500 and Growing Podcast

D-Nick The Microphone Misfit artist, writer & educator & counselor from Chicago by way of Flint MI. from The Microphone Misfitz The Microphone Misfitz are an international Hip-Hop & Comic book creators group that has released 6 comic books combined with albums. Two solo albums and 2 EPs. Based in Chicago, The Microphone Misfitz is more than a band or crew, creating music. They use the pillars of Hip-Hop (turntablism/DJing; MCing; breakin &; graffiti/street art; knowledge & overstanding) and their shared dynamics to enlighten and sustain their audiences and themselves. Kin Solo, DFEX, and Jet Nam (Jet9) are the choreography & movement artists; Ray of Light is the high-octane hype-man & MC; Mel L. is the Graff artist, vocalist, & road DJ; DJ Mar & Mike Knobel (aemka) are the production team; and D-Nick The Microphone Misfit is the lead MC, lyricist & artistic director of the group. The Microphone Misfitz have toured worldwide from grassroots gatherings to South By Southwest; from Algeria to China and elsewhere; D-Nick & his group have been Sharing stages with luminaries such as Crucial Conflict, Dead Prez, KRS-ONE, Jeru tha Damaja, Saul Williams, Mega Ran and more. In 2018 The Microphone Misfitz became the first Hip-Hop group allowed to Tour China since the country BANNED HIP-HOP. ⁠www.themicrophonemisfitz.com⁠

Turi Ryder is the author of “She Said What? (A Life on the Air)”, and hosts the “Turi Ryder’s She Said What?” podcast. You can find that at your favorite podcast spot.

She’s also a current talk radio and former music radio personality known to audiences in Chicago (WGN, WLS AM & FM) San Francisco (KFRC, K101, “Free FM”) Los Angeles (KFI, KissFM), Minneapolis (KSTP), Seattle (KIRO), and Portland (KGW).

These days you can hear Turi on Chicago’s Progressive Talk station, WCPT, where she is the token mainstream Democrat, willing to say unpopular things, if she thinks they are true and useful.

She lives in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Learn more about Turi here: www.turiryder.com or here www.shesaidwhat.net

"emi be like" is the solo musical project of Mexican-American artist Emi Brito Anguiano. Emi grew up in a family with a lot of musical influence, since her father and grandfather were musicians in Mexico and they transmitted their love of music to her.

In 2021, she debuted her first pop single, "Go On Home," alongside her producer Dis Chico, a Chicago native with Ecuadorian roots, which was featured on Chicago's "Vocalo" radio show and Lumpen Radio. She has been invited to perform at festivals such as Ruido Fest, Taste of Chicago and Pilsen fest, but has also gained international attention by performing at the Cervantino festival in Guanajuato, as well as gaining airwaves on the radio station "Reactor fm" based out of Mexico City.

Now, Emi's focus is expanding her songwriting skills from synthpop and rock to incorporate her roots with her new cumbia song, "Llevame Contigo", which was inspired during a 3-month stay in Mexico when she witnessed love of the cumbia dance community.