WEB ONLY: Rappers light up Breslin with sexual energy, innuendoes

About 6,700 people showed up to Breslin Center on Sunday to shake their booties and raise their hands in the air like they just didn't care at the requests of rappers Ludacris and Chingy.

High heels, short skirts and cleavage were abound at a show that featured four headlining rappers.

Rapper Knoc-Turn'al opened the show at 7:30 p.m., getting the arriving crowd on its feet right away. But the energy didn't hit the brim of the building until the rapper David Banner of former duo Crooked Lettaz took the stage with the most energy that hit the venue the entire night.

Banner, a proud Mississippi native, took the stage by storm when he sported MSU apparel and threw water at the crowd, which was thirsty for some jams.

When Banner jumped into the audience, he just about gave all the red-shirted security guards a heart attack. And when he stripped an usher of his clothing on the second deck of the lower bowl, it was just hilarious. Tie, vest, shirt and fly - Banner ripped it all off.

From his on-stage push-ups and his crotch-grabbing to his talking about unity between races, Banner stole the show and was the most intense performance of the night.

Ben Moore, host of the Cultural Vibe on 88.9 FM (WDBM) said he was ecstatic to see big-name rappers on campus.

"I saw Luda the last time he came to campus," said Moore, better known as DJ Benny Ben. "There's just a lot of energy, but I'm really looking forward to seeing David Banner. He goes back a few years and I was really feeling it from back then."

Lansing-area rapper Self Sez went to the show with Moore with the sole purpose of checking out Chingy's female fans.

"I came to see the girls who came to see Chingy," he said. "They're the scantily clad ones. You don't come to a show scantily clad unless you're looking for some attention. I can't get near 'em, but I can look."

And there definitely were many scantily clad females.

The whole concert, especially the performances by Chingy and Ludacris, was sexually motivated, especially when the two ordered the males in the audience to make some noise if they were looking to fornicate that evening.

Screams erupted from the packed building when Chingy took the stage and started right up with a remix of his hit song "Right Thurr."

He performed other songs from his debut album, "Jackpot," including "Sample Dat Ass," which went out to all the booty-shakin' strippers in the audience.

Chingy announced he was single and lookin' and asked all the fine ladies in the house to join the rappers at the after-party at the Sheraton Lansing Hotel, 925 S. Creyts Road in Lansing.

Ludacris and Chingy got together for their hit song "Holidae In" and had everyone all over the place. Chingy performed for about 35 minutes and Ludacris was the longest-lasting performance of the evening with a whopping hour.

But the audience probably couldn't have lasted any longer - the majority of the crowd was jammin' out of control.

The heavy bass of Ludacris' set rumbled through the bodies of the audience as the artist delved into "Area Codes" off his second album, "Word of Mouf."

The crowd went nuts when Ludacris performed his first single, "What's Your Fantasy?" The rapper was appreciative of all the crowd involvement and energy.

"I gotta give it up to the first rows here, they know the words to every song," he said.

Other Ludacris hits performed throughout the night were "Stand Up" and "P-Poppin'."

Very few people were sitting throughout the show and no one was seated the whole time.

Lansing resident Cynthia Artis said while the show ran a little late for her, ending around 10:30 p.m., she was impressed by the rappers' performances.

"It was better than I expected," she said. "The only thing that would have made it better is if Ludacris would have come out earlier. He was supposed to go on at 9 p.m."