Gaza Crew

Telling Yellow Gaza, Gaza Crew and Gaza Girls Crew apart

The reading key is explicit: Yellow Gaza, Gaza Crew and Gaza Girls Crew are three neighbouring but distinct outfits. Yellow Gaza is the hub carried by Vador, DJ Joe and Asa Banton, the organisational and "live" branch of the Dominica-Guadeloupe Bouyon crossing. Gaza Crew is founded by Suppa (Lincoln Robin), who came from Dominica and was active in Guadeloupe: it is the branch centred on the figure of Suppa himself, distinct from Yellow Gaza even though the two outfits cross constantly. Gaza Girls Crew is the first-wave female collective with Kassidje, Gaza Izzy, La Barbie, DJ'Angel and Ghetto Princess. That three-way split has to be held in every chapter.

Audio and stage trace, 2011-2013

Gaza Crew leaves verifiable public traces. The SoundCloud `SUPPA - I DON'T KNOW` on the Vadore Concept channel in 2011 and the Gaza Girls Crew single "Sa Zot Vle" (2011, Bouyon Concept label, 160 BPM confirmed) fix 2011 as the documented lower bound. The Paris performance of December 2012, archived by the diaspora blog Rebel Up, lines up Suppa, Gaza Girls and DJ Joe in the same set outside the Antilles. The Mixcloud mix `Bouyon Hardcore 2k13` (December 2013, 70 minutes at 155 BPM) tags Suppa, Gaza Girls, DJ Joe, Doc J and Weelow as identifiable names of the hardcore Gwada era. Those archives prove Guadeloupe has a public Bouyon memory well before the New Bouyon Wave of 2023.

The canonical 160 BPM

Gaza Crew, Yellow Gaza and Gaza Girls Crew are associated with the hardcore tempo of Act II Gwada, documented as 160 BPM in the Bouyon Concept / Bouyon King notes. That BPM is distinct from the classic WCK Bouyon (152 BPM, Chapter I) and from Gordon Henderson's founding cadence-lypso (95 BPM). Any very high figure sometimes quoted elsewhere is to be set aside: it matches no documented measurement in the canonical chain (152 / 160 / 95 BPM).

Contemporary reactivation

Gaza memory does not stop in 2013. The SoundCloud "Suppa Gaza Crew" sits among the sources of mixes and warm-ups. Letin Sylia (alias Letin Sylvia) and Letin Severine appear on recent Yellow Gaza releases (Apple Music, Shazam), the Yellow Gaza hub restarts an associated repertoire between 2021 and 2024 ("Vole Nonm a Moun", "Plan A 3"). That does not make Gaza Crew an active collective strictly speaking, but it keeps its name inside contemporary Bouyon Gwada as a historic root of the chain.