Ja Rule defends himself after Fyre backlash
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- čas přidán 1. 05. 2024
- The rapper and Fyre Festival co-founder is being called a "manipulator" and "liar" by Twitter users after the release of two new documentaries on Hulu and Netflix about the failed music festival.
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The real victims the lady who owns the restaurant and all those construction workers.
Tania Mejia how about the people who expected villas ?
True Fiction If they can afford villas they aint hurtin as much
No doubt. She gave up 50,000 dollars to pay her workers. She has a lot of integrity and was a victim herself. I hope she's doing well.
@@venuselectrificata I said what I said.
ConcordClark a go fund me just raised like 200,000$ for her. I think she’ll be ok
"That's not fraud. I would call that, uh... False advertising."
Gurt McDirt lolol aka FRAUD dont mince words with us!!!!
Hahaha 🤣🤣
Jarule is a moron
😂😂😂😂
I think he was talking from a legal perspective. His intentions wasn’t to false advertise. But it’s still negligence which is just as bad or worse. The real fraud is Billy.
Jarule knew EVERYTHING!!!!! He’s so arrogant,cocky and was so nasty towards the models forcing them to get into the water. And what annoys me the most is how disrespectful they treated the plp on the island,like they were worth zero! Jarule did not get scammed, you were flashing it all!
Now they want us to pay with a go fund me page. Also the models got paid a lot of money. They should all chip in to pay the people of the island. As models they were the face so along with JaRule fix it. It could be a go fund me celebrity frye. All who participated and got paid. Take a little out of your pocket and pay them.
Has been c lister
50 cent needs to beat his ass
Oh no, the models didn't have to **GASP** get in the water did they? You mean that tropical warm azure water? OH NOOOOOO!
Come on. Be serious. The models also have to take some responsibility for their part in this fiasco.
I agree 100% with what you said. Ja Rule stop tripping man... You're hoping that the festival will be successful and you will be the first one to take credit... Now that the scam and lies were revealed... You're acting like you're a victim... Again stop tripping you're no hiphop mogul
I’m so glad Netflix directors refused to pay Mcfarland for participating in their documentary, and in turn did not have him in it. They’ve done it right!
Netflix paid the company.
And hes in it.
The promotion company Jerry Media created the Netflix one.
Chris Anza netflix actually paid FuckJerry.
The more McFarland gets, the more victims can get back from him.
I saw the documentary yesterday on Netflix. The entire thing was a scam from the start
I saw it last night. I feel bad especially for Maryanne and all the construction workers. At least get them paid. Billy and Ja Rule are nothing but megalomaniacs.
They cannot scam people right. What a idiot.
What tipped you off? The fact that Billy’s prior business endeavors were also scams? 😂
Logistics was the only truth! And they let dude go!
On the Netflix one towards the end on the conference call someone says we committed fraud a he says "I wouldn't call it fraud......*giggle*"
It's not fraud, it's false advertisement- Ja rule😂😂😂
Same same.
“It’s not lying, it’s just not telling the truth” Ja Rule
“I’m not thirsty, I just need something to drink” Ja Rule
He's a f*cking delusional a**hole
I agree.
It’s the same thing Fraud/misrepresentation/ false advertisement are all the same🤦🏿♂️🙄
The early red flag should have been Ja Rule wasn't even there. He was performing in Chicago. One would think he should have perform in his own music fest and brought in some of his buddies.
That's a great point
The early red flag was that Ja Rule was connected to this in any way. Some investors pulled out the moment they found out Ja Rule was involved. And why would Blink 182 be headlining a major festival? They haven’t had a hit in a long time. None of this added up.
Facts
Yeah, I love that detail! If he thought it was the festival of the century, and ja rule an organizer was elsewhere. Hmmm. He's no victim. He should have a cell with McFarland!
@@JustinLHopkins Really? WOW!
I wonder what 50 Cent is thinking about this incident. 🤣😂🤣😂
Haha was thinking the same thing! He is laughing out loud
Duh you know fif hating lol.
