Isabella Soares is a Resource Writer and Peer Mentor for Collider and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. She is passionate about teen dramas, such as 'One Tree Hill' and 'Glee', as well as anything with a mindblowing plot twist.
The Big Picture Freaknik was a massive street party that drew hundreds of thousands of people to the city of Atlanta in the '80s and '90s. Many credit this party for putting Atlanta on the map culturally. Years later, Luther "UncleLuke" Campbell, Jermaine Dupri, 21 Savage, and many others have partnered up to produce a documentary that captures the vibrancy and uplifting feel of this notorious festival.
LUTHER "UNCLE LUKE" CAMPBELL: The thing about this doc is it is very important to the city of Atlanta, it's important to HBCU, it's important to the world. I mean, the world don't know about pre-Nik. They just know one part of the story. If you grew up 10 years after it happened, you think Freaknik started at this point. But if you grew up in the beginning of it and understood how it was put on and how it was, what it was, what was the original presenting of it.
JERMAINE DUPRI: Yeah, that made it easy. It's a cultural thing that people have just really been waiting on, and they've been waiting to see somebody do this the correct way. It's just been people out there with like tons of footage and stuff that we didn't even get a chance to use. You know what I mean? That is a little bit more explicit than what you probably need to see. I'm still getting people sending me footage right now.
As you talk about in the documentary, Freaknik pretty much put Atlanta on the map, in terms, for so many people. What I found so amazing about it is this all happened before Wi-Fi, the internet. Before, people were reading newspapers and magazines and calling each other to pull this shit off. It's crazy what was able to be accomplished in the '80s and especially into the early '90s.
DUPRI: I definitely say this all the time. There was a time in America when people didn't pay their money to go somewhere to act stupid. You know what I mean? Even, with Miami banning spring break. That's because kids are going to Miami and shooting and doing stuff that you don't go out of town to do this. To me, personally, and my vision of going to Miami has always been something else besides going down there and getting in a fight. Right? I think this was the same time in Atlanta.
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