It sounds like Ja Rule wants to take what ultimately became the Fyre Festival disaster and turn it into an opportunity to make things right.
TMZ caught up with the Murder Inc. vet on Thursday (February 14) at the Los Angeles International Airport where he was asked if he’d seen the two recent documentaries on the Fyre Festival catastrophe: Netflix’s Fyre and HULU’s Fyre Fraud.
“I haven’t watched ’em yet,” he said. “They’re very popular, they’re very popular. Maybe one day [I’ll watch them]. I lived it, man. I ain’t gotta watch it.”
Although Ja Rule had a smile on his face as he was talking about the Fyre fallout, he insisted it was no laughing matter and revealed he’s cooking up something that will mimic what the Fyre Festival was initially supposed to be.
“It’s not funny to me, man,” he said. “It’s heartbreaking to me. It was something that I really, really wanted to be special and amazing and it just didn’t turn out that way. But, you know, in the midst of chaos there’s opportunity. So I’m working on a lot of new things. I got my new platform Iconn.
“It is kinda similar to what the app was, but you gotta understand the app was separate from the festival. [Fyre Fest] is the most iconic festival that never was, so I have plans to create the Iconnic music fest. But you ain’t hear it from me.”
Fyre Festival organizer Billy McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison for wire fraud last October and faces a $2.8 million lawsuit.
Ja Rule hasn’t been charged with any crime in relation to the debacle.
There is nobody in the world more out of place in the business world then ja rule. His commentary thru out the whole documentary was cringeworthy. He figured he was gonna fake it til he makes it.
Oh, for fuck‘s sake, Ja… Just take your fucking L and go away, bro.
I hope to one day be as cocksure about anything as Ja Rule is about his ability to plan festivals.
Give Ja Rule his due, he pioneered battle royale before Fortnite popularised it.
All this PUBG/fortnite crap was ripped ripped off a 19 year old Japanese film literally called “Battle Royale”. It was directed by a guy named Fukasaku who was basically the godfather of badass Yakuza films and Japanese gangster films in general. He died before the movie was even finished but everything from hungergames to fortnite are just cheap knockoffs of his work. It’s just no one knows about it because he’s Japanese.
It was a joke, not a Wikipedia entry lol
Ja Rule looks like the late Gary Coleman. The only difference is Gary had more self respect than douche bag Ja Rule, and spoke better English. Despite all that, they could have been separated at birth.