Overview
Fab 5 Freddy
Known For
The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports
Fifty years ago in the Bronx, a new genre of...
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
The Drum Waltzes explores the life and music of legendary...
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
Christopher Wallace, AKA The Notorious B.I.G., remains one of Hip-Hop’s...
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
Ricky Powell boasts a quintessential New York story, rising to...
It's Yours: A Film on Hip-Hop and the Internet
By the dawn of the 21st century, hip-hop sales had...
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
From executive producers Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter,...
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese...
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel...
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.