50’s making a new ICE festival and doing a documentary about it right now throwing Ja under the bus with his failure on his Fyre festival. 50’s gonna get all the hottest super stars and purposely invite Ja Rule to it to show him how to properly do this and reserve him one of those white tents with a water logged bed all the way in the back some where with a 50 cent poster of him smiling taped to a palm tree in front of the tent.
@eric8542005 MONICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@Darris Pope 😂🤣😭😂😭
He was complicit. Don’t be ignorant to his lies.
Right he was a co-founder not a Spokesperson
@G ha, yeah right. He knew what he was doing. If you believe that, I have an island to sell you in Texas.
Nobody is ignorant to his lies. The only person who believes his lies is himself.
Why doesn’t Jarule donate to the lady for going into her savings? He isn’t remorseful. He has money. It’s sad a go fund me page was even created for her.
he is broke. just like most rappers who appear to be loaded with cash
Yeah he is broke that's why they are trying to sue the shit out of him. 🙄
EXACTLY
Exactly! He could shove that apology
there is one
A real apology would be busting out that check book...
Yeah because money will make everything better.
mcrfan343 - Would have made the Bahamians whole.
He broke
Ja Rule's broker than me
mcrfan343 slap yourself
That conference call where he was cussing uncontrollably calling himself a hip hop mogul and comparing themselves to Samsung 😂😂
That was top cringe material
“We’re not committing fraud. It’s just false advertising. “
-Ja Rule
right....dafuq?!
Ja rule is a punk
Duh...
Pay up or shut the Fuck up!!!!! Jackassery you knew. Stupid is as stupid does. You're dumber than a box of rocks you may fool some not all. Idc who you are if it doesn't smell right, it ain't right!
😂😂😂
Ja Rule said it himself. “We’re selling a pipe dream”.
ervince allen literally exposed himself
its not fraud,.its false advertisement LOL...bye ja
Billy and Ja Rule were thick as thieves.
Brandon Ramirez yup. I hope he gets what’s coming to him
@@almason253 more like.. JUST THIEVES.
The exact amount owed to the unpaid actual workers is 250k
The same amount Kendall Jenner got for posting one photo on Instagram
There is something very wrong with that picture
Ya, she's in it.
That's America for you
Ja Rule is playing a victim he was there the whole time, partying with the money...if he was co creator and this was his vision he would have been involved in all the decision making process, him claiming ignorance is pathetic
Agreed. Getting within weeks of the festival he's going to at least check on progress, and clearly knew it wasn't going to work out in time..I hope he loses a lot on this scam like the people who didn't get paid to work. He should at the very least pay them back out of common decency.
Agreed. But at the same time we all know Ja Rule wasn’t no mastermind.
Melissa G you would be surprised the lies that promoters will say and who they can get wrapped up in....but, I was not there so who knows
Thank god ja rule wasn’t the ceo.. if he was and he called the shots everyone would be dead phew 😵😆
I'm so glad that restaurant owner was able to get donations to help her out, I felt so bad for her when I saw the documentary. and all the local people who basically got conned too. :-(
ToriHato me too she was the one I really felt bad for
I couldn't believe they screwed those poor labourers. They have zero morals.
They scammed hard working people. I felt so bad for the locals. They worked for that.
Im happy that some money was raised to help her out but there were hundreds of other locals who worked very hard and were never paid as well. I hope they too will be taken care of
Me too!! 😢 as a chef myself..i know she worked so so hard and didnt get paid. That made me cry! 💔
Nothing with ja rule name on it screams luxury soooo these MFs should’ve Knew better
Mercy Allblk 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Right?!?!? You can be famous and still be garbage....just look at the Kartrashians ;)
lmfaooooo
😂😭😭😭😂😂
Ja rule is a bitch homosexual!
Eminem put the nail in the coffin of his rap career and this documentary dug the hole for all his future entrepreneurial efforts! ⚰️
This is ja rule not eminem genius
@@jareds-tits I think he was saying Eminem put the nail in the coffin of Ja Rules career
why call this dude entrepreneur, when he's just a scam artist?
He's not a scammer, he's an idiot.
