NTS regular Shabaka Hutchings has been hosting a show since 9 May 2024. On 2 August 2025, Shabaka Hutchings was a guest on Angel Bat Dawid; on 7 December 2023 was a guest on The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Zakia; and on 21 April 2021 was a guest on NTS 10 Curated by Liz Johnson Artur. Shabaka Hutchings has been played over 80 times on NTS, first on 25 July 2017. Shabaka Hutchings's music has been featured on 85 episodes.

Shabaka Hutchings (born Shabaka Akua Lumumba Kamau Iyapo Hutchings in London in 1984), mainly recording as Shabaka, is a British-born jazz musician, composer and bandleader of Barbadian heritage. He leads the band Shabaka and the Ancestors, and formerly led Sons of Kemet before its dissolution in 2022. He was also a member of The Comet Is Coming, performing under the stage name King Shabaka. Hutchings has played saxophone and other wind instruments with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Andre 3000, Floating Points, Mulatu Astatke, Polar Bear, Melt Yourself Down, Heliocentrics, London Brew and Zed-U.