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Personal Info

Known Credits 38

Gender Male

Birthdate null (55 Y.O)

Place Of Birth Brooklyn, New York, USA

Also Known For Fred BrathwaiteFred BraithwaiteFab Five FreddyFred "Fab 5 Freddy" Brathwaite

Fab 5 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. ...

Known For

The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

Keith Haring: Street Art Boy

Ricky Powell: The Individualist

Acting

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

2023 -- Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes | Self

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

2020 -- Keith Haring: Street Art Boy | Self

2020 -- Ricky Powell: The Individualist | Self

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

2019 -- Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks | Self

2019 -- A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy | Himself - Presenter

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

2017 -- Basquiat: Rage to Riches | Self

2016 -- Barry | Rameek

2015 -- Hustlers Convention | Self

2014 -- Nas: Time Is Illmatic | Self

2013 -- NB90s |

2013 -- Picasso Baby | Self

2013 -- Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer | Self

2013 -- Keith Haring: The Message | Himself

2012 -- Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ | Self

2011 -- NB80s | Narrator (voice)

2011 -- Blank City | Self

2010 -- Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child | Self

2009 -- Downtown Calling | Self

2009 -- Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB | Self

2008 -- Rachel Getting Married | Rehearsal Dinner Guest

2008 -- The Universe of Keith Haring | Self

2007 -- American Gangster | Smalls Patron

2005 -- TV Party | Self

2004 -- The Manchurian Candidate | Political Pundit

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

2003 -- Tupac: Resurrection | Self (archival)

2002 -- Blondie Greatest Video Hits | Self (segment "Rapture")

2002 -- The Freshest Kids |

2001 -- Downtown '81 | Graffiti Artist

1993 -- Who's the Man? | Fab 5 Freddy

1992 -- Juice | Self

1991 -- New Jack City | Master of Ceremonies

1986 -- She's Gotta Have It | Dog 10

1982 -- Wild Style | "Phade"