Is "Freaknik: The Musical" Atlanta's Finest Hour?

By A. Scott Walton
Wasn't it Don Quixote who said, "Comedy is tragedy, plus time"?
If so, "Man of La Mancha" meet T-Pain.
Some years back, according to lore, some Cartoon Network producers decided to make an animated ode to Freaknik; the loud, lewd and congestive street parties that hordes of (predominantly) black youth engaged in annually under the guise of a "Black Spring Break".
A decade after city officials sagely shut such gatherings down for good, some idiots still lament Freaknik's demise.
For them, the impossible dream's resurrected in the form of a 60-minute, animated re-enactment of the objectifying spectacle. It's "Freaknik: The Musical", airing late Sunday night.
T-Pain, the Grammy-winning Atlanta hip-hop producer takes a leading role.
Reportedly, he Auto-Tunes the character of the 'spook' of Freakniks past.
How's this for an image to savor? He looks like a blinged-out, gold-toothed Magnum condo with a pimp cup in his hand.
But it's all in good taste, of course. Otherwise, the locally-based cable network and a slew of Dirty South rappers and R&b dinosaurs wouldn't have shackled their names to this most tragic reflection of when "keepin' it real" goes wrong.
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