In short. The New Bouyon Wave is 8 precise voices: 1T1, TIITII NBA, Softee, Aknose, Nils, Lucky lukee, Le Juh, Theomaa. Next to it, other circles are running Gwada Bouyon 2022-2026 without belonging to the NBW: the Le Bluff × LeYou × TedLa trio around DJ LEGUSTE, the DJ LEGUSTE × Cocotteland tandem, Pinpin OSP (ex-trap who pivots to bouyon), Billy BYBF and the Team Bwè Tou Sa collective, and tenslay (bridge between Guadeloupe and Dominica).
The NBW doesn't hold Gwada Bouyon on its own. Other circles run alongside it, with their own releases and their own alliances. This chapter gives the map of the parallel circles. Not to fold them into the NBW, they don't belong to it. To name them correctly and tell why they matter in the same 2022-2026 sequence.
Outside the NBW, other circles exist
On 29 September 2023, one collective track gives the wave its name. Fourteen days later, on 13 October, DJ LEGUSTE releases "Ni Anlèy Ni A Koté" with Cocotteland: a track that does not carry the name and never will. Others follow, on the same island. This chapter is about them.
The New Bouyon Wave is a closed composition: 8 voices, not one more, not one less. That precision matters because it protects the story. If you start widening the composition to every Gwada bouyon voice dropping since 2022, you lose what the NBW tells: a specific collective, around 1T1, that planted a collective signature over the same period.
But Gwada Bouyon 2022-2026 isn't just the NBW. Next to it, several circles rise in parallel. Some turn around a connecting producer (DJ LEGUSTE). Others around a singular path (Pinpin OSP, who pivots from trap to bouyon; tenslay, who bridges with Dominica).
This chapter names them. Not to merge them into the NBW. To tell them in their own place.
Faut Qu'on S'explique 2023: the Le Bluff × LeYou × TedLa trio around DJ LEGUSTE
The pivot single of 2023 outside the NBW is "Faut Qu'on S'explique", collective release by Le Bluff, LeYou and TedLa under the production of DJ LEGUSTE. The track plants the three voices together on the same instrumental and pushes the trio out into the Gwada bouyon scene.
The format is simple: DJ LEGUSTE builds the instrumental, and he invites voices from his circle. Same pattern that will repeat with Cocotteland (section III). But first, this trio reveals the DJ LEGUSTE signature as a connecting producer.
On the individual side, Le Bluff opened his catalog in 2022 with "C HOT", then runs in 2023 with "Face à Face" (prod DJ LEGUSTE), and appears on "Chocolate", a Shanika track. LeYou is heard as early as 2022 on "On LoLo", a J2MO track on the Gold Color Riddim. TedLa enters the catalog with this single and the tandem that follows with LeYou. Three different paths that "Faut Qu'on S'explique" pulls together on the same instrumental.
In 2024, the three voices reunite on "VIN TCHEK NOU", a track from Lewismelo's album "Premières Notes". The trio becomes a stable signature of the DJ LEGUSTE circle, distinct from the NBW, but active over the same period.
Faut Qu'on S'explique in 2023 reveals a trio the NBW doesn't contain. Le Bluff, LeYou and TedLa around a producer who knows how to gather several voices on a single instrumental.
DJ LEGUSTE × Cocotteland: the producer-singer tandem
Still in 2023, DJ LEGUSTE opens another tandem: with Cocotteland on "NI ANLÈY NI A KOTÉ". Same setup as with the Le Bluff × LeYou × TedLa trio. DJ LEGUSTE builds the instrumental, signs under his own name, and invites the voice. But this time, the invited voice will build her own career.
In 2024, the tandem stacks: "SIWO feat Cocotteland" drops on February 2, 2024 on Apple Music. Follows "I Don't Know feat Cocotteland". Three back-to-back features with the same singer plant a stable duo in the scene.
What changes in 2025 is that Cocotteland switches solo. "Gwo Dada" with Natoxie and MIKADO on the feature drops under her own name, first single as the main artist. Right after come "Tout Koté", "TETRIS", "LA COTE" with N'ken and "Vite fait". Five releases in the year.
2026 confirms: "4X4" with Totally Spice's (February 2026) connects Cocotteland to the female pole documented in Chapter X. Women of bouyon. "Top Shatta" with Virtuose and MJTX opens the year in January. And "Prada" drops solo on May 1, 2026.
