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Acting
Birthday
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Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Fred Brathwaite
- Fred Braithwaite
- Fab Five Freddy
- Fred "Fab 5 Freddy" Brathwaite
Fab 5 Freddy
0.3 Popularity
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
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Self
The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
2023
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Self
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
6.8
Self
The Andy Warhol Diaries
2022
7.2
Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
2021
7.5
Self
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
2020
4.8
Self
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
2020
2.0
Self
It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
2020
8.0
Self
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
2019
6.8
Self
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
2019
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Himself - Presenter
A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy
2019
Credits
The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
as Self
2023
0.0
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
as Self
2023
0.0
The Andy Warhol Diaries
as Self
2022
6.8
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
as Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist
2021
7.2
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
as Self
2020
7.5
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
as Self
2020
4.8
It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
as Self
2020
2.0
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
as Self
2019
8.0
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
as Self
2019
6.8
🎬
A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy
as Himself - Presenter
2019
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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
as Self
2018
7.2
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
as Self
2017
5.8
The Defiant Ones
as Self
2017
7.8
Marvel's Luke Cage
as Fab 5 Freddy
2016
6.9
Barry
as Rameek
2016
5.7
Hustlers Convention
as Self
2015
5.7
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
as Self
2014
7.0
NB90s
2013
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🎬
Picasso Baby
as Self
2013
9.0
Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
as Self
2013
6.4
Keith Haring: The Message
as Himself
2013
8.0
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
as Self
2012
5.0
NB80s
as Narrator (voice)
2011
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Blank City
as Self
2011
7.2
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
as Self
2010
7.3
Downtown Calling
as Self
2009
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Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
as Self
2009
8.0
Rachel Getting Married
as Rehearsal Dinner Guest
2008
6.3
The Universe of Keith Haring
as Self
2008
6.6
American Gangster
as Smalls Patron
2007
7.6
TV Party
as Self
2005
7.0
The Manchurian Candidate
as Political Pundit
2004
6.5
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
as Self
2004
4.7
Tupac: Resurrection
as Self (archival)
2003
7.8
Blondie Greatest Video Hits
as Self (segment "Rapture")
2002
8.0
The Freshest Kids
2002
8.1
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith
2001
7.6
Downtown '81
as Graffiti Artist
2001
6.5
The Hip Hop Years
as Self
1999
7.0
Who's the Man?
as Fab 5 Freddy
1993
5.2
Juice
as Self
1992
7.2
New Jack City
as Master of Ceremonies
1991
6.6
Yo! MTV Raps
as Self
1988
7.5
She's Gotta Have It
as Dog 10
1986
6.6
Wild Style
as "Phade"
1982
6.1
TV Party
1978
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