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If your grand momma, momma, or auntie is named Keisha, she was busting wide open at Freaknik back in the day.🤣
Before breaking down this energy surrounding Hulu’s upcoming Freaknik documentary, I had to get my kee-kee in.
Now let’s get into a little Freaknik history.
Freaknik’s Scandalous Rise and Demise
Freaknik was an annual spring break party in Atlanta, Georgia, from the mid-1980s until the late 1990s. It was initially a local event attended by students from historically black colleges and universities in Atlanta. Still, it grew in size and popularity over the years, attracting thousands of people nationwide.
Freaknik was known for its lively and raucous atmosphere, with participants often engaging in wild behavior such as dancing in cars, drinking, and partying in the streets. The event also had a strong musical component, with DJs and performers entertaining the crowds with hip-hop and R&B music.
As the event grew in size, it also attracted criticism and controversy. Some residents complained about the noise, litter, and disruptive behavior associated with Freaknik, while others accused the event of promoting negative stereotypes of African Americans. In response, the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia passed laws and regulations to control and eventually end the event.
Freaknik continued to be held in smaller, unofficial forms for several years after its heyday in the 1990s, it eventually faded away as a cultural phenomenon. However, the legacy of Freaknik continues to be felt in Atlanta’s hip-hop and party scenes, and the event remains a notable part of the city’s history.
Now let’s get into the controversy surrounding Hulu’s upcoming Freaknik documentary.
The Hidden Fears: Black Women Worried About the New Freaknik Documentary
Now, word on the street is a lot of Aunties are nervous about this documentary. Those wild, free-spirited college girls dancing on top of cars, half-naked, while Uncle Luke’s Pop That P**** played in the background are now dignified mothers and wives with government jobs and good-ass benefits.
A few Black professional women filed a lawsuit to block the documentary’s release because they didn’t sign media releases.
I call cap on this lawsuit.
Here’s why:
The lawsuit is some spellwork used to conjure up hype, hysteria, and publicity for the documentary. In other words, the controversy will make people want to watch it. Some folks will watch to see if they see somebody they know.
The second reason I call cap on this lawsuit is that these sistas don’t even know if they’re featured in the documentary. It’s like they’re dry snitching on themselves. Perhaps they would have a case if they were ones bustin’ it open on top of cars. If that’s the case, it’s best that they lay low. In other words, why file a lawsuit? It will only draw attention to something embarrassing you don’t want people to see.
Plus, there are several documentaries and videos on YouTube about Freaknik. The footage is out there on full display (no pun intended).
Speaking of the documentaries…
I stumbled across one a few years ago on YouTube. Needless to say, it was an eye-opener for me. Of course, I knew about Freaknik but didn’t know how ratchet, scandalous, and raunchy it had become. And I didn’t know so many young women were sexually assaulted.
At any rate, the pot has been stirred, and everybody and their mama Keisha will be locked into Hulu for all that Freaknik tea, honey.
Now, let’s get into my spiritual breakdown and the occult side of Freaknik.
The Power of Words: How ‘Freaknik’ Affects Black People’s Vibrational Energy
The energy you send out is the energy that returns to you.
In our ancient biblical text, it’s the Law of sowing and reaping.
It’s also the law of “like attracts like,” also known as the law of Attraction.
How does this relate to FreakniK?
The picnic originators chose the name Freaknik based on a popular dance and song from the disco group Chic. The group had a huge hit song in 1978 called LeFreak.
So the college students who launched Freaknik combined the words freak with picnic to create Freaknik.
As black folks, we are extra (for better or worse).
On the surface, the name is kind of cute, unique, and catchy.
I can’t front.
Still, it seemed a bit odd to place the word Freak in a picnic’s name.
But on a deeper level, it’s tapping into and conjuring certain energies.
In the 70s, 80s, and 90s, the word freak had a strong sexual connotation. And it still does to this day.
A freak is someone who’s down for whatever and will do whatever with whomever…nothing or no one is off limits sexually.
So the name freaknik carries that same sexually charged frequency and vibration into the universe.
Remember, by Divine Law, the energy you put out is the energy that will come back to you.
And that “freak” energy returned to Atlanta in the worst way by the mid-90s.
This energy attracted males and females who vibrated on the level of sexual debauchery, depravity, and perversion.
Of course, not everyone who attended Freaknik was down with that low-vibrational energy.
But there was a critical mass of individuals who were, so things got a hand with so many young women (men) being violated. I heard there were numerous cases of young women being sexually assaulted and ending up with STDs and pregnancies.
By the late 90s, Freaknik had become so depraved the organizers tried to rebrand it as Freedomfest.
Remember, the name of a thing is its nature. And names carry energies, frequencies, and vibrations.