@@kennydarmawan13 the problem he is not an idiot he knew what he was doing that's what makes him a Scammer because it was deliberate. Idiot would imply he didnt know what he was doing but he did
@@808INFantry11X to me, Internet Historian draws him more as incompetent than a scammer.
@@kennydarmawan13 he was incompetent at first until he started lying to cover up his mistakes that's when it became a scam because instead of being honest and forthcoming he lead his investors and employees on that's not incompetence at that point that's will full corruption and even while he was on bail he was working on another "venture" as well that's where it becomes a scam.
@@kennydarmawan13 incompetent would have meant him not being educated on the facts and limitations he was dealing with, the problem here is he knew he didnt have everything, he knew from his employees and partners that this was not going but instead he doubled down and lied that's where things stop being incompetent and where it become criminal conspiracy because he iced out investors and contractors who he took him at his word thinking he would make good on promises which he had all the information saying that that wasn't going to happen once he started concealing the truth this became so much more serious then just incompetence
Enough evidence?? Ja Rule literally told the Frye employees not to call it fraud 😂
and what did fat billy say??? he said something like we just want to sell this dream, to a bunch for fools. lol and he did.
I just got an email from Ja'Rule....apparently I have a rich uncle I didn't know about who died and left me 12 million dollars, I just need to send him my bank account info.... Sounds Legit? No? Should I trust him?
John Holt - yes
No it’s a scam
To send you money all he needs is your number or your email to quick pay you
Elijah Oberlin
Wow, you guys are really bad at detecting jokes 🙄
You definitely should. Once you get that 12 mill hit me up. I am setting up a music festival in the Bahamas.
How does ja rule still have followers on Instagram and Twitter ??????
Lol ppl like keeping an eye on train wrecks
The only Fyre he getting is that shit off 50 cent's instagram.
Hahahah!
Never mind that. Why isn't he in jail?
it's just like R Kelly and his fans
I had to laugh when he called Billy "my partner in crime."
LOL! Yep. Indeeeeed.
That's literally what partners in crime are for. People brag about that shit
I didn't see Ja Rule sleeping in any tents eating soggy sandwiches!
Watched the Netflix documentary and he disappeared once it came close to the last two days before the actual "event". He started waking up and realizing but he just vanished and saw it coming otherwise he would have his face plastered all over it for promotion like in the beginning.
@Todd m but he's in too deep anyways isn't he? He clearly knew just before vanishing, and fully invested in that guy as well.
Don't think it was ever stated in the documentaries but remember at the time that when fyre fraud happened he was doing a concert in another part in the U.S. far away from the festival. Its ironic he is promoting a event but does not go himself.
He didn't eat or sleep that I saw. He stayed up partying and acting like a tool. And he only drank liquor and smoked cigars. The whole event was nothing but fun for him.
I’m glad Maryanne Rolle was able to be compensated from GoFundMe. At least she got some form of justice. Bless the people who donated to help her.
Billy and Ja still need to pay her-- and all the workers in the Bahamas.
He was drinking partying having sex and then screams I was scammed.
uindy4 exactly. He took advantage of those poor white boys while he smoked and drank the whole time
The pain of being Ja Rule is punishment enough
lol nigga cant seem to catch a break
The Saint Ouch 😂😭
Hahh yoww rel shit who listens to dis guy. Really nigga wack af. He goofy af.
Too funny
Fuck him
pay that restaurant owner! damn!
Go fund me page has raised over 125k asked
Reid Plyler oh that’s great! My heart really hurt for her.
@@ruthlessreid9172 i was hoping someone would start one. theres a lot of people that werent even paid.
But Ja Rule should've been paid her because its the right thing to do
Reid Plyler As great as that is, he hired her, so he still needs to pay her.
Y'all know 50 Abt to eat him up
Fuck 50 that nigga is 50 let it go.
@Rich8927 .
*Pause*
50 should throw a legit fyre festival and succeed
Louis Rich Not Like The Bacon truth is 50 is a bitch ja had him stabbed shot and fucked up yo ! You nigaz got to get of 50 dick
It’s not fraud it’s false advertising....🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
As the documentary clearly shows, even after the festival was canceled and the full extent of the disaster was becoming known, Ja Rule was on conference calls trying to find a way to keep the con going and attempting to "spin" the fiasco.
