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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
Yo! MTV Raps is an American two-hour television music video program, which first aired on MTV Europe from 1987 to mid-90s and on MTV US from August 1988 to August 1995. The American version of the program (created by Ted Demme and Peter Dougherty) was the first hip hop music show on the network, and was based on the original MTV Europe show, which first aired one year before the American version.
A showcase not only for American rap (and, occasionally, for the soul and funk that preceded it), but for the rap then being made in England, Holland, Spain, and France, “Yo!” ran weekly from October 1987 through to the end of 1990, with some 145 episodes. Inspired by Bramly’s example, MTV in America began producing Yo!
Yo! MTV Raps is officially making a comeback. Paramount+ announced a reboot of the iconic hip-hop program set to premiere The post ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ reboot heading to Paramount+ appeared first on ...
In 1993, Ice-T, along with other rappers and the three Yo! MTV Raps hosts Ed Lover, Doctor Dré, and Fab 5 Freddy starred in the comedy Who's the Man?, directed by Ted Demme. In the film, he is a drug dealer who gets really frustrated when someone calls him by his real name, "Chauncey", rather than his street name, "Nighttrain".
The Paramount+ streaming service is launching on March 4 and with it comes the return of several iconic music shows including 'Yo! MTV Raps.'
MTV Raps” originally aired on MTV from 1988–95. “MTV Unplugged” has been on and off the cable network — mostly off, in recent years — since 1989. “Behind the Music” ran on VH1 from ...
From 1989 to 1995, Doctor Dré and Ed Lover were the co-hosts of MTV's hip hop music program Yo! MTV Raps. Dré teamed up with Lover in the early 1990s to co-host a morning radio show during the re-launch of radio station Hot 97 in New York City. The duo starred in the 1993 film Who's the Man?, directed by Yo!