DropOuts Inc.

In the (almost) year since they formed, DropOuts Inc. music producer, Joe Schaefer, asks, “Where’s the album Teddy?” To vocalist Teddy Faley’s defense, he performed numerous live shows to rave reviews as well as produced and recorded a solo album during the making of DropOuts’ “You Can’t UnChop Trees.”

The mere fact that Faley is writing his parts of the much anticipated hip hop album, based on real events, has been a labor of love and difficulty. Getting the years of camaraderie, moments of guilt, and introspection into each song has prompted Faley to be a perfectionist with good reason. There’s no turning back the hands of time, instead, the album is an opportunity to release the buried and sometimes hidden feelings that have brought both joyful memories and pain. As Teddy Faley describes it, it’s “Stand By Me” to a 4/4 beat.

As it used to be an East Coast versus West Coast thing, the styles of New York meet the styles of the often proclaimed ‘new Seattle’, Baltimore Maryland, and the DropOuts collaboration have made it an artistic thing with the goal to make music that they’d like to hear. The alternative slam of vocal and lyrical hip-hop escaping Baltimore-by-way-of-Teddy-Faley meshes with upstate New York producer Joe Schaefer who refuses to listen to music in order to make it.

The mere fact that Maryland native Faley and New York native Schaefer have been able to create an album with such depth and respective connection by email is a story within itself. And, any segment of the bar scene would be able to find solace in these tracks as there is no question of related experiences that make for that all important connection to the music.

Hear the music here: DropOuts Inc.