2011
I Don't Kow
SoundCloud Vadore Concept Groupe — first documented public audio trace
SU
Bouyon artist · Gaza Crew founder
Suppa
On November 16, 2011, Suppa uploads "I Don't Kow" to the Vadore Concept SoundCloud. Nobody knows it yet, but it's one of the very first public audio traces of Bouyon Gwada that survives today. Lincoln Robin by his real name, Suppa is Dominican-born, Guadeloupe-based, and he carries the lead voice of the first wave (Act II). He founds Gaza Crew, crosses the Atlantic to Paris in December 2012, and keeps circulating across the European scene through 2013. That same year, he is killed in Guadeloupe. The scene loses its central singer barely 25 years old.
- Role
- Bouyon artist · Gaza Crew founder
- Origin
- Dominica
- Period
- 2007-2013
- Territories
- Dominica · Guadeloupe
Why this profile matters
His death in 2013 changes everything for Gwada Bouyon. The first wave's lead singer is gone, and Asa Banton ends up carrying the Dominica-to-Guadeloupe link for the decade that follows. Around him inside Gaza Crew: Vador who lays the foundations in 2007 with Vadore Concept, J2MO behind the beats, Weelow who pushes the releases and runs the parties. Not to confuse with the Yellow Gaza collective (same era, different members) or with Gaza Girls Crew, the female collective born from Gaza Crew which drops "Sa Zot Vle" in 2011 and "Volé Nonm A Moun" in 2013. Ten years later, the New Bouyon Wave — 1T1, TIITII NBA, Aknose, DJ Softee — emerges in the space he left empty.
Verified timeline
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Cited in the first Bouyon Gwada construction around Vador and Vadore Concept (Act II of the Bouyon export to Guadeloupe).
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"Suppa - I Don't Kow" published on SoundCloud (November 16, 2011, Vadore Concept Groupe) — first documented public audio trace. The same year, Gaza Girls Crew releases "Sa Zot Vle" (Bouyon Concept label, 160 BPM) — collective born from Gaza Crew.
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December 2012 Paris performance documented by the Rebel Up blog — first trace of Bouyon Gwada circulation toward the European diaspora, with Gaza Girls and DJ Joe on the same bill.
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Cited as a tag on the Rebel Up "Bouyon Hardcore 2k13" mix (December 16, 2013, 70 minutes at 155 BPM) alongside Gaza Girls, DJ Joe, Doc J and Weelow. Killed in Guadeloupe the same year; la presse dominicaine confirms the Lincoln Robin identity and the Gaza Crew founder role.
Tracks / markers
2007-2013
Gaza Crew foundation
founder — distinct from Yellow Gaza and from Gaza Girls Crew
2012
Performance parisienne
December 2012 — first Gwada → European diaspora circulation
Related chapters
Sources
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Dominica News Online — Dominican Bouyon artiste killed in Guadeloupe
Identifies Suppa as Lincoln Robin, Gaza Crew founder, killed in Guadeloupe in 2013.
https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/crime-court-law/dominican-bouyon-artiste-killed-in-gaudeloupe/ -
SoundCloud — Suppa « I Don't Kow » (Vadore Concept Groupe)
Direct Suppa + Vadore Concept audio trace (November 16, 2011) — Bouyon genre.
https://soundcloud.com/vadore/suppa-i-dont-kow -
Rebel Up — Paris December 2012 + diaspora
First documented Paris performance Suppa + Gaza Girls + DJ Joe.
https://www.rebelup.org/author/seb/page/112/?v=d3dcf429c679 -
Rebel Up — Bouyon Hardcore 2k13 mixtape
70 min 155 BPM mix tagged Suppa, Gaza Girls, DJ Joe, Doc J, Weelow (Dec 2013).
https://www.rebelup.org/tag/french-antilles/ -
Apple Music — Gaza Girls Crew « Sa Zot Vle »
2011, Bouyon Concept label, BPM 160 — contemporary to Suppa in the same scene.
https://music.apple.com
Profiles linked by musical collaboration
AS
Bouyon artist · Bouyon Boss · Goodwill Ambassador
Asa Banton
In 2011, Asa Banton releases "One Man". The next year, "Bouyon Boss". In April 2013, "Wet Fete". Three singles, three years, and the modern Bouyon solo artist role is invented. Before him, the genre lived mostly through bands — WCK, Triple Kay. After him, it becomes possible to have a nominal career, a stage nickname, an identifiable catalogue and an audience that follows the artist rather than the formation. In 2020, the Dominican State names him Goodwill Ambassador. Four years later, in 2024, he wins the People's Choice Award at the Caribbean Music Awards — against Kes, Patrice Roberts, Skinny Fabulous, Shenseea and Yung Bredda. First time a 100% Bouyon artist wins a pan-Caribbean mainstream category.
JO
DJ · producer · Bouyon Gwada connector
DJ Joe
2007. Bouyon has just landed in Guadeloupe, and DJ Joe sets his decks on the first Yellow Gaza sets. With Vador and Asa Banton, he's one of the three who carry the 160 BPM hardcore sound from Dominica to Pointe-à-Pitre. In December 2012, he hits a Paris stage with Suppa and the Gaza Girls — one of the first times Bouyon Gwada steps outside the Caribbean. Ten years later, he drops "Bwé rhum" with Asa Bantan in 2023 and proves he never left the table.
WC
Foundational Bouyon group
WCK
In 1988, in a Grand Bay studio in Dominica, a band plugs in a TR-505 drum machine and invents a music genre without knowing it. Gordon Henderson's cadence-lypso, the jing ping played by elders on accordion and syak, the carnival lapo kabwit, the dancehall arriving through sound systems — everything runs through the same machine and the same keyboard. The result has a name: Bouyon. WCK — Windward Caribbean Kulture — lays the first brick with the "Work It Out (Bouyon Remix)" inside the "One More Sway" album of 1988. Two years later, "Culture Shock" installs the sound inside the Dominican carnival. The historical core: Derek "Rah" Peters on drums, Cornell "Fingers" Phillip on keyboards, Mr Delly on memory voice, Skinny Banton on the bouyon-muffin color.