Name	Fab Five Freddy
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Naionality	American
Date of Birth
Place of Birth	Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S
Famous for	Acting

Fab Five Freddy is a hip hop pioneer, visual artist and film maker. He emerged on New Yorks downtown underground creative scene in the late 1970s as a camera man and a regular guest on Glen O'Brien's public access cable show, "TV Party".

There he'd meet Chris Stein and Debbie Harry and in 1981 courtesy of a name check on their new wave group Blondie's #1 hit song "Rapture", he was immortalized when she rapped, "Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly..." In the late 80's he became the first host of the ground breaking and first internationally telcast hip-hop music video show, Yo! MTV Raps. In the late 1970s, Freddy became a member of the Brooklyn-based graffiti group The Fabulous 5, known for painting the entire side of whole NY subway cars. Along with other Fabulous 5 member Lee Quinones, 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 NY 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.

At the end of 1980, Glenn O'Brien cast Freddy, along with fellow Lower East Side graffiti writer Lee Quinones, in the film New York Beat (later released as Downtown 81). That film showcased artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in his Lower Manhattan environment and the culture that surrounded it. Shortly after, Freddy began production along with filmmaker Charlie Ahearn on his film Wild Style (1982), which showcased artist Lee Quinones in the Uptown, Manhattan environment of the Bronx and the music that surrounded it. Fab 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.