Mike Nice
Mike Wilson better known as ” Mike Nice” has been in the music industry for over 10 years.
He started as a mobile DJ whilt working his way into radio. Mike started his radio tenure at WXDU 88.7 FM on the campus of Duke University.
Mike then began to assemble his DJ crew called the Butta Team, which included 6 other top DJ’s in the area. Butta Team then began to do various radio shows on WXDU to while moving the Hip Hop scene forward. Soon after Mike got the job at North Carolina Central University, WNCU 90.7FM. Soon after starting at WNCU Mike Nice began to get involved in the club scene including; The Vybe, the Power Company, Blue Chips, Club Silvers and the Tobacco Road House…to name a few.
Mike Nice has participated in many conventions and industry panel discussions surrounding music including; How Can I Be Down, Mixshow Power Summit, Impact, Urban Network and many others.
Nyce has received several awards as the Up and Coming DJ at the first Mixshow Power Summit, Best College DJ at Gavin Awards and Best Old School Mixshow from an independent
company. Mike started his marketing company RDU 919 Marketing in 1999.
Nyce gained Marketing for Warner Bros., Epic Records, Tommy Boy Records, MCA/Geffen, Interscope Records, Jive Records and Freeworld Records by Dallas Austin; along with lifestyle marketing for DADA, AT & T, Ford Motor Co. and EA Sports.
IN 2001 RDU 919 went from marketing to a music company.
Mike’s most recent successful main stream project was the 2006 DVD Documentary “Welcome To Durham”, Executive produced by Durham natives Cicero Leak and Mike Wilson of RDU 919 Music, LLC, a Durham production company and associate produced by Courtney Conrad and Courtney Tucker. The documentary illustrates how crime and gang violence is no longer the exclusive domain of urban cities like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, and how prostitutes, street hustlers and gang members live in the shadow of violence and constantly gambling with the threat of going to jail and death.
There are more than 30 gangs in Durham, totaling nearly 300 active members, averaging between the ages of 18 and 25. “Welcomt to Durham” paints an eye-opening and raw image of the street life and gang environment through the films unprecedented granted access. RDU 919 has help to put a face on the growing problem around the country, by interpretation such a powerful message about the situations in which inner-city youth-some as young as 11 or 12-find themselves immersed.




