Fresh off announcing the second iteration of Fyre Festival, the event’s founder, Billy McFarland, is challenging Ja Rule to a boxing match.
McFarland, the mastermind behind 2017’s disgraced festival, issued the challenge during a recent sit-down with DJ Akademiks. In the below clip, McFarland facetimed with a promoter, who said someone is willing to pay $350,000 to watch McFarland and Ja go toe-to-toe in the ring. Neither McFarland or Ja would earn a dime off the fight, with the proceeds instead going to the unpaid Fyre Festival employees in the Bahamas.
Earlier this month, McFarland announced that he’s bringing Fyre Fest back.
“Fyre Festival II is finally happening,” he wrote on Twitter. “Tell me why you should be invited.”
When McFarland caught word of Ja’s rejection of the event, he said the Queens rapper is “definitely not invited.”
In November 2019, Ja Rule was dismissed from a $100 million class action lawsuit against McFarland related to Fyre Festival. The judge’s ruling came a year after McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison, having pleaded guilty to multiple counts of wire fraud as well as defrauding investors out of tens of millions of dollars in connection to Fyre and other events. McFarland was also ordered to pay back the $26 million he received from investors for the fest.
In March 2022, McFarland was released from the Milan Federal Correctional Institution in Michigan, where he spent four years behind bar
