RuPaul’s dramatic interpretation of his psychedelic hip-hop song “Ping Ting Ting“

In one of the most dramatic performances of his early career, RuPaul masterfully interprets “Ping Ting Ting“, a song he wrote that recounts his psychedelic experiences on Peachtree Street in Atlanta among the street people, hustlers, hookers and gay bars that defined the neighborhood where he lived. Video taped by Nelson Sullivan at a promotional party for the John Waters movie “Hairspray“, in New York in 1988