement released Wednesday afternoon.
“I went back to my old high school because I love my city,” he said. “I wanted to show the students of Paterson that someone who walked those same hallways they walk every day and sat in the same classrooms shown in the video has become successful. If I can do it they can do it too.”
His label, 300 Entertainment, also released a statement supporting Fetty saying that they encourage and champions artistic expression and creativity from their artists.
Zatiti Moody, the principal of operations at Paterson’s Eastside High School, was placed on paid administrative leave following the release of Fetty WAP’s video for “Wake Up,” which was shot in the halls and classrooms of the school. While Moody is suspended, district officials will look into whether school policies were adhered to when permission was given for the video to be shot inside the high school after school hours. The provocative dancing and apparent marijuana use shown has given the district superintendent cause for concern.
The Principal North Jersey Eastside High School, Zatiti Moody’s act should not be suspension outright….