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Alpha: the RR Bouyon series, four chapters at 160 BPM

Published October 20, 2026

Alpha is an artist from the French Caribbean whose name, shared by dozens of other musicians, means nothing until it is tied to his signature: the RR Bouyon series, four numbered songs released between 2022 and 2025, all set at 160 BPM, the fast tempo of bouyon. The platforms file him under hip-hop and rap, his catalog runs from the Solitaire album in 2019 to singles in 2026, and his working circle is that of the new French Antillean scene: TybiProduction on production, Edday and LESTEF KJF BOYZ as collaborators, and neighbouring artists such as 1T1 and Kevni in the platforms' recommendations. No public biography gives his real name or his home island, and this profile will not invent them: it follows the catalog, piece by piece, from RR Bouyon to RR Bouyon #4.

Identifying the right Alpha: one name, dozens of artists

Alpha is probably the most shared stage name in the music industry. Platform catalogs mix, under that single name, a British trip hop group signed to Virgin in the 1990s, a reggae dub duo, American, Turkish, German and Slovak rappers, house producers and classical projects. The Qobuz Alpha artist page, in particular, aggregates all of those artists at once, and any discography built from it without sorting invents a musician who does not exist. The Alpha of this profile is just one of them, identified by a precise number: Shazam artist ID 1497932824, to which the platform attaches a coherent catalog, filed under hip-hop and rap.

That catalog is recognized by its chain of imprints. The first releases of the signature series come out on RR Music, then RR Music Group, a label whose Qobuz page, opened during the research, lines Alpha's titles up next to those of Can2. From 2023, the catalog switches to La Tanière Music Group, shortened to LTMG on the recent listings, which releases Tetris Bouyon, RR Bouyon 3.0 and RR Bouyon #4. Two imprints, one recurring producer and one numbered series: it is that continuity, checkable listing by listing, which separates this Alpha from all his namesakes.

His musical perimeter is documented too. His Shazam artist page files him under hip-hop and rap, and its similar artists section lines up Mata, 1T1, TRC, Latop, Kevni, Railfé, Blicassty, Tency, Kima and Lyrrix: in other words the young bouyon and shatta scene of the French Antilles, the one this site documents artist by artist. Alpha is therefore not a mainland French rapper who stumbled into bouyon by accident: the platforms' algorithms place him in the middle of the Guadeloupean and Martinican network, between riddim producers and shatta voices.

About the person, by contrast, the silence is total, and this profile respects it. No source opened during the research publishes a biography, a legal name, a birth date, a city or a home island for this Alpha, and no verified social account could be tied to his catalog with certainty. Aggregators sometimes rename him Alpha DMZ, without any primary page confirming that nickname: this profile sticks to the name Alpha, the one on the official distribution listings.

Before the series: Solitaire, C.D.M.A and the first singles

The catalog attached to Alpha's artist page starts before bouyon. Shazam lists two older albums there: Solitaire, in 2019, and C.D.M.A, in 2020, which make Alpha an artist already structured in album format before the series that would make his name. No detailed page for either record could be opened during the research, so this profile records only their existence and their dates, without describing their content: that is the honest limit of the file, and it is stated here rather than filled in with guesses.

The first measurable big song arrives in 2022. Ivresse, recorded with Kushy and released on May 11, 2022 by MCG Production, is the most identified song of the catalog on Shazam, with about 54,500 all time Shazams counted at research time. It leads Incognito, recorded with Dj Weezz and Ottomatik, at about 25,500 Shazams, two songs that establish Alpha as a voice of the French-language dancehall and shatta scene before the bouyon series even takes over. His third most identified song is RR Bouyon itself, at about 8,100 Shazams, which shows that the series is no side project of the catalog: it is its public centre of gravity.

This period also holds Mami Chula, recorded with Edday, which appears in the most streamed list of the French artist page. The collaboration with Edday, an artist of the same Antillean generation, returns in 2024 on Sugar Stick: Alpha's network is built early, and it is stable. The catalog also crosses Pran pyé, a Creole-titled song that recalls that this body of work, filed under hip-hop and rap by the platforms, works in French and in Creole, in the language of the Antillean street.

RR Bouyon: the birth certificate of the series (2022)

On January 26, 2022, Alpha releases RR Bouyon on RR Music, filed as world by Qobuz. The title reads like a manifesto: where many artists of his generation tag their songs shatta or dancehall, Alpha writes the word bouyon into the very name of his series, with the initials RR pointing to his label of the time, RR Music. Bouyon, born in Dominica and turned into the soundtrack of French Antillean carnivals and parties, is claimed as home ground from the first chapter.

The follow-up lands within the year. On November 18, 2022, RR Bouyon 2.0 comes out on RR Music Group, still filed as world by Qobuz. The song is then folded into the R.A.S EP, released on January 6, 2023 by RR Music Group and filed under hip-hop and rap: the song's detailed Shazam page dates it January 13, 2023 as part of that EP, at a tempo of 160 BPM and with about 2,900 identifications. The two dates tell the usual independent mechanic: a single first, then an EP that recycles it a few weeks later to give it a second life.

