Fab 5 Freddy
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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".
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Movies (41)

The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
2023 · Self

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023 · Executive Producer

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023 · Self

Hold Your Fire
2021 · Producer

Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
2021 · Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist

Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
2020 · Self

Ricky Powell: The Individualist
2020 · Self

It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
2020 · Self

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
2019 · Self
A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy
2019 · Himself - Presenter

Grass Is Greener
2019 · Director

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
2018 · Self

Basquiat: Rage to Riches
2017 · Self

Barry
2016 · Rameek

Hustlers Convention
2015 · Self

Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014 · Self

NB90s
2013

Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
2013 · Self
Picasso Baby
2013 · Self

Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012 · Self, Consulting Producer

NB80s
2011 · Narrator (voice)

Blank City
2011 · Self

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010 · Self

Downtown Calling
2009 · Self

Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009 · Self

El casamiento de Raquel
2008 · Rehearsal Dinner Guest

The Universe of Keith Haring
2008 · Self

Gángster Americano
2007 · Smalls Patron

TV Party
2005 · Self

El embajador del miedo
2004 · Political Pundit

Tupac: Resurrection
2003 · Self (archival)

Blondie Greatest Video Hits
2002 · Self (segment "Rapture")

The Freshest Kids
2002

Downtown '81
2001 · Graffiti Artist

Who's the Man?
1993 · Fab 5 Freddy

Juice
1992 · Self

New Jack City
1991 · Master of Ceremonies, Associate Producer

She's Gotta Have It
1986 · Dog 10

Good to Go
1986 · Mr. Aint

Wild Style
1982 · "Phade", Original Concept, Associate Producer, Original Music Composer

Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story of American Gangster
TV shows (11)

Los diarios de Andy Warhol
2022 · Self

Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
2019 · Self

The Defiant Ones
2017 · Self

Marvel - Luke Cage
2016 · Fab 5 Freddy

And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
2004 · Self

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith
I Love 1980's
2001

The Hip Hop Years
1999 · Self

Yo! MTV Raps
1988 · Self
Loose Talk
1983

TV Party
1978
