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Ja Rule said that he was planning to attend another festival after the disastrous Fyre Festival, which collapsed dramatically in April 2017.
The rapper told TMZ that Fyre was the "most iconic festival on the planet" before announcing in a video on Thursday that he was planning another festival.
"I have the intention to create the Iconnic Music Festival," he said while playing the name of his new application for talent booking services, Iconn.
Ja Rule has been subjected to fierce social media scrutiny for its involvement and promotion of the Fyre Festival, a failure after Hulu and Netflix each released documentaries on the fiasco last month.
The Fyre Festival was sold to attendees as sumptuous vacations on a private Bahamas island with gourmet meals, luxury suites and musical performances from bands such as Tyga and Blink-182. The announced two weekends festival offered VIP packages of up to $ 250,000.
Instead, the spectators arrived in tents and rain-soaked cheese sandwiches, which quickly became the viral symbol of the festival's social media, which was canceled on the first day.
Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland is currently serving six years in prison after pleading guilty in March to charges of fraud related to the festival. In July, he pled guilty to several counts of fraud related to another company he ran.
Although Ja Rule has been widely promoted as a co-founder of the festival, he has since claimed to have been "scammed" by this event.
"Me too, I was jostled, scammed, confused, hood closed, confused !!!" he wrote on Twitter last month.
"I had an incredible vision of creating a festival like NO OTHER!" He wrote in another tweet last month. "I would never do a scam or fraud to anyone what does that mean ???"
After the release of the Fyre Festival documentaries, its organizers were also widely accused on social media of exploiting the Bahamians during the chaotic series of activities.
"The pictures that * m really stuck Netflix documentary, however, was from Bahamians working and working the land for [fulfill] the whims of a now-convicted criminal, who sold a product that did not exist, "wrote BuzzFeed UK editor Elizabeth Pears last month.
"These people were totally exploited," she continued.
In January, a GoFundMe campaign was created for the Bahamian restaurant owner, MaryAnn Rolle, who revealed in the documentary that she was not paid by festival organizers and that her personal finances in were suffering.
Ja Rule also told TMZ that the Fyre fiasco was "heartbreaking". His potential festival title is a nod to his new venture, Iconn, similar to Fyre's coincident application.
"You have to understand that the application was very separate from the festival," said the rapper about the Fyre app.
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