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Known For

Fab 5 Freddy is known for:

  • American Gangster
    Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.
  • Rachel Getting Married
    A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
  • New Jack City
    A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.

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Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Fab 5 Freddy,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.