How Fab 5 Freddy wound up in Blondie’s ‘Rapture’ and helped launch rap

The graffiti artist and ‘Everybody’s Fly’ memoirist on his early art passion and friendships with Debbie Harry and ...

Celebrating 45 Years of Blondie's 'Rapture': The First No. 1 Hit with Rap Vocals

Both Harry and Blondie's guitarist, Chris Stein, were early fans of rap. They befriended hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy, who ...

Fab 5 Freddy’s 'Everybody’s Fly' is a backstage pass to NYC’s new wave hip hop scene

Fred Brathwaite — aka ‘Fab 5 Freddy’ — is a pioneering multimedia artist credited with bringing hip hop to the mainstream in ...

Fab 5 Freddy, hip-hop pioneer and ‘king of synthesis,’ has written a ‘Fly’ memoir

The new book from the hip-hop pioneer and "king of synthesis" demonstrates how Fab 5 Freddy was a bridge between the worlds ...

Fab 5 Freddy Remembers Hip-Hop’s Global Takeover

As his new memoir demonstrates, he himself would achieve fame as a visual artist, filmmaker, TV host and formative tastemaker ...

Hip-hop legend Fab 5 Freddy chronicles graffiti, music, and culture in memoir 'Everybody's Fly'

The screening of Wild Style highlights another milestone in Freddy's career. Widely considered one of the earliest films to portray hip-hop culture, the movie follows the fictional story of a graffiti ...
Yahoo

Fab 5 Freddy Is Still the Coolest Person in New York

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1960s ...

Fab 5 Freddy

Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture. Freddy, who was the original host of Yo! MTV Raps, takes us ...
Rolling Stone

Fab 5 Freddy, the ‘Coolest Person in New York,’ Looks Back

To tell the story of Fab 5 Freddy — the ceaseless creative polymath, train-tagging graffiti misfit, renowned gallery artist, sample-inspiring rapper, charismatic TV host, global ambassador, restless ...