
Fab 5 Freddy
Acting
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.
🎬 Movies (30)

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

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
Self

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
Executive Producer

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

Hold Your Fire
2021
Producer

Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
2020
Self

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

Ricky Powell: The Individualist
2020
Self
A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy
2019
Himself - Presenter

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
2019
Self

Grass Is Greener
2019
Director

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

Basquiat: Rage to Riches
2017
Self

Barry
2016
Rameek

Hustlers Convention
2015
Self

Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
Self

Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
2013
Self
Picasso Baby
2013
Self

NB90s
2013

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

Blank City
2011
Self

NB80s
2011
Narrator (voice)

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010
Self

Downtown Calling
2009
Self

Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009
Self

The Universe of Keith Haring
2008
Self

Rachel Getting Married
2008
Rehearsal Dinner Guest

American Gangster
2007
Smalls Patron

TV Party
2005
Self

And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
2004
Self
📺 TV Shows (9)

The Andy Warhol Diaries
2022
Self

Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
2019
Self

The Defiant Ones
2017
Self

Marvel's Luke Cage
2016
Fab 5 Freddy

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

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith

The Hip Hop Years
1999
Self

Yo! MTV Raps
1988
Self

TV Party
1978