Freaknik: The Musical
An animated musical special based on the Atlanta festival.
Freaknik: The Musical is an American animated musical television special produced by T-Pain, first broadcast in March 2010 on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim. The special is based on the actual music festival of the same name that used to take place in Atlanta, Georgia, and features T-Pain as the voice of the Ghost of Freaknik, alongside a cast including Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross, and comedians Andy Samberg and Charlie Murphy.
- field
- Animated musical television special
- network
- Adult Swim (Cartoon Network)
- producer
- T-Pain
- release_date
- March 2010
- runtime
- 49 minutes (uncut version)
- soundtrack_label
- Jive Records / Nappy Boy Entertainment
- based_on
- Freaknik music festival (Atlanta, Georgia)
Lore & Background
The special follows a group of young adults from Sweet Tea, Florida—Virgil, Big Uzi, and Light Skin, known as the Sweet Tea Mobsters—who travel to Atlanta to compete in a rapping contest hosted by the Ghost of Freaknik. Along the way, they encounter a secret society called the Boule, a parody of prominent African American figures, and face a giant robotic monster called the Perminator, a rebuilt version of Al Sharpton. The plot culminates in a battle where Freaknik, empowered by the crowd's love, destroys the Perminator and declares the Sweet Tea Mobsters the winners.
Reader's Guide
Freaknik: The Musical originated from a failed pilot titled That Crook'd 'Sipp, created by Mike Weiss, Jacob Escobedo, and Nick Weidenfeld, which premiered in May 2007 but was scrapped in mid-2009. The special aired on Adult Swim on March 7, 2010, drawing 797,000 viewers aged 18-34, making it the second most-watched program of the night on the block. IGN gave it a score of 6.1 out of 10, deeming it 'Passable.' The uncut 49-minute version was released on DVD in October 2010, and a soundtrack was released in April 2010 by Jive Records and Nappy Boy Entertainment. The special is notable for its blend of music, satire, and surreal humor, reflecting the legacy of the Freaknik festival.
Did You Know?
- The special features voice work from T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross, Andy Samberg, and Charlie Murphy.
- The uncut version includes a scene where George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, and Gene 'King Poo Poo Man' Anderson appear as aliens in a spaceship.
- The characters Big Uzi and Virgil originally appeared in the failed pilot That Crook'd 'Sipp.
- A soundtrack single 'Ghetto Commandments' was released on iTunes on March 23, 2010.
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