Mobb Deep headlines Hip-Hop Conference
Hip-hop pioneers Mobb Deep will headline the 11th annual Hip-Hop Conference April 21-22 at California University of Pennsylvania.
Conference topics include the criminal justice system, college campus safety and feature films “Chi-Raq” and “Straight Outta Compton.”
Mobb Deep members Havoc and Prodigy will join Dr. Zoe Spencer, an associate professor at Virginia State University, for “Hip-Hop and the Prison Industrial Complex” at 5 p.m. April 21 in Morgan Hall auditorium.
Mobb Deep, originally from Queens, N.Y., is considered a pioneer of “reality rap,” which portrays life in the inner city. Spencer teaches sociology, social work and criminal justice. She is the author of “Murda’, Misogyny, and Mayhem: Hip-Hop and the Culture of Abnormality in the Urban Community.”
At noon April 22, a panel moderated by Anika Tillery, a 2006 graduate of Cal U., who is a director of social work in Brooklyn, N.Y., will discuss “Sexual, Emotional and Physical Abuse on Campuses and Beyond.”
From 2 to 4 p.m. April 22, students and scholars will discuss director Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq,” which depicts violence on the South Side of Chicago, and “Straight Outta Compton,” the story of hip-hop group N.W.A.