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Oral History Interview with Fab Five Freddy, October 15, 2021
Interviewee
Fab 5 Freddy
Interviewer
Adeerya Johnson
Date2021
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number2021.79
Text EntriesFab 5 Freddy (Fred Brathwaite, b. 1959) is visual artist, filmmaker and Hip-Hop pioneer. Freddy was a member of the Brooklyn-based graffiti group the Fabulous 5 and is considered one of the founders of the street art movement. He was the link between the expanding uptown rap scene and the downtown No Wave art scene. In the late 1980s, Freddy was the first host of the revolutionary Hip-Hop music video show Yo! MTV Raps.
On View
Not on view
Fab 5 Freddy
Date: 2001
Object number: 2001.509.1
Vikki Tobak
Date: 2021
Object number: 2021.80
Fab 5 Freddy
Date: 1983
Medium: ink; paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1998.802.34
Fab 5 Freddy
Date: 1988
Medium: ink; paper (fiber product)
Object number: 2000.542.1
Fab 5 Freddy
Date: 1982
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 2001.482.9.A,.B
Daz
Date: 1999
Object number: 1999.957.1
Tony Tone
Date: 2001
Object number: 2001.343.1
Buddy Esquire
Date: 2001
Object number: 2001.343.2
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Frosty Freeze
Date: 2001
Object number: 2001.343.3
Baron Chappell
Date: 2001
Object number: 2001.343.4
Afrika Bambaataa
Date: 2000
Object number: 2000.576.1
Dr. Dre (West Coast)
Date: 1999
Object number: 1999.959.1