Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival Basically Turned Into Hell on Earth for Rich Millennials
Image via Fyre Festival/YouTubeLook, when you’re Ja Rule and your name isn’t getting the same kind of ink it did back in the Ashanti “Mesmerize” days, sometimes you need to make splashy moves to stay afloat. And what’s a splashier (but still safe) move than helping to put on your own music festival in the Bahamas and charging a shitload of money (as much as $12,000)? What if you use models like Bella Hadid, Chanel Iman and Emily Ratajkowski to promote the thing? Foolproof. People love them.
How could you say no to such a festival? And it’s on a Bahamian island (Exumas) once owned by Pablo Escobar? That’s super edgy. G.O.O.D Music, Disclosure, Major Lazer, Migos and Blink-182 are going to perform? Perfect. Those are some stalwart festival acts. Done deal. This is going to work out just fine.
It didn’t work out fine.
Blink-182 canceled their appearance a day before the Fyre Festival was supposed to start, as organizers were already promising refunds to people who’d never even made it to the island.
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And believe it or not, Blink canceling was basically the least of any rich millennial’s trouble when they got to this supposed tropical paradise. Not getting to see Travis Barker rock out on drums does suck. But it doesn’t suck as much as feral dogs running loose through the festival grounds (which is reported to have happened;). It’s not quite as bad as locals allegedly stealing wallets and luggage en masse. And the luggage that didn’t get swiped was still reportedly being thrown off of the back of a truck.
This is how Fyre Fest handles luggage. Just drop it out of a shipping container. At night. With no lights. #fyrefestivalpic.twitter.com/X5CdZRyJWo
— William N. Finley IV (@WNFIV) April 28, 2017