In the Studio: Gym Class Heroes

"Yeah! now were cookin, boy!" Travis McCoy yells, pacing the main room at the Deathstar Rosetta Stone Spanish studio in Los Angeles, still sporting his backpack and hoodie. With a new Dodgers cap cocked sideways, the Gym Class Heroes MC shouts, "Drum-and-bass! Drum-and-bass!" Hes leading his band through a rhythm-heavy new tune, as guitarist Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo strums his white Stratocaster through a wah-wah pedal like hes playing with Sly and the Family Stone. Its still before noon when McCoy begins rhyming: "Tell hip-hop Im not illiterate/I got greater expectations than Oliver Twist/I went postal before Bukowski did/Tell Jack Ill go out on the road with him. . . ."Slouched over an upright piano wearing a porkpie hat is Patrick Stump. On a break from Fall Out Boy, Stump is producing todays session for the Heroes follow-up to 2006s As Cruel as School Children, which included the radio hits "Cupids Chokehold" and Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 "Clothes Off!" "Theyre totally serious musicians," says Stump, eager to demonstrate the Geneva, New York, bands musical chops. "Travis is a dead-serious MC. Hes very smart and very sharp and has said some brilliant things. And they have a blast doing it. Hopefully people will get a sense of that."McCoy steps out of the booth to pour himself a sweet blend of merlot and Sprite, a new drink he calls the Travalanche. But hes soon back in the room as the band slips into a classic roots-reggae groove and McCoy spits rhymes about a postmodern romance: "We cant, more like we shouldnt. . . . Its hard to be a good man." "Its about what happens when you have a little too much merlot in you and you have access to a phone and a ton of girls numbers that you wouldnt call otherwise," he says. He thinks up a song title Rosetta Stone Hindi on the spot: "Drunk Text Romeo."

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