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Fab Five Freddy, the Glossary

Fred Brathwaite (born August 31, 1959), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American visual artist, filmmaker, and hip hop pioneer.^[1]

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Afrika Bambaataa

Lance Taylor (born on April 17, 1957), also known as Afrika Bambaataa, is an American DJ, rapper, and producer from the South Bronx, New York.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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American Gangster (film)

American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.

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Beat Street

Beat Street is a 1984 American dance drama film featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s.

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Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Bedford–Stuyvesant, colloquially known as Bed–Stuy, is a neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Blondie (band)

Blondie is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1974 by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.

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Blue Bloods (TV series)

Blue Bloods is an American police procedural drama television series that premiered on CBS on September 24, 2010.

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Bomb (magazine)

Bomb (stylized in all caps as BOMB) is an American arts magazine edited by artists and writers, published quarterly in print and daily online.

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Bow Wow Wow

Bow Wow Wow are an English new wave band, created by manager Malcolm McLaren in 1980.

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Break (music)

In popular music, a break is an instrumental or percussion section during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main parts of the song or piece.

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The Campbell Soup Company, doing business as Campbell's, is an American company, most closely associated with its flagship canned soup products; however through mergers and acquisitions, it has grown to become one of the largest processed food companies in the United States with a wide variety of products under its flagship Campbell's brand as well as other brands including Pepperidge Farm, Snyder's of Hanover, V8, and Swanson.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Change the Beat

"Change the Beat" is a song written and recorded by Fab Five Freddy, and one of the most sampled songs in music history.

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Charlie Ahearn

Charlie Ahearn (born 1951) is an American film maker living in New York City.

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Clarkson Potter

Clarkson Potter (September 19, 1880 – October 4, 1953) was an American golfer.

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Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop

Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop is a 2018 photography book created and written by Vikki Tobak and ongoing exhibition series.

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Debbie Harry

Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble; July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie.

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Die Toten Hosen

Die Toten Hosen are a German punk rock band from Düsseldorf.

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DJ Kool Herc

Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican American DJ who is credited with being one of the founders of hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in 1973.

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Downtown 81

Downtown 81 is a 2000 American film that was shot in 1980-1981.

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Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder

"Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" (Bommerlunder On The Rocks) is a German drinking song by the group Die Toten Hosen.

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Feral House

Feral House is an American book publisher founded in 1989 by Adam Parfrey and based in Port Townsend, Washington.

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Futura (graffiti artist)

Leonard Hilton McGurr (born November 17, 1955), known as Futura, and formerly known as Futura 2000, is an American contemporary artist and former graffiti artist. Fab Five Freddy and Futura (graffiti artist) are American graffiti artists and artists from New York City.

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Glenn O'Brien

Glenn O'Brien (March 2, 1947 – April 7, 2017) was an American writer who focused largely on the subjects of art, music, and fashion.

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Google Doodle

A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages intended to commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and historical figures.

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Graffiti

Graffiti (plural; singular graffiti or graffito, the latter rarely used except in archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view.

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Graffiti Rock

Graffiti Rock was a hip-hop based television program, originally aired on June 28, 1984.

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Grand Mixer DXT

Derek Showard, better known by the stage name GrandMixer DXT, is an American musician, and the first DJ to use the turntable as a musical instrument.

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Grandmaster Flash

Joseph Robert Saddler (born January 1, 1958), known by his stage name Grandmaster Flash, is an American musician and DJ.

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Grass Is Greener

Grass Is Greener is a documentary film about cannabis, which premiered on Netflix on April 20, 2019.

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Henry Chalfant

Henry Chalfant (born January 2, 1940) is an American photographer and videographer most notable for his work on graffiti, breakdance, and hip hop culture.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer.

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Hip Hop Bommi Bop

"Hip Hop Bommi Bop" is a parody hip hop version of the Die Toten Hosen song "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder".

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. Fab Five Freddy and Jean-Michel Basquiat are American graffiti artists.

