Ja Rule Comes After Fyre Festival Docs Depicting Him In Bad Light
Documentaries examining the failed organizing of the Fyre Festival are coming under, well, fire.
Rapper Ja Rule, the lead visionary and co-creator of the festival, is speaking out about how he’s portrayed in the films.
Both documentaries (on Hulu and Netflix) bear ethical issues as well. According to Page Six, Hulu paid an undetermined amount of money to disgraced organizer Billy McFarland in order to get an on-camera interview with the convicted fraudster, while Netflix’s documentary was co-produced by Jerry Media, the rebranded Fuck Jerry group that helped market the Fyre Festival.
“I love how ppl watch a doc and think they have all the answers,” Ja Rule wrote in a series of tweets Sunday, days after Hulu unveiled their Fyre Fraud and Netflix dropped their Fyre documentary.
“I had an amazing vision to create a festival like NO OTHER!!! I would NEVER SCAM or FRAUD anyone what sense does that make???”
As Ja Rule noted, “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… The docs clearly have Billy at fault but let’s blame the rapper lmao ok,” adding, “Because Billy was involved with BOTH he was trying to get them to pay him and Hulu bit… I heard they paid him somewhere btw 100 to 250 [thousand]… that money was supposed to go to the locals by LAW…”
In fact, the rapper wrote: “I have receipts!!! I guess I’m on Fyre this week… I too was hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray!!!”