New Freaknik Documentary Directed By Luke Coming to Hulu

Freaknik 96’ Photo Credit: Atlanta Journal Constitution

If you lived in or around Atlanta during the 90s, chances are you are very familiar with Freaknik. Legendary is not a big enough word to describe this event also considered the black college spring break.

I’ve never actually attended the real Freaknik because I was a young teen during the 90s. My mother wouldn’t dare allow me to go to Atlanta for this kind of debauchery but I do remember girls my age were going to “The A” to turn up.

I moved to Atlanta in 1998, the official last year of the festival but by then it was already over. Police barricaded all the streets and directed traffic out of the city. There was no fun to be had.

Living in Atlanta for as long as I have, I know Freaknik had to be annoying for those that lived in the city. Atlanta traffic is already the worst, imagine have thousands of college age kids partying and twerking in the streets. The powers that be have since shut all of it down but the freaky stories live on.

Promoters have tried to recreate and resurrect Freaknik but it has never made an official comeback, and it probably never will again.

Baller Alert — The iconic Atlanta festival that ran between the mid-1980s to the 1990s was a congregation of HBCU college students during the spring break season. Originally beginning as a picnic, the gathering grew each year before becoming a full-out festival that ballooned to thousands of visitors. Eventually, it would evolve into a days-long event filled with concerts, dance contests, parties, and even job fairs aimed at young Black professionals. Every element of this cultural phenomenon will be explored in the doc titled “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told.”

Alanta producer Jermaine Dupri and Miami bass pioneer Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell will serve as executive producers on the film. Luke was a frequent staple at Freaknik, so often aligned with the festival that many people believed he had a hand in starting it. However, his music became the soundtrack for this lively yearly party. Sadly, by 1998 the Atlanta Committee for Black College Spring Breakmoved to end the festival due to safety concerns, particularly sex assault claims and violence caused by a handful of troublemakers that ruined the festivities for everyone. Since its demise, many have attempted to recreate the magic, another factor the film will cover.

As of now, the film does not have a premiere date.

Autopsy Reveals Traces of Fentanyl, Heroin for Rap Legend Coolio Cause of Death

Coolio. Photo Credit: The New York Times

Damn! If you came up in the 90s era you know about Coolio. His hit song “Gangster’s Paradise” dominated the airwaves, charts & music television networks like MTV, VH1 & BET.

The video was dope as hell.

It’s sad to see another legend go down due to drug abuse. Fentanyl is so dangerous and the narcotic is being found in more and more street drugs & pills, and at an extremely alarming rate. Sometimes the user has no idea they are even consuming the drug. The effects can be deadly.

RIP Coolio.

Baller Alert — The “Gangsta’s Paradise” rapper’s manager Jarel (Jarez) Posey, confirmed Thursday that he died due to fentanyl. Coolio’s family also said he had traces of heroin and methamphetamines in his system. Investigators also determined that the rapper’s severe asthma and decades-long cigarette use also played a factor in his death and his body’s inability to fight back, TMZ reports.

Cash App Founder Killed in San Francisco Stabbing

Bob Lee

It’s getting wilder and wilder out here. Bob Lee, the creator of the mobile payment service CASH APP, was fatally stabbed and left to die on a San Francisco street.

For those outside of the UK and USA, CASH APP allows users to transfer money to one another using a mobile phone app. It’s hugely popular in the states giving companies like Western Union and Moneygram a “run for the money”.

Lee also had his hands in the cryptocurrency market.

As of now there are no clues as to why this tragedy occurred and no one has been held responsible for the murder.

It will be interesting to find out what happened here. It’s not everyday top executives are attacked and killed in street crime fashion. Crime analysts say stabbings are usually committed by someone the victim knows because of it’s personal nature.

Check back for more as this story unfolds. The crypto market has become quite dangerous. According to Grit Daily, 5 crypto billionaires and millionaires died in 2022. There have since been others.

NBC Bay Area — A high-profile Bay Area tech executive was killed in a stabbing in San Francisco.

Sources tell NBC Bay Area Bob Lee was attacked early Tuesday morning near Rincon Hill and the Bay Bridge.

Lee, 43, was the chief product officer of MobileCoin. He was also former chief technology officer of Square and one of the co-founders of Cash App.

Officers responded at about 2:35 a.m. to a report of a stabbing in the 300 block of Main Street and arrived to find Lee, who was taken to a hospital and succumbed to his injuries there.