Fab 5 Freddy

Known for: Acting
Movies: 39

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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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Upcoming Fab 5 Freddy Movies

7.0

Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story of American Gangster

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

7.6

American Gangster

2007

6.5

The Manchurian Candidate

2004

6.3

Rachel Getting Married

2008

6.7

New Jack City

1991

7.2

Juice

1992

6.6

She's Gotta Have It

1986

5.7

Barry

2016

7.9

Tupac: Resurrection

2003

7.1

Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

2021

6.9

Nas: Time Is Illmatic

2014

Filmography

2023	The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports	Self
2023	Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes	Self
2021	Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell	Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist
2020	Keith Haring: Street Art Boy	Self
2020	Ricky Powell: The Individualist	Self
2020	It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet	Self
2019	Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks	Self
2019	A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy	Himself - Presenter
2018	Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat	Self
2017	Basquiat: Rage to Riches	Self
2016	Barry	Rameek
2015	Hustlers Convention	Self
2014	Nas: Time Is Illmatic	Self
2013	NB90s
2013	Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer	Self
2013	Picasso Baby	Self
2012	Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’	Self
2011	NB80s	Narrator (voice)
2011	Blank City	Self
2010	Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child	Self
2009	Downtown Calling	Self
2009	Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB	Self
2008	Rachel Getting Married	Rehearsal Dinner Guest
2008	The Universe of Keith Haring	Self
2007	American Gangster	Smalls Patron
2005	TV Party	Self
2004	The Manchurian Candidate	Political Pundit
2003	Tupac: Resurrection	Self (archival)
2002	Blondie Greatest Video Hits	Self (segment "Rapture")
2002	The Freshest Kids
2001	Downtown '81	Graffiti Artist
1993	Who's the Man?	Fab 5 Freddy
1992	Juice	Self
1991	New Jack City	Master of Ceremonies
1986	She's Gotta Have It	Dog 10
1986	Good to Go	Mr. Aint
1982	Wild Style	"Phade"

Directing, Writing & Producing

2021	Hold Your Fire	Producer
2019	Grass Is Greener	Director

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