Fab 5 Freddy

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Fab 5 Freddy

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Brooklyn, New York, USA

​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…

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American Gangster

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The Manchurian Candidate

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New Jack City

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She's Gotta Have It

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Barry

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5.7 2016 Movie
Tupac: Resurrection

Tupac: Resurrection

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Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

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The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones

7.8 2017 TV Show

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​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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2023
    The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports

    Movie Self

  2. 2023
    Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

    Movie Executive Producer

  3. 2023
    Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

    Movie Self

  4. 2022
    The Andy Warhol Diaries

    TV show Self

  5. 2021
    Hold Your Fire

    Movie Producer

  6. 2021
    Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

    Movie Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist

  7. 2020
    Keith Haring: Street Art Boy

    Movie Self

  8. 2020
    Ricky Powell: The Individualist

    Movie Self

  9. 2020
    It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet

    Movie Self

  10. 2019
    Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America

    TV show Self

  11. 2019
    Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

    Movie Self

  12. 2019
    A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy

    Movie Himself - Presenter

  13. 2019
    Grass Is Greener

    Movie Director

  14. 2018
    Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Movie Self

  15. 2017
    Basquiat: Rage to Riches

    Movie Self

  16. 2017
    The Defiant Ones

    TV show Self

More credits
  1. 2016
    Marvel's Luke Cage

    TV show Fab 5 Freddy

  2. 2016
    Barry

    Movie Rameek

  3. 2015
    Hustlers Convention

    Movie Self

  4. 2014
    Nas: Time Is Illmatic

    Movie Self

  5. 2013
    NB90s

    Movie

  6. 2013
    Picasso Baby

    Movie Self

  7. 2013
    Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer

    Movie Self

  8. 2012
    Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’

    Movie Self

  9. 2011
    NB80s

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  10. 2011
    Blank City

    Movie Self

  11. 2010
    Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

    Movie Self

  12. 2009
    Downtown Calling

    Movie Self

  13. 2009
    Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

    Movie Self

  14. 2008
    Rachel Getting Married

    Movie Rehearsal Dinner Guest

  15. 2008
    The Universe of Keith Haring

    Movie Self

  16. 2007
    American Gangster

    Movie Smalls Patron

  17. 2005
    TV Party

    Movie Self

  18. 2004
    And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop

    TV show Self

  19. 2004
    The Manchurian Candidate

    Movie Political Pundit

  20. 2003
    Tupac: Resurrection

    Movie Self (archival)

  21. 2002
    Blondie Greatest Video Hits

    Movie Self (segment "Rapture")

  22. 2002
    The Freshest Kids

    Movie

  23. 2001
    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    TV show Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith

  24. 2001
    Downtown '81

    Movie Graffiti Artist