Over the summer, I had the opportunity to witness two of the greatest concerts of the century. When I was in Atlanta, I was mesmerized by all of the crunk performances from Lil Jon & Tha Eastside Boyz, Ludacris, Bonecrusher and many other dirty south artists at the Hot 107.9 Birthday Bash.

When I traveled to Philadelphia, I was overwhelmed by Missy Elliott, Jay Z and G Unit’s blazing performances at “The Roc The Mic Tour.”

The Student Government Association managed to put on a scorching hot show featuring artists from the North and the South for this year’s homecoming concert.

A&T alumnus Jason Peele opened the show with some of his most intimate R&B tracks from his debut album “They Call Me J.”

As soon as Peele finished his set, the crowd started getting real rowdy when Atlantic Recording artist T.I. graced the stage.

T.I. got so wild that he had to take his shirt off during the club bangers “24’s”, “Be Easy” and “Rubber Band Man.”

Disturbing Tha Peace artist Chingy had every lady doing the “the chicken head dance”, when he performed his hit singles, “Right Thurr” and “Holidae Inn.”

But, the whole arena almost shut down when Lil Jon a.k.a. The King of Crunk came on stage. Everybody was bouncing and shouting the lyrics to dirty south classics “Bia, Bia”, “I Don’t Give A …”, and “Get Low.”

The last act of the homecoming jumpoff was G-G-G Unit!!!!!!!!! I have never seen so much security rush to the stage in my life. I didn’t even know we had that many police officers in Greensboro.

Women were offering their body parts for signing purposes and fellas were pumping their fists and reciting every line Shady/Aftermath crew. You can’t possibly imagine the sounds of over 14,000 screaming fans in one area.

G Unit performed hits such as “P.I.M.P.”, “21 Questions”, and “Wanksta.” 50 Cent even performed tracks off of the new G Unit album and cuts from previous mixtapes.

Overall, I think the 2003 Homecoming concert will go down as one of the top 10 greatest concerts I have ever seen.

• Review by Trina Logan