Revision of Fab Five Freddy
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image_id | 94172 | 221185 |
subtitle | American artist | American artist (born 1959) |
description | — | Fred Brathwaite, more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American visual artist, filmmaker, TV personality, and hip-hop pioneer. He is considered one of the architects of the street art movement. Brathwaite emerged in New York's downtown underground creative scene in the late 1970s as a graffiti artist. He was the bridge between the burgeoning uptown rap scene and the downtown No Wave art scene. He gained wider recognition in 1981 when Debbie Harry rapped "Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly" on the Blondie song "Rapture". In the late 1980s, Brathwaite became the first host of the groundbreaking hip-hop music video show Yo! MTV Raps. In 2026, Brathwaite released his memoir, Everybody's Fly: A Life of Art, Music and Changing the Culture, cowritten with Vanity Fair contributor Mark Rozzo. |
entity_type | — | person |
Added handles: website: https://www.fab5freddy.com, threads: fab5freddy, spotify_artist: 1abxqY1kQi7bmsiRDJR7vj, deezer_artist: 1451748, imdb: nm0292735, musicbrainz: 5da2f936-f801-4d97-9834-c535ccdc12b7, viaf: 459145857919023020074