As an Atlanta native, who lived in the heart of the AUC (which is where freaknik was mainly occurring), this video brought back some happy, but mostly sad memories for me. As a young college student, it was great to party and have some fun at freaknik, but when I started doing my internship at the Grady Hospital (in the rape crisis unit) during that time, the hospital was so close to all the freaknik action that every year, it would always be flooded with women who were brutally raped, beaten and sodomized. All workers and interns were mandated to be on duty during that time because the unit was saturated with rape victims. It was a real horrible sight to see. I would go home and have nightmares for days and days about those women (and some very young girls) and the experiences they described in very graphic and gross details they were subjected to during those awful times. Those traumatic experiences really affected me so much so that I change my career path and I never ever looked back nor did I ever dare to attend the event again. In retrospect, I’m glad and grateful that Bill Campbell shut it down because he actually probably saved countless women’s lives.
I had a cousin that ran away from home back in 94 to go to freaknik and when she came back a couple days later my granny had changed the locks. 😂😂 We still laugh about it to this day.
I remember attending Freaknik in 95, this was my second year and last. I was in my hotel room when I heard a young lady screaming “Stop!” I went outside and there were 6 guys groping a completely nude young lady. I informed them to stop and warned them of possible jail time if something happened to this young lady. I also asked them - How would they feel if this was being done to a female family member. They stopped but was really upset with me because I stepped in. I walked her back to my room and gave her a sheet to wrap around her body and then walked her to room the next floor up. I was only 20 yrs old at the time and could’ve loss my life defending that young lady. So I never attended again because I would’ve did the same thing if I saw that happening and probably would’ve have been injured or killed.
I used to work at a hotel in Atlanta during freaknik and it was the most horrible experience I had, those rooms were trashed, it would be as many 15 people staying in one room, women being take advantage of while they intoxicated, their were women who came to freaknik and went back home pregnant and or infected with STD’s.
I met my husband at Freaknik 😇 and we’re still together 23 years strong 💪🏿 and now our sons are the age we were when we met. Maaannnnn how time flies! Thanks for the memories RRG!!!
The city was intolerant because individuals don’t know how to act. Why break into stores and destroy property. Women getting sexually assaulted. Nonsense.
You know that and I know that but unfortunately if you say anything against a event that has the black community attached to it you will FALSELY be accused of being racist OR a sell out depending on your skin tone regardless of what the actual cause of a event being flagged as problematic is .
Seen it happen to the Caribbean day parade in bk in 2005 I think over ten people were shot ..seen I happen to summer jam...the puerto rican day parade ..once the city clamped down by posting more police and not allowing alcohol people complained but the nonsense stopped ..
I was a student in a program at Grady Hospital around that time. Working the E.R. I heard tell of rape victims. Women having contracted multiple STDs. I lived near Old National and traffic would be jam packed. It was not fun if you lived but didn't participate. When in school I had classmates who would skip school to go. Some would act like a woman knew what "she should expect" as if she deserved it. But many didn't expect it to be like it ended up. By the end of it women stopped showing up because she couldn't simply walk down the street without being assaulted. I never attended, was too young or busy but glad now that I didn't.
I used it correctly. Maybe you should read more. Perhaps other genres, written by Authors that are from different Eras or Cultures. "I heard a tale" (story), "I heard tell" (word of). I used it the way I meant to use it. Reading is fundamental smarty pants.
I was 14 in 1994 at a black sorority little sister event. We were in ATL right about when Freaknik started (our conference ended the day before it started). I remember seeing folks filling the Hilton in increasing numbers and I remember our chaperones isolating us and watching us like hawks! We were mad then but I’m incredibly grateful now.
Freaknik was fun at first, then started to become dangerous. Women were being targeted and sexually assaulted. That’s when we stopped going. Another thing me and my friends never separated. One go! We all go!!!! Which means we never went💯
What happened with Freaknik is the same thing that would happened to certain clubs back in the day. They might start basically to serve college students and then it gains popularity with other students outside the city. After a while this gets out to the hustlers, hood girls, and locals. At first it's cool and feels like the more the merrier but after a while hood politics and behavior overtake the event.
Same thing happened in Galveston. The Galveston Beach Party in Houston turned into a min Freaknik. It started out with college students then the street element started showing up and it went to hell.
My first Freaknic was in '95. I had no business being there because I was a teenager in high school. My last year attending was in '97. It wasn't the same anymore, and the shit I witnessed was insane and made me, even as a guy, feel unsafe. The hood had taken over! Greenbriar mall is where I saw most of the wildest shit I've ever seen in my life! I'm glad officers were there to help some of those women because even if they dressed for attention, they didn't deserve to be attacked like that! I miss that era, but it needed to end.
" Because even if they dressed for attention, they didn't deserve to be attacked " . Here we go . Another misogynistic rape apologist out here. This comment started off well but went down the bin at the end 😑
It seems to have started out as a fun event and a really good time but it did turn into a crime riddled event that was unsafe for women. You really can’t blame the city and various Atlanta neighborhoods for not welcoming that energy.
You just can't duplicate the 90's. So much originality, festivities and creativity. Those who were able to enjoy what the 90's had to offer, are walking around with irreplaceable memories! Kids today are unsuccessfully trying EVERYTHING to top the 90's.
Exactly why I never went to Freaknik. As a freshman in college, a group of us went to the Greek Picnic in Philly to see the vendors and Greek organizations step. I was overdressed might I add (black dress shorts and a white blouse with sheer sleeves, platform shoes and shell anklet with my Bob hairstyle) My girlfriends and I were mortified by the rape culture behavior of the men and the women who thought it was fun. We banned our arms together and came to each other's rescue whenever guys tried desperately to separate us. I was even picked up and carried off by guys I didn't know screaming until the entire group of guys and girls from my school rescued me. I was 17 yrs old and traumatized. I never ever saw anything like that before and I was appalled by the hundreds of men in fraternities who forgot they were in groups that tout social responsibility and uplifting the community. It was definitely a lesson and I never ever put myself in that type of danger again.
Yes I saw a videos of fraternity members, identified by their clothing m, that told a young woman if she is sexual assaulted it’s her fault because of what she is wearing. This man told her not to even think to ask him for help because he has no help to offer. I can only imagine the many blck women who are reliving their trauma. I am so sorry you experienced this. It seems like the black community completely ignored all for this, and/or blamed bw for what happened to them. This is my first time hearing about all of the horrific things that happened (I was in middle school). I hope this will be a redemption and healing moment for the bw who were silenced and shamed.
@@epiphanyperry1877 she liked it and continued to be promiscuous her entire life still to this day smh 🤦♀️ if you only knew but she alive and well if that’s what you asking and she never filed charges nothing she liked it and would boast about it 🤦♀️😩
I'm from St Louis & a lot my friends went. I passed. Heard it was fun but also wild. Too many women were being assaulted. I was living double life, working at a law firm & stripping at private parties. Didn't need to go to Atlanta to experience that kind of ignorance & violence.
I was a student at Spelman from 1985 to 1989 and saw the slow demise of Freaknik. Go Go music, grilling, talking to friends, and having a really nice time was what I remember. After I graduated, Freaknik went straight to hell.
I attended college and got a career at the ATL morgue. It's just not freak a zoid nik' 🖤💚🧡 it's rooted in Atlanta to have over 100+ homicides a year since freak a leek was banned and shortly resurrected in Orlando's magic city 🧙🏾♂️ Georgia has a Murder Problem a Gang problem and all of them are birthed by women's. Wanna talk about it 🗣️ Where are the black social workers, psychologist, Morehouse School of Medicine. Now ATLANTA got Big Mayor Andre Dickens Energy and LATTO. Everything is going to be alright. ATL gonna be alright. Because this is still Thrasherville as it was known by the Ancestors.🖤💚❤️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
@Kierra Mcgee Wow! I didn't know that. I went 97 and 98, I tried 99, but everything was too policed and blocked off. You really spent all your time being detoured, and I'm FROM GA, and it was hard to navigate. I was in high school then and sent have any business being there, but hey, what can I say. It was definitely fun while it lasted. The guys I encountered, for the most part, were really cool!
Bingo. When I went in ‘86, it was mostly good clean fun. By ‘90, shit had went downhill and I knew it wouldn’t last anyway. Georgia rarely ever lets black folks have anything anyway.
ATL resident here and I know I may sound lame for this but I'm happy it's not going on. We are already crowded here. They are always shooting at Lenox. Just too much ignorance.
I lived there for 8 years and I never seen so many trashy low life people in my life. I am so glad l was able to move out of there 🙌🏾. So sad how trashy that city became 😔
Well Atlanta was promoted as the lost black city of god in the 90s where everyone can get rich ..I've had countless friends from the north east that moved down there ..I've known a few that transferd their section 8 down there ..those same hood boogers that left up here are now y'alls problem..
