Join us TONIGHT at 9PM EST for a new episode of the What If god Were One Of Us Show with your host Adeeb Shabazz as we air Part 3 and final part of our series on Consciousness, called “Conscious Is Not a Brand! We are dispelling the myths about the so-called “Conscious Community” and how one is considered “conscious” or not. Join us for this insightful episode that is sure to enlighten and inspire you.

Join us TONIGHT, Friday May 18th, 2012 as we host Jamaican Rastafarian Dub Poet Mutabaruka on the Conscious Music Movement Show here on FreedomPath Radio. Mutabaruka is coming to the states and will be appearing in Atlanta, GA Sunday, June 3rd at 7PM.

Mutabaruka (born Allan Hope, 26 December 1952, Rae Town, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican Rastafarian Dub Poet. His name comes from the Rwandan language and translates as “one who is always victorious”. He lives in Potosi District, St. James, with his partner and their two children.

Mutabaruka has established himself as both a literary and musical giant, both in Jamaica and abroad, and is arguably one of Jamaica’s most respected wordsmiths, dub poets and broadcaster. His poems have given voice to a nation and helped forge an entirely new genre of music, dub/rhythm poetry. Revolutionary, fiery, scathing, and stinging, Mutabaruka’s words are as potent on paper as on CD, and so the literary community needed to create a new term just for his works – Meta-Dub.

Mutabaruka’s first book, The First Poems, was launched in the 1980s and took off well. A sequel entitled The Next Poems was launched on 10 March 2005. The “double-barrelled” books are well known to the Jamaican community as well as other dub-poets. In the spring of 2007, Mutabaruka had the chance to teach African American studies at Merritt College. His time there further showed through in his poems.

He has cut singles with the late Dennis Brown and Luciano, hosts a hugely popular Jamaican radio show on the IRIE-FM station, and many of Mutabaruka’s songs recorded with other artists are brought together on the In Combination album (2006) which features songs with reggae greats such as Freddie McGregor, Cocoa Tea, Sugar Minott, Marcia Griffiths, Tony Rebel and more. Mutabaruka is the Musical Director of Caribbean Fashion Week.

Mutaburka, the Actor, has been featured in movies; One Love (2004); Land of Look Behind (1982); and starred as Shango in the powerful film about Maafa – the African Holocaust, Sanfoka (1994).

On 20 February 2010, Muta was honored by the National Centre for Youth Development (NCYD) and the Rotaract Club of Mandeville for over 30 years of outstanding work in the field of the arts. Also, later on in 2010, Muta was recognized by Senegal. In all of Mutabaruka’s work, he never forgets to give back to the people who influence him. On 28 September 2010, Muta recited a tribute poem in honour of Lucky Dube, whose music liberated the oppressed. Recently, Muta spoke at the First Jamaica Poetry Festival on 17 August 2011 in honour of Marcus Garvey and Louise Bennett. Leaving a mark on people who oppose you is very hard to do. Mutabaruka does this with extraordinary power, poetry. On the final day of the Rastafari Studies Conference, Muta was examined as a Icon by the professors of the West Indies.

Join us TONIGHT on www.FreedomPathRadio.com (www.freedompath.mobi on mobile devices) as we feature Conscious Hip Hop artist and Hip Hop Educator Yung D’Rok out of Los Angeles. Yung D’Rok burst on the scene around 2006 after meeting L.A. engineer Chris Warrior and started doing mixtapes that help him become a household name in the underground Hip Hop scene in L.A. Success came in greater measure when he released “Hip Hop World Wide” (2011) “Bringing In a New World” EP (2011) which was a sample of a future album he had coming out, including his recent Phenomenal release “Love&Pain” Mixtape (2011), and One Album “HIP HOP FOREVER” (2010).

D ROK Continues to grow and carry out the recent given title “The Conscious Lyricist”. “I decided to go with the conscious style after I began to read on Hip Hop History, and listening to KRS ONE Lectures, then later finding my way in 2009 in The Islam religion” says D’ROK. Since being active on the conscious Hip Hop Scene D’ROK has been able to release songs that speak on “the effect
of drug-abuse and gang violence in the lives of the youth in his community, and even his personal experiences in South Central, Los Angeles. His efforts to speak up on the reality of the living conditions in his neighborhood, eventually got him on a record with Los Angeles
Lakers Forward “Ron Artest” on a song titled “Too Fly’.

D’ROK is currently working on his second album “Bringing in a New World” set to be released on iTunes on May 25th, 2012 and in June 2012 on CD.

Join your FreedomPath Forum host Adeeb along with in-house guests Saylove (J. Amaru) and newly appointed FreedomPath Radio Operations Manager Keyora Williams here on FreedomPath Radio as we discuss the issue of voting among those who consider themselves conscious. Contradiction, Duty or Option? With the latest issue of SOPA/PIPA threatening internet freedom this is a must-address topic.

To all of our supporters over the years, we thank you immensely from the bottom of our heart and the depths of our mind. Since 2006 we’ve done our best to keep FreedomPath Radio’s content fresh, new and enlightening to the consciousness, featuring the best in Conscious Hip Hop & Neo Soul and the best interviews with metaphysical speakers and conscious music artists from all over, all free of charge to our audience. After a brief break to make several improvements we are back on the air with regular talk radio broadcasts and music, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Join us on January 1, 2012 as we return after a very brief hiatus with new fire for 2012! More announcements to come.

Join us TONIGHT at 9PM Eastern Standard Time here on www.FreedomPathRadio.com as we introduce new FreedomPath Radio collaborator SayLove as radio co-host as she interviews Stic.Man of Dead Prez in an exclusive FreedomPath Radio/SayLove Music interview for the Conscious Music Movement Show. Join us as we speak to Stic about new projects, the movement, spiritual development, and issues of race, class and economy.

Of course as always, we’ll feature the best in Conscious Music, featuring artists such as Dead Prez, Stic.Man, SayLove, Kil Ripkin, Knowa, Sa Roc and others.

Give Thanks: Join us tonight at 9PM Eastern Standard Time right here on www.FreedomPathRadio.com as we discuss gratitude and how it can create a shift in our lives, sparking the God-energy within ourselves. Come share ideas and feedback with us in the chat room, and enjoy the conversation and of course conscious music including the God-Core selection of the God Hop Confederation.

Join us on FreedomPath Radio (www.FreedomPathRadio.com) at 9PM Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, November 2nd, for the What If God Were One Of Us Show w/host Adeeb Shabazz as we discuss how the Conscious Music Movement and the GOD HOP Confederation are OCCUPYING Hip Hop and changing lives and the way we THINK, ACT and PROGRESS into a better situation for ourselves, our families, and our communities worldwide.