Guadeloupe clamps down on ‘Bouyon Gwada’

Bouyon Gwada group “Yellow Gaza Girls”

Authorities in Guadeloupe are clamping down on an offshoot of Dominica’s homegrown music Bouyon, which could have an effect on that genre in the French island.

Known as “Bouyon Gwada” that offshoot is said to be causing a lot of problems in Guadeloupe because of its lewd and violent lyrics.

Because of that, the authorities in Guadeloupe have been placing restrictions on Bouyon Gwada and things related to Bouyon music, according to music expert Mc Carthy Marie.

“The authorities are withholding permission on anything that has to do with Bouyon,” he told Dominica News Online

According to him, the perception created by Bouyon Gwada could create a problem for the original music from Dominica. “Bouyon from Dominica has caught up pretty big in Guadeloupe especially among the young people,” he said. “So Bouyon is seen as Dominica’s music and anything related to it is seen as Dominican.”

He said many Bouyon Gwada concerts have ended up in chaos and violence. “The lyrics create an atmosphere of violence even before the concert gets going,” he said.

Emile Depooter, Manager of the popular Bouyon Band, Triple Kay, said as far as he knows the restrictions by the French authorities have to do only with ‘Bouyon Gwada.’ “It is a type of music with lots of violence,” he said. “But as far as I know it has to do with Bouyon Gwada. Maybe it is a case for now … we don’t have any shows in Guadeloupe until February.”

He thinks the French restrictions on Bouyon Gwada won’t have any long term effects on the original Bouyon. “It will have an effect for a period of time but then people will realize it has nothing to do with Dominican music,” he stated.

He said he has spoken to promoters in Guadeloupe and they have said they love the music from Dominica.

French website sxminfo.fr describes ‘Bouyon Gwada’ as a ‘badly brought up’ cousin of Dominica’s Bouyon, laced with ‘slackness’ and sexually explicit terms.

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90 Comments

  1. thinkinman
    June 19, 2013

    why they always gotta stop the music…to do that LAME count off..like thats the best part..the 1..2…1..2..3. then watch em get excited doing that crap.. real musicians wud just listen to the drummer’s que and know when they shud start playing.. but no.. lead singers wanna act like its aerobics class for retard children…1,2…1234 noise noise noise..

  2. Anonymous
    October 28, 2012

    that music is non sense.. it have the young kids acting stupid.. the beats to the music is good, but they need to get better words to go with it..now all young boys telling girls “they want to spend time in their hole” what kind of message is that? come the bouyon music can be better than that lift the standards the words especially..

  3. 1979
    October 28, 2012

    GOOOOO ASA GOOOOO!

  4. nitaraspawn
    October 28, 2012

    Bouyon music now….a 2 line chorus chanted over and over again with poor lyrics, No verses, no bridge. Sigh.

    • woopie
      June 3, 2013

      You so right, the same thig i was saying, a bunch of noise and nonesense, no verse u dont even know when d music start from when it finishing, twhat these bands are playing now, this is not bouyon music, go back to d 1990s wck and the rest use to play bouyon music.

    • thinkinman
      June 19, 2013

      trash….thanks to the likes of triple K…. even more supported by the new members of wck at times…step your vocab up u so called musicians… Benji of triple k…triple k on a whole is nonsense… beats r ok… but apart from stealing lines from mainstream hit songs and adding your koshornee for ppl children to recite n dance to…yall aint going nowhere with that shit.. “bouyon artists” need to go back to the old records of wck in the 80’s n 90’s, RSB, Effects Band, First Serenade Band…and LEARN to make harmonic melodious songs….not growling and shouting on a mic (hardly ever any mic control – means the mic is too close to your mouth)…i mean then again look @ the kinds of ppl who revel in that… just my thoughts..

  5. Really n Turly
    October 27, 2012

    Well i doe want to come here and knock bouyon music,i may say the lyrics of some of the artist today needs cleaning up.but what i find strange is.the headlinener of citp,’mr vagas have the whole of Dominica brucking it up,even school children on creole day,acording to ‘Alex’.Radio DJ glorifying it, even doing it in studio. listening to the lyrics close,it’s just as slack as bengy’s (bend down and take your wood)and the likes.jamaica dance hall artist come here and sing slackness and we accept it.i doe get it.a knife is not bad, until it fall in the hand of someone with bad intention.many other ‘things Dominica’ guadeloupe take and exploit,they cannot exploit this one?

