Biography
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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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Filmography
Cast Credits
The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2023
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2023
The Andy Warhol Diaries
Character: Self
TV • 2022
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
Character: Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist
MOVIE • 2021
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2020
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2020
It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2020
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
Character: Self
TV • 2019
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2019
A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy
Character: Himself - Presenter
MOVIE • 2019
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2018
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2017
The Defiant Ones
Character: Self
TV • 2017
Marvel's Luke Cage
Character: Fab 5 Freddy
TV • 2016
Barry
Character: Rameek
MOVIE • 2016
Hustlers Convention
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2015
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2014
NB90s
Character:
MOVIE • 2013
Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2013
Picasso Baby
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2013
Crew
Crew Credits
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2023
Hold Your Fire
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2021
Grass Is Greener
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2019
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Role: Consulting Producer
MOVIE • 2012
New Jack City
Role: Associate Producer
MOVIE • 1991
Wild Style
Role: Music
MOVIE • 1982
Wild Style
Role: Original Concept
MOVIE • 1982
Wild Style
Role: Associate Producer
MOVIE • 1982