No\\ek & Kno\\\sage welcome SPIZM's co-founder / juanshelby  to the show - SPIZM is an emotive synth core darkwave live drum and bass duo: / SPIZM. Spiz and Pablo have been rocking crowds for two decades and they created a cult following under the SPIZM moniker. SPIZM is located here in Chicago and Pablo is now based out of Japan. No distance can stop these guys from taking their music to the next level. So pull up a chair get ready to go on a musical journey with SPIZM. 

HipPodHedz cover art & intro music by: C.Alba-Garner

  / jasonfergmusic  

A native of Chicago, Jason grew up surrounded by music on both sides of his family, within the church, and through cultural emersion in the city's vast musical heritage. It was in Chicago where he founded a music ministry, set up a home-based recording studio, and began to forge his own musical identity. Supporting others and sharing the power of music, he established Jason Ferg Music, LLC to more effectively produce his own original music and provide live music for events, offer consulting services to emerging artists, and deliver music-centered, personal development workshops and programs for all ages and backgrounds.

Jason is also an Emergency Manager. He holds a master’s degree in public health and has 20 years of career experience. Over the years, he has fostered safe, healthy, and vibrant communities on university campuses; helped military veterans reintegrate into civilian life by training them for domestic and international disaster response missions; and assisted communities in the cycle of preparing for, responding to, recovering from, and mitigating against disasters of all types.

 

Jason Ferg (Ferguson) is a music artist, songwriter, and producer whose music embodies the tenets of living life fully, celebrating family, creating community, and rising above the adverse effects of life's challenges through the power of faith. He is an independent artist who enjoys the creative freedom of releasing music that is true to his perspective and authentic expression.

Jason has performed live at a growing list of music venues, community festivals, and special events nationwide and has served as a collaborator and consultant to a host of fellow artists.

 

Vance was a contributing writer in the early 2000s for URB (https://urbmagazine.substack.com/) & Stress (https://grandgood.com/2008/11/19/stre...) magazines….and https://HipHopElements.com/. His main focus was on hip-hop reviews. He also interviewed Bahamadia, J-Live for these magazines and other publications.

Roberto (El Cybervato) is an interdisciplinary performance artist and educator. Sifuente’s projects include: #exsanguination, a collaboration with new media artist jonCates and Aram Han Sifuentes (2016-2019); “Reculmulations: Digital Avatars and Performance objects,” a collaboration with digital artist Claudia Hart and composer Edmund Campion (Black and White Gallery NYC).

As co-founder of the San Francisco based performance troupe La Pocha Nostra, he has performed and conducted workshops with La Pocha across the US, Canada, Europe and Latin America. Sifuentes has co-authored two books with Guilermo Gomez-Peña; most recently “Exercises for Rebel Artists: Radical Performance Pedagogy” Routledge 2011. As a performance pedagogue, he has been Artistic Director of the Trinity College/La MaMa Performing Arts Program NYC. Sifuentes is currently Professor of performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The 1990s saw hip-hop's influence extend well beyond the confines of the traditional large metropolitan areas (New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, et al.), initially spreading into the suburbs, where it infiltrated every socio-economic strata and crossed every cultural boundary, then ultimately found its way into smaller regional niches, such as, in the case of the progressive rap combo Oddjobs, Minneapolis and St. Paul. With the equally forward-looking artists of the Rhymesayers Entertainment enterprise, the group not only helped to put Minnesota on the hip-hop map but, inspired by previous mavericks like De La Soul, the Beastie Boys, Hieroglyphics, and Freestyle Fellowship, also helped to tie rap's coastal-based, old-school past with its visionary, postmodern, untethered future.

The individuals who would eventually form the official Oddjobs lineup originally came together in 1996 as members of the 30-odd-strong Cases of Mistaken Identity (CMI) collective, a rotating cadre of rappers, DJs, b-boys, and graffiti writers drawn mostly from a pair of local high schools. By 1998, Minneapolis MCs Advizer (Adam Waytz) and Crescent Moon (Alexei Casselle), and St. Paul producers/DJs Anatomy (Stephen Lewis) and Deetalx (Devon Callahan), had gravitated toward one another and began performing together at all-ages venues as Oddjobs, occasionally backed live by local band Heiruspecs. Not long thereafter, the group released its first tape, Case Studies, with CMI and began to earn a measure of local exposure. The foursome's entrée into more widespread underground circles came the next year with its debut indie full-length, Conflict and Compromise. They attracted even more notice within the hip-hop community after Crescent Moon's strong showing at the battle competition of the 1999 Scribble Jam, and via his frequent spot as an auxiliary MC for Eyedea + Abilities of Rhymesayers fame. Advizer and Deetalx made the move to Brooklyn in the fall of that year to attend college, but the members kept Oddjobs alive via tapes, telephone calls, and commutes, resulting in the 2000 EP Absorbing Playtime. At around the same time, the Funboy EP was pressed in a limited edition of 5000 and officially released only in Japan. (It quickly began making the rounds in the United States as a bootleg.) Across the Tracks, a Deetalx mix CD, and Live at the Bryant Lake Bowl, with Chicago's Typical Cats and Heiruspecs, both appeared in 2001.

