Patrick Stump Said 'Genre? I Don’t Know Her' (Revisiting his 2011 Truant Wave EP)

When Fall Out Boy hit pause, Patrick Stump hit play on something entirely different. In today’s episode, we dive into Truant Wave, the 2011 EP where he mixed hip-hop, R&B, funk, and electronic sounds into something nobody saw coming.

We dive into the EP’s collabs (Om'Mas Keith, Idris Elba??), the near-misses (Childish Gambino! Nicki Minaj!), and how this left-field project quietly shaped Fall Out Boy’s future.

This EP wasn’t just a side quest, it was the blueprint for everything Fall Out Boy would evolve into later. Let’s get into why Truant Wave mattered more than anyone realized + why it still slaps today.