I remember in my college days, they attempted to recreate this in Fl (spring bling or something like that). I went ONCE ….Those guys were so aggressive it was criminal- assaulting and stripping women naked if you declined their advances as they walked by! Unfortunately when people gather to this magnitude, it spawns nothing but trouble. There should NEVER be another. There’s more trauma than you can imagine.
You are talking about BCR. Black College Reunion, spring Bling was similar but it Spring Bling was more geared towards celebrities coming and being in concerts on the beach. Like you can look spring bling up on the internet and see the performances. Black College Reunion was like this, I saw it one time as a kid. My friends and I went and there was genitals everywhere, men ripping girls clothes off and beasty. They let the demons loose on the oil at these events, i honestly think they should show them what they do bc most of the time I believe they don’t know who they are until they see footage of their behavior. That’s just me though, you can have fun without going that far. But most of those men are that way bc they live with the this is a mad world mentality.
Freaknik couldn't survive the era of social media . I remember going in 96 . I remember feeling extremely unsafe pretty early on in the events and went to a friend's family's house
These were the days of the real body parts. No bleaching, BBL's, lace fronts, botox nor fillers for the women of color. People were actually individually designed and presented. Every city had its own lingo, style and culture. Climate change wasn't so awful. GOD BLESS THE CHILD THAT CAN HOLD ITS OWN. 🙏 🙌
Back then...the Older Gen. used to "scoff" and "look down" at those ladies for their "freaky" behavior and "being Fake". Now, the game got so crazy..that y'all saying even THOSE Ladies were Conservative 😂🤣😂🤣
I knew one specific woman that attended freaknik. All her stories about it never made sense. It's like she was always leaving something out. As time went on I could tell that she was one of those people living with regrets. Never really figured out her true stories from this event. I just know that everyone else that I knew that went; they all started with good stories, but ended with terrible ones. They all stopped going.
They all stopped going, cause they came to know better. I did a whole series on Freaknik. Lost my footage over time. But the interviews, things folk sent me made me thankful it stopped. I'd been through enough in my life. If I'd attended Freaknik, it would have been as a vigilante lol. But seriously, it was like every girl was reporting rape actions. We sent it to the schools, but almost none of the guys or people were students. And the feedback was so many people travel from across seas that it was impossible to identify victims or acusers of crime. And it was true, People were coming from the EU, Africa, Austrialia to be apart of freaknik. Beyond a Chrismas event. Freaknik brought in millions a day. how was anyone to track that.
I never attended freaknik…However, my friends and I attended “Black Bike Fest” in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for 6 years straight lol. Massive amounts of Black bikers, black college students, and young adults would attend every year from around 1997-2007. Then they cracked down on it.
I'm from South Carolina the part close to Savannah I hated biker week and orange crush everybody just sat around and look at each other. Atlanta actually partied! Too much I would now say😅Moved to Atlanta at 17 in 1991 and ran into Freak Nik of a lifetime! Went to church in east point ga and they played clips of what went on at the Chevron and right across the street from the church omg 😱 I was mortified I said this is gonna be over with soon!!! Life felt so free and loving no guns thank God but all the sex acts ruined it and that was enough to do so!!! Oh well I hang onto my freak Nic' tshirts for a long time. There retired🍑🌹🌼. Shot out to all my Ga Peach sisters! buddy and friends. Love y'all.
Wow I remember being underage going to this. I was 15 going to my first freaknic in 1995. That was some wild stuff. About time I got to college it was dead. They will never be nothing like that era. Those women that were out there are now aunts and grandmothers now😂.
1995 I was in the army-stationed at Ft Hood,TX-assigned to 1st Cav Div-home unit-HHC 2/8 Cav. HOO-RAH!!! LOL.Heard so much about freaknik back then,but couldn't go.
@@kurokaizen1889 let's not act like this was and is the only SPRING BREAK anywhere to have much younger teens involved. This is OLD NEWS.. Especially when you leave the US for the border.. ✅✅✅💯💪🏾
I missed the Freaknik scene! I always wanted to go once or twice! Being from outsidda Myrtle Beach area, I was able to catch a lot of Black Biker Weekend!
I was a kid in the 90's, my parents were in their 20's. One day I went in their room to grab a Disney VHS and saw some VHS tapes laying around labeled Freaknik with various years. One tape was sticking out the VCR. It said FREAKNIK 95. Kids be curious so I pushed the tape in, hit play and whoa. The stuff I saw on that tape 😭 😢😅
“Law enforcement officials actually witnessed disappointed men, driving around aimlessly” 💀💀💀 Somehow the thought of that…those poor thirsty men 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was horrendous living in Atlanta during Freaknik. We were actually told to leave work as early as possible to get home before they arrived in town. One year I didn’t make it home in time and sat at a traffic light for over two hours and couldn’t move one inch because the party was at the light!! Over the years it got worse and worse. People were just the worst of the worst in character and behavior. They were relieving themselves in peoples yards, practically naked and harassment on unbelievable levels by the men. Personally I was glad when it was over. When I was younger and attended it was fun and much calmer but as years passed…it was ruined by raunchy and crass behavior 🤨
My sister & my niece got rape on freaknik ,the guy's made them walk down the highway naked . I'm glad it's NOT here anymore,I'm glad you did this about my city thanks.
I came all the way from Northern California to attend Tuskegee University in Alabama in 1994. I attended Freaknik from 1994 to 1996! That was the time of my life. I'm so glad that I have receipts and photos. We were definitely those girls on top of the cars!
The event was ruined by non-college students. You cannot trash the city and cause havoc then except to be welcomed with open arms. The traffic was insane because there weren’t any sanctioned events so people were just riding around the city and partying. The city should’ve put together a nightly concert, an actual picnic, etc or worked with a promoter to do this if they knew that many people were coming to the city. Also, people were coming and didn’t know the city so folks were everywhere. When they started to go into white areas, the complaints really started. I remember MTV doing a True Life episode. Seeing the women getting treated badly and being touch inappropriately was awful.
No the college kids ruined this idiot. Most were local college kids. Then other college kids came from other areas. It was mostly college students that just wanted to go wild
@@mr.keptitreal The reports blamed it on a small percentage of non-college students, local and out of towners. The college students coming from other areas would drive around and end up in places they had no business being, and the locals would rob them. This is what happened to the man we mentioned in the video. He and his friends drove into the projects and sadly, it didn't end well.
I bet MTV didn't show the worse of their Spring Break parties and events I worked them.. I was a cameraman for 2 of them... They were just as bad... But with white, blacks, latinos, and everyone else in between... #FuckMTV
You ain't the only one. I was a teenager during this time and I remember hearing about this all the time however 👎 surprised that the festivities ended. All good things eventually end.
Should have been giving out nothing. should been studying and planning the nexts steps to black liberation. It is disgusting the senseless lives we live.
I remember being 13 years old in 95 getting in trouble for getting caught by my mom watching my uncles Freaknik 95 footage on his camcorder. The stuff my lil 13 year old eyes saw, I couldn’t believe it. I remember the MTV documentary especially the part of the woman being surrounded & having her clothes ripped off. With social media being around today u wouldn’t be able to get away with that type of behavior.
I went to Freaknik 94...the best and last year before they started blocking off roads and making it difficult to have fun. I hate that so many women were SA during the event. My experience was a beautiful one. I love it 😍💜
I remember my senior yr in hs I asked my mom could I go and she said no ma'am. 😂 All of my friends parents said no except for one girl. She bought back pics where she was flashing guys and on top of vehicles. Im glad mama said no.
I was living in Atlanta for in 95 for it. And went the year before. The local or non college folks really ruined it. Plus the incident wash at happened when the girl got her clothes ripped off her, literally ripped on her on stage dancing put the biggest black eye on the event. It painted black men as savages. It was a horrible day. One I will never forget.
@@seanfelder3977 I grew up in the Atlanta area and I was in the Marine Corps in the 1990's. I got my honorable discharge in March of 1996. I went to the 1996 Olympic games and I went to Freaknik of 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. After 1995 Freaknik became less welcoming for many people.
I’m so glad that I lived to experience this. Sadly, the love and trust in our community has deteriorated to the point that it would be catastrophically dangerous now.
I have not done much research into this but I did hear that the early years mainly involved college students but at some point creeps, predators, and aholes decided to come and ruin it.
I think it had more to do with behavior. It’s not like they were all there reading books or were even just orderly. It was nice when it started but later generations took “freak” a little too literally.
