“Old Skool Sundays at Spaceman” returns Sept. 20 with a Game Day edition and the release of The Southern Brothas’ third EP.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 — On Sunday, Sept. 20, the NFC South’s oldest grudge match spills off the gridiron and onto a Buckhead rooftop. DJ NABS brings the September edition of Old Skool Sundays at Spaceman to the Hyatt Centric Buckhead the same afternoon the Atlanta Falcons host the Carolina Panthers, a Game Day edition that takes the rivalry fifteen floors up. Tickets and VIP tables are on sale now at djnabs.com.
Old Skool Sundays at Spaceman is NABS’s monthly rooftop residency, running the third Sunday of every month, 4–10 PM, in partnership with the Vybz Collective. Each installment honors the Architects of Atlanta and the music that built the city. It’s a centerpiece of In the Lab 30, the year-long celebration of NABS’s three decades documenting the culture.
September doubles as a release party. NABS’ band, The Southern Brothas (TSB), drops their third project, TSB EP3, that same day: four new records, “Tell Me,” “My Fault,” “Sledgehammer,” and “Cracks,” with tracks that feature artist Cetuká. The group will host a live listening session on the rooftop.
For anyone just tuning in, the celebration has already covered ground. In the Lab 30 launched on 404 Day, April 4, with a festival performance at Wolf Creek Amphitheater and a citywide crate drop that seeded limited vinyl at neighborhood institutions: JB’s Lounge in the West End, DBS Sounds in South Fulton, Crates ATL in downtown, and the Decatur Boxing Club in the City of Decatur. On June 14, a sold-out tribute concert at City Winery Atlanta marked the 30th anniversaries of Kris Kross’ Young, Rich & Dangerous and the So So Def Bass All-Stars compilation, which NABS produced on. The bill brought together Public Enemy’s Professor Griff, Solé, DJ Wis, Playa Poncho, and The Southern Brothas with Azyia Joné and The G Sharp Band, with Florida bass mainstays The 69 Boyz closing the night. In August, the Spaceman residency opened with its “Architects of Old Atlanta” edition and special appearances from DJ Hurricane of the Beastie Boys, singer Dionne Farris, and a surprise performance by Playa Poncho.
Durham-born and Atlanta-made, DJ NABS (Youtha Fowler) was Music Director and tour DJ for Kris Kross on Michael Jackson’s Dangerous World Tour before launching In the Lab with DJ Nabs on Atlanta’s first 24-hour hip-hop station Hot 97.5 in 1996. A 25-year So So Def veteran AllMusic.com has referred to as “the South’s premier hip-hop radio DJ,” he’s a GRAMMY Museum honoree and City of Atlanta proclamation recipient.
In the Lab 30 runs through National DJ Day, January 20, 2027. Additional events and activations will be announced.
“Thirty years in, and Atlanta still shows up for me, so I show up for Atlanta,” said DJ NABS. “This September the game’s downstairs and we’re up on the roof, new music from the band, a room full of people who remember how this city sounded when we were building it. That’s what In the Lab 30 is about. Come be in the room.”
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About In the Lab 30
In the Lab 30 is a year-long celebration of DJ NABS and three decades of the In the Lab with DJ NABS brand he built on Atlanta radio. Launched on 404 Day 2026 and running through National DJ Day on January 20, 2027, the campaign honors NABS, the Durham-born DJ, producer, radio pioneer, and hip-hop archivist, alongside the DJs, radio personalities, artists, records, and neighborhoods that shaped the sound of the South. Across concerts, residencies, exhibitions, film, and vinyl drops in Atlanta and Durham, it makes the case that a working DJ’s catalog is history worth preserving. Dates, tickets, and details at djnabs.com.
The Architects of Old Atlanta
Celebrate the DJs who moved the needle while Atlanta rap was still finding its voice.
Jerry Smokin’ B — radio personality, DJ, producer, and one of NABS’s earliest mentors. His fingerprints are on In the Lab itself; the credits don’t lie. The duo produced remixes together under the moniker, 2 Light Bros, one notable being Omarion’s “Icebox (Remix).” The two brothers still work together on projects today.
Talib Shabazz — longtime friend, radio colleague, turntablist, and vinyl historian, whose run with NABS goes back to the early days of the Shabazz’s radio show on Georgia State University’s Album 88, where NABS was a guest DJ – also back to the early So So Def days, with Shabazz making cameos in the “Jump” and Ghost Town DJs “My Boo” videos.
Wis Major — DJ, producer, and a NABS collaborator across decades. Wis and his partner DJ Rip are Vintaj Tunes, the production duo whose remix of NABS’ “Is It You” amongst many projects over the decades. Wis was on the decks alongside NABS for that Club Kaya tribute at City Winery.
NABS calls each month Old Skool Sundays at Spaceman his way of paying homage to a culture he and so many others built, planting the seeds Atlanta is now harvesting. August gave hip-hop and his little brother the same birthday, so it’s fitting that he opens the series where any honest history of Atlanta rap begins: with The Architects.