Female Flip Mode Squad rapper Rah Digga has been tapped to perform a concert on May 2 for prisoners at New York City's Rikers Island Correctional Facility.

Digga's prison show is being coordinated by the city's Department of Corrections as part of a continuing program that uses hip-hop music to help curb inmate violence.

In June 1998, Fat Joe, Cormega, and the late Big Punisher participated in a similarly-organized show for Rikers Island inmates (see "Big Pun And Fat Joe Headed To Rikers Island").

MTV News recently caught up with Rag Digga and talked about her new album, "Dirty Harriet," and the title's reference to Harriet Tubman, the former slave who helped Southern slaves escape to the North in the pre-Civil War days via the Underground Railroad.

"Basically I just feel like now in the year 2000, I represent what Harriet Tubman did in her day," Digga said. "A strong rebel female who stood up and said, 'Look, there must be a better way... and either you could follow me or you could just basically be where you are.'

"And slowly but surely she acquired a following and she found freedom for slaves. Now, of course, that is not the case in the year 2000, but as far as applying it to music nowadays... I feel like I'm not trying to fit in. I'm not following any trends. I'm basically [being] me, as best as my style represents me, and being a leader, definitely." [RealVideo]

Rah Digga has just completed the video for "Break Fool," her second single from "Dirty Harriet," and is in discussions about possibly heading out on tour with Black Rob, Ghostface Killah, and Carl Thomas this summer.