Now compare the word Freaknik to Freedom Fest. Even when you say those words, you can feel the different vibrations between the two. Freaknik is low vibrational, and Freedom Fest is high vibrational.
Vibration and frequency are the languages of the Most High’s Universe.
The Black folk who show up at Freaknik and those who show up at Freedom Fest are two different groups of people for the most part. Of course, there will be some overlap. You have people who felt “at home” at both events.
Now let’s dive into what I call The Purge: The Atlanta Freaknik Edition.
Freaknik: A Time of Celebration or a Purge?
You know, the 2013 movie The Purge? The plot’s premise is based on an annual one-night event where the citizens can commit any crime without being penalized by the law.
I thought about that when I rewatched a YouTube Freaknik documentary.
One of the themes in the documentary was Freaknik was an opportunity to let off steam, to release all this pent-up energy built up from being focused on college studies.
So Freaknik was an event that allowed college students (and others) to purge.
And in the documentary, one brotha said something very revealing.
He said there was a spirit with Freaknik that was so powerful that the city officials couldn’t stop the event. At Freaknik’s peak, Mayor Bill Campbell was pressured to do something because there were massive traffic jams, businesses were broken into, some people were looting, women were assaulted, etc. It was so bad some Atlanta residents left town during Freaknik.
And Mayor Campbell felt he couldn’t stop it (or he didn’t want to). By this time, Freanik was generating about $20 million a year for the city, with upwards of 400,000 people showing up from around the world to get their freak on.
Anyway, the Freaknik spirit was so strong that Mayor Campbell stepped aside and had a committee work to shut it down. What started out as a get-together for HBCU students who couldn’t go home for spring break turned into a week-long purge where people acted out their most depraved sexual desires.
So let’s dive deeper into this Freaknik spirit.
The Root Chakra and Its Connection to Freaknik
The spirit of Freanik is a sexual energy that taps into the root chakra.
The root chakra is located in the area of your reproductive organs. It’s a life force energy. But when this energy is misused or abused, it becomes destructive instead of productive. And that’s what happened with Freaknik.
The unbridled sexual energy turned into toxic, dangerous, and violent behavior.
Freaknik started in 1983 and had steady growth.
However, the turning point for the event took place in 1993, when event producers Kristina Copeland and Ronne Greene, had Uncle Luke perform. From that point forward, Freaknik went off the rails.
I’m not blaming Uncle Luke for all the foolishness at Freaknik, but I’m addressing this matter from a spiritual/occult perspective.
There’s a direct connection between the energy of Uncle Luke’s music and the downward spiral of Freaknik.
And remember that when you’re dealing with the root chakra, you’re dealing with fire energy.
The vibration and frequency of Luke’s music added fuel to that flame.
So let’s get into it, shall we?
From Beats to Mayhem: Uncle Luke’s Music Unleashed the Chaos of Freaknik
Luther Campbell, aka Uncle Luke, is the founder of Luke Skyywalker Records (now Luke Records).
He’s best known as a rapper who fronted the group 2 Live Crew. Luke and his group were well known for their raunchy lyrics set to Miami bass music.
In 1989 they released their third album, As Nasty as They Wanna Be. It was so sexually explicit that the United States District Court for the Sothern District of Florida ruled the album legally obscene. The ruling was overturned, and the album was 2 Live Crew’s biggest-selling album.
The big hit from that album was the infamous Me So Horny.
Uncle Luke and his group are known for songs such as Pop That Coochie, We Want Some P****, Throw That D.
So that’s some background and context for where I’m going next, especially if you’re unfamiliar with rapper Uncle Luke.
Luke and the 2 Live Crew‘s music targets the root chakra, especially with its heavy bass.
You see, the root chakra sits at the base of your spine. So their music resonates and “speaks” to the root chakra.
So when you set hypersexual lyrics to some dope, heavy bass beats, it can inflame that root chakra or open up portals (or Pandora’s box).
Again by 1993, Freaknik is already off the chain. And adding Luke to the mix turned the fiery picnic into a raging inferno. The Atlanta-Journal Consitution reported, “Luke’s provocative music and style changed the nature of the event from a picnic to a street party.”
In other words, Freaknik began reflecting the frequency and vibration of Luke’s music.
So his music attracted people who were on that the nigga-ho frequency.
The next thing you know, you got all these non-college students showing up.
There’s nudity and wild partying.
In my research, pimps and prostitutes were running amuck. Reportedly, people were engaged in sexually decadent behavior all out in public spaces.
I guess those freaks didn’t have time to get a motel room. They just wanted mo’ tail right then and there.☹️
Plus, you got the alcohol which conjures up spirits in people and lowers their inhibitions
All these energies created a perfect storm for the sexual degeneracy that took over Freaknik.
Before I go, answer this question:
What factors do you think contributed to the chaos of Freaknik?