This Halloween, CCB Plaza transforms into the TSB Thrillah Block Party — a free dance party takeover hosted by The Southern Brothas (TSB) set to be Bull City's livest costume party of the year!

Showout the Extraordinaire is presiding over a plaza packed with ghouls, goblins, families, and night crawlers as Major the Bull keeps an eye on all. Local artists and DJs are will light up the stage, filling the air with musical tunes. Costumed dancers move and groove under an open October night sky. The CCB comes alive for The TSB Thrillah.

Be on the look out for the Jose Velasquez's Thriller Flash Mob!  You never know when you'll be standing next to a dancing zombie.

Headlining the haunt: DJ NABS — GRAMMY Museum honoree, Durham Homegrown Hero, and the only DJ to tour with the Michael Jackson. NABS witnessed the King of Pop perform the iconic Thriller live on stage and is bringing that energy to the party.

Saturday, October 31

7:00–10:00 PM

CCB Plaza. All ages. Costumes encouraged.

Downtown Durham is about to get spooky.

Check out the entire schedule for the Durham FRINGE Festival, October 30-November 9.

DJ NABS Keeps Promise to His Little Bro

August 11, 2026 — The date August 11 has always belonged to the culture. It’s the day, in 1973, that a back-to-school party in the Bronx lit the fuse on hip-hop. What fewer people outside Atlanta know is that the date belongs to somebody else too: Chris “Mac Daddy” Kelly of Kris Kross, born August 11, 1978. For DJ NABS, those two birthdays were never a coincidence to explain away. They are the reason to keep showing up.

NABS spent twenty-one years as Music Director and DJ for Kris Kross, from the backward-jeans phenomenon of “Jump” to the group’s final bow at So So Def’s 20th Anniversary concert at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre in February 2013. But the tour history doesn’t capture what many in the city may have forgotten. NABS was the big brother. Kelly was his little brother. Not a phrase they would put in front of the cameras. It was a fact they lived, until Kelly’s untimely passing at 34. NABS has never let the world forget his legacy.

NABS has been in the Lab. Check out his latest music projects, production, and collaborations.

The T3 Project represents uncompromising conscious hip-hop in its purest, most confrontational form—music that prioritizes prophetic truth-telling over commercial palatability, that names names and calls out specific evil rather than speaking in generalities.This album will comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, challenging those invested in maintaining illusions of progress and justice.

DJ Nabs and The Cause2k demonstrate remarkable range—from dance floor anthems to street warnings to spiritual warfare, covering the full spectrum of Black American experience. The Take Over 2 is hip-hop that remembers its roots in truth-telling and community uplift while embracing its evolution into global culture. DJ Nabs and The Cause2k have crafted an album that speaks to this moment.