The ‘Blood in My Eye’ rapper has offered the oil painting of the logo of his 2017 disastrous new music festival, together with his handwritten be aware, for $122,000 in a the latest auction.
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Ja Rule has sold his Fyre Festival portray for $122,000 (£88,500).
The rapper advised Forbes that he made the decision to offer the oil painting of the doomed festival’s symbol – which had been hanging in the festival’s New York office although it was currently being planned – mainly because he “just preferred that power out.”
According to Consequence of Audio, the artwork was accompanied by a handwritten be aware from Ja Rule which read through “F**k this portray,” and went up for auction on Tuesday (23Mar21) with a reserve rate of $60,000 (£43,500).
The purchaser, who has decided on to stay anonymous, obtained the piece by using Ja Rule’s new currency enterprise KickFlip, which will allow artists to offer bodily function by using NFT (non-fungible token) kind.
The Fyre Festival was billed as a luxury new music pageant with Ja Rule and Blink-182 among the functions established to surface, but the party turned out to be an unmitigated catastrophe, with tunes followers and thrill-seekers, who compensated hundreds to show up at, left stranded with out suitable accommodation or features.
He was subsequently slapped with a $100 million (£77 million) class action lawsuit pursuing the disastrous 2017 audio celebration, but he was cleared of wrongdoing in 2019.
Nonetheless, his Fyre collaborator Billy McFarland was not so blessed. He was sentenced to six a long time in jail after admitting two counts of wire fraud connected to the ill-fated celebration. He also forfeited $26 million (£20.1 million) as element of the judgment.
Ja Rule is not permitting the disaster place him off festivals. Following narrowly dodging the multi-million-greenback lawsuit, he’s now scheduling to operate his own ICONN party.