Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia to kick off her nationwide Financial Alternative Tour. Whereas within the Peach State, Harris met with Atlanta Hip-Hop legend Jermaine Dupri.
Kamala Harris’s journey to Atlanta centered on highlighting the town receiving $158 million in federal funding for “The Sew” venture. In accordance with Jermaine Dupri, the veep additionally had a chat a couple of historic ATL spring break competition.
“In Collepark with THE Vice President @kamalaharris [talking about Freaknik],” Dupri wrote because the caption for an Instagram video with him and Harris. Their dialogue couldn’t be heard, so JD could have been joking concerning the matter of dialog.
Jermaine Dupri served as an government producer for Hulu’s lately launched Freaknik: The Wildest Social gathering By no means Instructed. The documentary targeting the story of Freaknik rising from a picnic for Atlanta College Heart college students within the Eighties to an iconic citywide occasion within the Nineties.
“Should you took benefit of Freaknik the way in which I did with So So Def, you additionally realized that it was corporations on this metropolis, music corporations that was placing out music,” Jermaine Dupri informed AllHipHop.com in March 2024. “So I give Freaknik rattling close to 60% of the credit score for catapulting the Atlanta South music scene.”
Kamala Harris attended a traditionally black faculty and college (HBCU) like Atlanta College Heart’s Spelman School and Morehouse School, The Democratic politician graduated from Washington, DC’s Howard College in 1986.