The full CMI crew -- by that time down to Oddjobs and MCs Nomi and Naimles -- had planned to follow with a full-length project. Instead Nomi (Mario Demira) joined as an official member (CMI Productions became the business front for the group), and the three remaining Minnesotans made the final move to New York the following autumn. Success and respect came surprisingly quickly for the quintet in the Big Apple. Its 12" single "Blue Collar Holler" rose to the sixth spot on the CMJ college radio chart. (A subsequent remix of the song attracted guest appearances from Aesop Rock and Vast of Cannibal Ox.) Oddjobs shared stages with or opened for De La Soul, DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, El-P, and Atmosphere, among others. In 2002 the crew released its first nationally distributed full-length, Drums, on its own indie startup label Third Earth Music. The album was lauded by fans, fellow rappers, and critics alike. They briefly partnered with Eyedea for the extremely rare toss-off cassette Whereabouts of Hidden Bridges. The collaboration also accounted for a track on the next official Oddjobs recording, the six-song The Shopkeeper's Wife EP, released in the spring of 2003. ~ Stanton Swihart

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  / open_mike_eagle  

His latest album with Controller 7, ArticulatedTexTiles is a window into his world of ideas and memories.

 

 

Sophomore year of high school, Roseli wrote an original song called “Iron Chain” that was recognized by Hamilton officials. She was then selected to perform in front of a crowd of more than 2,000 people on the Chicago stage of Hamilton. After her performance, her voice was even compared to Grammy award winner Sara Bareilles by Times Square Chronicles. Roseli says it was one of the most exhilarating and best moments in her life.

Although Roseli loves making music, her true passion for pursuing this career comes from the people she sees smile and feel happy through her performances. She wants to make music to touch people’s hearts, connect with others, inspire, and make sure that her audience will never feel alone. Currently, Roseli spends her time perfecting her songwriting, singing, guitar, and keyboard skills. The Daywalkerz (when Rosie was just 16 years old) collaboration project was just the beginning for this musician: https://www.nativestrangermedia.com/bio

Musical Influences: DEAN, Hayley Williams, Kehlani, Alicia Keys, H.E.R., Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco

  / johanspeaks   is an internationally recognized motivational speaker and executive coach with a passion for crafting culture and guiding people towards achieving the impossible. Johan is a graduate of Northeastern Illinois University with a degree in Communications. His message of perseverance and resilience has fostered the interest of a number of TV and radio shows, including The Tyra Banks Show, TEDx, and the Today Show.

A product of Humboldt Park, Chicago, Johan bridges his Midwest sensibilities with a love of creativity and meaningful conversations. Everyone has a heroic journey to forge, and Johan would love to serve you as you chase the life of your dreams.

  / dushaun_nicole  

The Sage Gawd is a mother, wife, educator, yoga instructor, restorative justice advocate and disrupter: https://sagegawdcollective.com/ . This episode features a poem from D Money on the intro.

  / velldageneral10  

Vell is a hip hop artist from the South Side of Chicago bringing you real music in this mumble era. He also offers credit repair to his fans and literally changed their lives.

Know Sage & Novek discuss with Dave his hip-hop inspirations: Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Eric B. & Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest....and when Rage Against the Machine hit - it changed Dave's world, his rock upbringing smashed with hip-hop. Dave also talks how Red Hot Chili Peppers influenced him to learn how to play the drums, and the relationship with sports & music.

In this podcast episode #33 Know Sage & Novek talk to Ari about being a young Mexican female artist, her latest 2023 album “ENTRE EL FUEGO”, and her moving from Chicago to Washington DC. Know Sage also quizzes Novek & Ari on 8 hip-hop trivia questions: https://www.questionshiphop.com/

RIP Trugoy the Dove !!