There’s no disputing that Ricky Powell was there at the golden age of hip-hop – he’s got the photos to prove it, tons of them, and a few stories to tell as well. From Public Enemy to Doze Green to Run DMC to Basquiat, he shot them all – and when he went on the road with the Beastie Boys in 1987, he soon became the unofficial Def Jam photographer. His close affiliation with the Beastie’s saw him christened the fourth Beastie, and in the early 90s he earned himself a cable access show called Rappin’ With The Rickster. VHS recordings of the shows were circulated between friends like hard currency, and it’s these VHS recordings that have been restored to DVD for this newly released Rappin’ With the Rickster DVD (courtesy of NY connoisseurs, Five Day Weekend). Ricky gets up close and personal with, amongst others, Sophia Coppola, a very young Larry Fishburne and Run-D.M.C. It’s vintage NYC and Ricky is the most unpredictable of interviewers, smoking weed on camera and generally behaving badly. Here’s a sneak preview of Ricky with Cey Adams, Adam Horovitz and Ione Skye from 1990.