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Jonathan Demme

Robert Jonathan Demme (February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker, whose career directing, producing, and screenwriting spanned more than 30 years and 70 feature films, documentaries, and television productions.

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Keith Haring

Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. Fab Five Freddy and Keith Haring are American graffiti artists.

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Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural drama television series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced.

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Lee Quiñones

George Lee Quiñones (born 1960) is a Puerto Rican artist and actor. Fab Five Freddy and Lee Quiñones are American graffiti artists.

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Lower East Side

The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City.

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Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York City, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough of New York City.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.

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Mudd Club

The Mudd Club was a nightclub located at 77 White Street in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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Music video

A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes.

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Nas

Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), known professionally as Nas, is an American rapper and entrepreneur. Fab Five Freddy and Nas are rappers from Brooklyn.

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Negril

Negril is a small, widely dispersed beach resort and town located in Westmoreland and Hanover parishes at the far western part of Jamaica, southwest from Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay.

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New Jack City

New Jack City is a 1991 American crime action film based on an original story and written by Thomas Lee Wright and Barry Michael Cooper, and directed by Mario Van Peebles in his feature film directorial debut.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

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No wave

No wave was an avant-garde music genre and visual art scene that emerged in the late 1970s in Downtown New York City.

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Rachel Getting Married

Rachel Getting Married is a 2008 American drama film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, and Debra Winger.

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Rammellzee

Rammellzee (stylized RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ, pronounced "Ram: Ell: Zee"; December 15, 1960 – June 28, 2010) was a visual artist, gothic futurist "graffiti writer", painter, performance artist, art theoretician, sculptor and a hip-hop musician from New York City, who has been cited as "instrumental in introducing elements of the avant-garde into hip-hop culture". Fab Five Freddy and Rammellzee are American graffiti artists.

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Rapping

Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular".

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Rapture (Blondie song)

"Rapture" is a song by American rock band Blondie from their fifth studio album Autoamerican (1980).

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Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English filmmaker.

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Rock Steady Crew

Rock Steady Crew is an American breaking and hip hop group which has become a franchise for multiple groups in other locations.

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Rockit (instrumental)

"Rockit" is a composition recorded by American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock and produced by Bill Laswell and Michael Beinhorn.

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SoHo, Manhattan

SoHo, short for "South of Houston Street", is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Street art

Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility.

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Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean (born October 31, 1955) is an American journalist, television writer, and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book.

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The Annenberg Space for Photography

The Annenberg Space for Photography (2009 - 2020) was an exhibition space in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles' Westside.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band that formed in London in 1976 and were key players in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Hip Hop Years

The Hip Hop Years is a three part series of one hour television documentaries, made for Channel 4 in 1999.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Ritz (rock club)

The Ritz was a New York City rock club in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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The Roxy (New York City)

The Roxy (sometimes Roxy NYC) was a popular nightclub located at 515 West 18th Street in New York City.

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The Times Square Show

The Times Square Show was an influential collaborative, self-curated, and self-generated art exhibition held by New York artists' group Colab (aka Collaborative Projects, Inc) in Times Square in a shuttered massage parlor at 201 W. 41st and 7th Avenue during the entire month of June in 1980.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_Five_Freddy

Also known as Fab 5 Freddie, Fab 5 Freddy, Fred Braithwaite, Fred Brathwaite (entertainer), Freddy Braithwaite.

, Rachel Getting Married, Rammellzee, Rapping, Rapture (Blondie song), Ridley Scott, Rock Steady Crew, Rockit (instrumental), SoHo, Manhattan, Street art, Susan Orlean, The Annenberg Space for Photography, The Bronx, The Clash, The Hip Hop Years, The New Yorker, The Ritz (rock club), The Roxy (New York City), The Times Square Show, Tribeca Festival, Turntablism, TV Party, Upper Manhattan, Video jockey, Vikki Tobak, Vocoder, Wild Style, Yo! MTV Raps.

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