Some say their music played a vital role in the Arab Spring of 2011. Others say the organizers of Occupy Wall Street were listening to their demo when they began to discuss their movement. Though it has yet to be verified, word that the first two tracks off of their upcoming EP, The Most Interesting EP In The World, were recorded at the ceremony for Prince William and Katie Middleton and are spreading through the internets like wild fire. The Queen declines to comment. It is said that all drum sounds on the record were recorded in the Himalayan Mountains by a tribe named The Igbos who are said to not eat food but attain their nourishment from the sounds of their percussion alone. In interviews they have stated that what they make is not music, but in fact audio recordings of regular day conversation had between the two artists while reaching a meditated state of nirvana. Their music stops babies from crying in an instant. It has been proven that listening to their music when sleeping can triple a persons IQ in a span of a week. They are, the most different group in the world…Drop It Steady.

“As a group, Drop it Steady is aimed to take a mature approach with music. That does not necessarily mean that the subject matter of the music is serious a hundred percent of the time, but it does ensure that it is the most honest music Nabin and I have written. As emcees we use our real names (Nabin and Jeff) with no aliases, and the music itself is created from scratch and rid of any sampling. Most tracks are built around on the spot acoustic and bass guitar recordings, and man made-percussion sounds while we create our samples from our environment.

With that mature and honest approach comes the influence of our backgrounds and upbringing. When Nabin approached me about Drop It Steady, he said he wanted to create a pop group that was more than just two emcees/artists who make music together. He wanted to be a group that represented the communities and cultures that we were brought up in, and a group that could find influence from those communities and appeal to both.

I have always looked up to Nabin in the way he has been able to creatively include his Asian and India influences in a lot of the music he has created over the years. When I began working with him as an artist (before the creation of Drop It Steady) I expressed that appreciation. As he got to know me better as a person he began to see how my music in a lot of ways mirrored many of my cultural influences as a New Jersey born Italian-American.

As we discussed the honesty that we wanted to see reflected in the music we created as Drop It Steady, that cultural influence was a prime point of conversation and we agreed to not force the incorporation of those cultures, but instead let them come out naturally. You can hear it in Nabin’s production, and it is evident in the lyrics that we both contribute to the project from the slang terms used or cultural references made in each song.

It carries through naturally in the performance as well as the visual of both of us together displays the power of our contrast, not just in the music but on stage. Nabin, who is shorter with Asian features and always sporting Buddha beads and other Indian garb next to myself, at around six feet tall with St. Christopher medal and a crucifix.

That is how we want it though. We want people to hear us or see us on stage and have that thought in their head of, “I wonder how these two got together”.

- Jeff of Drop It Steady