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(all information straight from www.DropOuts-Inc.com)
 

 

In case you're new to the DropOuts buzz:

Producer Joe Schaefer concocted the idea of making an album with a theme based on the 'good, bad and ugly' of drug and alcohol use and abuse. Having met Teddy Faley by way of MySpace, the two set out to create the album. “You Can't UnChop Trees,” under the group moniker DropOuts Inc., eventually turned into the fabric of Teddy's youth put to progressive hip hop flavors. That leap has made itself evident in this new album. The original theme of drug and alcohol use and abuse is there, but the true-to-life stories of friendship, love and loss takes the album to heights neither of them could have expected. Faley reminds us, “This album is for me.”

Few emcees speak with the exposed raw nerve or diseased mindset of today's youth gone emotional, delivered in the elixir of the hip-hop medium, like Maryland's own rhyme spitter, Teddy Faley. Truth and myth collide with empathy and self-concern in Faley's lyrics. Teddy's adventurous approach to word combinations, delivery and metaphor almost make him an outlaw storyteller in the land of hip-hop. That is to say, in a musical genre that tries to be more pop than truly hip, Teddy Faley takes the high-road and makes the music his own rather than borrowed.

26-year-old Faley has been making his own splash-cum-tidle-wave on the Baltimore live circuit while perfecting his rich style. The much older Schaefer has been trying his hand at many different styles throughout an on-again, off-again career as as producer and DJ.
 

(Message from Teddy Faley, when asked, "What's taking the Dropout's record so long?")