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NABS Back to the Nest: A Historic Headlining Homecoming 

A homecoming headline set, an on-air reunion with an old DJ partner, a new Southern Brothas single, and a free Halloween block party in downtown Durham

Long before the Dangerous World Tour, DJ NABS was a kid from Durham in a band uniform on the campus of North Carolina Central University.
This month he returns to the nest. The NCCU Alumni Association presents The Legend DJ NABS Mixtape '26 Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel Raleigh-Durham Airport at Research Triangle Park. The…

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The ONLY DJ IN HIP-HOP TO TOUR WITH THE KING OF POP

In the spring of 1992, Arrested Development's Headliner made a phone call that set off a chain of events nobody saw coming. Manager Michael Mauldin — who was overseeing both Arrested Development and the newly exploding teen rap duo Kris Kross — needed a DJ and music director to take Kris Kross on the road with Michael Jackson's Pepsi-sponsored Dangerous World Tour. Headliner had a name: DJ NABS, a Durham, NC-born DJ he had been working alongside on the Atlanta University Center campus circuit, the same man who had already cut a turntable remix of Arrested Development's career-defining single "Tennessee." One recommendation placed a 23-year-old Southern DJ at the center of what would become a $100 million global touring operation.

she labeled the sound

In recognition of Women's History Month, NABS has something to say about the women who helped build The Lab Legacy.

Before the platinum plaques, before the industry co-signs, there was a group of women who believed in the lab before the lab had a name.

The Icey Girls were DJ NABS' first chapter — the young ladies who proved that what was being built inside those sessions and performances was real. Over forty years later, that chapter still opens the book. Women's History Month isn't a campaign here. It's a catalog. 🖤
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