I’m so happy you covered this. I realized this happened back in the early 90s, and our parents are the same ones who stopped us from doing this, but they were way worse than US! WE never did this! 🤣
Girl puhlease!! You kids are doing a lot more than how you interpreted this video. Why did y'all always feel the need to compare yourselves to us?? Is it to make you feel better about the nonsense that your generation pulls today??🤔🤦🏾♀️
In 94 my sister her friend and I were all heading to freaknic and we got into a car accident at the corner of international Blvd. And watching this footage and listening to what was being said that car accident may have saved our lives. Four cars slammed into the back of us. But I can only imagine what could have happened if we had made it their. I'm not saying that every thing about freaknic was bad . I just read a comment where a lady met her husband at freaknic. But sometimes things happen for a reason. God is always watching and protecting us from danger. But it's great that something good did come out of this for some one.
I remember going to this back in 93. I was 16 years old but my older sister was 20 years old so I got to go a lot of places because of her. Thank you sister 😂😂
Me , my sisters , and my sister in law went but we didn't know about the women getting raped until we went home afterwards. But once we found out we never went back again . I feel like we was so lucky not to get raped and came back safe but my prayers go out to the women who suffered such a awful situation . Back in the day some black men would call black women Black Qweens , Seem like to me some of them men forgot what a Black Qween is and disrespected black women . They should have shut it down because of the evilness that was going on . Miss . Linda 🌻
@@bakhembrutalknowledge who said that I was acting ? Either way if it was some thots on the scene it don't mean that it's there fault they got raped because no woman or anybody else deserves to get raped . Thots or no thots we all should be treated with love and respect . May you be blessed and safe . Miss . Linda ❤
@@bakhembrutalknowledge Oh and another thing we all are not perfect human beings . I am not blaming it all on the men cause I am sure it was some woman there acting like some fools too . May you be blessed and safe . Miss . Linda ❤
Went in 95 and 96 and had a blast with my sisters and friends. We rode around deep in them streets in our jeeps with the top off. Daisy Dukes, Pump it Up, Reebok and black eye liner for the fit. It was alot of picture taking, bootie shaking, beautiful site seeing fun. Never had a bad experience or saw 1 Thank God...
@@rrg The saying "drug deal gone wrong" is because it's supposed to be an equal exchange then it goes wrong when 1 decides they're not holding up to their end of the deal. A robbery gone wrong? Robbery never goes right. No one wants to be robbed. It's not an exchange you agreed to enter.
I remember my mom moved us from Houston to Atlanta because she fell in love w freaknik. I have a pic when I was 6 or 7 at the park w my mom in 96 it was amazing seeing so many black ppl having a good time, selling black owned products, concerts of the best black entertainers. Don’t worry we went during the day when it was still family friendly.
@@rrg yeah strangely enough we went to visit for Thanksgiving and my mom found out she had breast cancer. So we never went back to Atlanta. Family went to get our things.
@@tequelia did your mother survive breast cancer? Your mom and I share similar age with each other 🙏🏾I’m really hoping that she survived and living a lavish lifestyle
I never went to freaknik. I just never understood the appeal. Maybe it’s because I was in middle and high school. Other classmates would go with their older family members. In my opinion, it was NOT racially motivated. People were blocking traffic, committing crimes, and just “acting a fool” in the streets. Olympic goers and computer trade show wouldn’t cause the city as much damage and bad press as Freaknik did. It’s sad residents had to leave their homes, take off from their jobs, and businesses had to close. Everyone is thinking about partying, but not considering the victims, business owners, and residents. Again, this is just my opinion. I absolutely love your channel. Keep up the good work. 💛💛💛💛
Plus they were not really spending money eating at McDonald's and stay at freinds houses the traffic routing was insane and funny to discourage folks from crusing
I was there during the best Freaknik ever….’ 94. I attended an HBCU at the time and I totally remember them discouraging us from going in ‘95. They told us that Atlanta was shutting down the city in preparation for the ‘96 olympics and if we came, we wouldn’t have any place to go. So by the late 90’s everybody started going to South Beach and Myrtle Beach bike rally for spring break
I’m so upset with how the new documentary glosses over the abuse and how terribly women were treated. They definitely could have interviewed more people who had these terrible experiences because they were abundant. They also didn’t mention the offshoots like The Greek Picnic up in Philly. I saw so many horrible things it was scary as hell
Growing up in North GA in the 90s Freaknik seemed like more of a headache that anything else. My family got caught in either the one in 95 or 96 when we were taking my grandma to the train station. As a kid, that was annoying. A LOT of wasted time in the car in a place that was already incapable of handling the traffic as it was.
Memories!!! I never attended, but during college I had lots of friends attending. This event was the talk on many HBCU campuses in 1995 when I was a freshman.
Went down there on a highschool black college tour, but we must have went down the week after..which was good to know. There was trash and debri still left from the week earlier 😳 i always wanted to go but glad i didnt. I went to black college weekend in Daytona in 97 &that was enough!! The guys were acting so wild, i stayed in the hotel room that weekend. It was jus too much going on for me
im.52 now...every year we went to the freaknik..we got our airline tickets from delta air lines..we flew out BWI airport to The ATL..The flight was only one hour and 15 minutes.we were so tipsy.it felt like a 30 minute flight...Man we had so good good times at the freaknik..Man we had big fun..I miss the freaknik..The clubs and the people .loved it all...we didnt have to worry about a hotel because we had a good friend that lived in college park..so we were good..Them was some good times....yes yes baby..some good good memories..😊😊😊😊💯💯💯💯...boy oh boy thank God we didnt have these camera phones😂😂
Yes Andra Jackson. I was 21 in 1991 when I went with a group of girls from Cincinnati Ohio. About 30 of us, men and women followed each other down and all partied together. It was the BEST.... so good we all wanted to move to Atlanta when we got home. LOL glad it never happened but bbaabbyy..... that was fun. And the hours of traffic was nothing but a party for us.
What started out as fun became debauchery! My brother attended the Daytona Beach one and the pictures he brought back were very disturbing to me!! My mom didn’t even want me going to a black college in Daytona after that!
This is so fascinating!! I’ve always heard about Freaknik, but being so young, I never knew the backstory. That’s awful that countless women were assaulted!! Thanks for covering ❤️❤️❤️
I went in 1993 and it was *safe and fun for me and the Sistren I was hanging with.* That *one time* was enough though. I figured it’d be different each year, especially seeing the older groups of people and those who weren’t even college students, hanging out there. 😊
Yes back in the 90's in Galveston tx we had Kappa weekend in April It was good college fun on the beaches. But In the in the middle 90's the city started to cracked down. I used to work in a hotel on the beach, l was told not to rent rooms to black people that weekend. Now Kappa weekend is no more
I went to Freaknic a couple of times while in college around 94-96. I attended more of the less crowded and “Christian” themed events (lol) but had fun and met several people I’m still connected to. Glad to have it as part of my college experience
I was young but old enough to go but my mom was strict and was like HELLLLLLLLL NO!!!! So I had to just rely on my aunts and cousins stories about the big party year after year. Sad I couldn’t attend but I see I didn’t miss much wholesome fun! 😫
I remember Freaknik growing up in North Carolina at the time and it was a big annual event. I was very young at the time and the excitement surrounding the event made me want to go. I think that was a great short documentary about the event. It seems to me that people who were not college students at the time made the event go downhill because they had other plans and created an unsafe atmosphere. The college students only wanted an outlet from studying school work, but there's always good and bad in everything.
I’m not gone lie I’m 34 and I probably would have attended this if I was older. But at the age I’m at now and the way GOD has moved in my life you would never catch me at nothing like this now and I would have regret going in my younger years. Some places is just the devils den and bring out the devil in people
‘The devil’s den’. Nicely put. This is what I am thinking about all of this. I never wanted to go because I was young too(just a little older than you), but also it just didn’t sound good to me like it did to everybody else, first of all, the name alone - just no.
There were 2 types of Freakniks. The one in the early 90s was no problem and had a college feel to it. The one starting in the mid-90s was the problem and had a key-to-the-streets feel.
It moved from Atlanta to Miami and rebranded "urban week". And Miami has also been trying to get rid of it, and little by little they're succeeding. In the mid to late 2000's, they arrested over 2000 people over the 3 day weekend. Including Gilbert Arenas who was the franchise player for the Washington Wizards. For the life of me, I don't understand why people keep bringing their money where it's not wanted.
I was 12 years old from Detroit in Atlanta visiting my daddy for freaknik it was some of the funnest & wildest times of my life.. Atl freaknik was an epic classic legendary party.
@@LaiyaUnscripted Little Lady, I can’t BEGIN to tell you any of THOSE stories…you have to ask your parents or one of your aunties about it!😆 I will tell you this…. I was a Flight Attendant & worked for a new record label at the time & some of what I witnessed & those involved would have you looking like 😳😮🤭 That’s all I can tell you!
My mom danced in the 90’s and she loved and hated Freaknik as a dancer. It was a ton of money but also a ton cheap college students. I vividly remember being 8 or 9 stuck in a traffic jam caused by the partying and recall folks just wilding in the streets my mom was yelling at me to cover my eyes lol. Eventually it got old and I fell asleep in the backseat because the traffic would last for hours. I remember my mom would use the traffic to sell the last of the club calendars she always sold out too.