  6. gwada angel
    October 27, 2012

    dominica bouyon have nothing to see with gwada bouyou.does girls there are just nasty girls and there musique represente them( vole nome a mown) with means thife ppl man is that is have to do and that in style. i think gwada ppl just what to spoli da bouyou stop does ppl there from comein and sings in dominica. live them in gwada with they dirty bouyon

  7. October 26, 2012

    soca everyday :lol:

  8. No Probs
    October 26, 2012

    No need to defend Bouyon music. The “Original Bouyon” music has long been accepted in the French and Spanish territories, the Caribbean, Europe and USA. The difference and concerns with this issue is the influence that the “non classified genre” that Triple K plays has on the people who are not able to identify with “real music”.

    The authorities in Dominica should do the same as the Guadeloupe authorities to preserve the “Original Bouyon”.

  9. sinner
    October 26, 2012

    OK now all that have been said,we as Dominicans have to try to take back our music to the standard that gave our culture the boost.our music been Hijack by every one who fall in love with it,then they put there own spin on it and market it and do what they want with it. original bouyon should be revisited.The SEWO flavor in bouyon that is the problem;too much emphasis is place on drinking alcohol and drugs,all that bring with it is slackness and the rest.triple k and now ck need to come clean and all inbetween should sit down and put good lyrics to the music as in the biggining.the music have gone astray and we need to bring it back.forget that Gwada crap,lets focus on how we can take the music where it should go.

  10. boyoun lover
    October 26, 2012

    is not boyoun music that bringing crimes in da country is da way u all rise allu kids if they were rasing in da rite manner then they wud been better ,, dont blame boyoun music blame u all self n ur kids

    • Malatete
      October 28, 2012

      Your statement, exemplified by the poor use of language is a dichotomy in that it could be claimed that bouyon is precisely the product of the lack of control and care you accuse parents of. I am sure psychologists would have a field-day with this one.

  11. change
    October 26, 2012

    Liberalism may lead to discovering the new and innovative, but finding the right ingredients and promoting a new refined genus is what i am moved to support. It would seem that Boyoun or its gwada version has found a path downhill and is also helping to further tarnish the good name of our beautiful isle Dominica….we need to define what is pure and uplifting bouyon….

  12. assuass
    October 26, 2012

    those music are upsetting just like those girlsssss
    thats not my kind of music im a ZOUK LOVE person a degree for them to go and get and stop depending on wealthfare money.
    BUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    thats a turn off

  13. VI Massive
    October 26, 2012

    Two cords and a Drum-machine and noise all night that’s Bouyon so called music… thank God we still have stars…. stars for life.. keep playing music stars.

  14. concerned
    October 26, 2012

    This life has so much garbage as it is. We need uplifting music, like the one which you could understand and get something positive from. Dominica has so much social and economical problems, we do not need more negative publicity. If we continue to endorce these filth,which we have enough off, we will become like Sodom and Gomorah in the Bible days. Lord have mercy on us. We parents need to talk to our young boys and girls that are going to be the future of the country. Remember what-so-ever we sow, we will get the same reward. Do not go to the partys and do not buy their music. Up we must go, not down.

  15. Anonymous
    October 26, 2012

    So what about Chen la wi from guada? Is it not violent music? And is it not rap music? Hmmmm

  16. Distured
    October 25, 2012

    Music expert????? I duck dat stone dere. hhahahaha.

  17. Shame
    October 25, 2012

    Give me soca every day of e wek

  18. Dominican2dbone
    October 25, 2012

    I know people that know people….lol…nothing beating balance batty an the rest of ck..asa music will never live to reach the pinacle of ck,serenade or triple kay..by next carnival his music have to be fresh or he finish.

    • Matriculation
      October 26, 2012

      ASA is the the Dominican with the highest hits on YOUTUBE with the track called macoumè, so go do your research. Balance batty and all the other bouyon tracks have never come anywhere close.

      • sizer-upper
        October 26, 2012

        where was you-tube in the days of balance batty and the rest? get real!!

      • Mega
        March 13, 2014

        ARE YOU STUPID??? I can challenge any current Dominican band to make another hit song like balance batty? They couldn’t
        Its been almost 20 years and this song has never died!
        Again, maybe you weren’t born yet. You-tuber!

    • 1979
      October 28, 2012

      ASA FOREVER!!! STOP HATING!! allu vex ASA airing out allu dirty laundry??? so much hating each other…………

      If for NOTHING ELSE, I LOVE ASA MUSIC BECAUSE HE IS DOMINICAN> the sky is the limit ASA….

      I hear the haters vex because asa sell out their businesssss (in house fighting between band members) so even in music we cannot have unity???

      A JOKE DAT MAN?

      macoume vex??

      PAPAMET!!!

