DETROIT, May 11 (UPI) -- Detroit is set to host its second annual hip-hop summit, combining politics with music from the likes of Eminem and 50 Cent.
Organizers and popular rap artist Swifty McVay with D12 detailed the May 22 Hip-Hop Summit Action Network event Monday, announcing Fox Theater as the new venue and a star lineup that will include the genre's biggest stars, the Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday.
The six-hour summit will feature, in addition to the music, panels on political activism and music industry networking. Previously a free event, this year's panels will require a $10 ticket.
Last years's summit, at Detroit's Cobo Arena, attracted 17,000 fans and signed up thousands of new voters, organizers said.
Nationally, the organization, founded by Benjamin Chavis, former executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons in 2001, takes credit for adding about 2 million new names to voter rolls through hip-hop summits in various cities, the Free Press said.
