​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

• 2023Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV — Executive Producer
• 2021Hold Your Fire — Producer
• 2019Grass Is Greener — Director
• 2016Barry — Rameek
• Marvel's Luke Cage — Fab 5 Freddy
• 2013NB90s
• 2012Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ — Self, Consulting Producer
• 2011NB80s — Narrator (voice)
• 2008Rachel Getting Married — Rehearsal Dinner Guest
• 2007American Gangster — Smalls Patron
• 2004The Manchurian Candidate — Political Pundit
• 2002The Freshest Kids
• 2001Downtown '81 — Graffiti Artist
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith
• 1993Who's the Man? — Fab 5 Freddy
• 1991New Jack City — Master of Ceremonies, Associate Producer
• 1986Good to Go — Mr. Aint
• 1986She's Gotta Have It — Dog 10
• Loose Talk
• 1982Wild Style — "Phade", Music, Original Concept, Associate Producer
• TV Party
• Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story of American Gangster

Appearances as themselves (29)

• 2023Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes — Self
• 2023The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports — Self
• The Andy Warhol Diaries — Self
• 2021Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell — Self - Filmmaker / Music Journalist
• 2020It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet — Self
• 2020Keith Haring: Street Art Boy — Self
• 2020Ricky Powell: The Individualist — Self
• 2019A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy — Himself - Presenter
• Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America — Self
• 2019Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks — Self
• 2018Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat — Self
• 2017Basquiat: Rage to Riches — Self
• The Defiant Ones — Self
• 2015Hustlers Convention — Self
• 2014Nas: Time Is Illmatic — Self
• 2013Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer — Self
• 2013Picasso Baby — Self
• 2011Blank City — Self
• 2010Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child — Self
• 2009Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB — Self
• 2009Downtown Calling — Self
• 2008The Universe of Keith Haring — Self
• 2005TV Party — Self
• And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop — Self
• 2003Tupac: Resurrection — Self (archival)
• 2002Blondie Greatest Video Hits — Self (segment "Rapture")
• The Hip Hop Years — Self
• 1992Juice — Self
• Yo! MTV Raps — Self