The 2023-2026 trajectory is clear: the voice that used to show up as a feature on DJ LEGUSTE has become a name that carries the releases.
Pinpin OSP: the ex-trap who pivots to bouyon
Next to the DJ LEGUSTE circle, Pinpin OSP builds another path. He used to do trap. Today he's full bouyon. The switch is claimed: not a mix of both, a new lane.
The bouyon catalog opens in 2023 with "Open Like Dat", then "Vody" on DJ-Taffy's Funny Riddim, one of the riddims driving the Gwada scene at the time. In 2024, "Don't Play" lands under YasBeats production. "Ti bébé" extends the run. The tracks travel on local radio and TikTok, and Pinpin OSP becomes a name people remember.
2025 opens the features phase. "Douxtcha" drops with tenslay, the Guadeloupe-Dominica bridge (section VI). "BACK IT UP" follows with Ted la and CK gee. And the collab with Shanika on "On Biten Ba'w" plugs Pinpin into the female pole of the scene. On 28 November 2025, "Vite Fait" pairs him with Meryl, on Meryl's album La Dame.
On Apple Music, Pinpin OSP is ranked next to Cocotteland, Thesmsgirls, Totally Spice's, LESTEF KJF and DJ LEGUSTE. That's exactly the map this chapter draws, a circle distinct from the NBW, active over the same period.
Billy BYBF, Ba Yo Bon Fè
Billy BYBF builds yet another way. BYBF stands for "Ba Yo Bon Fè" in Creole. On the style side, it's bouyon and shatta with contemporary production and a voice that brings back the festive energy of the genre.
The signature is set as early as 23 December 2022 with the "Diyosa" EP, which includes "Tu veux" with Lünik. The milestone lands in 2024: on March 21, "Nous y est" drops with Gamma and Lünik, a dance-floor single that becomes one of his most-listened tracks.
In July 2024, the Team Bwè Tou Sa collective releases the album "TRAVAILLONS", 14 tracks. Billy BYBF features on it, without being a member of the collective.
On the catalog side, Billy BYBF has 34 releases on Deezer between April 2022 and October 2026, singles, EPs and albums included. In 2026, "SUPER BAYOBONFÈ" extends the brand, and multiple collaborations with producer Magbeatz document the other side of the studio work.
tenslay: the bridge between Guadeloupe and Dominica
tenslay is yet another case. He lives in Guadeloupe but his roots are Dominican. He rolls with the KJF BOYZ crew. His tag is VCVC, short for "Vieux Chien Vieux Clebard", "Old Dog Old Mongrel". The dog emoji that runs across his socials is his signature.
The track that broke him is "Doglife" in 2022. Production Litleboy, mix DJ TILOV. The song runs on TikTok, hits in bouyon parties, and tenslay becomes a name people remember. He follows with "Doglife 2", direct sequel, video directed by Wot Street, mix Jay Breezy. The Doglife series lands as his brand.
In June 2025, tenslay lands on Pinpin OSP's "Douxtcha" on the feature. The single brings two bouyon circles together: tenslay's Dominican voice and the Guadeloupean artist Pinpin OSP. On a single instrumental composed by Brian LOMBA and Stanley HENRI, the Guadeloupe-Dominica bridge materialises.
No big solo catalog outside the Doglife series for now. But the VCVC tag keeps running, and every feature that goes through him carries the Dominican-Guadeloupean identity with it. In June 2026, he releases "Do What You Want" with Reo, from Dominica.
Why these circles matter : and why they're distinct from the NBW
By the end of the chapter, the question is simple: why are we telling these circles in a separate chapter, and not inside the NBW chapter?
The answer is in the composition. The NBW = 8 exact voices (1T1, TIITII NBA, Softee, Aknose, Nils, Lucky lukee, Le Juh, Theomaa). Those eight are bound together by the cross-featurings of 2023 and 2024, not by a single track: the September 29, 2023 single gathers five of them, and 1T1 is not on it. What the single does is give the group a public name. Not one more, not one less. That precision isn't a bureaucratic detail. It's what keeps the NBW story readable, a collective around 1T1, over a given period, with a clear collective signature.
