Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Rare footage shows moment Kanye West was filming a lady twerking on the ground with his camcorder on Hulu documentary at Freaknik 94. (Read More Here).
Hide your aunties and uncles. After the recent announcement of the upcoming Hulu documentary, Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told, Gen-Xers who once attended Atlanta’s Freaknik in the 1990s are worried about potentially being seen in the Luther Campbell and Jermaine Dupri-produced special.
One woman shared a TikTok over the weekend, expressing that she attended the festival throughout the ‘90s, including its peak in ‘94.
“I’m just praying that Jesus be a fence. I’m praying that Jesus just be a big, tall privacy fence. That’s my prayer this Easter, this Good Friday,” she says in the clip.
According to Hulu’s official description of the documentary, Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told “recounts the rise and fall of a small Atlanta HBCU picnic that exploded into an influential street party and spotlighted ATL as a major cultural stage. Can the magic of Freaknik be brought back 40 years later?”
Several of the producers on the series, including Jermaine Dupri and Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell, also participated in Atlanta Magazine‘s Freaknik oral history.
Additional Twitter users joked about their parents attending the event, which was popular amongst HBCU students from the ‘80s to the late ’90s, with police and elected officials, including Atlanta’s then-Mayor Bill Campbell, citing traffic control issues. In 1998, the Associated Press also revealed Freaknik opposition from an Atlanta committee, who called out “sexual assaults, violence against women, and public safety concerns.”
Gen-X and Gen-Z Twitter users echoed those concerns, discussing hypersexual behavior during the festival that led to alleged rapes and sexual assaults.
As news of the documentary hit the internet, some former attendees are speculating whether old footage of them letting loose as young adults will make the cut. In one viral video, a TikTok user named Tina started her video by saying, “We might be in trouble.”
The first “Freaknik” started in 1983, and was at first simply a picnic a public park near the Atlanta University Center, organized by the student group the DC Metro club, intended for students who could not afford to return home for spring break. The event gained popularity, and, by the mid-90s, became a full-blown block party complete with live music, vendors, street food, and more. The festival was shut down and discouraged by the city by 1999, but was revived 20 years later in 2019.
But now Hulu subscribers will get to hear the inside story of those wild and crazy block parties, from the people who were there. Executive producers on Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told include showrunner Geraldine L. Porras and director P Frank Williams, as well as Jermaine Dupri, Luther Campbell, Peter Bittenbender and Melissa Cooper for Mass Appeal, Eric Tomosunas for Swirl Films, Terry Ross and Alex Avant. Nikki Byles and Jay Allen are producers.
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