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Fetty Wap Hospitalized After Serious Motorcycle Accident

Fetty Wap performs during the Billboard Hot 100 Festival on August 23, 2015.

Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Billboard

Up-and-coming rapper Fetty Wap, whose debut album came out on Friday, was hospitalized Saturday after being struck by a car in his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey. Details of the accident are still vague, but according to onlookers the artist was riding his motorcycle when he collided with a vehicle driving in the opposite direction.

In several pictures from the scene, Fetty appears to be responsive but injured, with paramedics carrying him to an ambulance in a neck brace and on a stretcher. We’ll update this post with more information as it becomes available.  

Update, 3:30 P.M: Fetty’s DJ has posted an update from the hospital, with the good news that the rapper is fine but for a left leg injury: