Living Large
Susan Orlean’s 1991 Profile of Fab Five Freddy, the artist, musician, and host of “Yo! MTV Raps.”
"The coolest person in New York at the moment is a man named Fred Brathwaite, who is known most of the time to most of his friends as Fab Five Freddy." Orlean profiles the MTV host whose world is graffiti art, rap, and the joyful noise of hip-hop America.