  19. Kryptonite
    October 25, 2012

    RAP Music had and stil have the same problem (the underground ganster rap thats not fit for any radio)
    Dancehall reggae same thing, and where are they now?
    they are the biggest money making arts in the industry,you see with the evolution of the style of music these things are going to happen and there is nothing we can do about it,my advise to Dominican Bouyon bands is to keep it clean improve your LYRICS and trust me we have a money maker in our hands,if it was not popular they would not be copying it. peace

    • Malgraysa
      October 26, 2012

      So it’s all about money making? In that case why not promote cocaine as a recreational drug too?

  20. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    October 25, 2012

    The kind of KOSHONYEE i am hearing from some of our own local artists, should not even be played on the radio and TV. I am in agreement with the authorities in Guadeloupe. Ban them all! Sadly in Dominica rubbish of similar kind or even worse is being played on our loval radio stations and we hear them as well on the TV.

  21. Anonymous
    October 25, 2012

    and the work of the lord continues.

  22. Trolol
    October 25, 2012

    Well, Where there is bouyon it always have a Tie. Trust me if bouyon was in compton where everybody hate each other already the murder rate would be up 50%. One brush and a gun pulling out. It always have a few trouble makers to spoil it for everyone!

  23. DESIE
    October 25, 2012

    when Mavado came to Dominica everybody was vex

    And all the time is our bouyon music that’s the problem

    real bouyon is dead noise we making now

    good ting is reggae/dancehall i listen to and i still support them artiste like Nasio, Chubby, Colton T, Caribbean Vibes and i can listen to a little Asa now and den but that’s it

  24. Jesus is Alive
    October 25, 2012

    God’s Judgement will fall on Dominica if they don’t repent and turn from their sin. Jesus is coming soon, are you ready?

    • noko
      October 27, 2012

      We got our nails and crucifixes waiting to hang him back up again. lolol

  25. October 25, 2012

    bouyon music have nothing to do with that, is the people that cannot control themselves when they take there rum and drugs.

  26. hmm
    October 25, 2012

    Mc Carthy Marie is a friggin alarmist!

  27. Anoushah Alie
    October 25, 2012

    Please, Dominica is paradise compared to that ghetto, crime-ridden, and vile country! Our music is not influencing any negativity in their country; that negativity is already marinated in the souls of many people in that country.

    • Home Alone
      October 25, 2012

      Dominicans are responsible for a lot of what you described there! Call it as it is.

      • Anoushah Alie
        October 26, 2012

        Nope, they are not! If anything, Dominicans ADAPTED to that environment, which is what usually happens when people migrate to foreign countries. The french islands(not so much Martinique), mostly Guadeloupe, has a history of revolting and creating mayhem. Sadly, this mentality has remained with many, so our music is not influencing anything negative; people are simply listening to something that they identify with.

    • Jay
      October 26, 2012

      Bouyon gwada not child of our bouyon then? Spawn of the devil. You think Guadeloupe heavy on us for no reason?

  28. simply blessed
    October 25, 2012

    well, they can ban all bonyou, all bouyon gwada, i doh care. i am with swing stars, music i can understand and words that make sense.

    • LaMar 7284
      October 25, 2012

      And fanatik!

    • Malgraysa
      October 25, 2012

      Agree with you. That bouyon is produced by illiterates for illiterates.

      • coconut passion
        October 27, 2012

        @magraysa- well said. it is really music produce by illeterates for illiterates.

    • Anonymous
      October 26, 2012

      ok what you think about, girl you looking good like a plate of food i want to go down in your souse? bouyon gwada is just remixing some of theses song in gwada creole and jargon. all am saying is some of the songs we call bouyon by some of our local bands is just not what real bouyon suppose to be. you remenber culture shock and met veye from the real wck?

  29. Anonymous
    October 25, 2012

    de bouyon i was raised in is not de bouyon playing in gwada people singing in bouyon gwada never knew the roots of our cultural bouyon therefore the bouyon them singing will never be considered as original bouyon but pure rubish

  30. October 25, 2012

    This is the people’s country, if they say they don’t want it they don’t want it. There’s no reason to argue. We want to be respected we should do the same, respect!

  31. badrep
    October 25, 2012

    ……..is the worst thing to happen to bouyon music and I was shocked when I heard some of their lyrics, i could never repeat those words as a teenager. The original WCK, Burningflames, Seventeen plus did not need vulgar lyrics to sell albums or tickets or to mash it up.

    • Distured
      October 25, 2012

      Not even the bands of today are “that” bad…

  32. shortboy
    October 25, 2012

    they do damm right because them stupid dominicans like triple key,asa banton,etc… give them our bouyon riddim & trust me it dirty they spoiling our doyon so they can stop it if they want!!!

