Name
Fab 5 Freddy
Known For
Acting
Birthday
(56 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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".
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- 2008 The Universe of Keith Haring as Self
- 2023 The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports as Self
- 2023 Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes as Self
- 2010 Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child as Self
- 2013 Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer as Self
- 2014 Nas: Time Is Illmatic as Self
- 1993 Who's the Man? as Fab 5 Freddy
- 2001 Downtown '81 as Graffiti Artist
- 2012 Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ as Self
- 1982 Wild Style as "Phade"
- 1992 Juice as Self
- 2007 American Gangster as Smalls Patron
- 2015 Hustlers Convention as Self
- 2002 The Freshest Kids
- 2011 Blank City as Self
- 2016 Barry as Rameek
- 1991 New Jack City as Master of Ceremonies
- 2017 Basquiat: Rage to Riches as Self
- 2002 Blondie Greatest Video Hits as Self (segment "Rapture")
- 2009 Downtown Calling as Self
- 2009 Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB as Self
- 2005 TV Party as Self
- 2019 A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy as Himself - Presenter
- 2019 Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks as Self
- 1986 She's Gotta Have It as Dog 10
- 2011 NB80s as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 Keith Haring: Street Art Boy as Self
- 2013 Picasso Baby as Self
- 2013 NB90s
- 2018 Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat as Self
- 2020 It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet as Self
- 2021 Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell as Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist
- 2008 Rachel Getting Married as Rehearsal Dinner Guest
- 2004 The Manchurian Candidate as Political Pundit
- 2020 Ricky Powell: The Individualist as Self
- 2003 Tupac: Resurrection as Self (archival)
- 1986 Good to Go as Mr. Aint
- Soon Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story of American Gangster
- 2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent ( 1 episode ) as Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith
- 2016 Marvel's Luke Cage ( 1 episode ) as Fab 5 Freddy
- 2022 The Andy Warhol Diaries ( 6 episodes ) as Self
- 1999 The Hip Hop Years ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1988 Yo! MTV Raps ( 50 episodes ) as Self
- 2017 The Defiant Ones ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2019 Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America ( 6 episodes ) as Self
- 1978 TV Party ( 7 episodes )
- 2004 And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 1983 Loose Talk ( 1 episode )