@@SirenScorpio You BIG mad 😠 😡 😤 or 304 mad? They put that BS in a open forum, while disrespecting their own mother isn't good. Go preach to that thotty. They posted it. Only 304's are strippers
WOW.I remember freaknik,wanted to go,but I was transitioning between military services.Between 92-93,I was in the navy-93-96,I was in the army.I problably could've taken a 3 day pass or leave to attend,heard to much negative stuff happening at freaknik and I sure didn't want to get arrested.AH,the good ole days.
I was underage, and out there partying. Many people moved to Atlanta because of the freaknik, I remember it like it was yesterday! Also this was waay better than b4 the shootings and violence tore up our Atlanta streets! DAMN!
I was underage when Freaknik was going on. By the time I was legal it was not going on anymore. I guess it was for the best. I'm sure bad things happened especially to young women.
I went every year I was at Spelman (88-91). The last year, I knew it was going downhill. When it was just us AUC students, it was a typical college event with lots of parties. In 1991, it seemed out of control. The signs where there Freaknic was going to end at some point
I remember being like 7yrs old back in 91” telling my uncle I was gonna go when I get older he just laugh at me & said ok nephew & just showed me pictures of Freaknik. I was just lost for words but as I got older Freaknik was a thing of the pass they still had it but not like the way it was when my uncle went. During the 2000”s it all shifted too Black Beach on the coast in Mississippi & that was my mini Freaknik only a 3hrs drive at 16yr old I seen nothing like it & even Black Beach had it’s own problems & that’s when I learn we all can’t get together in one place & have fun. The good days🏁💯
As an Atlanta native, who lived in the heart of the AUC (which is where freaknik was mainly occurring), this video brought back some happy, but mostly sad memories for me. As a young college student, it was great to party and have some fun at freaknik, but when I started doing my internship at the Grady Hospital (in the rape crisis unit) during that time, the hospital was so close to all the freaknik action that every year, it would always be flooded with women who were brutally raped, beaten and sodomized. All workers and interns were mandated to be on duty during that time because the unit was saturated with rape victims. It was a real horrible sight to see. I would go home and have nightmares for days and days about those women (and some very young girls) and the experiences they described in very graphic and gross details they were subjected to during those awful times. Those traumatic experiences really affected me so much so that I change my career path and I never ever looked back nor did I ever dare to attend the event again. In retrospect, I’m glad and grateful that Bill Campbell shut it down because he actually probably saved countless women’s lives.
Stop lying plant.
That's absolutely terrible
OMG! That is heartbreaking! I heard these stories from other black college events as well…Kappa Beach Party, Black Bike Week, etc. Glad I didn’t go!
Omg!
@@Nik_Key freaknik shld never be revived the wine of. Violence corrupts the Event
I had a cousin that ran away from home back in 94 to go to freaknik and when she came back a couple days later my granny had changed the locks. 😂😂 We still laugh about it to this day.
LOL!!!!!!!!
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That’s actually pretty funny 😆 😂😂💕
Lmbo
I remember attending Freaknik in 95, this was my second year and last. I was in my hotel room when I heard a young lady screaming “Stop!” I went outside and there were 6 guys groping a completely nude young lady. I informed them to stop and warned them of possible jail time if something happened to this young lady. I also asked them - How would they feel if this was being done to a female family member. They stopped but was really upset with me because I stepped in. I walked her back to my room and gave her a sheet to wrap around her body and then walked her to room the next floor up. I was only 20 yrs old at the time and could’ve loss my life defending that young lady. So I never attended again because I would’ve did the same thing if I saw that happening and probably would’ve have been injured or killed.
Wow! God bless you for stepping in!
Probably a bullshit story.
@@olympic1l196 you was there or maybe it was your father that was
@@mscali1839 No
A very LOW VIBRATIONAL event 👎🏽
I used to work at a hotel in Atlanta during freaknik and it was the most horrible experience I had, those rooms were trashed, it would be as many 15 people staying in one room, women being take advantage of while they intoxicated, their were women who came to freaknik and went back home pregnant and or infected with STD’s.
Dam
That’s what I was thinking…and not knowing the daddy!!
The city dropped ball.
I bet you can not go in wealthy neighborhoods and act like this. They would have shit it down. 😮😢😊
I bet
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I met my husband at Freaknik 😇 and we’re still together 23 years strong 💪🏿 and now our sons are the age we were when we met. Maaannnnn how time flies! Thanks for the memories RRG!!!
Awww that freaky kinda love 😌❤️
@@rrg ….IKR!!!! It worked in our favor and I’m glad I snuck out the house that weekend 😂
@@allrealeverything Somebody stole your comment and reposted it.
@@budgetfriendlybabe ….Wow sounds like somebody wants my life…I can’t blame them tbh 🤷🏾♀️
@@allrealeverything Very strange!!
The city was intolerant because individuals don’t know how to act. Why break into stores and destroy property. Women getting sexually assaulted. Nonsense.
You know that and I know that but unfortunately if you say anything against a event that has the black community attached to it you will FALSELY be accused of being racist OR a sell out depending on your skin tone regardless of what the actual cause of a event being flagged as problematic is .
Exactly. We can't ever just act right ugh
Seen it happen to the Caribbean day parade in bk in 2005 I think over ten people were shot ..seen I happen to summer jam...the puerto rican day parade ..once the city clamped down by posting more police and not allowing alcohol people complained but the nonsense stopped ..
@@vibezlogistics7453 we always gotta be extra with it
They racist
I was a student in a program at Grady Hospital around that time. Working the E.R. I heard tell of rape victims. Women having contracted multiple STDs. I lived near Old National and traffic would be jam packed. It was not fun if you lived but didn't participate. When in school I had classmates who would skip school to go.
Some would act like a woman knew what "she should expect" as if she deserved it. But many didn't expect it to be like it ended up. By the end of it women stopped showing up because she couldn't simply walk down the street without being assaulted. I never attended, was too young or busy but glad now that I didn't.
*tales not tell
I used it correctly. Maybe you should read more. Perhaps other genres, written by Authors that are from different Eras or Cultures.
"I heard a tale" (story), "I heard tell" (word of).
I used it the way I meant to use it.
Reading is fundamental smarty pants.
@@tuushietime You are correct!
That’s sad
The way that this is glamorized when in reality was scary.
“Don’t be surprise if you see your Mom or Aunty” is sending me 😭😭😭
Yeeeees!!
I was 14 in 1994 at a black sorority little sister event. We were in ATL right about when Freaknik started (our conference ended the day before it started). I remember seeing folks filling the Hilton in increasing numbers and I remember our chaperones isolating us and watching us like hawks! We were mad then but I’m incredibly grateful now.
You’re my age.
Freaknik was fun at first, then started to become dangerous. Women were being targeted and sexually assaulted. That’s when we stopped going. Another thing me and my friends never separated. One go! We all go!!!! Which means we never went💯
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I mean you see how they was acting sooooo 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Jingleball7734 do better
I heard a girl on the radio say she was going to Atlanta for the 2021 lesbian freaknik. I guess they have alternate versions of it now.. 😂 lol
@@raczgreen6053 😂😂😂😂 I guess so
What happened with Freaknik is the same thing that would happened to certain clubs back in the day. They might start basically to serve college students and then it gains popularity with other students outside the city. After a while this gets out to the hustlers, hood girls, and locals. At first it's cool and feels like the more the merrier but after a while hood politics and behavior overtake the event.
Spoken like a true visionary.
I agree 100%.
Bingo. That’s how Buckhead got ruined.
Kinda like what happened with Facebook. Started off being for college students, and now...welp... 😩😭
Same thing happened in Galveston. The Galveston Beach Party in Houston turned into a min Freaknik. It started out with college students then the street element started showing up and it went to hell.
@@rrg or better yet, Blackplanet
My first Freaknic was in '95. I had no business being there because I was a teenager in high school. My last year attending was in '97. It wasn't the same anymore, and the shit I witnessed was insane and made me, even as a guy, feel unsafe. The hood had taken over! Greenbriar mall is where I saw most of the wildest shit I've ever seen in my life! I'm glad officers were there to help some of those women because even if they dressed for attention, they didn't deserve to be attacked like that! I miss that era, but it needed to end.
" Because even if they dressed for attention, they didn't deserve to be attacked " . Here we go . Another misogynistic rape apologist out here. This comment started off well but went down the bin at the end 😑
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It definitely needed to end
what did you see?
This is what happens when you let people of that color have free reign.
It seems to have started out as a fun event and a really good time but it did turn into a crime riddled event that was unsafe for women. You really can’t blame the city and various Atlanta neighborhoods for not welcoming that energy.
Facts.
They Know Better
Finally, someone speaking truth!
Right!!!
So why did they go?
