Ja Rule has announced that fyre festival two is in the works.
You know, because the first fyre festival was such a success.
If this is your first time hearing about fyre festival, get ready because it was one of
the biggest fails of 2017.
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Fyre festival was supposed to be this hugely luxurious music festival set in the Bahamas
on an island that was once owned by Pablo escobar.
It was an amazing idea for a festival.
People who purchased tickets were promised everything from beautiful villas and cabanas
to yacht parties and fine catred food.
And tickets to this festival were NOT cheap.
People paid anywhere from 4 thousand dollars to 250 thousand dollars for a ticket.
And it had some of the best marketing most had ever seen.
Fyre festival brought on huge influencers and models like Kendal Jenner, bella hadid,
Hayley Baldwin, and Emily ratajkowski to post about the festival to their huge followings.
Apparently kendall jenner was paid 250 thousand dollars for one post on her instagram account
where she announced the event.
Ja rule was one of the celebrities that was backing fyre festival.
He was pretty much the face of it.
He and billy mcfarland, CEO of fyre media inc, set up the festival.
Problem is, billy mcfarland pretty much scammed everyone involved and everyone who paid for
tickets.
When guests were taken to the festival, they didn’t get anything they were promised.
Instead of private jets, guests were shoved on huge airplanes.
They were stuffed into sweaty buses.
Their villas were essentially tents that were soaking wet from a rain storm the night before.
Once guests had already arrived, the festival was officially cancelled, and people had a
lot of issues getting off the island.
All the while billy macfarland was either in denial about his failed festival, or he
scammed absolutely everyone.
He plead guilty and has been put in jail for 6 years on charges of fraud and forced to
pay up to 26 million dollars.
Thankfully the judge rewarded fyre festival attendees 5 million dollars.
Honestly, my explanation doesn’t do this complete cluster fuck justice.
If you haven’t seen the Netflix documentary on fyre festival, I highly recommend you watching
it.
SO now, the update.
Despite the horrible fail, it looks like fyre festival 2.0 is officially happening.
TMZ stopped Ja rule at LAX airport and asked him about fyre festival and whether or not
he would try again.
Ja rule responded and said ‘why wouldn’t you try to do fire festival again?
Just because the publicity, like its almost the most famous festival, say more famous
than Coachella because everone hears about it.
It’s the most iconic festival that ever was so I have plans to create the iconic music
festival, but you didn’t hear it from me.
In all fairness, Ja Rule was one of many people working on the festival that never intended
it to be a scam.
In a tweet, ja rule shared this message at the time.
We are working right now on getting everyone off the island safe.
That is my immediate concern.
I will make a statement soon.
Im heartbroken at this moment.
My partners and I wanted this to be an amazing event.
It was not a scam as everyone is reporting.
I don’t know how everthing went so left but im working to make it right by making
sure everyone is refunded.
I truly apologise as this is not my fault, but I’m taking responsibility.
Im deeply sorry to everyone who was inconvenienced by this.
I don’t know about this guys.
On the one hand, yeah it would be nice to take advantage of the media storm fyre festival
caused.
At the end of the day, it was billy mcfarland who screwed everyone over, not Ja rule or
any of the people working for the festival.
On the other hand, would people actually buy tickets to fyre festival 2 knowing that the
first fyre festival was such a fail?
Tell me your thoughts down there in the comments.
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