"Seditious Beats" Interviews Luis Rodriguez and Babalawo Falokun Fashegun


Luis Rodriguez second from left.

LOS ANGELES -- Top-rated conscious Hip-Hop radio show "Seditious Beats" will interview Luis Rodriguez author of “Always Running: Gang Days In LA” and Babalawo Falokun Fashegun an IFA priest in the Yoruba tradition on the indigenous spirituality, Friday night September 21st from midnight to 3am on 90.7 FM KPFK.

Fidel Rodriguez host of Seditious Beats interviews Luis Rodriguez and Baba Falokun Fashegun on what is indigenous spirituality, why don’t most people of color and Europeans know about their indigenous traditions, what is the importance of our names and ancestors, what is the African-Mexican connection and much more. This show is dedicated to all those that lost their lives on September 11, 2001 and all those that have lost their lives do to Neo-Liberalist policies from 1492 to the present.

Seditious Beats can be heard on 112,000 Watts KPFK (90.7FM) in Los Angeles and KPFK (98.7FM) in Santa Barbara County early on Friday Nights from 12a.m. to 3 a.m and on Thursday nights on bringthenoise.com from 6pm to 7pm. The show is simulcast at the "Seditious Beats" website at Seditious Beats. "Seditious Beats" is an innovative, positive and exciting show, which flawlessly blends hip hop music, education, in-studio guests and spirituality within theme-based shows. There is even a "Word of the Week" where listeners can increase their vocabulary as well as win books and cd’s.


Guru of Gangstar with Fidel Rodriguez

"Seditious Beats" grew dramatically when it first aired on KKBT FM (92.3 FM "The Beat") where it premiered in February, 1998. The show dramatically increased its ad revenue and also increased it's listenership by 275%, making it the number one radio program in Los Angeles in it's time slot according to Arbitron. Internationally-known rappers such as KRS-ONE, Cypress Hill, Reflection Eternal(Talib Kweli & DJ Hi-Tek), DJ Qbert, Dilated Peoples, Killer Priest and Prodigal Sun of the Sunz of Man, Visionaries, Guru of Gang Star, Flava Flav & Professor Griff (of the seminal rap group Public Enemy), Delinquent Habits, Psycho Realm and Ozomatli, to name a few, have all participated in promotion and guest for the show.

Fidel Rodriguez is host, and producer of "Seditious Beats." He hails from Santa Barbara, CA. and is a 1997 graduate of the University of Southern California with Bachelor degrees in both Chicano/Latino Studies and African American Studies. He is joined on-air by DJ extrodinaire DJ Icy Ice of the World Famous Beat Junkies.


Fidel Rodriguez with Jacken from Psycho Realm.

Future plans for "Seditious Beats" includes national and international radio syndication, increased community outreach, promotion of critically thinking conferences, concerts, and a television program. “Seditious TV”, can currently be seen at www.regenerationtv.net.


Photography by Sal Rojas



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