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A Goodbye to SoundsGood and How I Fell in Love with HipHop
by Jared Leroy Rosenberg on Monday, July 19, 2010 at 5:06pm
A goodbye to SoundsGood and How I Fell in Love with HipHop
I fell in love with HipHop with the intentions of living a life of excess. At the age of twenty one I moved to a Kansas island of liberalism, independent music, and incredibly hot women. I left Belton Missouri not with the intention to seek the higher education Lawrence has to offer, but to indulge myself with binge drink specials that ran rampant in almost every part of town. I unpacked my truck at a house near a bar called the Pool Room off of 9th and Iowa and quickly dusted a twelve pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon with my new roommates.
At this time in my life, I primarily enjoyed the music of the punk rock variety. Though, I listened to HipHop, I did not connect with it the same way many of my peers did. Luckily for me, my ears were opened to a surprisingly new atmosphere of community. This association of able minded individuals flowed freely throughout the local HipHop scene. Being the social dipsomaniacal butterfly that I was, I traveled where ever I knew a familiar face fed their vice. In the year 2002 the Pool Room was a townie bar full of mustachioed mulleted pool hustlers almost every day of the week, but on Fridays it belonged to the local Lawrence HipHop scene. At least half of it anyways. This is the place where I fell in love with HipHop.
Every Friday night by ten p.m. this redneck tavern quickly became filled with side cocked ball capped backpackers. At first, I figured that this was some sort of hipster hang out, but I soon realized the reason for most of these kids carrying rucksacks. Where else are you supposed to pack records, microphones, B-Boy gear, or your art supplies? This is what went down, a true community of artists brought together by the music that they all equally love. HipHop isn’t just a musical art form, it’s a culture, and the Pool Room’s Sabbath soirees where soul to this.
SoundsGood is an understatement of the music produced by Miles Bonny and Jamal Gamby, known then as Joe Good. Though this was their title, so much more existed than just simple goodness. The first time I remember seeing them, I was skeptical as I was with any act I had not yet encountered. Miles was walking around the bar wearing a giant green clown afro. He neared the table I located in what seemed to be a drunken stammer, to approach the rapper Isaac Diehl who was sitting to my left. He grabbed a chair, turned the backside towards us, and sat down in it like he was Dwayne Wayne. The only thing missing was a Gumby top and flipped up sunglasses. “Yo, I.D., let’s battle!â€
Soon thereafter a slew of nonsensible rhymes fell from his mouth. Are you serious!?! Who the hell was this guy? Not only did he look like a clown, but his mannerisms much resembled one. After he left the table everyone assured me that he was cool, but I’m from Missouri so I generally take peoples word at face value only. Little did I know that I had just met the man who would become one of the best HipHop artists that the MidWest has to offer. Soon Miles shed the ridiculous head gear as SoundsGood was the main musical attraction of the night. The beats produced by Mr. Bonny soon overwhelmed the small venue, and Joe Good walked onto the stage carrying an umbrella.
Their first song was aptly titled Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, though it was a good song, I figured they were yet another act full of gimmicks, and humorous lyrics. I was so completely wrong, humor did not fit these previous thoughts. The defining song of the night for me, has been and always will be, Livin’ Life. Holy shit, this song specifically changed my outlook on an entire genre. This is the first HipHop song that I really related to. Jamal lent a simple idea to the music created by Miles that was lyrically superior to what I had yet to hear at this point in my life. The struggle of the average man, trying to better himself presented in a prose that was matched by only a few at that time. The basic principle of being a better fucking person. This is when I fell in love with HipHop.
The clown I had encountered earlier brought forth a trumpet to the stage while the master of ceremonies laid down his rhythmic rapture. Miles was not a clown, not just a hype man, and not just a beat producer. Miles Bonny had no need to prove to anyone of his musical talents off stage, because once he set foot in front of the audience he removed any preconceived notions any person might have had with the gift of genuine originality. When their final song, Sex in the Morning finished, the rap music of SoundsGood was forever etched into my memory.
This HipHop community only lasted a few short years in Lawrence, but helped define me as a musician. The years went on, people grew up, went their separate ways, and a scene that was so influential to many a young minds…faded. To hear that Miles is getting ready to release the final workings of SoundsGood brings insurmountable joy to my heart and soul. Because to me, it’s more than just the final chapter in the artwork create by two young men, it’s the closure needed to say goodbye to a moment time that forever changed the path of an entire town. Miles, Jamal, thanks for the love you gave, I use it every day, in every form, in every way……………..
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Wow, dope he was touched like that. I remember when I heard Sounds Good was done. It was very disappointing. I still bump that stuff on the regular.
