Into the pit to be beautiful

American artist

Fab 5 Freddy
Fab 5 Freddy at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Birth name	Fred Brathwaite
Born	(1959-08-31) August 31, 1959 (age 65)
Origin	Bedford–Stuyvesant, New York City, New York, U.S.[1]
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Visual artist filmmaker musician DJ multi-instrumentalist master of ceremonies
Years active	1978–present

Musical artist

Fred Brathwaite (born August 31, 1959), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American visual artist, filmmaker, and hip hop pioneer.

He is considered one of the architects of the street art movement. Freddy emerged in New York's downtown underground creative scene in the late 1970s as a graffiti artist. He was the bridge between the burgeoning uptown rap scene and the downtown No Wave art scene.

He gained wider recognition in 1981 when Debbie Harry rapped on the Blondie song "Rapture" that "Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly." In the late