The ONLY person buying Ja's tickets is gonna be 50. 🤣🤣
Exactly he just performed in Cincinnati at the Square downtown for free last summer and this isn't even a major city
Penny Proud lol he’s already done it before. Pretty sure he bought the first 4 rows of seats for one of his shows
Ja Rule Called Himself A Hip Hip Mogul! 😂😂😂😂😂 You're Just A Rapper! Hey 50cent you hear this fool? 😂
😂😂😂😂
That's so freaking hilarious..😂😂lol
Didn't this dude's career just died how is he still alive
@@furiousfmr310 who ja rule? He was used as a pawn I believe.
“ Would somebody please, find me ja rule so I can make sense of all this!“ - Dave Chapelle LOL
This was the best!
😂
Ja rule been taking Ls since the fast and furious #NooooMonica
😂
Hard to take Ja Rule seriously when he had Fyre Festival promotional stuff on his Facebook page long after things went bad.
Haha, Jarule calling himself a Mogul is the funniest thing I have seen in 2020! Lmao
I already had a taste of the Fyre festival and their accommodations...it’s called living in the projects and eating cheese sandwiches made from government cheese when I was little
Pandora Adore I know the feeling..I eat a steady diet of government cheese while living in a van down by the river
@@mrrobot8973 // lol
Much love from Sydney
Lol 🤣
He knew damn well what was going on. Guilty by association, considering he is a "Co-Founder.."
Ja rule on customer service be like *“Baby, I’m not always there when you call”*
I'm still not over the Evian guy
hello bye, Yeah that shit was wild. I thought he took a shower and used mouthwash because he was so disgusted at the idea of it. Then when he said he drove over there I was like wtffffff!?
Real commitment!!
That guy was gonna degrade himself so a bunch of people didn't die from thirst. MVP
bongo155 pretty sure you’re right, but he was going to!
Now HE was a loyal employee and a team player! Did he suck Billy and Ja too?
“The music festival of all festivals” with Blink 182 headlining?
For sure
LMAOOOOO
Flase advertsing= Fraud. How is this man not in jail?
Advertising is fraud. They just went too far
“WHERE IS JA?!”
lol was hoping someone would say this
Why is Ja!?
John Henderson LONG LIVE CHAPPELLE
Lmaooooooo 😂😂😂😂
John Henderson 😂😂😂
Take him to court miss😔😢
It cost money to sue someone and clearly she doesnt have it
So instead of taking responsibility like an adult he's shifting the blame. So what if he was hustled, he still had a huge part to play in everything that was going on, and should be held accountable.
The restaurant owner lost 50k a GoFundMe page raise 200k this could of turned out better. if they wasn't stupid when they was told not to to mention Pablo Escobar name at the original Beach. they was having the venue at
HARLEM HEFNER however there wasn’t room for all the People on That Island. Not even half. Watch the Netflix doc. It would have been a disaster too.
@@larskk101 on top of that, the island had no plumbing!!! And it was never going to have plumbing because they "fired" the guy who had the guts to say that they needed it.
larskk101 They would’ve had to have people stay on a cruise ship. But even then it be overcrowded, and hard to bring people in.
@@LitCircle The one guy wanted a cruise ship, he was told to step back and that they weren't going to use a cruise ship.
We all had heard or read about it...but watching it unfold in the docs was crazy...I highly recommend for ppl to watch and see for themselves the mess that happened...I'm about to see the Hulu one...Netflix one was very good
@Annie Onymous thanks, will do
It's Murdaa!!!
Holllaaaaaaa
HahahahHaaaaaa! This comment is the best!!!!
Hahahah!! This made me laugh lol out loud olol
50 Cent literally took a shit on Ja's career and flushed it, then went to the sewer picked it back up and went to another bathroom and flushed it again.
“Music Mogul” 😂😂😂😂 That alone should’ve been the biggest red flag ever.
Fyre with a Y is failure from day one.
It’s a faylure! 😂
The app was kinda a good idea
Ja Ruined
Somewhere 50 Cent is watching this and laughing his ass off 😎
I was driving and saw another fyre festival going on under a bridge I think, lots of tents and ragged looking people everywhere.
