Hulu’s Freaknik Documentary Gets Official Release Date

Uh oh, grab your popcorn because it’s about to get raunchy, and the OG partygoers may want to hide. Hulu has announced a release date for its long-anticipated “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told” documentary.

Hulu says the doc will premiere on March 23.

Jermaine Dupri produced the doc with Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell, 21 Savage, Terry “TR” Ross, Melissa Cooper, Alex Avant and Tresa Sanders. Last year, Dupri spoke with Tamron Hall about not wanting viewers to get caught up in the risqueness attached to Freaknik, which first started out as a spring break picnic for students attending Historically Black Colleges and universities in the 1980s.

“I want to say this to all of those people out there. My vision of Freaknik is really a story about the South and Atlanta. It’s not really a story about what everybody keeps talking about,” Dupri said in an April 2023 episode of Hall’s eponymous talk show. “I don’t like that part because I feel like it’s a little disrespectful because I’m just telling a story of Atlanta, right? And how Atlanta was built into the place that it is today. People came to Atlanta through Freaknik and they stayed. I say that in “Welcome to Atlanta” and that’s how Atlanta has become this multi-cultural place. Freaknik plays one of the biggest roles in that period.”

Over time, Freaknik shifted from college-themed events to parties, concerts, dance contests, and more. By the early 2000s, Freanik had come to a stop over concerns of sexual assaults and violence.