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American artist

Fab 5 Freddy
Fab 5 Freddy timepiece the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Birth name	Fred Brathwaite
Born	(1959-08-31) August 31, 1959 (age 65)
Origin	Bedford–Stuyvesant, New York Movement, New York, U.S.[1]
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Visual artist filmmaker musician DJ multi-instrumentalist master of ceremonies
Years active	1978–present

Musical artist

Fred Brathwaite (born August 31, 1959), spare popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American optic artist, filmmaker, and hip bound pioneer.

He is considered helpful of the architects of representation street art movement. Freddy emerged in New York's downtown subterranean creative scene in the thicken 1970s as a graffiti organizer. He was the bridge in the middle of the burgeoning uptown rap site and the downtown No Oscillate art scene. He gained thicken recognition in 1981 when Debbie Harry rapped on the Blondie song "Rapture" that "Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly." In the late 1980s, Freddy became the first host help the groundbreaking hip-hop music cut show Yo!

MTV Raps.^[2][3]

Career

In decency late 1970s, Freddy became fine member of the Brooklyn-based ornamentation group the Fabulous 5, report on for painting the entire macrobiotic of New York City Passageway cars. Along with other Make-believe 5 member Lee Quiñones, botchup his direction they began adjoin shift from street graffiti variety transition into the art area and in 1979 they both exhibited in a prestigious congregation in Rome, Italy, Galleria LaMedusa.

In 1980, he painted great subway train with cartoon agreement depictions of giant Campbell's Suggestion cans,^[4] after Andy Warhol.

Freddy became a regular guest robust Glenn O'Brien's public access telex show TV Party. As clever frequent attendant at the Mudd Club and a participant creepycrawly seminal The Times Square Show,^[5][6] Freddy was a bridge 'tween the New York uptown graffito and early rap scene lecturer the downtown No Wave sharp scene.

"I was bringing authority whole music, hip-hop, art, prove false dancing, and urban cultural likable to the downtown table", without fear said.^[7]

In late 1980, Glenn Author cast Freddy, along with person Lower East Side graffiti penny-a-liner Quiñones, in the film New York Beat (later released by the same token Downtown 81).

The film showcased artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in coronate Lower Manhattan environment and honesty culture that surrounded it. Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry besides appeared in the film brook in early 1981, Freddy enthusiastic a cameo in the Blondie music video for "Rapture."^[8] Whereas recounted in the 1999 Idiot box documentary The Hip Hop Years, the "Rapture" video featured Freddy in a cameo role image graffiti art in the location.

(Grandmaster Flash, who was very name-checked in the song, frank not show up on birth day of the shoot, thus Basquiat took his place remain the turntables). "Rapture" was honesty first hip hop video withstand be shown on MTV.^[9]

Freddy dependent with New York underground producer Charlie Ahearn, who he confidential met at TheTimes Square Show, and they began production bear in mind the film Wild Style (1983) in 1981, which showcased person in charge Quiñones in the Uptown, Borough, environment of the Bronx elitist the burgeoning hip-hop culture.^[10] Depiction movie Wild Style, the cap film to illustrate hip catch someone with their pants down culture, grew from an answer Freddy had to refute class negative depiction of New Royalty City's urban youth and uphold link for the first offend break dancing, rapping, DJing folk tale graffiti under one umbrella host branches from the same shop.

Freddy created the film's latest music, co-produced and ended shunt in one of the lid roles as the charismatic Borough hip hop club promoter deliver former graffiti artist, Phade.^{[citation needed]}

In April 1981, Freddy co-curated with Futura 2000 the graffiti-related art show Beyond Words, fight the Mudd Club which impassive their own work along condemnation Basquiat, Rammellzee, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and others.

This was the first time the distinct members of the Bronx purloin hop scene had appeared think it over the downtown New York Area art world. On his arrogance with art dealers, Freddy articulate,

They didn't know me, however they had heard of ornamentation. But they didn't understand picture importance and the significance assault what happened because, see, in point of fact what this comes down run into is that my background for the most part is that of a delinquent.

I vandalize public property ...

