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Principal finds out letting Fetty Wap film in school was a bad idea

A New Jersey high-school principal was suspended for allowing rapper Fetty Wap to film a racy music video at the star’s alma mater in Paterson, officials said.

Eastside HS Principal Zatiti Moody has been placed on leave for failing to follow procedures in allowing Fetty, who dropped out of the school, to film there.

Superintendent Donnie Evans announced the decision at a school board meeting Wednesday. Moody could not be immediately reached for comment Thursday.

The video, “Wake Up,” includes stripper poles in classrooms and dancers shaking their barely covered bottoms. There are also posters visible with the words “Team Kush,” a reference to pot smokers.

In an opening caption to the video, Fetty, 24 — whose real name is Willie Maxwell — challenges fans and students to “define your own path.”

“I went back to my old high school to shoot this video,” the text reads. “A nobody high school dropout now known worldwide as Fetty Wap.

Celebrate everyday, roll something up and define your own path.”

The video has racked up some 4 million views since its YouTube debut May 27.

Terry Corallo, a rep for the school district, said officials do “not endorse the content of this video.”

“As there are procedures that must be followed in securing the use of our facilities, whether all procedures were followed is in question and being investigated,” he said.

School-board member Errol Kerr said the video sends the wrong message.

“We need to wake our children up about education, not something like this that I think is just a step over lewdness,” Kerr said.

Students, however, loved that the rapper returned to his old stamping ground.

“Everybody was amazed and so happy Fetty Wap came back to Eastside,” said senior Julissa Fabian, 17.

Malik Moses, 18, another Eastside student, said nothing in Fetty Wap’s video shocks students.

“Fetty Wap is my boy,” said Moses, adding that the video depicts “how [Fetty] grew up in Paterson . . . He’s showing that stuff in his videos, but he’s not saying, ‘Go out and do it.’”

Warning: Explicit content