Fab 5 Freddy
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2023
- Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV ... (Executive Producer)
- Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes as Self
- The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports as Self
2022
- The Andy Warhol Diaries as Self
2021
- Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell as Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist
- Hold Your Fire ... (Producer)
2020
2019
- Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks as Self
- Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America as Self
- Grass Is Greener ... (Director)
- A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy as Himself - Presenter
2017
- The Defiant Ones as Self
- Basquiat: Rage to Riches as Self
2016
- Marvel's Luke Cage as Fab 5 Freddy
- Barry as Rameek
2015
- Hustlers Convention as Self
2014
- Nas: Time Is Illmatic as Self
2013
- NB90s
- Picasso Baby as Self
- Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer as Self
- Keith Haring: The Message as Himself
2012
- Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ as Self
2011
- NB80s as Narrator (voice)
- Blank City as Self
2010
2009
- Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB as Self
- Downtown Calling as Self
2008
- The Universe of Keith Haring as Self
- Rachel Getting Married as Rehearsal Dinner Guest
2007
- American Gangster as Smalls Patron
2005
- TV Party as Self
2004
- The Manchurian Candidate as Political Pundit
- And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop as Self
2003
- Tupac: Resurrection as Self (archival)
2002
- Blondie Greatest Video Hits as Self (segment "Rapture")
- The Freshest Kids
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith
- Downtown '81 as Graffiti Artist
1999
- The Hip Hop Years as Self
1993
- Who's the Man? as Fab 5 Freddy
1992
- Juice as Self
1991
- New Jack City as Master of Ceremonies
1988
- Yo! MTV Raps as Self
1986
- She's Gotta Have It as Dog 10
1982
- Wild Style as "Phade"