{"id":265796,"date":"2019-01-20T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1006856"},"modified":"2019-01-20T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T23:06:00","slug":"ja-rule-defends-himself-amid-fyre-festival-documentaries-i-too-was-hustled-scammed-bamboozled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/ja-rule-defends-himself-amid-fyre-festival-documentaries-i-too-was-hustled-scammed-bamboozled\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja Rule Defends Himself Amid Fyre Festival Documentaries: “I Too Was Hustled, Scammed, Bamboozled”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The “Livin’ It Up” artist had similar words in 2017 following the disaster. “I’m heartbroken at this moment my partners and I wanted this to be an amazing event it\u00a0WAS NOT A SCAM<\/a>,” he wrote in a note.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He added<\/a>, “I truly apologize as this is NOT MY FAULT.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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On Sunday, Ja Rule took time to respond to tweets and answer people’s questions about the festival and documentaries. “I guess I’m on Fyre<\/a>\u00a0this week…” he wrote with the fire emoji and laughing crying emojis.<\/p>\n

In response to one tweet accusing him of scamming people, Ja Rule replied<\/a>, “tell me how it makes sense for Ja Rule to scam ppl???”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Many of his tweets pointed fingers at McFarland. When asked why Ja Rule didn’t partake in the documentaries, he wrote, “Because Billy<\/a>\u00a0was 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… that money was supposed to go to the locals by LAW…”<\/p>\n

He wrote in another tweet<\/a>, “the docs clearly have Billy at fault but let’s blame the rapper lmao ok…”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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I too was hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray!!!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ja Rule (@Ruleyork) January 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Cause it wasn\u2019t me who scammed ppl Sherlock… https:\/\/t.co\/k8liAbhmNn<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ja Rule (@Ruleyork) January 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Ja Rule asserted later that he “NEVER MADE OR GOT PAID ONE DOLLAR FROM FYRE… BUT EVERYONE ELSE DID!!!” and that he lost “PLENTY” of money<\/a> on it.<\/p>\n

He also called himself a victim of McFarland’s scam. “I too was hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray!!!” he tweeted.<\/p>\n

Ja Rule mentioned those who worked the festival that weekend as well. “I feel bad for those ppl<\/a>… but I did not and would never scam ANYONE… period!!!” he wrote. “And I don’t care if anyone sympathizes with me or not those are the FACTS!!!”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The “Livin’ It Up” artist had similar words in 2017 following the disaster. “I’m heartbroken at this moment my partners and I wanted this to be an amazing event it\u00a0WAS NOT A SCAM,” he wrote in a note.\u00a0 He added, “I truly apologize as this is NOT MY FAULT.” Lee\/Prahl\/ Splash News; Getty Images On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-265796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 08:42:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}