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
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
Self
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
Wild Style
"Phade"
TV Party