Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Credits
51 titles
Fab 5 Freddy
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 - Filmmaker / Music Journalist
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
Himself - Presenter
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
Picasso Baby
Self
Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
Self
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Self
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 (archival)
Blondie Greatest Video Hits
Self (segment "Rapture")
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
Yo! MTV Raps
Self
She's Gotta Have It
Dog 10
Good to Go
Mr. Aint
Loose Talk
Wild Style
"Phade"
TV Party