Ja Rule has shut down any talk that might be circulating about him getting involved with the upcoming sequel to 2017’s disastrous Fyre Festival.
In a statement provided to PEOPLE, the former Murder Inc. rapper set the record straight about his involvement in Billy McFarland’s upcoming relaunch.
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“I don’t know nothing about it!” he told the outlet on Thursday (April 13). “I don’t know nothing about it. I ain’t in it!”
Though the “Put It On Me” rapper was emphatic about his lack of involvement in the infamous festival, Ja has been trying to distance himself from it for many years.
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In 2019, shortly after the release of Netflix’s FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened and Hulu’s Fyre Fraud, Ja took to Twitter to reiterate that he had no involvement with the worst aspects of the Fyre Festival, declaring himself innocent of any fraud allegations.
“I had an amazing vision to create a festival like NO OTHER!!! I would NEVER SCAM or FRAUD anyone what sense does that make???” he wrote.
I had an amazing vision to create a festival like NO OTHER!!! I would NEVER SCAM or FRAUD anyone what sense does that make???
— Ja Rule (@jarule) January 20, 2019
In December 2020, Ja Rule sat down with HipHopDX to promote his ICONN app — and, once again, veered the conversation away from the Fyre Festival mess.
“I love tech space, man,” he said. “It gives you that creative feeling again, like whether you first get in the lab and start making records and shit, and you’re like, ‘Will this work? Will people like this how me and my n-ggas like this?’ It’s like we got a secret. We about to let this secret loose to the world.”
He continued: “That’s how I feel like with tech. I’m not recreating the wheel, man. I’m creating it for the culture. That’s the fucking difference. It’s other live platforms. It’s other platforms that let you monetize your content, but it ain’t ICONN, trust what the fuck I’m telling you.”
In April 2021, the failed festival’s organizers and 277 ticketholders came to an agreement on a $2million settlement in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
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The settlement comes out to about $7,220 apiece for ticketholders, but that figure could be lower depending on another bankruptcy lawsuit with the festival creditors.
“Billy [McFarland] went to jail, ticket holders can get some money back, and some very entertaining documentaries were made,” attorney Ben Meiselas representing the duped paying customers relayed to the New York Times. “Now that’s justice.”
