Ja Rule has revealed that he hopes to stage another “iconic” event, following his involvement in the disastrous Fyre Festival, which was billed as an ultra-luxurious music festival set against a Bahamian backdrop but descended into abject chaos.
Following the release of Netflix’s Fyre Festival documentary, the rapper insists that he wants to create another festival.
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He said that he hasn’t watched the Netflix or Hulu documentary about the failed festival.
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“I haven’t watched them yet,” he said at LAX. “They’re very popular, they’re very popular. Maybe one day. I lived it, man. I ain’t gotta watch it.”
When asked if he’d ever host another festival, Ja Rule said, “In the midst of chaos is opportunity. I’m working on a lot of new things,” Ja Rule told TMZ.
He called Fyre Festival “the most iconic festival that never was,” before adding, “I have plans to create the iconic music festival.”
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The I’m Real rapper doesn’t find anything about the Fyre Festival humorous.
“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.”
Ja Rule’s Iconn app is a “celebrity entertainment booking and concierge service.”
Ja Rule doesn’t deny that his Iconn app has similarities to the original pre-festival Fyre app.
“It is kinda similar to what the app was but you gotta understand the app was separate from the festival,” he noted.
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The Put It On Me rapper co-founded the 2017 Fyre Festival with Billy McFarland.
McFarland is currently serving a six-year jail sentence for wire fraud. Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald called him a “serial fraudster.”
He admitted to defrauding investors of $26 million in the 2017 music festival and over $100,000 in a fraudulent ticket-selling scheme after his arrest in the festival scam.
Buchwald said McFarland deserved a long prison term because he disrespected the criminal justice system by lying to law enforcement agents when they learned about the ticket-selling business.
Speaking in a courtroom packed with friends, family and at least one victim, McFarland apologized as family members cried behind him.
He said he hit rock bottom and plans to become a better person.
— With files from the Associated Press and Rahul Kalvapalle
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