Fab 5 Freddy
Department: Acting
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
The Universe of Keith Haring
2008
The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
2023
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010
Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
2013
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
Who's the Man?
1993
Downtown '81
2001
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012
Wild Style
1982
Juice
1992
American Gangster
2007
Hustlers Convention
2015
The Freshest Kids
2002
Blank City
2011
Barry
2016
New Jack City
1991
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
2017
Blondie Greatest Video Hits
2002
Downtown Calling
2009
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
2004
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009
TV Party
2005
A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy
2019
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
2019
She's Gotta Have It
1986
NB80s
2011
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
2020
Picasso Baby
2013
NB90s
2013
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
2018
It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
2020
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
2021
Rachel Getting Married
2008
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
2020
Tupac: Resurrection
2003
Good to Go
1986
Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story of American Gangster
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Marvel's Luke Cage
2016
The Andy Warhol Diaries
2022
The Hip Hop Years
1999
Yo! MTV Raps
1988
The Defiant Ones
2017
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
2019
TV Party
1978