AP Rapper/singer DeJ Loaf will perform Saturday at Packard Music Hall.

A trio of hip hop acts will play Packard Music Hall on Saturday, and the local promoter bringing them in also plans to offer a sneak peak of his next release.

The lineup for the Family & Friends Bash include Skilla Baby and DeJ Loaf, both from Detroit, and T-Rell.

Tashawn Fambro, who releases music as Murdah 1, said, “We really don’t got much to do here. So I was like, instead of me taking it to another city, let me bring the city together and really show the world that we could do something different. We got a nice facility, which is Packard Music Hall.”

He tried to pick a lineup that would appeal to a wide audience.

“I picked somebody that the kids listen to, which is Skilla Baby,” he said. “I wanted somebody that was smooth, so I was like, ‘I’m gonna go with DeJ Loaf.’ And I threw T-Rell on there for an R&B singer. I’m just trying to give them a mixture of three different styles, three different artists, something different to try it out. I plan on going 10 times bigger if this one goes amazing.”

Skilla Baby released three albums on Geffen Records and is best known for such songs as “Mama” and “Icky Vicky Vibes.” He’s released tracks with Tee Grizzley, Rob49, Sada Baby and Babyface Ray.

DeJ Loaf’s songs have been streamed more than a billion times on Spotify, and her hip hop/R&B hits include “Try Me,” “Detroit vs. Everybody” and “Back Up.” She’s worked with such acts as Eminem, Big Sean and Lil Wayne.

T-Rell is from that hip hop hotbed of Topeka, Kansas, and there’s a hint of country in his vocal delivery. He first attracted attention with the song “My Dawg,” written after an auto accident that injured the singer and killed his friend and manager.

Fambro plans to release his next album, “M1,” in late May, and it includes a track with T-Rell.

“You’re not gonna get the same old M1 that you got before,” Fambro said of the new album. “You’re gonna get something totally different. You’re gonna see a lot of growth in my music.”

Doors open at 5 p.m., and the show starts at 6 p.m. Saturday. Tickets start at $69 and are available at the Packard box office and through Ticketmaster.

I’m not going to pretend to be the biggest connoisseur of hip hop, but it’s great to see diversity in the options available to local music fans. And it can’t get any more diverse than Packard Music Hall’s schedule this weekend — country singer Jo Dee Messina at Packard on Friday, the Family & Friends Bash on Saturday and the W.D. Packard Concert Band this weekend.

And Fambro believes shows like this can serve a bigger purpose than entertainment.

“The community needs to have everybody on board that we can to stop what’s going on, stop the violence,” he said.

“This show and the stuff that I’m about to do, it’s gonna keep the community busy, it’s giving the kids something to do, instead of wanting to shoot and kill each other … I got a big calling, man. I got a big purpose.”

Andy Gray is the entertainment editor of Ticket. Write to him at agray@tribtoday.com