ATLANTA — Hulu has announced plans to release a documentary on Atlanta’s infamous Freaknik.
“Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told” will take a deep dive into the history of the yearly event in the 1990s that highlighted Black culture, HBCUs, and Hip Hop.
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The documentary is executive produced by the likes of So So Def owner Jermaine Dupri, Luther ‘Uncle Luke’ Campbell of Miami’s 2 Live Crew and many others.
Freaknik started back in 1983. It was a small gathering then, but over the years and into the ‘90s, hundreds of thousands of people came from all over the country to the big event.
The community became outraged over huge parties, chaos in the streets and crime.
In the ‘90s, then-Mayor Bill Campbell’s staff made a big decision to stop Freaknik.
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After a successful 1990s run as the premier urban spring break party of the South, Freaknik fizzled out in 1999. The picnic, which snarled traffic and upset some Atlantans, nearly made a return in 2016.
In 2019, Carlos Neal, of Atlanta-based promotion company After 9, resurrected the infamous Atlanta event with a daylong concert at Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood.
A lineup featuring Project Pat, Uncle Luke, Da Brat, Foxy Brown and many more nearly sold out the venue and attracted an adult audience old enough to remember the rambunctious Freakniks of the past, but young enough to still party responsibly.
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