Fab Five Freddy

Quick Facts

Full Name	Fab Five Freddy
Occupation	Rapper
Date Of Birth	Aug 31, 1959(1959-08-31)
Age	65
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Leo

Fab Five Freddy Biography

Fab Five Freddy is one of the most popular and richest Rapper who was born on August 31, 1959 in New York, United States. Most famous for his 1982 smash R&B song “Change the Beat,” the songwriter and rapper also was a well-known member of an Brooklyn graffiti artist group known as The Fabulous 5.

He appears in a song lyric of”Rapture,” the He is mentioned in a lyric in the Deborah Harry and Blondie song “Rapture.” and Blondie song “Rapture.”

In the late 1970s, Freddy became a member of the Brooklyn-based graffiti group the Fabulous 5, known for painting the entire side of New York City Subway cars. Along with other Fabulous 5 member Lee Quiñones, under his direction they began to shift from street graffiti to transition into the art world and in 1979 they both exhibited in a prestigious gallery in Rome Italy, Galleria LaMedusa. In 1980, he painted a subway train with cartoon style depictions of giant Campbell’s Soup cans, after Andy Warhol. He was the bridge between the New York uptown graffiti and early rap scene and the downtown art and punk music scenes. “I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing, and urban cultural thing to the downtown table,” he said.

Fab 5 Freddy is considered one of the architects of the “street art” movement, as what he did in the early 1980s, along with Lee Quiñones, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and others is regarded as the blueprint for artists today like Shepard Fairey, OS Gemeos, Barry McGhee and Banksy.

He was born Fred Brathwaite, he grew up in Brooklyn, New York as the son of jazz avid parents.

Fab Five Freddy Net Worth

Fab Five Freddy is one of the richest Rapper from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Fab Five Freddy 's net worth $2 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the beginning of his career, He was a cameraman for film and was also a guest on a Glenn-O’Brien-hosted television show known as TV Party.

He directed hip-hop star Nas’s 1994 “One Love” music video.

Fred Brathwaite (born August 31, 1959), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American visual artist, filmmaker, and hip hop pioneer. He emerged in New York’s downtown underground creative scene in the late 1970s as a camera operator and a regular guest on Glenn O’Brien’s public access cable show TV Party. There he met Chris Stein and Debbie Harry. He was immortalized in 1981 when Harry rapped on the Blondie song “Rapture” that “Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody’s fly.” In the late 1980s, Fab 5 Freddy became the first host of the groundbreaking and first internationally telecast hip-hop music video show Yo! MTV Raps.

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In April 1981, Freddy co curated with Futura 2000 the graffiti-related art show Beyond Words, at the Mudd Club which contained their own work along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rammellzee, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and others. This was the first time the many members of the Bronx hip hop scene had appeared in the downtown New York City art world. On his relationship with art dealers, Freddy explains, “They didn’t know me, but they had heard of graffiti. But they didn’t understand the importance and the significance of what happened because, see, really what this comes down to is that my background basically is that of a vandal. I vandalize public property….In the real world, in New York, what made graffiti what it is, was the marriage which was the placing of the individual’s mark on that blank surface. But that blank surface that the individual graffiti person tags on, belongs to someone.” The following month, Freddy was booked on Henry Chalfant’s “Graffiti Rock” performance with Rock Steady Crew at Common Ground gallery in SoHo (not to be confused with Holman’s Graffiti Rock TV show pilot). That show was cancelled due to violence, but was rescheduled in October at another venue called The Kitchen.

Facts & Trivia

Fab Ranked on the list of most popular Rapper. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Fab Five Freddy celebrates birthday on August 31 of every year.

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.