Famous Atlanta radio host Ryan Cameron spoke out on his absence from the recent Hulu documentary around the ‘Freaknik' parties in the 80s and 90s. Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told, premiered last month on Hulu to mixed reviews due to several inaccuracies, including missing HBCU representation.

After weeks of inquiring about his representation in the documentary, Ryan Cameron joined the GAFollowers podcast to clear the air. Cameron is a beloved figure in the city, so much so that he recently became the voice of the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, arguably the busiest airport in the country.

“I had several meetings with the people at Hulu about the documentary,” Cameron said. “The reason that I didn't participate was because I think in this age of content, like we're doing now, I'm doing this for you as a favor and a friend. I'm not doing it for somebody who's going to try to dupe me and tell me that it's a documentary because somebody's making money off of it. In all of my meetings, they were like, ‘Nah man we want you to sit down.”

“I was like, ‘I can't sit down with you for nothing and help you make this story and this person's making money and this person's making money and Hulu's making money, and I'm just supposed to sit down.' People say, ‘I can't believe you weren't in that documentary. I want to go on the record and say I had meetings. The plan was to do it, but I can't just do something for free and watch you sit back and make money and go, ‘Yeah, I'm in it.' Shout out to everybody that's in it.

He later addressed the potential legal concerns of showing video without other people's consent.

“In this age of content, you can't put somebody on TV without their release. I don't care whose momma it is in that footage, they're going to sue you, and they're going to win. I think that the trailer had everybody shook. It was a good informational piece.”

Rapper and So So Def founder Jermaine Dupri, Luke “Uncle Luke” Campbell, and 21 Savage produced the documentary. Tamron Hall interviewed Dupri on his vision for the project and why he wanted to work on it.

“I want to say this to all of those people out there,” he said. “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. 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.”

Despite becoming a sort of haven for Black students, particularly HBCU students in the AUC and beyond, Freaknik quickly became a place brewing with violence, sexual assault, and public safety concerns. It ended in the early 2000s.