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Fab 5 Freddy
Actor, Producer, Composer, Director, Additional CreditsBorn August 31, 1959 (66 years)
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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".
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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".
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Fab 5 Freddy Filmography
| 2022 | Making Black America: Through the Grapevine (TV Series) · as Filmmaker |
| 2017 | She's Gotta Have It (TV Series) · as Baptiste |
| 2016 | Barry · as Rameek |
| 2010 | Blue Bloods (TV Series) · as Atticus |
| 2008 | Rachel Getting Married · as Rehearsal Dinner Guest |
| 2007 | American Gangster · as Smalls Patron |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate · as Political Pundit |
| 2002 | |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series) · as Terrence 'fulla T' Smith |
| 2000 | Downtown 81 · as Graffiti Artist |
| 1991 | New Jack City · as Master Of Ceremonies |
| 1986 | She's Gotta Have It · as Dog 10 |
| 1986 | Good to Go · as Mr. Aint |
| 1982 | Wild Style · as "phade" |
| 2025 | |
| 2023 | Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes · as Self |
| 2022 | The Andy Warhol Diaries (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell · as Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist |
| 2020 | The ReidOut (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | Keith Haring: Street Art Boy · as Self |
| 2020 | Ricky Powell: The Individualist · as Self |
| 2020 | |
| 2019 | Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks · as Self |
| 2019 | Biography: I Want My MTV · as Self |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Basquiat: Rage to Riches · as Self |
| 2017 | Who Shot Biggie & Tupac? · as Self |
| 2017 | The Beat with Ari Melber (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2017 | The Defiant Ones (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2017 | Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A Bad Boy Story · as Self - Interviewer |
| 2016 | Marvel's Luke Cage (TV Series) · as Fab 5 Freddy |
| 2016 | Hip-Hop Evolution (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2016 | Generation X (TV Series) · as Self - Hip-Hop Pioneer & Visual Artist |
| 2015 | Hustlers Convention · as Self |
| 2014 | Nas: Time Is Illmatic · as Self |
| 2014 | Unsung Hollywood (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | The Tanning of America (TV Series) · as Self - Host, Yo! Mtv Raps |
| 2013 | Supermensch · as Self |
| 2013 | NB90's (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator |
| 2013 | Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer · as Self |
| 2013 | Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | NB80's (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator |
| 2010 | Blank City · as Self |
| 2010 | |
| 2009 | |
| 2008 | The Universe of Keith Haring · as Self |
| 2007 | 4th Annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors · as Self - Honoree |
| 2006 | Ali Rap · as Self |
| 2006 | 3rd Annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors · as Self |
| 2005 | 2nd Annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors · as Self |
| 2005 | TV Party · as Self |
| 2005 | Blondie: Video Hits · as Fab 5 Freddy |
| 2004 | Hip-Hop Honors · as Self |
| 2004 | And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | Tupac: Resurrection · as Self (archival) |
| 2002 | A Tribe Called Quest: The Video Anthology · as Self (segment "scenario") |
| 2001 | I Love the '80s (UK) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | TRL (2017) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | Beastieography · as Self - Ex-Host Yo Mtv Raps |
| 1995 | The 1995 Source Hip-Hop Music Awards · as Self |
| 1994 | 1994 MTV Video Music Awards · as Self |
| 1993 | Who's the Man? · as Fab 5 Freddy |
| 1992 | Juice · as Self |
| 1991 | Human Education Against Lies · as Self - Co-Director |
| 1990 | 1990 MTV Video Music Awards · as Self |
| 1990 | Intimate Portrait (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1990 | Rapmania: The Roots of Rap · as Self - Co-Host |
| 1989 | Overcoming Self-Destruction · as Self |
| 1988 | Yo! MTV Raps (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1988 | Yo! MTV Raps (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1984 | Graffiti Rock · as Fab 5 Freddy |
| 2023 | Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | |
| 2005 | 2nd Annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors · as Consulting Producer |
| 2004 | Hip-Hop Honors · as Consulting Producer |
| 1991 | New Jack City · as Associate Producer |
| 1982 | Wild Style · as Associate Producer |
| 2009 | 6th Annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors · as Co-Executive Producer |
| 2008 | 5th Annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors · as Co-Executive Producer |
| 2007 | 4th Annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors · as Co-Executive Producer |
| 2006 | 3rd Annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors · as Co-Executive Producer |
| 1982 | Wild Style · as Original Concept |