  33. stupes
    October 25, 2012

    And wat asa singin dr is not law taw den @ MUSIC…rubbish u talkin dr!!!!!

  34. stupes
    October 25, 2012

    Only asa banton dat singin REAL BOUYON..nonsense dat…u doh hearin dem ting asa singin dr man..awa wi…SMH @ u..

  35. 90's Bouyon - YEAH
    October 25, 2012

    Not sure why they’d want to copy/ mimic that crap i heard in Dominica when i was there.

    Honestly… some of these songs make no sense – none at all …go down in your sous, open wide i am a dentist…

    honestly some of these lyrics should be banned because it’s always the young kds i’d hear singing those things.

    I always compare that kind of nonsense to Vybez Kartel rhythms – no substance – just nastiness, slackness – of the moment music. These songs can’t maintain.

    I remember WCK balance batty – that song is so tame compared to today’s songs and it has lasted and will continue to last

  36. Dominicancowboy
    October 25, 2012

    LOL… really? First of all dominica and guadaloupe ALWAYS had a relationship. Trading, culture, heritage. Even drugs and violence. It is no surprise that the music is also being shared. DOminicans not pushing it on guadaloupe. They are welcoming it. As young frustrated youths in dominca do the same way. Older dominicans say the exact same thing about it here so its no surprise. lol @ badly brought up cousin. Allu killin me

  37. October 25, 2012

    Firstly Music is not does not bring hatred and violence People do !!! Fact if music especially BOuyon music had such of a effect on people there would be allot of people actually doing some positives because not all that has to do with violence and slack dancing.Fact we have seen a outburst in violence withing the youth even before The young Gwada youths embraced the genre. Fact is even if they do try to put restrictions on it it will become bigger then it is cuzz at the end of the day its soo easy to create home studios that almost every pc laptop or tablet can record and make music and the youths of today will enjoy the underground music no matter what they do . what the authority needs to do is show a more stronger presents in the Jams and STOP Sugar coting the fact that they have a breed of violent youths that basically needs constructive stuff to do with their lives. Instead of Restricting it why not open more musical schools where kids can find things to do after school and learn how to properly write a song so that instead of telling somebody they going kill them or They going give dem de biggest wood they get in their life they could talk about issues that is affecting the community and Go far with it . and for all who says Bouyon is NOise and NOnsence Yall is all Part of a musical and Cultural genocide that is effecting your community , island and region!!!!

    • Anonymous
      April 2, 2013

      I love your comment

  38. chelsea
    October 25, 2012

    bouyon is our musi and it has evolve to wat it is today like every other music.while i might have a problem wit some of our artist music lets not ring down our own creation . big up to wck and triple kay
    and the our new generation of bouyon asa bantan,benz,s.o.s,dj flip and all the rest

  39. Titin-jaune
    October 25, 2012

    Maybe I am getting old, but I ran a search of that Bouyon Gwada and the amount of lewdness I saw with those girls dancing….my goodness. I would hate to see my daughter behaving that way.

  40. mouth in d south
    October 25, 2012

    Yellow Gaza u in dat! I not in dat!

  41. Anonymous
    October 25, 2012

    Finally people are getting their sense back. bouyon is water you throw away after you cook your black fig. Or sometimes you give the water for to the pig with the fig skin.

  42. stupes
    October 25, 2012

    well,well,well!!!!dem bouyon bands wen to go n promote bouyon music and day sing rubbish wat u expect!!!jus hear d names..gaza and gully….dat alone is trouble!!!SMH

  43. our music
    October 25, 2012

    I’ve been truly concerned with the direction our music has taken lately. As i’ve been saying lately, only Asa Bantan is singing REAL bouyon music, the rest of them have degraded into “law taw” and chants, forgetting where our music came from and what it represented. Some of these bands have really ruined it for our young people and I don’t believe they realize the effect their music TRULY has on the population. PLEASE… go back to what made Trinidadians want to copy our music, what made it truly GLOBAL! Bring back real music!

    • Anonymous
      October 25, 2012

      open like a clothes peg is real music..? look for that asa track.

      all of them sing S****

      • Let night take
        October 26, 2012

        Wish I could shake your hand.

  44. Anonymous
    October 25, 2012

    Good for them Gwada too like to tief Dominican music and claim is theirs. See how they tief our candence and we now have to import them and pay so much money for zouk and compa which is a tiefed version of cadence!

