Ahead of a new documentary “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told,” streaming March 21 on Hulu, revelers look back at the wild Spring Break destination.
Ahead of a new Hulu documentary, revelers look back at the ‘Black Woodstock’ that established Atlanta as a force in the music industry
Throughout the 1990s, Freaknik was regarded as the wildest college spring break destination in the South, thriving at a time when clunky camcorders captured home videos more likely to gather dust in an attic than be broadcast to millions on the internet. At its peak, the party attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors who poured into Atlanta’s streets — snarling traffic, thumping music and dancing on car hoods.
The first Freaknik began as a small picnic for students from the area’s historically Black colleges and universities — including Spelman College, Morehouse College, Clark University and Morris Brown — who were not traveling home for spring break. “I went in one of the final years of what I considered the original Freaknik,” said Cochrane, now a music and culture journalist. “There were definitely artists and celebrities down there, but it still felt very much like a college-centered event.”
“We would drive all night, and when we got there, it was on,” he said. “There were just goo-gobs of parties. There were probably like 30 or 40 parties that you could go to for the whole weekend. We would basically just party-hop.” Atlanta was in an age of discovery, Dupri added. “Everything here was new, and … the discovery allowed people to be free,” he said.
“And you’re having a reunion of sorts. You’re having other people that look like you that you can relate to, but then you’re seeing the different styles from these different places.”in 1994, attracting more than 200,000 people — and Piedmont Park couldn’t contain them. Crowds spilled into the streets and club venues all across town, blocking up Atlanta traffic.
“Before y’all started twerking on headlights, we were twerking on headlights,” Armstrong said, and “twerking wasn’t even a word then, baby.”
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