Former Freaks Beware: ‘Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told’ Doc Has An Official Release Date
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As a courtesy warning to the OG freaks among us, Hulu’s Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told documentary has an official release date. Leave town while you still can.
The highly-anticipated doc is set to premiere on the streamer March 23, Deadline reports. Executive producer Jermaine Dupri also shared a post via Twitter advertising the special, though his flyer notes the premiere date as March 21.
Dupri produces the doc alongside Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell, 21 Savage, Terry “TR” Ross, Melissa Cooper, Alex Avant and Tresa Sanders. The So So Def hitmaker previously spoke to Tamron Hall of his ambitions with the doc, adding that he doesn’t want viewers to get caught up in the risqué party scene Freaknik provided.
“I want to say this to all of those people out there. My vision of Freaknik is really a story about the South and Atlanta. It’s not really a story about what everybody keeps talking about,” he explained on an April 2023 episode of Hall’s eponymous talk show. “I don’t like that part because I feel like it’s a little disrespectful because I’m just telling a story of Atlanta, right? And how Atlanta was built into the place that it is today. People came to Atlanta through Freaknik and they stayed. I say that in ‘Welcome to Atlanta.’ … and that’s how Atlanta has become this multi-cultural place. Freaknik plays one of the biggest roles in that period.”
Established in the mid-1980s, Atlanta’s Freaknik began as a spring break picnic for students attending local Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). By the 1990s, things had shifted from picnic to party, hosting concerts, dance contests, sporting events, job fairs, and more, all to the sound of Southern Hip-Hop pioneers.
By 1998, however, concerns regarding sexual assaults, violence against women, and public safety were raised, ultimately slowing the festival to a stop by the early 2000s.
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