Oh snap! Heavily bootlegged for years on VHS, Ricky Powell’s early 90s Rappin’ With The Rickster cable access show gave insight into the world of the foulmouthed, trouble-making New York City scenester. But this ain’t your cousin’s bootlegs - What you hold in your hand are carefully selected “best of” moments from the series, lifted straight off of Ricky’s vintage analog masters and delivered right to your brain stem courtesy of the fine folks at Five Day Weekend. In addition to this incredible slice of vintage NYC street culture, the Rickster wanted to take it a step further with this release. We brought him back in the studio to get his Dean Martin on, hosting commentary over a virtual slideshow of his favorite pics from his ziploc bag full of slides. If that isn’t the icing on the cake... we also laced him with a new camera, got him feeling nice, and turned him loose on Greenwich Village on some 2010 Rickster steez. So we got the new... and we got the old. And yeah yeah... it’s real cool to be retro these days... but for every thousand emulators there’s only one innovator... Ricky Powell is the mandingus general... The lazy hustler supreme.
Lots and lots of legendary people on it - check it out...
DISC 1:
(TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 1 Hour 38 Minutes)
BEST OF RAPPIN’ WITH THE RICKSTER (1990-1994)
CHAPTER 01 - Intro / Dr. Revolt
CHAPTER 02 - Russell Simmons / Laurence Fishburne
CHAPTER 03 - Run-D.M.C.
CHAPTER 04 - King Adrock / Cey Adams / Ione Skye
CHAPTER 05 - K-Rob I Dondi White
CHAPTER 06 - Cypress Hill / Futura 2000
CHAPTER 07 - Beastie Boys (In Studio, 1991)
CHAPTER 08 - Dr. Revolt
CHAPTER 09 - Beastie Boys (In Studio, 1991 - Part 2) / Max Perlich / Tone Loc
CHAPTER 10 - Billy Preston / Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)
CHAPTER 11 - Sofia Coppola / Spike Jonze
CHAPTER 12 - Sandra Bernhard / Outro
RICKSTER BOUILLABAISSE
CHAPTER 01 - Intro / First Guest Ever
CHAPTER 02 - Russell Simmons / Kool Keith / Everlast (House Of Pain) /
Doug E. Fresh / Lee 163
CHAPTER 03 - Bobbito Garcia
CHAPTER 04 - Beastie Boys (In Studio, 1994 - Ill Communication) / Harold Hunter
CHAPTER 05 - Afrika Bambaataa / Eazy E
CHAPTER 06 - Beck / P-Funk Jam Session (Lollapalooza, 1994)
CHAPTER 07 - Q-Tip / Seen / Zephyr / Outro
DISC 2:
(TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 1 Hour 4 Minutes)
RICKY POWELL’S WORLD FAMOUS SLIDE SHOW
CHAPTER 01 - Sofia Coppola / Run-D.M.C.
Jean-Michel Basquiat / Ahmet Ertegun
CHAPTER 02 - John Lee Hooker / Laurence Fishburne / Lenny Kravitz
CHAPTER 02 - Andy Warhol / Jean-Michel Basquiat / Fab Five Freddy
Rick Rubin / Russel Simmons / LL Cool J / Eazy E
CHAPTER 02 - The Dust Brothers / Joe Namath / Dondi White / Ricky Powell
RAPPIN’ WITH THE RICKSTER 2010
CHAPTER 01 - Intro / Dante Ross
CHAPTER 02 - Stay High 149
CHAPTER 03 - DJ Eclipse
CHAPTER 04 - Outro