2025
Wrecketeng project
album / project — Dominican subgenre modernization
SM
Artist · modern wrecketeng producer
Smokiller
In the 2000s in Dominica, Nursery Krew Inc. (NKI) and Burn Brain Jolly invent wrecketeng — the underground branch of Bouyon mixing heavy sampling, rap, hip-hop and dancehall. Twenty years later, Smokiller picks that line back up and brings it back to life. He's not creating a new subgenre: he modernizes it with trap, drill and R&B hooks. In 2025, he drops a wrecketeng project that la presse dominicaine covers under the headline "Smokiller's new offering seeks to showcase Bouyon's true identity". For the first time, the lineage is spoken out loud in the press.
- Role
- Artist · modern wrecketeng producer
- Origin
- Dominica
- Period
- 2020s-present
- Territories
- Dominica
Why this profile matters
Smokiller draws a clear line in Bouyon history. On one side, Nasty Business created by Mr Ridge in August 2022. On the other, the modern wrecketeng he himself carries by going back to NKI in the 2000s. Both subgenres come from the same tradition — rap and dancehall layered on a Bouyon base — but with different paternities. Without Smokiller, the NKI / Burn Brain Jolly line risked staying dead archive. With him, it lives again. He runs in the Mr Ridge, Pudaz, Kenny G, Sukie, DJ Taffy, Faithii network — the heart of 2020s underground Bouyon. The exact date of NKI's first track "Peanuts" stays estimated between 2002 and 2005, waiting for his next interviews.
Verified timeline
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Wrecketeng modernization work with trap, drill and R&B hooks — editorial distinction between Nasty Business (Mr Ridge 2022) and modern wrecketeng (Smokiller 2020+).
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Release of a wrecketeng project documented by la presse dominicaine with explicit lineage claim to NKI / Burn Brain Jolly.
Tracks / markers
2020s
NKI / Burn Brain Jolly tribute
tribute and direct lineage claim
Related chapters
Sources
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Dominica News Online — Smokiller's new offering shows Bouyon's true identity
2025 article — NKI / Burn Brain Jolly lineage claim and wrecketeng modernization.
https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/homepage-carousel/artist-and-producer-smokillers-new-offering-seeks-to-showcase-bouyons-true-identity/ -
Audit Bouyon — interview prioritaire 16 pour wrecketeng dates
Smokiller ranked
https://tiitii-nba.com/bouyon/
Profiles linked by musical collaboration
NU
DJ-producer collective · wrecketeng founders
Nursery Krew Inc.
In the early 2000s, in Dominica, a crew of young DJ-producers drop heavy samples on Bouyon rhythms and stack rap, hip-hop and dancehall on top. That crew is Nursery Krew Inc. — NKI to the fans. The subgenre that comes out of it is wrecketeng (sometimes spelled reketeng). Their estimated first track "Peanuts" lands somewhere between 2002 and 2005. The lineage runs through Jolly Burn Brain, Charlie Black, Watty and DJ Cut. Twenty years later, Smokiller picks up the torch and claims NKI as direct root on his 2025 project.
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.
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.