You just can't duplicate the 90's. So much originality, festivities and creativity. Those who were able to enjoy what the 90's had to offer, are walking around with irreplaceable memories! Kids today are unsuccessfully trying EVERYTHING to top the 90's.
FACTS!
That is absolutely true
Only a heathen would be proud of this event.
The 90's were everything, miss it so much 😢
@@oohan8516 But Coachella adopted a lot from this event. The comment was pride in the 90's as a whole, but I guess you glazed all the way over that.
Exactly why I never went to Freaknik. As a freshman in college, a group of us went to the Greek Picnic in Philly to see the vendors and Greek organizations step. I was overdressed might I add (black dress shorts and a white blouse with sheer sleeves, platform shoes and shell anklet with my Bob hairstyle) My girlfriends and I were mortified by the rape culture behavior of the men and the women who thought it was fun. We banned our arms together and came to each other's rescue whenever guys tried desperately to separate us. I was even picked up and carried off by guys I didn't know screaming until the entire group of guys and girls from my school rescued me. I was 17 yrs old and traumatized. I never ever saw anything like that before and I was appalled by the hundreds of men in fraternities who forgot they were in groups that tout social responsibility and uplifting the community. It was definitely a lesson and I never ever put myself in that type of danger again.
Yes I saw a videos of fraternity members, identified by their clothing m, that told a young woman if she is sexual assaulted it’s her fault because of what she is wearing. This man told her not to even think to ask him for help because he has no help to offer. I can only imagine the many blck women who are reliving their trauma. I am so sorry you experienced this. It seems like the black community completely ignored all for this, and/or blamed bw for what happened to them. This is my first time hearing about all of the horrific things that happened (I was in middle school). I hope this will be a redemption and healing moment for the bw who were silenced and shamed.
Ah older family friend went and let ah guy eat her out right outside in front everybody she was very promiscuous and didn’t care 🤷♀️ smh 🤦♀️
@@Tashmahagony awful she clearly had deep seeded wounds prior to that day. Whatever happened to her after that? Was she ever healed?
@@epiphanyperry1877 she liked it and continued to be promiscuous her entire life still to this day smh 🤦♀️ if you only knew but she alive and well if that’s what you asking and she never filed charges nothing she liked it and would boast about it 🤦♀️😩
@@lovelyloner thank you soooo much
I was grown back then but I never went and I'm thankful because I was hearing stories about assaults & people being reckless!!!
The same reason I never went. From the looks of it I didn’t miss anything.
@@sheilawyatt898 Yeah I was grown and me and my homies were about to go. But I didn't. Best I didn't.
I never went and I am cool with it… these stories are a hot mess.
@@sheilawyatt898 No disrespect, yes you did.
@@KeithBoykinswhat they miss
“You want a cheap chick better go down to freaknik.” - Lil Kim/Crush on You 1996
Oo
Lmaooo
Cheap as for the free?
That's my shxt
Lolove
I'm from St Louis & a lot my friends went. I passed. Heard it was fun but also wild. Too many women were being assaulted. I was living double life, working at a law firm & stripping at private parties. Didn't need to go to Atlanta to experience that kind of ignorance & violence.
Stripping at private parties, quit lying
👀👀👀heyyyyyy
A lawyer stripper 😂😂😂 sound like heaven😂
I was a student at Spelman from 1985 to 1989 and saw the slow demise of Freaknik. Go Go music, grilling, talking to friends, and having a really nice time was what I remember. After I graduated, Freaknik went straight to hell.
I attended college and got a career at the ATL morgue. It's just not freak a zoid nik' 🖤💚🧡 it's rooted in Atlanta to have over 100+ homicides a year since freak a leek was banned and shortly resurrected in Orlando's magic city 🧙🏾♂️ Georgia has a Murder Problem a Gang problem and all of them are birthed by women's. Wanna talk about it 🗣️ Where are the black social workers, psychologist, Morehouse School of Medicine. Now ATLANTA got Big Mayor Andre Dickens Energy and LATTO. Everything is going to be alright. ATL gonna be alright. Because this is still Thrasherville as it was known by the Ancestors.🖤💚❤️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
Oh dang! I didn't know Freaknik was out in 1985.
@@m.h6858 it strted in 83
@Kierra Mcgee Wow! I didn't know that. I went 97 and 98, I tried 99, but everything was too policed and blocked off. You really spent all your time being detoured, and I'm FROM GA, and it was hard to navigate.
I was in high school then and sent have any business being there, but hey, what can I say.
It was definitely fun while it lasted. The guys I encountered, for the most part, were really cool!
Bingo. When I went in ‘86, it was mostly good clean fun. By ‘90, shit had went downhill and I knew it wouldn’t last anyway. Georgia rarely ever lets black folks have anything anyway.
ATL resident here and I know I may sound lame for this but I'm happy it's not going on. We are already crowded here. They are always shooting at Lenox. Just too much ignorance.
plus the virus in most recent times
Yes I agree, I have lived here all my life also.I stay in Kennesaw GA
Atlanta has gone crazy (along with the rest of the world)
I lived there for 8 years and I never seen so many trashy low life people in my life. I am so glad l was able to move out of there 🙌🏾. So sad how trashy that city became 😔
Well Atlanta was promoted as the lost black city of god in the 90s where everyone can get rich ..I've had countless friends from the north east that moved down there ..I've known a few that transferd their section 8 down there ..those same hood boogers that left up here are now y'alls problem..
I remember in my college days, they attempted to recreate this in Fl (spring bling or something like that). I went ONCE ….Those guys were so aggressive it was criminal- assaulting and stripping women naked if you declined their advances as they walked by! Unfortunately when people gather to this magnitude, it spawns nothing but trouble. There should NEVER be another. There’s more trauma than you can imagine.
You are talking about BCR. Black College Reunion, spring Bling was similar but it Spring Bling was more geared towards celebrities coming and being in concerts on the beach. Like you can look spring bling up on the internet and see the performances.
Black College Reunion was like this, I saw it one time as a kid. My friends and I went and there was genitals everywhere, men ripping girls clothes off and beasty. They let the demons loose on the oil at these events, i honestly think they should show them what they do bc most of the time I believe they don’t know who they are until they see footage of their behavior. That’s just me though, you can have fun without going that far. But most of those men are that way bc they live with the this is a mad world mentality.
Somebody will try to revive it you just wait.😢
@@johnathanletren8819 they need to keep the black men out
Freaknik couldn't survive the era of social media . I remember going in 96 . I remember feeling extremely unsafe pretty early on in the events and went to a friend's family's house
Glad you had a safe place to go to!
Freaknik was off the chain:nothing but freaking going on the whole 5 day's I stayed there.✌
@@jamesslade3230 only A demented man would enjoy a hedonist event like freaknik.
Cyntoria thomas is lying like hell:she's probably not even a real person,that's why you can't send her a reply
@@jamesslade3230 You were definitely one of the creeps that would grope women thats why you’re so mad
These were the days of the real body parts. No bleaching, BBL's, lace fronts, botox nor fillers for the women of color. People were actually individually designed and presented. Every city had its own lingo, style and culture. Climate change wasn't so awful. GOD BLESS THE CHILD THAT CAN HOLD ITS OWN. 🙏 🙌
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Huh the 80s really
You either had it or you didn’t.
Back then...the Older Gen. used to "scoff" and "look down" at those ladies for their "freaky" behavior and "being Fake".
Now, the game got so crazy..that y'all saying even THOSE Ladies were Conservative 😂🤣😂🤣
I knew one specific woman that attended freaknik. All her stories about it never made sense. It's like she was always leaving something out. As time went on I could tell that she was one of those people living with regrets. Never really figured out her true stories from this event. I just know that everyone else that I knew that went; they all started with good stories, but ended with terrible ones. They all stopped going.
This remind me of Twitter and the atl orgy & nobody showing up but niggas 😂 their delusional & think everyone loves pump n dump culture
They all stopped going, cause they came to know better. I did a whole series on Freaknik. Lost my footage over time. But the interviews, things folk sent me made me thankful it stopped. I'd been through enough in my life. If I'd attended Freaknik, it would have been as a vigilante lol. But seriously, it was like every girl was reporting rape actions. We sent it to the schools, but almost none of the guys or people were students. And the feedback was so many people travel from across seas that it was impossible to identify victims or acusers of crime. And it was true, People were coming from the EU, Africa, Austrialia to be apart of freaknik. Beyond a Chrismas event. Freaknik brought in millions a day. how was anyone to track that.
Your friend was probably raped or sexually assaulted.😢
I never attended freaknik…However, my friends and I attended “Black Bike Fest” in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for 6 years straight lol. Massive amounts of Black bikers, black college students, and young adults would attend every year from around 1997-2007. Then they cracked down on it.