    • Matriculation
      October 26, 2012

      All popular music steals something from another. The mark of a truly successful genre is when someone else copies it. Don’t hit on the imitators, it is up to our producers and entertainers to step up their game and ‘mantrole’ what is theirs.

  45. mouth of the south
    October 25, 2012

    i always say… once u see a girl repping ‘gaza’ or ‘gully’… is a whylah dat dere… is not nothing good that on there mind… only one thing they’d be good for is a night of wild sex… when i go on f.b and i see gaza dis and gully dat for profile name… i don’t even want to poke you…

    • mouth in d south
      October 25, 2012

      Haha mot i feel u on dat one boy

    • October 25, 2012

      so true man i loved to read ur comment it is the real deal……lol so true

    • HigherDanDat!
      October 25, 2012

      true.

    • LawieBawie
      October 26, 2012

      Bro you made me laugh, but I could not agree with you more. This “Gaza” and “Gully” buisness is simply displaying the level of ignorance that sadly has crept into our society.

  46. stupes
    October 25, 2012

    I done see dat coming…and our dominica people especially some of the DJs promoting it….

  47. JahAngel
    October 25, 2012

    when Sakis and his dancers singing and showing a whole set of lewd and sexual explicit content no body never said anything…but once it’s something that come from D.A is a problem…weh..If Bouyoun music that bad well hmmph..

    • mimi
      October 25, 2012

      did you read the post

      • JahAngel
        October 25, 2012

        did you read my comment..-_-

      • October 25, 2012

        dont worry with them
        they dont read, they just start to write what they wanted say….

    • dominica to the bone
      October 25, 2012

      is not da bouyon music dat bad is just da french pple dat like to tief pple heritage and do whatever they like with it after claim oh is their style of music of the moment!! is their generation music wtf…

  48. stupess
    October 25, 2012

    For soo long gwada out of the way, what bouyon have to do with it? That’s crap!! I am not a backanal person but Gwada have oda things to look at.. Bouyon is not the only thing!! They need to check for other thing.. While bouyon may be a bit vulgar, n it may lead to fights etc, how much bad influence has it had on Dominicans!! Stupess.. Gwada was already spoilt, not bouyon dat cuz nothing..

    • emmie
      October 25, 2012

      u r so right people always looking for something or someone to blame when things go bad.i live in ny nearly all my life but im dominician by birth and when u look at the history of rap music it was blamed for all the innercity and ghetto violence, i wonder if its not the fact that the bouyon is getting too much recognition and it was not originated from gwada but they must know music has no bounds and we practically one with gwada and mada.one love. youths gonna b youths just figure a way to contain the violence not the music.

  49. JahAngel
    October 25, 2012

    Air Irritant? are you DOminican??? and i hope u dont send your kids or have your kids in a band or learning an instrument…cuz he will be hitting couple bouyon note…**rolling my eyes**

    • JahAngel
      October 25, 2012

      **EAR IRRITANT**

    • SMH
      October 25, 2012

      Now, now! Here is where it’s easy to distinguish between the socioeconomic classes.

  50. dissident
    October 25, 2012

    …..is in dat group self. U want to go down in who’s hole? ….u don’t consider that lewd?
    Is when u divert from original bouyon u get dat kind of slackness. De same thing happens here to. Violence and se. Admit it.
    I always knew the chickens would come home to roost one day. People making big money off of dem bands. They even callin Asa Banton de crown prince of bouyon. De music doh even have shack shack, boom boom and gwage like original WCK bouyon. He cannot touch people like rah and rohie even lenny from First Serenade.

    See who looking after our bouyon music for us.
    All u should be ashamed is Guadeloupe dat trying to maintain our original bouyon sound.

  51. JahAngel
    October 25, 2012

    It Has been done..to late to put restrictions on it…everything is Dominica,,alas Dominique nous ni maleh…We have nothing to do with you guys being violent…Mc Cathy Marie i think it’s best you go roll your rosary always want to make a little thing into a big one…How many people died because of Bouyon music be it Gwada or Dominican somebody tell me..

  52. hmmm
    October 25, 2012

    @SMH ou toe sot!

    • SMH
      October 25, 2012

      Right back at you!

  53. SMH
    October 25, 2012

    I agree! Stop pushing this non sense music on Guadeloupe and the other islands. It’s an ear irritant.

    • Jay
      October 25, 2012

      Worse than an irritant. It’s monotonic, moronic and an insult to music.

      • Robyn
        October 26, 2012

        I agree with you Jay.

      • Brugal
        June 2, 2013

        I agree, this madness should have been stopped longtime ago.I listened to the triple kay cocals and it’s embarrasing to go overseas and represent d/a with that standard of music.

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