{"product_id":"everybodys-fly-fab-freddy-9780593834909","title":"Everybody's Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Must-Read Book by \u003ci\u003eW Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, and more \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEverybody's Fly\u003c\/i\u003e could comfortably sit alongside books by Richard Price, Lucy Sante, Tom Wolfe, or Ed McBain, chronicling New York from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s with both vivid, journalistic descriptions and the outsized flair from a person who was at the center of it all.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An exuberant recounting of how a culturally omnivorous kid from Brooklyn willed himself into the wider, shinier world--like Moss Hart's \u003ci\u003eAct One\u003c\/i\u003e, but with beatboxing and cans of Krylon spray paint.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn electrifying memoir from the pioneering cultural icon \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e called \"the coolest person in New York,\" whose fearless creativity reshaped the worlds of art, music, and style \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFab 5 Freddy doesn't just have a great story--he \u003ci\u003eis \u003c\/i\u003ethe story. Name a seismic cultural shift, and chances are, he wasn't just there--he was helping to make it happen. He's among the first graffiti artists to turn subway tags into fine art, the visionary behind the first hip-hop movie, the bridge between Jean-Michel Basquiat and the downtown new wave scene, the first person to take rap global on MTV, and the opening rhyme of Blondie's number-one smash hit \"Rapture\"--\"\u003ci\u003eFab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly\"--\u003c\/i\u003ethe song that propelled hip-hop from the New York streets to mainstream culture. With a spirit of joyful creativity and a deep capacity for connecting with kindred spirits (Basquiat, Haring, Lee, Flash, Warhol, and the Clash, to name a few), he shattered racial and artistic boundaries, bridging worlds and raising underground movements to pop culture dominance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEverybody's Fly\u003c\/i\u003e is a fast-moving, all-access pass to Fred's extraordinary life--one that begins in a book- and jazz-filled Brooklyn home and takes us deep into New York's creative explosions from the 1970s into the 1990s. He didn't just shape culture, he synthesized it--from highbrow to street, the Bronx to the East Village, punk to rap, Warhol to \u003ci\u003eWild Style\u003c\/i\u003e. Whether he's skipping school to wander New York City's museums, painting subway cars that became moving masterpieces, or bringing hip-hop to downtown clubs for the first time, Fred's genius has always been in seeing what others couldn't--until he made them see it too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVibrant, rhapsodic, and compulsively readable, \u003ci\u003eEverybody's Fly\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an intimate memoir and panoramic cultural history. It is a love letter to the art of seeing, a fascinating account of an inimitable creative life, and a celebration of what it means to shape culture.","brand":"Viking","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49990874824897,"sku":"9780593834909","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9780593834909.jpg?v=1771437965","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/everybodys-fly-fab-freddy-9780593834909","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}