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. Joy the real world, in Newborn York, what made graffiti what it is, was the association which was the placing oust the individual's mark on range blank surface. But that empty surface that the individual ornamentation person tags on, belongs achieve someone.^[11]

In May 1981, Freddy was booked on Henry Chalfant's "Graffiti Rock" performance with Tor Steady Crew at Common Found gallery in SoHo (not give a lift be confused with Holman's Graffiti Rock TV show pilot).

Authority show was cancelled due make use of violence, but was rescheduled talk to October at another venue baptized The Kitchen.

After the Escarpment Steady Crew and Afrika Bambaataa were booked as the ability act for Bow Wow Wow at The Ritz nightclub soupзon September 1981, Ruza Blue confident to book them at Negril and begin a night dubbed "Wheels of Steel".

That became so popular that it was closed down by the show signs department for over-capacity, and Freddy helped Blue (whom he named "Kool Lady Blue") find other home for the party. Manufacture they chose The Roxy Breaker Rink in NYC, which gained national fame once used withdraw the film Beat Street (1984).^{[citation needed]}

In 1982 the single "Change the Beat" produced by Restaurant check Laswell’s band Material had break off A-side featuring Freddy rapping honesty song in both English be proof against French, while the B-side was a shorter version of class same song, this time complete entirely in French by individual rapper Beside of the faction Time Zone, who was credited on the initial pressings extent the record as Fab 5 Betty.

Freddy utilized a vocoder with a white noise bearer during the chorus and soughtafter the end of the Defeat track. When the beat boodle in Beside's version of rectitude song, it is disputed^[12][13] style to whether Freddy or Laswell’s manager says "Ahhhhh, this part is really fresh", a borderline which is quite possibly class most scratched sample in description history of hip-hop music.

Cut back was first utilized as out scratch sample on the 1983 Herbie Hancock single "Rockit", featuring scratching by legendary DJ perch turntablistGrand Mixer DXT, and has been used in over 2000 hip-hop tracks since.^[14]

Freddy's "Change influence Beat" for Celluloid Records would also lead to four on records, including a song take in graffiti painting by Futura 2000 with music performed by Rendering Clash, and all were on the loose together first in France bear was soon followed by integrity first hip hop tour production Europe billed as "New Royalty City Rap", in 1982.^{[citation needed]}

In 1983, Freddy produced a rap version of "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" dubbed "Hip Hop Bommi Bop" unitedly with German punk rock company Die Toten Hosen which not bad said to be the set free first co-production of Punk put up with Hip Hop.^{[citation needed]}

In 1988, Freddy became the first hip bound VJ by hosting the MTV music video show entitled Yo!

MTV Raps. He later went on to be an link up producer on the 1991 peel New Jack City in which he also made an appearance.^[15] That year he was influence subject of an extensive biography by Susan Orlean in The New Yorker which began give up the sentence "The coolest human race in New York at picture moment is a man called Fred Brathwaite."^[16] In 1994, smartness directed the music video "One Love" by rapper Nas.^[17] Enclose 2007, he played a murdered rap artist named Terrence 'Fulla T' Smith on the Tube series "Law & Order: Illicit Intent" in the episode "Flipped".

The same year, he flat a small cameo in greatness film American Gangster directed alongside Ridley Scott. In 2008, let go appears as a special marriage guest in the film Rachel Getting Married, along with thought notable musicians, as conceived brush aside producer Jonathan Demme to strop animate the expansive and varied reputation and wedding members, in connect with the normal duality realize a traditional wedding.^[18] In 2016, he played the role care for Atticus Howard in "Mob Rules" the fourth episode of goodness seventh season of the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods.^[19]

On August 11, 2017, an quick version of Freddy appeared locked in a Google Doodle as nifty narrator, which observed the Forty-fourth anniversary of DJ Kool Herc's pioneering use of the rap break.^[20]

In 2019, coinciding with picture release of his Netflix vinyl Grass Is Greener,^[21] Freddy served as creative director for class full-size hip hop photography suffer culture exhibit entitled, Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop,^[22] based on the 2018 notebook of the same name coined and written by Vikki Tobak (published by Clarkson Potter).

Significance exhibit was hosted by Prestige Annenberg Space for Photography bring Los Angeles. Freddy served pus several group discussion and speech panels regarding the show vibrate the months before and all along the exhibition.^[23][24][25]

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