Fab 5 Freddy
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Sep 13, 2026
Cousin JakeHOST
And, and, you know, that's always been true.
Cousin JakeHOST
Like, you know, the other day, like, I already had a copy of Fab 5 Freddy's book, but he came through Philly and did a speaking thing that was free.
Open Mike EagleHOST
Yeah.
Cousin JakeHOST
And I went, and I'm like, "I'm gonna buy another copy of the book and give it to somebody."
Leron ThomasGUEST
Yeah.
Leron ThomasGUEST
You know, that's how you get a Basquiat or, you know, Fat Five Freddy or anybody.
Leron ThomasGUEST
You know what I mean? So I think the thing is, is that he just has a natural punk ear.
Leron ThomasGUEST
He could hear what I was going for, you know? Yeah.
Mia B.HOST
Tracy Camilla Johns as Uniqua, Russell Wong as Park, Anthony DeSando as Frankie Needles, Nick Ashford as Reverend Oates, Phyllis Devon Stickney as Attorney Hawkins, Bill Cobbs as Old Man.
Mia B.HOST
And we also have appearances from Fab Five Freddy as the master of ceremonies at the club and Flavor Flav as the DJ.
Mia B.HOST
And this film was released March 8th, 1991.
Maurice Hunter IIIHOST
Thank you for that, Mia Beezy.
ZeusHOST
Freddy.
ZeusHOST
Fab Five Freddy told
TomHOST
me everybody style.
ZeusHOST
Yeah,
MelHOST
This week in hip hop history, Naughty by Nature's self-titled sophomore album celebrates its 35th anniversary as it was released on this week in 1991.
MelHOST
Hip hop legend Fab Five Freddy celebrates his 67th birthday.
MelHOST
Birthday gunshot.
MelHOST
All right, the gunshot's at the
Richard SandlerGUEST
But somebody came up with the brilliant idea, "Hey, to, you know, hey, you kids, instead of painting this incredible stuff on trains, you know, and wind up in jail probably or whatever, pursued by the cops, um, why not paint it on canvas or paint it on a, you know, a hubcap, or paint it on a piece of metal or whatever, an object of art?" And so this show is all of that work from this very early period.
Richard SandlerGUEST
Fab 5 Freddy has a actual art piece that he made that's on the wall.
Richard SandlerGUEST
So it's like this very authentic show that was put together, um, by, by petitioning people who, uh, had permanent collections, their own collections, private collections, I mean, of, of some-
Tim BinghamHOST
That's amazing
Reemo MeerakHOST
You know what I'm saying? Not because my mother, like, long story short, like, that's how I got intrigued by it.
Reemo MeerakHOST
Like, besides, for Fab Five Freddy, you know what I'm saying? And, you know, Angie Martinez, Sway Calloway, and stuff like that.
Reemo MeerakHOST
Like, my mom would do this.
Reemo MeerakHOST
Like, she had interviewed, like, Back in the days people were like Dionne Warwick.
Jonas HartzGUEST
Which one was it?
Richard FeiginHOST
Old Fab 5 Freddy.
Jonas HartzGUEST
Fab 5 Freddy.
Richard FeiginHOST
Yeah.
Jonas HartzGUEST
He brought it to Europe, yeah.
ShaneGUEST
so shall let's swiftly move on to the next one shall we
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Fab Five Freddy told me everybody's fly DJ's spinning, I
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
said, my, my Flash is fast, Flash is cool Francois C'est Pas, Flush ain't no Duke And you don't stop, sure shot Go out to the parking lot And you get in your car and drive real far And you drive all night and then you see a light And it comes right down and lands on the ground And out comes a man from Mars And you try to run but you've got a gun And he shoots you dead and he eats your head And then you're in the man from Mars You go out at night Eatin' cars, you eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too, Mercurys and Subaru And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars Then, when there's no more cars, you go out at night and eat up bars Where the people meet, face to face, dance cheek to cheek One to one, man to man, dance toe to toe Don't move too slow, cause the man from Mars is who he calls He's eatin' bars, yeah, wall to wall, door to door Eat them all, wrap the chore Be pure, take the tour Through the sword on the strain of the rain Pain to train, you'll be singing in the rain Said some star to punk rock
ShaneGUEST
Blondie and Rapture from 1980, that one.
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