Fab 5 Freddy
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 31, 1959 (age 67)
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fred Brathwaite (born 1959), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American Hip hop historian, Hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist. He was active in New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s, and later hosted the first hip-hop music video show on TV, "Yo! MTV Raps". Description above from the Wikipedia article Fab 5 Freddy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story of American Gangster
Movie
The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
Movie · as Self
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Movie · as Self
The Andy Warhol Diaries
TV · as Self · 6 eps
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
Movie · as Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
Movie · as Self
It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
Movie · as Self
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
Movie · as Self
A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy
Movie · as Himself - Presenter
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Movie · as Self
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
TV · as Self · 6 eps
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Movie · as Self
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Movie · as Self
The Defiant Ones
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Barry
Movie · as Rameek
Marvel's Luke Cage
TV · as Fab 5 Freddy · 1 ep
Hustlers Convention
Movie · as Self
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Movie · as Self
Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
Movie · as Self
Picasso Baby
Movie · as Self
NB90s
Movie
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Movie · as Self
Blank City
Movie · as Self
NB80s
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Movie · as Self
Downtown Calling
Movie · as Self
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Movie · as Self
The Universe of Keith Haring
Movie · as Self
Rachel Getting Married
Movie · as Rehearsal Dinner Guest
American Gangster
Movie · as Smalls Patron
TV Party
Movie · as Self
The Manchurian Candidate
Movie · as Political Pundit
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Tupac: Resurrection
Movie · as Self (archival)
The Freshest Kids
Movie
Blondie Greatest Video Hits
Movie · as Self (segment "Rapture")
Downtown '81
Movie · as Graffiti Artist
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV · as Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith · 1 ep
I Love 1980's
TV · 1 ep
The Hip Hop Years
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Who's the Man?
Movie · as Fab 5 Freddy
Juice
Movie · as Self
New Jack City
Movie · as Master of Ceremonies
Yo! MTV Raps
TV · as Self · 50 eps
She's Gotta Have It
Movie · as Dog 10
Good to Go
Movie · as Mr. Aint
Loose Talk
TV · 1 ep
Wild Style
Movie · as "Phade"
TV Party
TV · 7 eps