#Fab 5 Freddy

[undergroundrockpress]

Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy, Joseph Saddler aka Grandmaster Flash, Tracy Wormworth, and Chris Stein, 1981.

Photo by Janette Beckman.

[twixnmix]

Rammellzee, Dee Master Mix, Shamel-Allah, Ken-Doo, and Fab 5 Freddy rapping while the Rock Steady Crew breakdances in New York, 1981.

Photos by Seth Tillett

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Fab 5 Freddy was born August 31, 1959

[davidhudson]

Happy 66th, Joseph Saddler aka Grandmaster Flash.

With Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy (Fred Brathwaite), a friend, and Chris Stein. 1981 photo by Charlie Ahearn.

[chaoticdesertdweller]

Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, Tracy Wormworth, and Chris Stein, 1981. Photo by Charlie Ahearn.

[wantsneedsandloves]

Basquiat, Futura 2000 and Fab 5 Freddy at the Roxy, NYC, 1982. Photo by Andre Grossmann.

[initialsbb]

Wild Style (1983 dir. Charlie Ahearn)

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

COMMEMORATING 40 YEARS OF A GOLDEN AGE HIP-HOP CULT CLASSIC IN 2023.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the front and back of a (J B5 Chirashi) 2015 Japanese re-release movie poster to American hip-hop docudrama film, "Wild Style" (1983), written, directed & produced by Charles Ahearn.

BONUS PIC: Alternative and/or variant 2015 JB5 Chirashi/Japanese movie poster to "Wild Style."

Sources: https://posteritati.com/poster/48794/wild-style-original-r2015-japanese-b5-chirashi-handbill (Posteritati 2x).

[burnandshiverconsulting]

Timeless Cool

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Charlie Ahearn

American, b. 1951

Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, Tracy Wormworth and Chris Stein, 1981

Manhattan, New York 🗽

[aiiaiiiyo]

[twixnmix]

Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy and Fab 5 Freddy during Blondie's Tracks Across America Tour at Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford on August 14, 1982.

Photos by Andy Warhol

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Fab 5 Freddy was born August 31, 1959

[itsallmadonnasfault]

Madonna and @FABNEWYORK 1985 🌟

[forever-blondie]

Debbie Harry and Fab 5 Freddy by Bobby Grossman, 1980

[garadinervi]

The Amphitheatre Jam!!!, New York, NY, October 10, 1981 [Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.]. Flyer designed by Fab 5 Freddy