Three key takeaways
- Atlanta comes to the Hill: Gunna, Summer Walker, T.I. and Bellygang Kushington headline FAMU’s Oct. 22 Homecoming concert.
- A deeper Atlanta connection: About 11% of FAMU undergraduates are from Georgia, while more than 5,000 alumni live and work in metro Atlanta.
- Homecoming runs Oct. 18-25: The weeklong celebration, themed “There’s No Place Like the Hill,” ends with FAMU football hosting Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Oct. 24.
FAMU is bringing Atlanta to Tallahassee for Homecoming.
Gunna, Summer Walker, T.I. and Bellygang Kushington are scheduled to perform Oct. 22 at the Al Lawson Jr. Multipurpose Center, giving FAMU one of the more prominent HBCU Homecoming concert bills of the 2026 season.
Doors are scheduled to open at 5 p.m., with the concert beginning at 7 p.m.
Tickets are available through Ticketmaster, with separate purchasing options for FAMU students and the general public.
The concert is being promoted as an all-Atlanta lineup, bringing together established stars, a veteran of Southern hip-hop and an emerging artist from the city.
But the Atlanta connection runs deeper than the music.
About 11 percent of FAMU's undergraduate students come from Georgia, according to university enrollment data, with much of that population coming from the Atlanta metropolitan area.
The relationship continues well beyond graduation.
The FAMU National Alumni Association’s Metro Atlanta Chapter estimates that more than 5,000 FAMU alumni live and work in the Atlanta area, making it one of the university's largest alumni concentrations outside Florida.
The size and visibility of that alumni population have helped make FAMU a familiar institution in Atlanta's Black professional community.
The connection is so pronounced that Rattler culture has produced a tongue-in-cheek nickname for the university: “Georgia A&M University,” a playful reference to FAMU's influence in Georgia and the fictional HBCU depicted in BET's The Quad.
That history gives the Homecoming concert an added dimension.
For one night, the city that has become home to thousands of FAMU graduates will effectively be represented on the Hill.
Gunna has become one of hip-hop's most recognizable melodic artists, while Summer Walker has established herself as one of contemporary R&B's prominent voices.
T.I. represents an earlier generation of Atlanta's hip-hop explosion. His career, spanning more than two decades, helped establish the city as one of the defining centers of Southern rap.
Bellygang Kushington represents the newer Atlanta scene, giving the bill an emerging local voice alongside three nationally recognized artists.
The combination is intended to reach different generations of FAMU students, alumni and Homecoming visitors.
“The students asked for a concert that would feel worthy of the FAMU Homecoming experience, and we listened,” Caitlin Smith, FAMU Student Government Association vice president and chair of the Student Homecoming Steering Committee, said in a statement.
“The moment the lineup was revealed at Bragg, the reaction said it all.”
Christian Aristilde, chief business development and partnerships officer for Winners Circle, described the concert as an “all-Atlanta lineup” designed to appeal to multiple generations of Rattlers.
“This lineup brings together some of the most dynamic voices in hip-hop and R&B for a concert designed to match the energy, culture and legacy of FAMU Homecoming,” Aristilde said.
This year's FAMU homecoming concert makes that Atlanta connection unusually visible.
Atlanta has helped shape generations of Rattlers. In October, FAMU will return the favor, bringing Atlanta's music culture to the Hill.