Get Your Freaknik On

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Trymaine Lee, MS NOW

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4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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For 15 years, Atlanta held the biggest, wildest party the country has ever seen. Hear the story of Freaknik, through the people who lived it.

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0:00.0	You might not ever cross a black person in the United States who has never heard about
0:10.0	freefix.
0:11.4	Freefix in many ways is what Woodstock was for white people.
0:14.9	People were grilling out some of the frats were stepping, you know, people were just
0:19.2	really just hanging out.
0:20.7	They grew and grew and grew and grew really big.
0:23.6	I mean, people were coming from all over the country, not just college students, but
0:27.6	young black singles.
0:30.6	Ain't been nothing like freefix.
0:32.2	He blurs out freefix, you gotta come and tell me this is out of control.
0:35.0	I'm like, what is it?
0:36.0	He's like, it's just imagine the biggest blackest home coming, but in the spring, I'm
0:42.9	like, wait, I have to be there.
0:46.1	It was a different kind of freedom.
0:48.3	It was like freedom, but it was also like solid there.
0:51.9	Freedom, like a small nation.
0:54.3	It was a perfect storm.
0:55.8	You know, we could not have any milk.
0:58.2	It had to have to have banana.
1:01.8	Freaknik.
1:02.8	Freaknik was a legendary street party that started in Atlanta back in the early 80s.
1:09.0	Every third week of April, for more than 15 years, young black people from all across
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