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i wiki'd him

 

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".

 

Media workFab 5 Freddy was referenced in Blondie's 1981 hit song "Rapture". As recounted in the 1999 TV documentary The Hip Hop Years, the "Rapture" video featured Freddy in a cameo role painting graffiti art in the background. (Grandmaster Flash, who was also name-checked in the song, did not show up on the day of the shoot, so artist Jean-Michel Basquiat took his place behind the turntables). "Rapture" was the first hip hop video to be shown on MTV. In 1983, Fab 5 Freddy produced a hip-hop version of "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" called Hip Hop Bommi Bop" together with German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen which is said to be the very first co-production of Punk and Hip Hop. In 1988 Freddy became the first hip hop VJ by hosting the MTV music video show entitled Yo! MTV Raps. He later went on to be an associate producer on the 1991 film New Jack City in which he also made an appearance.[3] In 1994 he directed the music video "One Love" by rapper Nas.[4] Most recently credited in the movie Rachel Getting Married, he appears as a special wedding guest, along with other notable musicians, as conceived by producer Jonathan Demme to enhance the expansive and varied soundtrack and wedding members, in contrast with the normal duality of a traditional wedding.[5] He also worked on the film American Gangster directed by Ridley Scott, in which he makes a small cameo.

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we've all seen those clips, being in some music video's and having entrepenurial skills when in the right place at the right time does not mean you should be showing your work in galleries. Sorry but those canvases with their very mediocre idea really put me off. It's the kind of thing a young graffiti writer in a high school art class would put together.

 

Id like to see some of the music video's he directed, maybe they're better.

 

On a lighter note, when he said "they come up in here biting your style man ?! SCOOBY DOO!" in wildstyle, I lol'd.

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