After 2013 the black bike week in South Carolina got more strict with cops harassing bikers
I'm from South Carolina the part close to Savannah I hated biker week and orange crush everybody just sat around and look at each other. Atlanta actually partied! Too much I would now say😅Moved to Atlanta at 17 in 1991 and ran into Freak Nik of a lifetime!
Went to church in east point ga and they played clips of what went on at the Chevron and right across the street from the church omg 😱 I was mortified I said this is gonna be over with soon!!!
Life felt so free and loving no guns thank God but all the sex acts ruined it and that was enough to do so!!!
Oh well I hang onto my freak Nic' tshirts for a long time. There retired🍑🌹🌼. Shot out to all my Ga Peach sisters!
buddy and friends.
Love y'all.
Another Good Ole time👍👍I lived 60 miles away.. we hitchhiked to MB because we didn't have cars...and always got a ride back😂😂
SC native, so I've attended lots of bike weeks. Will not attend another tho.
They always end up shutting those freaky type of events down though.
Wow I remember being underage going to this. I was 15 going to my first freaknic in 1995. That was some wild stuff. About time I got to college it was dead. They will never be nothing like that era. Those women that were out there are now aunts and grandmothers now😂.
@@lovelyone1712 Young adults? He was 15. Seems like a lot of y'all were underage out there getting nasty. 🤦🏽♂️.
1995 I was in the army-stationed at Ft Hood,TX-assigned to 1st Cav Div-home unit-HHC 2/8 Cav. HOO-RAH!!! LOL.Heard so much about freaknik back then,but couldn't go.
@@kurokaizen1889 let's not act like this was and is the only SPRING BREAK anywhere to have much younger teens involved. This is OLD NEWS..
Especially when you leave the US for the border.. ✅✅✅💯💪🏾
And, the boys are dads & Grandpa's
I missed the Freaknik scene! I always wanted to go once or twice! Being from outsidda Myrtle Beach area, I was able to catch a lot of Black Biker Weekend!
I was a kid in the 90's, my parents were in their 20's. One day I went in their room to grab a Disney VHS and saw some VHS tapes laying around labeled Freaknik with various years. One tape was sticking out the VCR. It said FREAKNIK 95. Kids be curious so I pushed the tape in, hit play and whoa. The stuff I saw on that tape 😭 😢😅
I feel we can never have things for too long there’s always those bad apples that ruin it smh.
Agree
Facts
Fact 💯.
“Law enforcement officials actually witnessed disappointed men, driving around aimlessly” 💀💀💀 Somehow the thought of that…those poor thirsty men 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
LOL!
Well..when you put it THAT way. ROFL 😂😂😂
@@ericaphillips2601 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂🤷🏾♂️
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It was horrendous living in Atlanta during Freaknik. We were actually told to leave work as early as possible to get home before they arrived in town. One year I didn’t make it home in time and sat at a traffic light for over two hours and couldn’t move one inch because the party was at the light!! Over the years it got worse and worse. People were just the worst of the worst in character and behavior. They were relieving themselves in peoples yards, practically naked and harassment on unbelievable levels by the men. Personally I was glad when it was over. When I was younger and attended it was fun and much calmer but as years passed…it was ruined by raunchy and crass behavior 🤨
My sister & my niece got rape on freaknik ,the guy's made them walk down the highway naked . I'm glad it's NOT here anymore,I'm glad you did this about my city thanks.
That is terrible. We are so sorry that happened to them.
@@rrg thanks yeah they were 17&18
Oh no 😢
Oh my 😥
Omg that's sad
I came all the way from Northern California to attend Tuskegee University in Alabama in 1994. I attended Freaknik from 1994 to 1996! That was the time of my life. I'm so glad that I have receipts and photos. We were definitely those girls on top of the cars!
Greetings from NorCal! I was there in 94! ❤️💃🏾
I'm sad I never got to go
I’m sad I was born in 91’…but hey ms. Jones.
Heyyy miss parker
You should make a video on your experience 🤎🤎💯
Before the Hulu documentary remember RRG did it first 🎉
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The event was ruined by non-college students. You cannot trash the city and cause havoc then except to be welcomed with open arms. The traffic was insane because there weren’t any sanctioned events so people were just riding around the city and partying. The city should’ve put together a nightly concert, an actual picnic, etc or worked with a promoter to do this if they knew that many people were coming to the city. Also, people were coming and didn’t know the city so folks were everywhere. When they started to go into white areas, the complaints really started.
I remember MTV doing a True Life episode. Seeing the women getting treated badly and being touch inappropriately was awful.
U goin off hearsay foh
@@KJKJ-ck5fl she’s right though
No the college kids ruined this idiot. Most were local college kids. Then other college kids came from other areas. It was mostly college students that just wanted to go wild
@@mr.keptitreal The reports blamed it on a small percentage of non-college students, local and out of towners. The college students coming from other areas would drive around and end up in places they had no business being, and the locals would rob them. This is what happened to the man we mentioned in the video. He and his friends drove into the projects and sadly, it didn't end well.
I bet MTV didn't show the worse of their Spring Break parties and events I worked them.. I was a cameraman for 2 of them... They were just as bad... But with white, blacks, latinos, and everyone else in between... #FuckMTV
Im here to read all of your Freaknik stories in the comments 🙃.
Great video RRG
❤❤
Lmfaooooo
Me too
You ain't the only one. I was a teenager during this time and I remember hearing about this all the time however 👎 surprised that the festivities ended. All good things eventually end.
I was 8 years old in 1994. Im here because of the hulu freaknic documentary. You did a wonderful job of summing it up to me.
Instead of hosting a job fair, they should’ve been giving out condoms bc it was most likely a super spreader event for STDs 🥴
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Ok
GIRL RIGHT. IM SURE MANY SHIT WAS SPREADED IN THAT TIME. THATS ANOTHER REASON I BELIEVE ATL SO DAMN WILD.
Should have been giving out nothing. should been studying and planning the nexts steps to black liberation. It is disgusting the senseless lives we live.
There wasn't the awareness rolling like that, in the ancient days.
I remember being 13 years old in 95 getting in trouble for getting caught by my mom watching my uncles Freaknik 95 footage on his camcorder. The stuff my lil 13 year old eyes saw, I couldn’t believe it. I remember the MTV documentary especially the part of the woman being surrounded & having her clothes ripped off. With social media being around today u wouldn’t be able to get away with that type of behavior.
Haha good ol Freaknik cam footage!!!
Sooooo true...could you imagine if social media was around during that time!!?
@@SagRising19 it would be a catastrophe.
You sound like you want black men to be able to get away with that kind of behavior today.
@@abnerjd1982 yes it would
I was suppose to go in '96 but my family and friends WARNED me not to go! So glad I listened!
I went to Freaknik 94...the best and last year before they started blocking off roads and making it difficult to have fun. I hate that so many women were SA during the event. My experience was a beautiful one. I love it 😍💜
Yep, 94 was really the last good year. After that it was just attended by thugs and teens.
Had the best time in 94 -96... Although we saw it going to the bad side in 96 so that was my last yr...
94 was definitely the best year!!!
i was there in 94 as well. a time was had lol. great year.
I remember way back in the day I wanted to go, my friend told me I couldn't handle it. Watching this, I see that she was right😆
😂😂😂😂
That’s a good friend ❤️
The freak's didn't come out at night:they were out during the day😂I still have many photo's of the freaky experiences from my trip there in 95
Freaknik was no different than the Wood stock 99! Y’all should cover that for real! That was wild!
I remember my senior yr in hs I asked my mom could I go and she said no ma'am. 😂 All of my friends parents said no except for one girl. She bought back pics where she was flashing guys and on top of vehicles. Im glad mama said no.
Ooh she was out there getting freaky 😂
Bless you and your amazing mother
Yep, you would have been doing the same thing.
I’m glad my mother said no as well!
I was living in Atlanta for in 95 for it. And went the year before. The local or non college folks really ruined it. Plus the incident wash at happened when the girl got her clothes ripped off her, literally ripped on her on stage dancing put the biggest black eye on the event. It painted black men as savages. It was a horrible day. One I will never forget.
I remember this! It was tragic
Facts and women asking dudes to pull their dicks out at malls, parties and cars to get off l went in 1997 and 1999 it was insane
@@seanfelder3977 You should have been there in 94 that was the best yr by far.
@@seanfelder3977 WTF 😭😭 nahhh that’s insane. It had to end at that point, disgusting.
@@seanfelder3977 I grew up in the Atlanta area and I was in the Marine Corps in the 1990's. I got my honorable discharge in March of 1996. I went to the 1996 Olympic games and I went to Freaknik of 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. After 1995 Freaknik became less welcoming for many people.
When I was a college student it was the non college students and locals that used to mess up everything. Same as described with Freaknik.
