Fab 5 Freddy
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also known as
Fred Brathwaite, Fred Braithwaite
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.
Filmography (40)
The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
2023
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
2021
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
2020
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
2020
It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
2020
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
2019
A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy
2019
Grass Is Greener
2019
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
2018
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
2017
Barry
2016
Hustlers Convention
2015
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
NB90s
2013
Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
2013
Picasso Baby
2013
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012
NB80s
2011
Blank City
2011
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010
Downtown Calling
2009
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009
Rachel Getting Married
2008
The Universe of Keith Haring
2008
American Gangster
2007
TV Party
2005
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
2004
Tupac: Resurrection
2003
Blondie Greatest Video Hits
2002
The Freshest Kids
2002
Downtown '81
2001
Who's the Man?
1993
Juice
1992
New Jack City
1991
She's Gotta Have It
1986
Good to Go
1986
Wild Style
1982
Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story of American Gangster