The voices told in this chapter. Le Bluff, LeYou, TedLa, Cocotteland, Pinpin OSP, Billy BYBF, tenslay, DJ LEGUSTE, share the same period but not the same circle. They build their path next to it, with other producers, other collectives (KJF BOYZ), other logics (the producer-voice tandem under DJ LEGUSTE, the island bridge under tenslay, the genre switch under Pinpin OSP).
Other paths from the same years point the same way. TIIGII posts a track tagged "Bouyon" as early as February 2018, releases Duty Bouyon in December 2021, then voices DJ Taffy's Funny Riddim in 2023. Le Dext, coming from rap, switches to bouyon in August 2024 with I Tell u Girl, then sings with Team Bwè Tou Sa's FLW on Jiggle That in March 2025. Ricky Bishop, also coming from rap, gives his version a name, #NewBouyon: an EP in July 2024, then the album #newbouyonexperience in May 2025. It is something other than the New Bouyon Wave, and the word is not new: Haterz'Be already puts "NEW BOUYON" in the title of Axé in October 2013. Even Admiral T's sons pass through: on Double Impact, the album DCAMP releases with his brother Lewismelo in October 2025, the third track is called Bouyon.
Recognising these circles as distinct means respecting the history. And it also serves these artists: they aren't a NBW extension. They're another branch of contemporary Gwada bouyon, which deserves its own story.
FAQ : common questions about the other circles of Gwada Bouyon
Why aren't Le Bluff, LeYou and TedLa part of the New Bouyon Wave? Because the NBW is a closed composition with 8 precise voices (1T1, TIITII NBA, Softee, Aknose, Nils, Lucky lukee, Le Juh, Theomaa), crystallised on September 29, 2023 with the "New Bouyon Wave #1" single. The Le Bluff × LeYou × TedLa trio rises around a different producer circle. DJ LEGUSTE, over the same period, but with a different collective signature.
What is "Faut Qu'on S'explique"? Collective single released in 2023 by Le Bluff, LeYou and TedLa under DJ LEGUSTE's production. It's the track that reveals the trio in the Gwada bouyon scene (official BOUYON 2023 YouTube video).
Is DJ LEGUSTE a DJ or a producer? Producer, not a club DJ. The "DJ" in his name is a Caribbean scene convention. He builds the instrumentals, signs his releases as the lead artist, and invites voices (Cocotteland on SIWO and NI ANLÈY NI A KOTÉ, Le Bluff × LeYou × TedLa on Faut Qu'on S'explique).
Who is Cocotteland? A Guadeloupean singer who starts as a feature on DJ LEGUSTE in 2023 (NI ANLÈY NI A KOTÉ, SIWO in 2024, I Don't Know), then switches solo in 2025 with "Gwo Dada". In 2026, she collaborates with Totally Spice's on "4X4" and drops "Prada" solo on May 1.
Does Pinpin OSP do bouyon or trap? Bouyon today. He used to do trap. The switch is claimed since 2023 with "Open Like Dat", then "Vody" on DJ-Taffy's Funny Riddim. The catalog since 2024 is entirely bouyon ("Don't Play", "Ti bébé", "Douxtcha" feat tenslay, "BACK IT UP" with Ted la and CK gee).
Billy BYBF, what does it stand for? BYBF = Ba Yo Bon Fè in Creole. Guadeloupean artist. "Diyosa" EP in late 2022, then a discography milestone in 2024 with the "Nous y est" single with Gamma and Lünik (March 21, 2024), and a feature on "TRAVAILLONS", the Team Bwè Tou Sa collective's album (July 2024). In 2026, "SUPER BAYOBONFÈ" extends the signature.
Why is tenslay in this chapter if he's Dominican? Because he lives in Guadeloupe and rolls with the KJF BOYZ crew. His roots are Dominican, but his practice unfolds across both islands. His feature on Pinpin OSP's "Douxtcha" in 2025 documents this island bridge. The VCVC tag he carries on his socials means "Vieux Chien Vieux Clebard".
How do these artists connect to TIITII NBA and the NBW? Indirectly. They're parallel circles to the NBW, over the same 2022-2026 period. Pinpin OSP, for example, shares the platform ecosystem and similar artists with Cocotteland, Thesmsgirls, Totally Spice's, LESTEF KJF, which places them on the same Gwada bouyon map as the extended network around TIITII NBA.
