Who Remembers FREAKNIK?

One year, '94 I think, me and my dude were in the parking lot of Club XS, and we hopped on the hood of this slow moving Jetta with 2 broads inside. My boy says, "Yo, y'all gon' be our parade float!" (we weren't exactly sober), and the passenger said, "Damn all that! It makes more sense for y'all to be in the car, not on it!" Me and him look at each like "Werd?" We hang out with them, and end up at their room at a Red Roof Inn on N. Druid Hills. They were students at Bethune Cookman. Ah, fun times!


most of the females we were fucking with came out of north carolina at shaw, johnson c smith and A&T
 
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I was there in 93 and 94. I stayed at the Scandanavian House on Peachtree and 3rd with Moorehouse fam. We were trying to holla at these girls from Detriot that were in a honda civic. Whenever the line moved we kept telling the chicks to pull up and dont let anyone get in between us...so that we could holla at them eventually.

Once the girl driving let too much space get between us and them. So she floored it in an effort to close the gap. In that instant, a car from Tennessee was trying to cut across her path. The girl from Detroit t-boned the female from Tennessee. The driver behind the wheel in the car from Detriot started shaking. And then she started yelling and cursing at the other driver from Tenn. We tried to calm her and her crew down.

There was a cop at the corner of the acciddnent who was playing dumb like he did not see or hear anything related to the accident. I ran over to him and told him to turn around and handle it before the girls from Detroit turned that chick from Tenn's car over. He walked over to the scene and we jumped back into my boy's ride.

Come to find out the chick took her boyfriend's car without him knowing and drove it to Atlanta.


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In 94, we walked to Piedmont during both years to hang out. I saw a girl go into a port-a-potty to use the batroom. As soon as she went in, 3 guys rushed it and tried to turn it over. The POP swayed back and forth and flung the chick out of the front. She hit her head as the door swayed open. Plenty of people lost interest in using the POPs after that.

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In 93 the crowd was mad deep in Piedmont Park. We were near some shallow lake when someone set off some fireworks (which sounded like gunshots). All of a sudden a stampeded sea of black people turned around and started running in all directions. We had to make a split decision on whether to duck and dodge between all of the people approaching us or turn around ahead of the crowd and run ourselves (in an effort to keep from getting trampled). We turned around and almost ran into the water when the crowd calmed down. That scene in Jurrasic Park when they were running and dodging the dinosaurs in the open field is exactly how it played out in my mind years later.

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In 94 we were back at Piedmont. There was supposed to be a concert featuring Snoop and a dozen other people...or so we thought.

This year it was even more crowded! No cell phones, so you had to think ahead. We were elbow to elbow in people in the park. I remembered what happended the last time. It was getting late and I looked up and noticed that there were no lights at all in the park and it did not look like any kind of concert was going to kick off. I was like how are all of these people gonna get out of here in the pitch black dark?

So I told my peeps that I was going to head over to the stage area by these 3 U-haul trucks parked on the grass. AS SOON AS I GOT to the trucks, stuff popped off. People started running everywhere. People climbed on top of the trucks. People ran under the trucks. Some jus held on the back of the trucks. The crowd dwindled after that.

I saw all kinds of ratchetness and met some cool chicks in between. Chicks stripping in cars. Walking arounf half nekid....letting you do whatever when you took pictures with them. We crashed college house parties near midtown, hung out at Dugans on Piedmont. And I think that we saw one of those Tony-Toni-Tone dudes. One year I walked right past the Fab 5. Everyone was there except for CWebb....we all know why.

Yep, seen that dude from TTT also lol
 
I forgot to add. I don't know how I could forget the look on this white girl's face when she felt the wrath of young black amerikkka for PLANNING HER WEDDING ON THE WEEKEND OF FREAKNIK. I can only imagine how disastrous that was for her.

We creeped past a church in Atlanta on some side street. Traffic was moving about a block an hour. It was jammed packed in both directions. I look to my left and I see fragments of a wedding party scattered across the front yard of the church. The bride was practically in tears and stress out. :smh: @ those cacs trying to make it to a wedding in a sea of black people. I saw dudes taking a puff of weed and blowing the weed smoke into white folks cars. I saw people yelling at cacs in their cars who had their windows rolled up. Cacs were losing their minds.

My man, the scene was so thick
Lowriders, seventy-seven Sevilles
El Do's, nuttin' but them 'Llacs
All the players, all the hustlers
I'm talkin' 'bout a black man heaven here
You know what I'm sayin', yeah





Man I still have one of my shirts in my closet. :lol:

Someone is selling some on ebay for $149.00
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-90s...e-Hip-Hop-So-So-Def-2-Live-Crew-/262670036454

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Also, in the late 90s I think that there were some chat groups on yahoo or talkcity or something for everything. BBW, Daytona, Greekfest, etc. I never made it to Daytona. The mayor in Virgina Beach killed that Labor Day Weekend event before I could make it there too, I hit BBW in Myrtle a couple of times until the flag boycott movement registered with me.
 
One of my friends needed some trees and we went to a strip and copped some for him. Shit was wild. I remember seeing cats get crunk for the first time down there. I remember chicks and dudes up in Club 112 getting crunk and throwing bows. I was like what the f#ck. Getting Crunk hadn't hit the National scene yet. At the time I was like that must be ATL's version of ruff-it-off. My DC heads will know what I am talmbout. I remember telling chicks we are from DC and they was like "Decatur"??? That's what ATL cats called Decatur. I didn't know. Lol. I remember seeing Bankhead for the first time. I was like "that's it, this is where the Bankhead Bounce came from"??? Lol. I remember I-85 getting shutdown and folks partying on the highway. I was drunk off HennRock and Alize. I thought I was a bartender in the back of the Tahoe making Incredible Hulks. Good times.

Edit: My folks still got the VHS and the pics of all the trips we took in the 90's. It's some incriminating shit. Well, not for me. All my friends children that were born after that, if they ever find out what they fathers were doing. Lol. My ex wife (she was my girl at the time) saw the pics and VHS and boy did I hear it. My man got sloppy with the tapes and the pics in his apartment. That's how she saw it. I was a good boy, though. I was just hollerin. I didn't smash anything. lol.
 
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