It would be so easy for Ja Rule to simply not remind the public of his connection to the garbage barge fire that was Fyre Festival. Sure, there are two competing documentaries about the infamous disaster that will forever preserve his involvement within the annals of streaming history, but we are also a fickle public. Back in February the Twittersphere was busy lampooning his unfortunate ‘90s-inspired halftime show at the Timberwolves-Bucks game and Fyre Festival, like, barely came up. Point is, the public has a tendency to move on rather quickly, for better or worse.
Ja, on the other hand, is continuing to voluntarily talk about the greatest luxury music festival that never was, which is about as baffling as admitting to falsely advertising an event and then denying any fraudulent behavior within the same breath. Oh wait, he did that shit, too! Anyway, the rapper/mogul appeared on The Breakfast Club with friend and long-time creative partner Irv Gotti on Wednesday and, of course, was asked about the festival. Ja proceeded to defend it once again.
“Let’s not act like every-fucking-body wasn’t coming to the Fyre Festival,” he said. “It was fucking done wrong. It was organized bad. The idea of it was dope, the marketing was dope, everything was done very right on that end. The execution was extremely bad, man.”
He then went on to talk about the recent Rolling Loud festival in Miami, which resulted in shootings, death, and the arrest of rapper Kodak Black, believing that the lack of similar backlash toward that particular event was not fair.
His assessment that Fyre Festival only affected “white kids that didn’t get their tents” shows a total lack of regard for the many black workers of Great Exuma who lost time, resources, and compensation thanks to the scam. In fact, Maryann Rolle -the restaurateur featured in Netflix’s documentary Fyre – is still raising money to recoup loses caused by the festival. If he would just stop talking long enough to take a good look at the resulting, sustained damage, he might know that.
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Ja Rule is the Fyre Festival of people.
Fyre Festival is the Ja Rule of music festivals.
“Dope” now means “Understand Brand Goals -> Ideate -> Conceptualize -> Execute”.
I mean, what ELSE does he even have to talk about?? Before this it was all about how he found God, and wasn’t Tupac or DMX. Dude literally has this one thing to keep himself in the cycle, and he’s using it.It’s like OJ hanging out on golf courses doing detective work looking for “The Real Killer”.
Ja who?
Ja You’ll-Forget-His-Existence-Again-Until-Another-Piece-About-Fyre-Festival-Is-Written
Lol or as of today, another festival that scams people like Fyre Festival and he’s involved with it
The guy who was in The Fast and the Furious, then passed on the sequel, and has been irrelevant/broke ever since. That should be brought up any time he’s interviewed.
“Why would I come back for the sequel? They ruined my whole character’s arc! Ruined! Edwin was supposed to try and then get a threesome. It was in the script when I signed on! What happened to that second part? What happened, huh?” ~ Ja Rule, probably
wtf is Ja Rule, lol
So his defense is Fyre Festival wasn’t so bad because there was no MURDERRRRR?
Fyre Festival t-shirt that just says “Nobody Died.”
“I survived Fyre Festival, and so did everyone else.”
I like his line of, “What about the island workers who suffered, huh?” Yes, Ja Rule, the island workers who suffered because of you.
Every time there’s a post about Ja, this must be shared.
Ja Fraud
A couple of things:* What exactly is so “dope” about this idea? People go to a festival on an island and listen to music and eat nice food. It sounds nice, but it’s not exactly a revolutionary concept.* Look, I get that no one needs to have a lot of sympathy for a bunch of rich kids who spent way too much money on something ridiculous, but I also think the shitting on them goes a bit far. They not only legitimately paid for something they didn’t get, but honestly being trapped on a rained-out island with no idea how or when you’re getting off, with no shelter, no food, too many other people and a bunch of chaos around you, sounds hellish to me. Not “trapped in a warzone” hellish, but still pretty bad. It must have been scary at the time, and being rich and interested in a luxury festival doesn’t mean you deserve that, and certainly not to have it belittled by one of the guys who fraudulently led you there.
I’d have a little more sympathy for those people if some of them didn’t almost immediately take to a Lord of the Flies mentality when things started going the slightest bit wrong. Pissing in tents close to yours because you don’t want anyone else next to you is fucking disgusting subhuman behavior, and I would be lying if I said that that or any other instance of those garbage people acting garbage-y surprised me. Money makes you stupid.
Yeah, some people acted like garbage humans, and I don’t have much sympathy left for them. Maybe all of them did, though a 100% arsehole rate seems unlikely. But I have no sympathy at all for Ja Rule saying “It was just a bunch of rich kids!” Buddy, the only reason you didn’t screw over the poor kids is cause they couldn’t afford it. It’s not like you gave a shit about anyone else during this whole thing.
Oh, for sure. I see that side of things, too. There may be redeemable qualities among a percentage of those people, but there is next to nothing redeemable about Ja Rule.
What else is he supposed to talk about? His failed music career? His failed movie career? Fyre has made him more famous than he ever was.
Y’know, between Moby, Ja Rule, and Limp Bizkit, stories like this remind me Eminem picks pretty good targets for diss tracks.
His next album should be titled “Told Ya”.