Fab 5 Freddy
January 1, 1970 (54 years old) in Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
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Credits
- 2023 · The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports as Self
- 2023 · Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes as Self
- 2022 · The Andy Warhol Diaries as Self
- 2021 · Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell as Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist
- 2020 · Keith Haring: Street Art Boy as Self
- 2020 · It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet as himself
- 2019 · Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America as Self
- 2019 · Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks as Self
- 2019 · A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy as Himself - Presenter
- 2018 · Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat as Self
- 2017 · Basquiat: Rage to Riches as Self
- 2017 · The Defiant Ones as Self
- 2016 · Marvel's Luke Cage as Fab 5 Freddy
- 2016 · Barry as Rameek
- 2015 · Hustlers Convention as Self
- 2014 · Nas: Time Is Illmatic as Self
- 2013 · NB90s as
- 2013 · Picasso Baby as Self
- 2013 · Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer as Self
- 2013 · Keith Haring: The Message as Himself
- 2012 · Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ as Self
- 2011 · NB80s as Narrator (voice)
- 2011 · Blank City as Self
- 2010 · Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child as Self
- 2009 · Downtown Calling as Self
- 2009 · Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB as Self
- 2008 · Rachel Getting Married as Rehearsal Dinner Guest
- 2008 · The Universe of Keith Haring as Self
- 2007 · American Gangster as Smalls Patron
- 2005 · TV Party as Self
- 2004 · The Manchurian Candidate as Political Pundit
- 2004 · And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop as Self
- 2002 · Blondie Greatest Video Hits as Self (segment "Rapture")
- 2002 · The Freshest Kids as
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith
- 2001 · Downtown '81 as Graffiti Artist
- 1999 · The Hip Hop Years as Self
- 1993 · Who's the Man? as Fab 5 Freddy
- 1992 · Juice as Self
- 1991 · New Jack City as Master of Ceremonies
- 1988 · Yo! MTV Raps as Self
- 1986 · She's Gotta Have It as Dog 10
- 1982 · Wild Style as "Phade"
- 1978 · TV Party as