Fab 5 Freddy
- Acting
- 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
- The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports · Self
- Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV · Executive producer
- Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes · Self
- The Andy Warhol Diaries · Self
- Hold Your Fire · Producer
- Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell · Self
- Keith Haring: Street Art Boy · Self
- Ricky Powell: The Individualist · Self
- It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet · Self
- Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America · Self
- Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks · Self
- A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy · Self
- Grass Is Greener · Director
- Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat · Self
- Basquiat: Rage to Riches · Self
- The Defiant Ones · Self
- Marvel's Luke Cage · Fab 5 Freddy
- Barry · Rameek
- Hustlers Convention · Self
- Nas: Time Is Illmatic · Self
- NB90s
- Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer · Self
- Picasso Baby · Self
- Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ · Self, Consulting Producer
- NB80s · Narrator (Voice)
- Blank City · Self
- Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child · Self
- Downtown Calling · Self
- Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB · Self
- Rachel Getting Married · Rehearsal Dinner Guest
- The Universe of Keith Haring · Self
- American Gangster · Smalls Patron
- TV Party · Self
- And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop · Self
- The Manchurian Candidate · Political Pundit
- Tupac: Resurrection · Self
- Blondie Greatest Video Hits · Self
- The Freshest Kids
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent · Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith
- Downtown '81 · Graffiti Artist
- The Hip Hop Years · Self
- Who's the Man? · Fab 5 Freddy
- Juice · Self
- New Jack City · Master of Ceremonies, Associate Producer
- Yo! MTV Raps · Self
- She's Gotta Have It · Dog 10
- Good to Go · Mr. Aint
- Loose Talk
- Wild Style · "Phade", Associate Producer
- TV Party
- Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story of American Gangster