Editor’s note: 2 DJs and a Boombox is exactly that. Dark Knight, a popular radio personality, and Moss Pit, a local mobile music DJ, play a few tunes for each other and let their thoughts flow.

Dark Knight and Moss Pit: One, two, three …

DK: Yes! Paper covers rock.

MP: I’m getting killed with this game.

“Step by Step”

New Kids on the Block

DK: Ha, ha, ha. New Kids, baby. I thought we could have some fun with this.

MP: Hmm, we could definitely have some fun with this.

DK: This is when they were just starting to get their more mature, tough guy thing goin’. Donnie was starting to be the Harley-ridin’, goatee-wearin’ bad-boy.

The thing with New Kids, same with the Backstreet Boys, they get ripped on because all the little girls like them. But you know some of the moms were just as jazzed about them as their daughters.

MP: Yeah, I was making fun of them back then, but you know they had a lot of 18-year-old chicks waiting outside their tour bus, which is something I never had.

DK: I don’t care what anybody says …

MP: They were getting laid.

DK: Oh yeah. They had groupies, and they were legal.

I remember when they first came out, I liked it. It was fun, it was up beat.

MP: I still put in “Hangin’ Tough” every once in a while.

DK: People will dance to it. They still want to hear this stuff.

MP: Oh did you hear that high part there? This song kind of resembles that “Brady Bunch” episode where Peter’s voice is changing. Remember that one?

“Planet Rock”

Afrika Bambaataa

MP: I consider this the theme song of old school.

DK: Oh man, this has been sampled so many times. Any time MTV does one of their “Rockumentaries” or whatever they’re called now …

MP: “Bio-rhythm” …

DK: Yeah, they’ve changed the name on that damn thing six times. Anyway, there’s certain songs you hear every time.

MP: The music in the background sounds like a video game I used to play.

DK: What’s funny about this music back in the day, as they say, any kid with a Casio could have played this stuff.

MP: I like this tune. It’s got a good solid beat and all kinds of vocal things going on.

DK: One thing I like about old school rap is that these guys are just rapping about stuff. Whopping it up, having a good time or “I’m the baddest DJ in the land.”

MP: That’s when I started getting out of rap, when it started getting gangsta.

DK: “Bitches and hos and I killed more guys than you.” Well, you’re real tough.

“It’s Tricky”

Run DMC

DK: This video was killer.

MP: With Penn and Teller?

DK: That’s right. And some girl who’s semi-famous now gets ripped off by them and calls up Run DMC, and they put on the Kangoo hats and Adidas and hop in the Run DMC chopper and go whip Penn and Teller’s ass.

MP: I’ve done a lot of research on Run DMC, and one thing they were the first to do that I never thought about was make rap albums rather than just singles.

DK: You go back and look at the history of rock ‘n’ roll. A lot of the groups never did full albums. They would just, every few months, come out with a new song. Full albums were rare until Elvis Presley.

MP: “Raising Hell” is probably the best rap album of all time.

DK: “Walk This Way” was the big song, but “Adidas” was my favorite. it was cool to like Run DMC, unlike, say Vanilla.

“Supersonic”

J.J. Fad

MP: This was my favorite rap song aside from “Ice Ice Baby.”

DK: Beat-boxing, that’s something you don’t hear anymore.

MP: That’s really a chick, too.

DK: Oh sure, I remember this.

MP: Everyone thought it was Salt ‘N’ Pepa. Oh, I love this part right here, when the beat comes in.

DK: Back in my club days, this was one of those songs where there was a couple of girls who, whenever this came on, had this dance to it, and they would just rule the dance floor. And they knew every word.

MP: I loved it, ’cause all the girls thought they knew all the words, and then the end of the song would come on, where they go really fast, and no one …

DK: No one could keep up. It’s kinda like R.E.M.’s “End Of The World.” Everybody thinks they can do it, but if you actually give them a mic, it’s like, “Blah blah blah blah blah … Leonard Bernstein.”