In a nutshell..freakknik was the hip hop of Atlanta before there was ever reality TV! SMH!!!🤦🤦🤦🤦
Sounds about right lol
@@rrg 😂😂😂
I’m so glad that I lived to experience this. Sadly, the love and trust in our community has deteriorated to the point that it would be catastrophically dangerous now.
Right! Ain't it sad??
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@@rrg it really is a shame. Thanks so much for this channel! I hope that you cover GoGo culture in Washington DC in the 80’s and 90’s! ❤️
@@bjc4204 it is! We don’t look out for one another like we should. These days, you have to keep your guard up constantly.
No way in hell that this could go down with the young people of today.
I have not done much research into this but I did hear that the early years mainly involved college students but at some point creeps, predators, and aholes decided to come and ruin it.
I think it had more to do with behavior. It’s not like they were all there reading books or were even just orderly. It was nice when it started but later generations took “freak” a little too literally.
Yeah, it got out of hand...QUICKLY 😂
yes!!!!
Right
You name something "freak" expected to be full of decorum? This event should have never existed in the first place hence the name "freak".
@@oohan8516 💯👏🏾
I’m so happy you covered this. I realized this happened back in the early 90s, and our parents are the same ones who stopped us from doing this, but they were way worse than US! WE never did this! 🤣
I think not
@@MyLifeStayNFaithMode ?????? I THINK SO 🤨🤨🤨🤨 FREAKNIK says it all
Girl puhlease!! You kids are doing a lot more than how you interpreted this video. Why did y'all always feel the need to compare yourselves to us?? Is it to make you feel better about the nonsense that your generation pulls today??🤔🤦🏾♀️
Ugh…we definitely WERENT WAAAYYY WORST! Chile bye! 😫🤣🤦🏽♀️
@@blane6592 loool freaknikkk booty shaking on the streets from 93-98 with them hoochie clothes
In 94 my sister her friend and I were all heading to freaknic and we got into a car accident at the corner of international Blvd. And watching this footage and listening to what was being said that car accident may have saved our lives. Four cars slammed into the back of us. But I can only imagine what could have happened if we had made it their. I'm not saying that every thing about freaknic was bad . I just read a comment where a lady met her husband at freaknic. But sometimes things happen for a reason. God is always watching and protecting us from danger. But it's great that something good did come out of this for some one.
This is MY ERA!! I was born and raised in GA!! I wasn't looking for my mama or aunts, I was looking for MYSELF!! BAHAHAHA
Thanks for the memories.
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Same here..Every time new Freaknic clips come out, I get nervous 🤣
@@EnlightenedGoldenBeauty lmao!! I know that I'm on a few VCR tapes!
You should be embarrassed
@@lorrisanders9772 I'm not. Take your perfect behind somewhere else with that BS.
I remember going to this back in 93. I was 16 years old but my older sister was 20 years old so I got to go a lot of places because of her. Thank you sister 😂😂
Your sister not a good person for that SMH SIKE! F that you had a good time!!!!
@@jamsib7608 She think she's my mother even now. Don't move stand/stay right beside me 😂
@@toshamonee2518 My older sister is the same lol. I love her dearly for it.
What do you remember the most about the trip?▪️🙂
Your sister was terrible exposing you to that environment because she wanted to be wild. That's facts.
This video gonna hit 1 million views soon with the news about Hulu and JD doing a documentary on Freaknik
This aged beautifully! The video is almost at a million.
Me , my sisters , and my sister in law went but we didn't know about the women getting raped until we went home afterwards. But once we found out we never went back again . I feel like we was so lucky not to get raped and came back safe but my prayers go out to the women who suffered such a awful situation . Back in the day some black men would call black women Black Qweens , Seem like to me some of them men forgot what a Black Qween is and disrespected black women . They should have shut it down because of the evilness that was going on . Miss . Linda 🌻
@@bakhembrutalknowledge who said that I was acting ? Either way if it was some thots on the scene it don't mean that it's there fault they got raped because no woman or anybody else deserves to get raped . Thots or no thots we all should be treated with love and respect . May you be blessed and safe . Miss . Linda ❤
@@bakhembrutalknowledge Oh and another thing we all are not perfect human beings . I am not blaming it all on the men cause I am sure it was some woman there acting like some fools too . May you be blessed and safe . Miss . Linda ❤
Thank God I didn't see myself in this video. I would have had to unsubscribe from RRG out of pure shame🙈😆
You bet not leave us 😭😭
Went in 95 and 96 and had a blast with my sisters and friends. We rode around deep in them streets in our jeeps with the top off. Daisy Dukes, Pump it Up, Reebok and black eye liner for the fit. It was alot of picture taking, bootie shaking, beautiful site seeing fun. Never had a bad experience or saw 1 Thank God...
11:30 mark: “ a robbery gone wrong” THERES LITERALLY NOTHING RIGHT ABOUT ROBBERY!😆
A robbery doesn’t have to end in murder. RIP Donnie. He would’ve been 50 this year ❤
@@rrg I hear you, same token, a robbery doesn’t have to happen period
@@rightknowledgeman ❤❤
Ikr
@@rrg The saying "drug deal gone wrong" is because it's supposed to be an equal exchange then it goes wrong when 1 decides they're not holding up to their end of the deal.
A robbery gone wrong? Robbery never goes right. No one wants to be robbed. It's not an exchange you agreed to enter.
I remember my mom moved us from Houston to Atlanta because she fell in love w freaknik. I have a pic when I was 6 or 7 at the park w my mom in 96 it was amazing seeing so many black ppl having a good time, selling black owned products, concerts of the best black entertainers. Don’t worry we went during the day when it was still family friendly.
It wasn't family friendly at all in 94
So what happened when Freaknik ended? Did y’all move back to Houston?
@@rrg yeah strangely enough we went to visit for Thanksgiving and my mom found out she had breast cancer. So we never went back to Atlanta. Family went to get our things.
@@rrg Freaknik just died off one day.
@@tequelia did your mother survive breast cancer? Your mom and I share similar age with each other 🙏🏾I’m really hoping that she survived and living a lavish lifestyle
Who’s here after they announced the new documentary? My uncle is SHOOK, he is praying he don’t show up in footage.
I never went to freaknik. I just never understood the appeal. Maybe it’s because I was in middle and high school. Other classmates would go with their older family members. In my opinion, it was NOT racially motivated. People were blocking traffic, committing crimes, and just “acting a fool” in the streets. Olympic goers and computer trade show wouldn’t cause the city as much damage and bad press as Freaknik did. It’s sad residents had to leave their homes, take off from their jobs, and businesses had to close. Everyone is thinking about partying, but not considering the victims, business owners, and residents. Again, this is just my opinion. I absolutely love your channel. Keep up the good work. 💛💛💛💛
Finally a comment talking sense 👏
Plus they were not really spending money eating at McDonald's and stay at freinds houses the traffic routing was insane and funny to discourage folks from crusing
I was there during the best Freaknik ever….’ 94. I attended an HBCU at the time and I totally remember them discouraging us from going in ‘95. They told us that Atlanta was shutting down the city in preparation for the ‘96 olympics and if we came, we wouldn’t have any place to go. So by the late 90’s everybody started going to South Beach and Myrtle Beach bike rally for spring break
1994 was the best year ever.
They ruined South Beach.
I’m so upset with how the new documentary glosses over the abuse and how terribly women were treated. They definitely could have interviewed more people who had these terrible experiences because they were abundant. They also didn’t mention the offshoots like The Greek Picnic up in Philly. I saw so many horrible things it was scary as hell
Growing up in North GA in the 90s Freaknik seemed like more of a headache that anything else. My family got caught in either the one in 95 or 96 when we were taking my grandma to the train station. As a kid, that was annoying. A LOT of wasted time in the car in a place that was already incapable of handling the traffic as it was.
Memories!!! I never attended, but during college I had lots of friends attending. This event was the talk on many HBCU campuses in 1995 when I was a freshman.
I lived vicariously through college friends. Class of 96
@@swiftkarma4436 SAME!!!!
Went down there on a highschool black college tour, but we must have went down the week after..which was good to know. There was trash and debri still left from the week earlier 😳 i always wanted to go but glad i didnt.
I went to black college weekend in Daytona in 97 &that was enough!! The guys were acting so wild, i stayed in the hotel room that weekend. It was jus too much going on for me
"Don't be surprise if you see your moms and aunties in this video." Your daddies and uncles too loo
They were filming 🤣🤣
im.52 now...every year we went to the freaknik..we got our airline tickets from delta air lines..we flew out BWI airport to The ATL..The flight was only one hour and 15 minutes.we were so tipsy.it felt like a 30 minute flight...Man we had so good good times at the freaknik..Man we had big fun..I miss the freaknik..The clubs and the people .loved it all...we didnt have to worry about a hotel because we had a good friend that lived in college park..so we were good..Them was some good times....yes yes baby..some good good memories..😊😊😊😊💯💯💯💯...boy oh boy thank God we didnt have these camera phones😂😂
Yes Andra Jackson. I was 21 in 1991 when I went with a group of girls from Cincinnati Ohio. About 30 of us, men and women followed each other down and all partied together. It was the BEST.... so good we all wanted to move to Atlanta when we got home. LOL glad it never happened but bbaabbyy..... that was fun. And the hours of traffic was nothing but a party for us.
