Who knew Ja Rule was such a wordsmith?
You’ll have noticed over the weekend that everyone is suddenly talking about the ill-fated Fyre Festival, a 2017 music festival-cum-shit show of gargantuan proportions that has now been in made into not one, but two, unintentionally hilarious documentaries.
Hulu’s Fyre Fraud and Netflix’s Fyre, both attempt to unravel the reasons behind the music festival’s catastrophic failure, from its blind celebrity endorsements to the complete and total lack of planning to the eventual FBI investigation.
Which brings us to Ja Rule, co-founder of the festival with Billy McFarland, who has now hit back at viewers blaming him for the event’s failure.
In a series of angry tweets, the rapper appeared to lay it all out in the open, admitting that not only did he lose money, he also didn’t receive a single dollar in payment.
I love how ppl watch a doc and think they have all the answers… 🤦🏾♂️
— Ja Rule (@jarule) January 20, 2019
Hulu PAID BILLY!!! That money should’ve went to the Bahamian ppl Netflix PAID fuck Jerry the same guys that did the promo for the festival… 🤦🏾♂️
— Ja Rule (@jarule) January 20, 2019
I NEVER MADE OR GOT PAID ONE DOLLAR FROM FYRE… BUT EVERYONE ELSE DID!!! https://t.co/35fwx5iuvF
— Ja Rule (@jarule) January 20, 2019
PLENTY… https://t.co/Pb5tOW3ueL
— Ja Rule (@jarule) January 20, 2019
And then there is this, perhaps the most perfect embodiment of the whole disaster from start to finish and a piece of poetry in its own right:
I too was hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray!!!
— Ja Rule (@jarule) January 20, 2019
Because, inevitably, you are now going to watch the documentary and have a long, bubbly soak in the sheer schadenfreude of it all, here’s the Netflix trailer for FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. Enjoy.