😂😂😂😂😂
That’s Republican economics at it’s best.
@@Adrasdea I meant no offense to homeless people. My comment was aimed to parallel the living conditions the homeless endure to the super expensive homeless like experience these people paid for.
Don't think they said "duelling docs" enough
Where is JA?!?
How about the fact that Ja Rule said he never met this woman but he’s shown sitting right next to her in the documentary...
Just watched the Netflix Doc. Within the first five or so minutes they show the initial Festival press conference and Ja Rule introduces Billy McFarland as "my partner in crime." Interesting that he now says 'I too was hustled." I'm glad Ms Rolle got her $ through a GoFundME, but I still think about the hundreds of day laborers on that island who were ripped off by McFarland and his crew.
hahahaahaha. trust fund babies! the only people I feel for are the people that didn't get paid!
When Ja compared the Fyre Festival to Samsung and figuring out how to bounce back from their debacle, it was this apples to oranges comparison that proved that Ja had absolutely ZERO business acumen: comparing an failed upstart music festival created by an entrepreneur (who had zero experience in the music/entertainment promotion industry) that already had one business venture on the verge of collapse to Samsung, a titan of industry, who is worth billions with a failed product (the Galaxy Note 7). And Ja believed it was just all about the right way to spin the situation in the right direction. The difference is establishment and credibility...Something that Ja nor Billy really had in the first place. While I see the comparison, and I get it, but the difference is simply night and day.
Admit that you and Billy built a house of cards on the backs of Fuck Jerry and some Instagram models and gave the kids something you could not possibly deliver. You were the face (the marketing tool) to make people believe that this was legitimate. This instilled confidence. You made false promises. You helped swindle hard working people out of their money. And that makes you a con artist.
Same thing that popped to my mind! Samsung? The multi-billion powerhouse with countless patents, tech that reaches beyond just phones, and pools of money. These guys' business acumen is straight garbage, can't even compare correctly. Childish full grown men him and that fool Silly Billy.
The social media "influencers" along with Ja Rule should also be held accountable! Why? Because when you agree to get paid for something to "influence" you should fully understand all the disclaimers and details of what you are promoting.
CZcamsrs and social media people are running around pulling these scams on children should be the ones to also get the heat. I'm not sure how no lawyer has stepped up to the plate and brought those scammers to their knees, while they pull those scams under youtube or other umbrellas that keep defending their ridiculous actions.
Pay d people. Their money ha rule u a fraudzter
“A young tech entrepreneur and rap mogul”
First red flag
Festivals are stupid anyway, just get a gf have some beers and enjoy your night, light blue water isn't worth 3000 dollars
Tommy, i completely agree!!
Local bands are the way to go. Some are better than the big names anyways. They appreciate the support and are a fraction of the costs of concerts and festivals. Even free sometimes - just pay for your drinks.
@@jamesmandas639 yes this is what I would call an Instagram event, music vacationing and blue water, it's got all the eye candy to make Instagram look, had it been legit ppl would be so jealous of anyone who went
Lmao I don’t have any sympathy for people who spend . $1,000. On a ticket . 😂
johnnyB Good me either... hard working people are getting scammed everyday and I’m supposed to feel sorry for a bunch of spoiled princesses? 😭
If you spent thousands to see Blink 182 you only have yourself to blame
Not all 1,000 tickets are bad though... I payed around that for 3 days at tomorrowland belgium. 100% worth it one of the best weekends of my life.
Not true tickets were bring sold way below
What about airline tickets?
Maybe he should stop apologizing and start cutting some checks.
"It's not fraud, it's false advertisement" 😂 😂 😂
The real fun festival was when they shot the “promo” for themselves having a fun time drinking and being with the models on yachts.
In the words of Ja Rule himself - its not fraud, its false advertising.
Laughed my ass off when he said that 🤣 . Shot his own foot pretty much.
LiviaVengence Where the hell was the Disclaimer then?? ... Arrest his ass!
