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Fab 5 Freddy

Acting

Born August 31, 1959 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

Also known as Fred Brathwaite · Fred Braithwaite · Fab Five 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.

Filmography33 titles

Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America

as Self

The Defiant Ones

2017as Self

American Gangster

2007as Smalls Patron

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001as Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith

Keith Haring: Street Art Boy

2020as Self

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

2010as Self

Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

2021as Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist

Juice

1992as Self

Blank City

2010as Self

Nas: Time Is Illmatic

2014as Self

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

2018as Self

Luke Cage

2016as Fab 5 Freddy

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

2023Executive Producer

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

2019as Self

The Andy Warhol Diaries

2022as Self

Grass is Greener

2019Director

Downtown 81

2000as Graffiti Artist

New Jack City

1991as Master of Ceremonies

She's Gotta Have It

1986as Dog 10

Hold Your Fire

2021Producer

The Manchurian Candidate

2004as Political Pundit

Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer

2013as Self

Rachel Getting Married

2008as Rehearsal Dinner Guest

Wild Style

1982as "Phade"

Basquiat: Rage to Riches

2017as Self

Barry

2016as Rameek

Hustlers Convention

2015as Self

Who's the Man?

1993as Fab 5 Freddy

Ricky Powell: The Individualist

2020as Self

It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet

2020as Self

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

2023as Self

NB90s

2013

NB80s

2011as Narrator (voice)