2025
777 Di Bouyon Rockstar
solo album — July 2025
KH
Bouyon artist · Nasty Business · US diaspora
Khallion
In December 2024, Khallion takes the stage in Atlanta for "Bram vs Bouyon". A few months later, in July 2025, he drops his album "777 Di Bouyon Rockstar" — a long format that consolidates his solo identity in a circuit where features dominate. On April 26, 2025, he joins the Strictly the Best Festival — Bouyon Edition lineup in Saint Martin in front of 5,000 fans. A Dominican artist from the Nasty Business and Warm Up circuit, he counts around 21,000 Spotify monthly listeners and keeps weaving his network with Problem Child, Reo, Dirty Dawg Pudaz and Kenny G.
- Role
- Bouyon artist · Nasty Business · US diaspora
- Origin
- Dominica
- Period
- 2020s-present
- Territories
- Dominica · United States · Saint Martin
Why this profile matters
Khallion is among the Dominican artists pushing Bouyon's North America install before the Big Bad Bouyon Miami festival of October 2025. His long-format album strategy — "777 Di Bouyon Rockstar" — is rare in the Nasty Business circuit where the single economy rules. That places him in the same logic as Trilla-G with "Take Me As I Am" late 2025. At Strictly the Best SXM festival, he shares the lineup with Pudaz, Litleboy, Reo, Nice, Kenny G, Trilla G, Trixx, Edday and Mr Ridge — Saint Martin's first dedicated Bouyon festival. His "Shut Up" feature with Problem Child and Reo in 2026 confirms him in the active Nasty circle, and his Warm Up connection with DJ Taffy, Keks Mafia and TIITII NBA broadens his spectrum beyond pure Nasty.
Verified timeline
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Builds his Dominican trajectory on the Nasty Business and Warm Up circuit — network with DJ Taffy, Keks Mafia and TIITII NBA.
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Atlanta performance on "Bram vs Bouyon" in December 2024 — US diaspora entry.
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Release of the "777 Di Bouyon Rockstar" album in July 2025. Participation in Strictly the Best Festival — Bouyon Edition SXM (April 26, 2025, 5,000+ fans).
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"Shut Up" with Problem Child and Reo documents his connection to the Nasty Business circuit.
Tracks / markers
2020s
Bouyon Warm Up
subgenre axis — DJ Taffy / Keks Mafia network
2026
Shut Up
with Problem Child and Reo — Nasty circuit
2024
Bram vs Bouyon (Atlanta)
US diaspora performance — December 2024
2025
Strictly the Best SXM 2025
festival lineup — April 26, 2025
Sourced musical collaborations
2026
Shut Up
Related chapters
Sources
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Audiomack — Dominica Carnival Starter Pack
Carnival playlist containing Khallion's 2024-2026 circulating catalogue.
https://audiomack.com/carnival/playlist/dominica-carnival-starter-pack -
Audit Bouyon mondial — TIER 4 émergents
21K Spotify, 777 Di Bouyon Rockstar album, Atlanta 2024, Strictly the Best SXM 2025.
https://tiitii-nba.com/bouyon/ -
Bouyon active-era discographies — internal crawl notes
Khallion Warm Up network — DJ Taffy, Keks Mafia, TIITII NBA.
https://tiitii-nba.com/bouyon/ch-07-new-bouyon-wave/
Profiles linked by musical collaboration
PR
Soca artist · Bouyon collaborator
Problem Child
Problem Child is a Saint Vincent Soca voice active since the 2010s. Between 2025 and 2026, his career swings into Dominican Bouyon. In 2025, he signs "Fym" with Mr Ridge — the Dominican artist crowned 2x Bouyon Artist of the Year at the 2024 and 2025 Caribbean Music Awards — and that feature becomes one of the most visible cross-genre tracks of the Mr Ridge crowning year. In 2026, he follows up with "Shut Up" alongside Khallion and Reo. Problem Child stays a Saint Vincent Soca artist, but his profile shows how Dominica absorbs Vincentian Soca voices into its circuit.
RE
Bouyon artist
Reo
Reo, real name Dario Sebastien Yankey, is a Dominican artist from Colihaut. With his album "The Fresh Prince of Bouyon" released in 2022, he proves Bouyon can do it all — from rough for the street to love side for the girls. Central voice between Faithii, Kenny G, Edday and DJ Luchshiy, he bridges the Dominican scene and Guadeloupean productions.
TA
Producer · DJ · studio
DJ Taffy
DJ Taffy, aka The Riddim Beast, is a Dominican producer and DJ whose Riddim Beast Studios build a central piece of today's Nasty Business. One foot at Notting Hill on the UK side, the other on Dominica, and a release chain stacking features with Quan, Reo, Shelly, Shanika and Edday between 2021 and 2026.
KE
Collective / Bouyon artist · Warm Up
KEKS MAFIA
On December 15, 2022, KEKS MAFIA — real name Kev Leonard — releases a single that sets the tone: "Bouyon Warm Up". It's the first solid official release of the Warm Up subgenre, the slower-tempo branch of Bouyon between 125 and 134 BPM. Two earlier releases exist — "1T1-bouyon warm up akiyo" from November 15, 2021 and "Kay'J × Ckay - Emiliana (Warm Up Bouyon)" from December 30, 2021 — but KEKS MAFIA is the one laying down the first official discographic inscription. In 2024, he drops "Krikéy" with Totally Spice's in Guadeloupe. In 2025, "Say My Name" with Sukie extends the Burn Brain / Nasty Business network.
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.