Fab 5 Freddy

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

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

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

Actor

2021
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

as Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist

2017
2016
Barry

as Rameek

2016
Marvel's Luke Cage

as Fab 5 Freddy

2013
2013
Picasso Baby

as Self

2011
NB80s

as Narrator (voice)

2011
Blank City

as Self

2009
2008
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

2002
Blondie Greatest Video Hits

as Self (segment "Rapture")

2001
Downtown '81

as Graffiti Artist

2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith

1999
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
1982
Wild Style

as "Phade"

Producer

2023
2021
Hold Your Fire

as Producer

2012
1991
New Jack City

as Associate Producer

1982
Wild Style

as Associate Producer

Sound

1982
Wild Style

as Music

Director

2019
Grass Is Greener

as Director

Writer

1982
Wild Style

as Original Concept