In 1979, graffiti artist Lee Quinones and Fab 5 Freddy were given a gallery opening in Rome by art dealer Claudio Bruni.

Fab 5 Freddy's friendship with Debbie Harry influenced Blondie's single " Rapture " ( Chrysalis, 1981 ), the video of which featured Jean-Michel Basquiat, and offered many their first glimpse of a depiction of elements of graffiti in hip hop culture.

MTV Raps hosts Ed Lover, Doctor Dre and Fab 5 Freddy starred in the comedy Who's the Man ?, directed by Ted Demme.

That same year saw the first major hip hop concert, the New York City Rap Tour, sponsored by Europe 1 and featuring Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmixer DST, Fab 5 Freddy, Mr Freeze and the Rock Steady Crew.

These crews were the Swiss hip hop founders and brought the hip hop culture fundamentals ( Peace, love & unity state of mind, graffiti, breakdance, DJing, MCs ) and clothing styles straight from the roots and basic founders in New York City ( Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa & The Zulu Nation, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, The Rock Steady Crew, The New York City Breakers and many other U. S. hip hop masters …).

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Fab 5 Freddy at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

Fred Brathwaite ( born 1959 ), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American hip hop historian, hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist.

As a young teenager in the 1970s Fab 5 Freddy was a member of the Brooklyn based graffiti group " The Fabulous 5.

The A-Side of the 12 " single featured Freddy rapping the song in both English and French, while the B-Side was a shorter version of the same song, this time performed entirely in French by female rapper Beside, who was credited on the initial pressings of the record as " Fab 5 Betty ".

Fab 5 Freddy was referenced in Blondie's 1981 hit song " Rapture ".

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.

He gave the recording to Fab 5 Freddy, the host of Yo!

* Guest interviews with Blade, Lee, Kel First, Seen, Tracy 168, Cap, MIN ( NE ), QUIK, IZ the Wiz, Fab 5 Freddy, Goldie, Guru, DJ Red Alert, and photographer Martha Cooper

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During the summer of 2005, MTV Jams debuted a new, larger logo for itself in order to promote special summer programming called " The Fab 5 of Summer ' 05 " that was running on the channel for the duration of the summer.

The " Fab 5 " were five up-and-coming hip-hop artists that the channel placed a heavy emphasis on during the entire summer.

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In 2005, Howard bought a $ 11. 775 million property in South Florida's Gables Estates, where he intended to build a home, with a dock for a newly purchased yacht named the Fab 5.

Other appearances include the August 15, 1999 " The Art of Give and Take " episode of Arli $$, the season 5 ( 2005 ) " Michigan's Fab 5 " episode of Beyond the Glory, the November 9, 1996 season 2 " Son-in-Law " episode of Hang Time and the 2011 documentary The Fab Five produced by his Michigan teammate Jalen Rose.

The image, styles and sounds of the old school were exemplified by figures like Afrika Bambaataa, The Sugarhill Gang, Spoonie Gee, Slick Rick, Run-D. M. C., Treacherous Three, Funky Four Plus One, Kurtis Blow, Fab Five Freddy, Busy Bee Starski, Lovebug Starski, Doug E. Fresh, LL Cool J, The Fat Boys, The Cold Crush Brothers, Kool Kyle, and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Ice-T.

Fab Five Freddy was also mentioned by the Blue Scholars in their song Morning in America.

Roach surprised his fans by performing in a hip hop concert, featuring the artist-rapper Fab Five Freddy and the New York Break Dancers.

When Chic started playing " Good Times ", rapper Fab Five Freddy and what were the members of the Sugarhill Gang ( S. Robinson, H. Jackson, M. Wright, and G. O ' Brien ), jumped up on stage and started freestyling with the band.

The boombox became intrinsically linked to hip hop culture and, as Fab Five Freddy puts it, was “ instrumental ” in the rise of hip hop.

In 2006, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History created an exhibition called " Hip-Hop Won ’ t Stop: The Beat, The Rhymes, The Life " which featured, among other things, a Sharp HK-9000 boombox that belonged to Fab Five Freddy.

At the end of 1983 they released Hip Hop Bommi, a hip-hop version of Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder featuring New York rapper Fab Five Freddy.

*" Change Le Beat " by Fab Five Freddy featuring Beeside

The 18 minute film was directed by Dr. Dre and Fab Five Freddy and chronicles the fictional death of Snoop Dogg and his resurrection after making a deal with the Devil.

used to scratch out a rhythm as the tempo was the B-side of Change The Beat by Fab Five Freddy, released in 1982 on Celluloid Records.

* Fab Five Freddy ( born 1959 ), an American hip hop historian, hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist

The film featured seminal figures within the given period, such as Fab Five Freddy, Lee Quinones, Lady Pink, the Rock Steady Crew, The Cold Crush Brothers, Queen Lisa Lee of Zulu Nation, and Grandmaster Flash.

His art was part of a five-man show including Fab Five Freddy, Dominique Philbert, Futura 2000 and Dondi White that toured Japan in 1983.

He exhibited some of his word-based art at the " Beyond Words " show at the Mudd Club ( alongside artists such as Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and Futura 2000 ; and performers Iggy Pop, Fab Five Freddy and Alan Vega ), and at the " New York / New Wave " exhibition at P. S. 1, both in 1981.

The early trendsetters were joined in the 70s by artists like Dondi, Futura 2000, Daze, Blade, Lee, Fab Five Freddy, Zephyr, Rammellzee, Crash, Kel, NOC 167 and Lady Pink.

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Rose has sometimes been regarded as a team leader, particularly under head coach Larry Bird, though he reportedly was a disruptive force in the Pacers ' locker room during his feud with the coach at that time Isiah Thomas, after Thomas cut former Fab Five teammate Jimmy King on the final day to do so before the 2000 – 2001 season.

A " Fab Mab Reunion " -- emceed by Dirk Dirksen — took place on April 8, 2006 at The Fillmore and not at The Velvet Lounge.

The Fab Five, sporting long, baggy shorts and black socks, became immensely popular as they were seen as bringing a hip hop flavor to the game.

Its lyrics were especially notable for namechecking hip hop pioneers Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash.

The Zulu Beat would be the first hip hop radio show to included live interviews, and was the first to inform the public about the movie Wild Style when Islam interviewed Fab 5 Freddy.