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.
Harris’s journey to Atlanta targeted on the $158 million in federal funding the town obtained for “The Sew” challenge. In line with Dupri, the VP additionally had a chat a couple of historic ATL spring break pageant.
“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 might have been joking in regards to the matter of dialog.
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Jermaine Dupri served as an govt producer for Hulu’s just lately launched Freaknik: The Wildest Celebration By no means Instructed. The documentary focused on the story of Freaknik rising from a picnic for Atlanta College Middle college students within the Nineteen Eighties to an iconic citywide occasion within the Nineteen Nineties.
“For those who 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 instructed AllHipHop in March. “So I give Freaknik rattling close to 60 p.c of the credit score for catapulting the Atlanta South music scene.”
Harris attended a traditionally black school and college (HBCU) like Atlanta College Middle’s Spelman School and Morehouse School. The Democratic politician graduated from Washington D.C.’s Howard College in 1986.
