2022
Push Ur Hand In Your
with Kenny G, Mr Ridge, Pudaz — central pre-official Nasty featuring
DO
Bouyon artist · Nasty Business network (collaborator)
Dova
In 2022, Dova drops his voice on "Push Ur Hand In Your" alongside Kenny G, Mr Ridge and Pudaz. It's a four-voice feature that lands on les playlists Bouyon via the Bouyon Nation page. Without knowing it, Dova has just joined one of the founding moments of the Nasty Business circuit: Mr Ridge won't release his eponymous single — the one that gives the subgenre its official name — until a few months later, in August 2022. Dova works as a featuring voice in the network, not as an identified solo artist. His catalogue circulates today via the les playlists Bouyon Dominica Carnival Starter Pack playlist.
- Role
- Bouyon artist · Nasty Business network (collaborator)
- Origin
- Dominica
- Period
- 2020s-present
- Territories
- Dominica · Caribbean
Why this profile matters
Dova's presence on that 2022 collaboration carries precise historical value: he's part of the early-featuring team that lays down the Nasty before the subgenre even has its official name. The four-voice "Push Ur Hand In Your" is one of the signals confirming the Dominican core forming on the eve of the Mr Ridge explosion. Today, his path stays thinner than the network pillars — Mr Ridge with his two CMA Bouyon Artist of the Year wins 2024 and 2025, Pudaz crowned DMA 2025, Kenny G stacking freestyles with Litleboy, Asa Banton People's Choice CMA 2024. His profile holds the state of things in 2026: name present in the circuit, sourced facts, path to enrich as soon as another primary source emerges.
Verified timeline
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Present in the Dominican Nasty Business network — Kenny G, Mr Ridge, Pudaz circuit.
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"Push Ur Hand In Your" with Kenny G, Mr Ridge and Pudaz — documented marker of the pre-official Nasty Business network.
Tracks / markers
Sourced musical collaborations
Related chapters
Sources
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Audiomack — Dominica Carnival Starter Pack
Carnival playlist with Dova catalogue in circulation 2020s.
https://audiomack.com/carnival/playlist/dominica-carnival-starter-pack -
Bouyon registre artistes cités
Dova cited as Dominican 2020s, feat Kenny G / Pudaz, incomplete profile.
https://tiitii-nba.com/bouyon/
Profiles linked by musical collaboration
KE
Bouyon artist
Kenny G
Kenny G, real name Kenny Jno Baptist, is a Dominican Bouyon and Nasty Business voice, based in Roseau. Regular features with Faithii, Reo, Pudaz, Mr Ridge and Litleboy, presence in the scene's flagship riddims (Nasty Business, Trina Riddim), with one million YouTube views in under a year on one of his singles, and a Roseau City Council election in March 2026.
MR
Artist · producer · entrepreneur
Mr Ridge
Mr Ridge — real name Coleridge Bell, Dominican from Newtown — puts his hands on a keyboard at 11. His training: Dominican classical music, schooled by First Serenade, WCK, Belles Combo and Midnight Groovers. In 2018, he drops "Riddim Tonight", his first solo single. Six years later, he wins the very first Bouyon Artist of the Year at the 2024 Caribbean Music Awards. The next year, he keeps the crown and also takes Bouyon Producer 2025. Around him, through Cross D Bridge, run Money Shaun, J-Lion, NICE, Sukie, Pudaz, Dirty Dawg Pudaz, 1T1. With 207,000 monthly Spotify listeners, he's among the most-streamed Bouyon artists worldwide. His stated goal, told to la presse dominicaine: take Bouyon to the world stage.
PU
Bouyon artist · 2025 DMA Bouyon Artist of the Year
Pudaz
In 2022, Pudaz — also credited Dirty Dawg Pudaz — drops his voice on "Push Ur Hand In Your" alongside Dova, Kenny G and Mr Ridge. He steps into the Nasty Business circle just before the Mr Ridge explosion in August of the same year. Two years later, "B.D.Y.M.M." with Ridge (2024) starts spinning on Shazam. The 2024 World Creole Music Festival programs him headlining alongside Ridge. In 2025, he wins Bouyon Artist of the Year at the Dominica Music Awards. On April 26, 2025, he hits the Strictly the Best Festival SXM stage in front of 5,000 fans. In 2026, he drops "Have What They Have" with Faithii — the single bridging him to the new Bouyon Barbie female wave.