I Blame the Entertainment Industry for how ATL is today

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

If you was going to ATL in the 90s you know what im talking about. ATL used to be the land of thick chicks and opportunity for black people. Once the entertainment industry flooded the city is when you started to see that debauchery.

Alot of that stuff was brought in from out of towers. Same thing happening in Houston right now.

 

[UpAndComing]

Someone told me who was from ATL that it changed because of the 1996 Olympics, and wasn't the same since

I want someone to explain that to me, because I don't know how it happened

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

Zest capital of the Universe

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

I just feel like wherever that industry goes that lifestyle does as well and it tears the city up. I remember as a kid going to ATL visiting family and even my early 20s around early 2000s it was a different place. Whenever those music people and acting people go that mess follow.

 

[DaKidFromNoWhere]

Someone told me who was from ATL that it changed because of the 1996 Olympics, and wasn't the same since

I want someone to explain that to me, because I don't know how it happened

I have heard this also.

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Once ATL became the black Hollywood and they took over hip hop that lifestyle spread through the city.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Once ATL became the black Hollywood and they took over hip hop that lifestyle spread through the city.

This

My fam came to ATL in 99.. I guess that was the beginning of Black Hollywood and the end of when ATL was fun/cool place to be as a black person.

I wouldn’t dare live there now.. mainly because of traffic

 

[Sir ZDuke]

Someone told me who was from ATL that it changed because of the 1996 Olympics, and wasn't the same since

I want someone to explain that to me, because I don't know how it happened

I’ll preface this by saying I’m hypothesizing. In the lead up to the Olympics, infrastructure spending is ramped up, that money comes from a mix of the federal government funds, tax increases and cuts to other areas, for the last two that directly inconveniences locals. Add that to the never ending traffic from construction in that period. You also have the phenomenon of the Olympics shinning a spotlight on the host city, making people want to live there. The city wants this, since it’s more people to tax to recoup all the money they spent on infrastructure

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

This

My fam came to ATL in 99.. I guess that was the beginning of Black Hollywood and the end of when ATL was fun/cool place to be as a black person.

I wouldn’t dare live there now.. mainly because of traffic

My uncle bought a house in Stone Mountain in the early 90s. Every summer through my childhood and teenage years was spent there and going throughout ATL. As I became an adult ill say mid 2000s is when I started to see the change. I know the natives say it was the Olympics could've been I just think once it got on some black Hollywood tip and ATL became the home of hip hop is when I started seeing ATL go down.

 

[MajesticLion]

 

[Hater Eraser]

Someone told me who was from ATL that it changed because of the 1996 Olympics, and wasn't the same since

I want someone to explain that to me, because I don't know how it happened

They killed Freaknik

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

They killed Freaknik

I mean as a kid/teen in the 90s I didn't see it i just knew my older cousins would tell us about it. I mean im wondering how do it get to where it is in 2026?

 

[Hater Eraser]

I mean as a kid/teen in the 90s I didn't see it i just knew my older cousins would tell us about it. I mean im wondering how do it get to where it is in 2026?

I think 96 was the last year of Freaknic in preparation for the Olympics .. They changed the whole infrastructure for it was what I heard .. I think thats when ATL graduated from being known more as a country city into a Metropolis. I think the whole culture of the city changed to a more rigid upscale almost bougie type of feel ... But it was and always will be black Mecca to me

 

[010101]

the face of the community/culture was once the complete opposite of what it is now

something particular happened down there

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[Yagirlcheatinonus]

How ATL go from a promising black mecca with bad black women affordable big housing, hbcus, major night clubs to what it is today?