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Sour Bamboo is the name of a music project and interim band name for music artist and producer Dustin DeBolt. The Sour Bamboo project was originally created in 2005 when Dustin and fellow rapper/producer Devon "Diogenes" Parks began rapping in their basement when they were seniors in high school. The original reason the two began rapping was to prove that rap didn't have to consist of only gangster themes and of only African American gang culture. In Ankeny Iowa where the two grew up, rap was viewed as an illegitimate form of music making. Country music and alternative rock reigned supreme in the small town atmosphere of suburban Iowa. Dustin and Devon realized that rap was much more than it was made up to be, to them rap was poetry, a form of expression where lyricism and extensive vocabulary were the driving forces behind the music. Not crime and killing yelled over a repetitive beat, but musical exploration with a multitude of instruments and a vast array of topics relevant to every ones life via religious, philosophical, and political discussion and therein, the Sour Bamboo project was born. While sticking to hip-hop sounding beats