Southern hip-hop rapper Pettidee is to endorse the Redeem the Vote (RTV) campaign, encouraging young people of faith to go to the polls in the November elections.

Concert attendees this summer and fall will find RTV tables at Pettidee's performances as well as hear him endorse the organization from the stage. The Jacksonville, Fla., artist said: “We as the hip-hop generation can't wait until things go wrong to speak. Voting is a loud voice. If you want to be heard … vote.”

Pettidee's forthcoming radio single, “Butterflies,” will additionally address social and political issues. The song, dealing with subjects such as the brutality of spousal abuse and rape, drawing from his own past, comes from Pettidee's fourth album, Thug Love (Beatmart Recordings, Provident-Integrity).

Married with two children, Pettidee is a GRAMMY-nominated producer for his work on the Grits project Dichotomy B. In addition to speaking and performing in schools, prisons and juvenile shelters across the country, he appeared in the motion picture The Second Chance.