Man will never let this go…

Ready to feel old? The Fyre Festival fiasco was a whopping four years ago. Four years since subpar rapper Ja Rule and his mate (whose name we’ve already forgotten) tricked a bunch of punters into attending a festival that was the definition of trash (like literally, there was trash everywhere). It was so bad and the backlash was epic, and thus Ja and his mate were immortalised as overall dickheads in the festival organisation sphere.

Now Ja, for some ungodly reason, has helped propel the festival back into headlines, auctioning off an NFT of an oil painting with Fyre Festival’s logo, which ended up selling for $122,000 USD ($160,000 AUD). The buyer of the piece (currently anonymous) will receive the original painting as well as a one-of-a-kind digital version linked to the Ethereum Blockchain, as according to Mixmag.

It follows countless artists dropping pieces in the crypto NFT space, the most recent being Takashi Murakami. We’re not at all trying to compare the two though, Ja’s is trash in every sense of the word. Speaking in a new interview about the piece, the one-time Fast And The Furious star said “When I first had it made, I was energized — I had embarked on a new business. But then it became a symbol of what could have been. For me, it’s done and over with.”