Baltimore in the house😂😂😂
What started out as fun became debauchery! My brother attended the Daytona Beach one and the pictures he brought back were very disturbing to me!! My mom didn’t even want me going to a black college in Daytona after that!
that says lot about hbcu in daytona
I loved going...best college experience ever 94-95
Did you see yourself in any of our footage? 👀😂
No, I was looking though...lol
@@nicoleconner2238 😂😂
This is so fascinating!! I’ve always heard about Freaknik, but being so young, I never knew the backstory. That’s awful that countless women were assaulted!! Thanks for covering ❤️❤️❤️
By the late 90’s hood culture was everywhere lot of guys with guns
Hood negros used it for an excuse to be crazy..
I went in 1993 and it was *safe and fun for me and the Sistren I was hanging with.*
That *one time* was enough though.
I figured it’d be different each year, especially seeing the older groups of people and those who weren’t even college students, hanging out there.
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Yes back in the 90's in Galveston tx we had Kappa weekend in April
It was good college fun on the beaches. But In the in the middle 90's the city started to cracked down. I used to work in a hotel on the beach, l was told not to rent rooms to black people that weekend. Now Kappa weekend is no more
I went to Freaknic a couple of times while in college around 94-96. I attended more of the less crowded and “Christian” themed events (lol) but had fun and met several people I’m still connected to. Glad to have it as part of my college experience
I was young but old enough to go but my mom was strict and was like HELLLLLLLLL NO!!!! So I had to just rely on my aunts and cousins stories about the big party year after year. Sad I couldn’t attend but I see I didn’t miss much wholesome fun! 😫
I remember Freaknik growing up in North Carolina at the time and it was a big annual event. I was very young at the time and the excitement surrounding the event made me want to go. I think that was a great short documentary about the event. It seems to me that people who were not college students at the time made the event go downhill because they had other plans and created an unsafe atmosphere. The college students only wanted an outlet from studying school work, but there's always good and bad in everything.
Everything about this footage gives me MUSTY!
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I’m not gone lie I’m 34 and I probably would have attended this if I was older. But at the age I’m at now and the way GOD has moved in my life you would never catch me at nothing like this now and I would have regret going in my younger years. Some places is just the devils den and bring out the devil in people
Very true...
‘The devil’s den’. Nicely put. This is what I am thinking about all of this. I never wanted to go because I was young too(just a little older than you), but also it just didn’t sound good to me like it did to everybody else, first of all, the name alone - just no.
@@DoubleT813 definitely I agree some places you go can depend on life or death. Like here clubs etc
There were 2 types of Freakniks. The one in the early 90s was no problem and had a college feel to it. The one starting in the mid-90s was the problem and had a key-to-the-streets feel.
Chilllllleeeeee the mini heart attack I had when I thought I saw my “Proverbs 31” mother in a clip 😭 This was a good documentary. Keep them coming.
LMAOOOO!
Chiiillee 🤣
Yes I do remember the time when it was wild back then. I work for GP(Georgia Pacific) and it was unbelievable. Thanks for the flashback😁
It moved from Atlanta to Miami and rebranded "urban week". And Miami has also been trying to get rid of it, and little by little they're succeeding. In the mid to late 2000's, they arrested over 2000 people over the 3 day weekend. Including Gilbert Arenas who was the franchise player for the Washington Wizards. For the life of me, I don't understand why people keep bringing their money where it's not wanted.
Dang they got Gil too? 😩😩😩
They tried to bring this to my hometown New Orleans in 1999 or 2000.
It didn't go well.
I was in college in the 90’s and I remember hearing about Freaknik but I never attended. The 90’s was a very interesting time.
Some of the major drug dealers were going to Atlanta to set up shop during that era. It was getting wild, while you were in college.
I was 12 years old from Detroit in Atlanta visiting my daddy for freaknik it was some of the funnest & wildest times of my life.. Atl freaknik was an epic classic legendary party.
Ahhhh yeah….those were the days!!!
A whole lot went on back then.🤫🤭
Spill the tea 😂😂
what you mean😭?
@@LaiyaUnscripted
Little Lady, I can’t BEGIN to tell you any of THOSE stories…you have to ask your parents or one of your aunties about it!😆
I will tell you this….
I was a Flight Attendant & worked for a new record label at the time & some of what I witnessed & those involved would have you looking like 😳😮🤭
That’s all I can tell you!
My mom danced in the 90’s and she loved and hated Freaknik as a dancer. It was a ton of money but also a ton cheap college students. I vividly remember being 8 or 9 stuck in a traffic jam caused by the partying and recall folks just wilding in the streets my mom was yelling at me to cover my eyes lol. Eventually it got old and I fell asleep in the backseat because the traffic would last for hours. I remember my mom would use the traffic to sell the last of the club calendars she always sold out too.
So your mother was a 304? Why would you post she was a stripper? Smh
@@mr.keptitreal no her mother had a job to support her family. Big difference.
@@mr.keptitreal get that lame ass KS talk outta here... 🤦🏾♀️ Eager to misunderstand just to try to label someone. That ain't a cute 😏
@@SirenScorpio You BIG mad 😠 😡 😤 or 304 mad? They put that BS in a open forum, while disrespecting their own mother isn't good. Go preach to that thotty. They posted it. Only 304's are strippers
@@mr.keptitreal but you have pics and videos inside strip clubs on your Instagram. Cut it out.
This was a good one. No one can make a video like us 😃❤
I feel adding a job fair was ridiculous. It’s spring break, kids are there to have fun.
Exactly
WOW.I remember freaknik,wanted to go,but I was transitioning between military services.Between 92-93,I was in the navy-93-96,I was in the army.I problably could've taken a 3 day pass or leave to attend,heard to much negative stuff happening at freaknik and I sure didn't want to get arrested.AH,the good ole days.
Same here. I was in the Navy 94-98 & NAS Atlanta was one of my duty stations.
@@daradiant1 COOL.Didn't know there was a naval station in Atlanta.I was in the navy from 89-til-93 and the army from 95-til-2001.
I was underage, and out there partying. Many people moved to Atlanta because of the freaknik, I remember it like it was yesterday! Also this was waay better than b4 the shootings and violence tore up our Atlanta streets! DAMN!
I used to go to the one in ATL and Galveston, Texas... Lawd, the stories I could tell! 😜
Tell us more...😂😂
Was out there getting nasty huh?🤦🏽♂️
Kappa beach party lol. Had my first child when I was 16, her mother was 20
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Give us the tea
Glad I was never this wild and out of control but still know how to have fun and enjoy life sensibly . Facts!
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Dag. Freaknik on Sister , Sister seemed so innocent. Not shocked at all. When it’s more than two gathered , good luck .
I was underage when Freaknik was going on. By the time I was legal it was not going on anymore. I guess it was for the best. I'm sure bad things happened especially to young women.
Y’all say this because you missed out lol
I’m 30 now but I had always wished I was old enough to go until I saw that True Life episode a few years ago 😕
Me too I’m 35.
Same I'm 34
I went every year I was at Spelman (88-91). The last year, I knew it was going downhill. When it was just us AUC students, it was a typical college event with lots of parties. In 1991, it seemed out of control. The signs where there Freaknic was going to end at some point
It seems it was like that everywhere. Greek fest and aggiefest too
@@ertfgghhhh I heard the same happened to them as well. It’s rather unfortunate.
I remember being like 7yrs old back in 91” telling my uncle I was gonna go when I get older he just laugh at me & said ok nephew & just showed me pictures of Freaknik. I was just lost for words but as I got older Freaknik was a thing of the pass they still had it but not like the way it was when my uncle went. During the 2000”s it all shifted too Black Beach on the coast in Mississippi & that was my mini Freaknik only a 3hrs drive at 16yr old I seen nothing like it & even Black Beach had it’s own problems & that’s when I learn we all can’t get together in one place & have fun. The good days🏁💯
Reminds me of the Greek fest AKA "Freak" fest we used to have on Long Island!
Lol I know what u talking bout lol im a Brooklyn and Queens native
Greek fest in Jones beach was the shit l am 54 and got drunk out there. It was shut down of course but it was fun
Yes I used to sneak and go there in my teens 🤣
@@renattapage6147 me too 😭🤣
There used to be one in philly also
I truly appreciate you speaking on all sides and views which gives great understanding!!!
Thanks so much and thanks for watching ❤
I always heard so many bad things about freaknik. Lol glad I wasn't old enough to attend and couldn't. A good thing bad people messed up.