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Fab 5 Freddy

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Fab 5 Freddy

10 films

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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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American Gangster posterFirst watchAmerican Gangster20077.6as Smalls PatronLoosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
The Manchurian Candidate poster6.5The Manchurian Candidate2004New Jack City poster6.7New Jack City1991Rachel Getting Married poster6.3Rachel Getting Married2008She's Gotta Have It poster6.6She's Gotta Have It1986Barry poster5.7Barry2016Wild Style poster6.1Wild Style1982

Filmography

10 films as actor
  1. 2016BarryRameek
  2. 2008Rachel Getting MarriedRehearsal Dinner Guest
  3. 2007American GangsterSmalls Patron
  4. 2004The Manchurian CandidatePolitical Pundit
  5. 2001Downtown '81Graffiti Artist
  6. 1993Who's the Man?Fab 5 Freddy
  7. 1991New Jack CityMaster of Ceremonies
  8. 1986She's Gotta Have ItDog 10
  9. 1986Good to GoMr. Aint
  10. 1982Wild Style"Phade"