Fab 5 Freddy
Known for: Acting
Born: —
Place of birth: 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 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.
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Filmography
41 movies · 10 TV shows, newest first
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The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
2023
6.8
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
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Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
6.7
The Andy Warhol Diaries
2022
6.5
Hold Your Fire
2021
7.1
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
2021
7.4
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
2020
4.8
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
2020
2.0
It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
2020
7.5
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
2019
6.8
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
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A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy
2019
6.7
Grass Is Greener
2019
6.8
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
2018
6.0
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
2017
7.8
The Defiant Ones
2017
6.9
Marvel's Luke Cage
2016
5.7
Barry
2016
5.7
Hustlers Convention
2015
6.9
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
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NB90s
2013
6.4
Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
20139.0
Picasso Baby
2013
5.0
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012
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NB80s
2011
6.9
Blank City
2011
7.3
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010
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Downtown Calling
2009
8.0
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009
6.3
Rachel Getting Married
2008
6.6
The Universe of Keith Haring
2008
7.6
American Gangster
2007
8.0
TV Party
2005
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And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
2004
6.5
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
7.9
Tupac: Resurrection
2003
9.0
Blondie Greatest Video Hits
2002
7.9
The Freshest Kids
2002
7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
6.7
Downtown '81
2001
7.0
The Hip Hop Years
1999
5.4
Who's the Man?
1993
7.2
Juice
1992
6.7
New Jack City
1991
7.5
Yo! MTV Raps
1988
6.6
She's Gotta Have It
1986
6.5
Good to Go
19867.0
Loose Talk
1983
6.1
Wild Style
1982
7.0
TV Party
1978
7.0
Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story of American Gangster
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