Lol. Imagine if his wife divorced him and he got stuck paying child support and years later found out the child wasn't his. She should say to him, "I didn't fraud you: It was false advertising."
I watched both of the documentaries...Netflix's was definitely better. The Hulu one seemed unfinished plus Billy said nothing of importance.
Go to reddit and babble shit. That has nothing to do with this video.
@@iihh517 get off your high horse you troll.
Billy licensed the Hulu doc = why it was so sympathetic towards his viewpoint + allowed him to make it worse by lying over & over with no conscience = Billy got paid by Hulu to look like a psychopath & moron who has no clue WTF success looks like at all! The Netflix doc was licensed by the guy's who didn't get paid but filmed EVERYTHING, including the meetings where it was OBVIOUS the entire company was in on the scam (Ja Rule claimed it wasn't a scam but "false advertising" which he claimed was SPIN!!) & participated mainly because they were afraid they wouldn't get paid from the event = EVERYONE associated with Billy/JR company were complicit & did nothing until people were stuck on the island with no way to escape in a logical or realistic way! I think BOTH documentary's should be watched to get the full picture of what happened! #TwoPerspectives
Everyone involved, including the asshats at Hulu and Netflix should burn in hell, because basically everyone is still profiting from what that fiasco and they all knew that it was coming
utterbullspit What did Netflix do wrong? They made money? Is that against the law...? Billy McFarland should spend more time in jail than he is.
Ja Rule playing as a victim while he said in a conference call “it’s not fraud. I’d call it... false advertising”.
Reminds on that Martin episode that anit no dam puppy Gina 😂😂😂
This is what’s on TV in the morning?
Society is Doomed
Yep, society that spawns dumb bitch like you is doomed. If you don't like it, why did you watch it?
That's why I cant wait for the aliens to return
Didnt even finish the video ..hip hop mogul?🤣😂🤮⚰
Lol i love ja but no mogul but hey every 1 in hip hop lies
50 Cent should’ve donated money to the Bahamian lady to genuinely help her and also to spite Ja.
There are two documentaries. Which one should I watch?
Ja Rule should pay out of his pocket.
Honey what happend - Lil B
1:05 "Hip-hop mogul" said no one ever about Ja Rule...
If Fyre festival was a complete success, he would have benefited from it, and took credit as being "co partnered". Now that it is has failed, he's acting like he had hardly anything to do with it. I repeat, in his own words, "My partner in crime". Well said, Ja Fool.
The guy just like the pharma bro was put to jail because the main reason is the scammed their investors not just other regular people that was also scammed. Let the sink in.
The investors will get their money back but not for the average people. Tax payers will probably pay back these investors.
Hiphop mogul?? Hahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahhhaaa
It's funny how much he looks like Seth MacFarlane hahaha
" Hip Hop Mogul " 😂
What are your thoughts about this Ja?
czcams.com/video/Mo-ddYhXAZc/video.html 0:30 mark
I knew someone was gonna say it!🤣
@@t.y.6640 lol
Circumsision
Ja rule should be in jail. Just like billy McFarland
yo name of song though?
“Who gives a fuck what Ja Rule thinks” Dave Chapelle
the one time I DO want to know what Ja thinks
😂
Mcfarland for president! People love the snake oil salesman
drunkenshrimp we have one in office now
where is dave chappelle when you need him
How anyone can believe Ja Rule wasn't privy to the hustle is beyond me. You're co-partner in the venture and you plead innocence when even the most cursory spectator can see that the festival was doomed from a very early stage.
Does Dave chapelle say anything about this?
He’s looking for Ja so he can make sense of all this
Habel Tchagnao I could see Chapell doing a great bit on this.
Holla, Holla. It's Murdaaaah!!
Jarule is no victim at all!! He knew exactly what was going on and did absolutely nothing about it!
No refunds were issued?! Damn I’m gonna run one of these scams in a few years then if I don’t have to pay no one back🙏
Ja Rule sucks hahaha best thing he ever did was get smoked on Fast and the Furious
MONICAAAAAAA
😂 Fucking great!
..I don’t trust Ja 😂
He was there every step of the way.
"It's not fraud, it's false advertising."
😂😂😂