Ja Rule had a hand within the what grew to become the disastrous Fyre Festival final yr, however he nonetheless says his authentic concept for the music fest — a Caribbean getaway that did not even come near delivering on its guarantees of a luxurious expertise — was “good.” He addressed his involvement with the unique pageant plans in a brand new episode of Revolt TV’s Drink Champs.
“I’m not ashamed of Fyre in any respect. Because man, the concept, it was good. It was fuckin’ past good … It was superb,” Ja Rule mentioned of the occasion that was scheduled to happen on the personal island of Exuma on April 28-30 and May 5-7, 2017. He promoted Fyre Festival alongside entrepreneur Billy McFarland, who was just lately charged with fraud for deceptive greater than 100 traders into offering upwards of $24 million for his failed companies, Fyre Media and bank card firm Magnises, and lost a $5 million lawsuit to 2 Fyre Festival attendees.
“It wasn’t what I dreamed it of being and what I envisioned of it being and what I wished it to be,” the rapper admitted. “It wasn’t carried out correctly.”
Ja Rule added: “People didn’t actually know I had something to do with the pageant till it went unsuitable. And then it was like, ‘Ja Rule’s pageant!'”
“It was my concept, my imaginative and prescient to do that,” he clarified. “And I’m no method, form or type ashamed of my imaginative and prescient of what it was to do that … I wished to create one thing superb.”
He continued: “I ought to’ve been extra up to the mark. I ought to’ve not trusted folks with sure issues. And possibly, I’m constructive issues wouldn’t have been like that. That a part of it, I take all duty.”
After evaluating the expertise to an artist entrusting “in others to hold” their imaginative and prescient when releasing an album, Ja Rule mentioned, “I did not let that set me again the best way folks thought it could.” But he additionally had some key recommendation to supply: “Never give no one the keys to your motherfucking automotive.”
Watch the portion of the interview beneath.