The choice of 160 BPM is no technical detail. It is the high tempo of party bouyon, that of the riddims that raise a room, far from the slow tempos of zouk or melodic dancehall. By keeping exactly the same tempo from one chapter to the next, the series gives itself a measurable sound signature, almost a radio format: each new episode promises the same rise in energy, like the numbered riddim series of sound system tradition. Our bouyon BPM page places that tempo on the full map of the genre.

TybiProduction: the shadow producer becomes a signature

From 2023, one name returns on almost every listing: TybiProduction, also credited as Tybi on the recent pages. On July 26, 2023, Tetris Bouyon, billed to Alpha featuring TybiProduction, comes out on La Tanière Music Group: the title, stacking the brick game name onto the genre name, extends the series without carrying its number, like a special episode between two official chapters. Alpha's artist page also counts PASSION, again with TybiProduction, among his most streamed songs, and a Tybi song of his own, MIM, credits Alpha as the featured voice: the collaboration works in both directions, the sign of a duo rather than a one-off production purchase.

On May 10, 2024, the series resumes its numbering with RR Bouyon 3.0, billed to Alpha featuring Tybi Production, released by La Tanière Music Group, still at 160 BPM. Its credits page names two songwriters, Danice Abelli and Tristan Bonnet: to this file's knowledge, they are the only writer names the series metadata lets appear, and this profile reports them as credits, without identifying them with the artist himself or with his producer, which the sources do not settle.

On May 16, 2025 comes the most recent chapter, RR Bouyon #4, released by LTMG as a single, sung in French and still measured at 160 BPM. Its credits page, opened during the research, is the most complete of the series: Alpha holds lead vocals, songwriting and production there, and Tybi is credited as a songwriter. The artist has therefore taken back control of the production of his own series, with his long-time producer moved to a writing credit. Three years and four chapters after the first RR Bouyon, the formula has become an appointment: roughly one song a year, the same tempo, the same widened label, and an audience that follows the number as much as the title.

The network: Edday, LESTEF KJF BOYZ and the RR Trap series

Around the bouyon series, Alpha runs a second line of work, also initialled: the RR Trap songs. RR Trap #1, recorded with Tofer, and RR Trap #2, recorded with MALTY 2BZ, come out in 2025, the first on LTMG on May 2. The RR brand therefore covers two parallel series, one bouyon and one trap, like two product lines of the same small music company. The rest of the recent catalog confirms that network organization: Kenshiro, with KILLI, BIG LIASSE, featuring Killi and released on March 14, 2025 by La Tanière Music Group, and An Brrr, a joint EP with Piwone in 2024.

The most telling feature for readers of this site arrives in 2025: Loup Garou Freestyle, billed to Alpha and LESTEF KJF BOYZ, released by LTMG on March 21, 2025. The LESTEF KJF BOYZ collective, documented on this site, belongs to the same Creole and bouyon ecosystem, and its pairing with Alpha on a freestyle format shows that Alpha's catalog is not limited to his personal series: he takes part in the collective formats of his scene, where reputations are made and confirmed.

On the singles side, the La Tanière period lines up Fèmé Guel Aw, released on April 28, 2023 by RR Music Group, a Creole-titled clash-toned song, Grimreaper on January 19, 2024, Sugar Stick on July 10, 2024, with Edday and TybiProduction, then Money on December 13, 2024, and Infréquentable on January 17, 2025, both on LTMG and filed under hip-hop and rap. The pace is that of an independent who releases continuously, alternating numbered series, collaborations and Creole singles, never letting a blank year pass.

2026: O.S.L.C and Risk Pou Money, the catalog rolls on

Far from stopping at the fourth chapter of his series, Alpha opens 2026 with two formats. His Shazam artist page lists as his most recent releases an EP, O.S.L.C#1 (On sort les crocs), and a collective single, Risk Pou Money (RPM), billed to Lydogg, Alpha and Scorphil and presented as his latest release, alongside another single by the same trio, BAT' (Boum Boum). The RPM initials, taken from the title, show that the method of series and internal brands still structures the catalog: at Alpha's, every project gets a code name, as the RR Bouyon and RR Trap series did before it.

That 2026 activity matters for reading the file. Alpha is not the man of a single song or a single season: between the Solitaire album of 2019 and the singles of 2026, the artist page documents seven years of releases, two albums, several EPs and dozens of singles, with a clear acceleration since 2022 and the creation of the bouyon series. The platform still files him under hip-hop and rap, while Qobuz shelves most of his bouyon songs under world: that label gap describes the artist's position well, a rapper of the Antillean scene who made bouyon his signature series without leaving his rapper identity.

To place Alpha in the scene he frequents, this site carries the profiles of his network neighbours: 1T1 and Kevni, whom the platforms give as similar artists, Edday, his partner on Mami Chula and Sugar Stick, and LESTEF KJF BOYZ, his partners on Loup Garou Freestyle. Find his bouyon songs in our bouyon playlist, updated as the scene releases.

Why a bouyon series from a rapper: the context of the genre

To understand Alpha's move, bouyon has to be put back into its history. The genre is born in Dominica, before bouyon soca is started by Dada in Dominica in 2003, according to the first-hand testimony of Sean "Smokiller" Francis, Dominican-born, who moved in the Nursery Krew circles of the time. Decades later, the French Antilles have made bouyon, in its hard form called shatta, the dominant sound of their parties and carnivals, and a generation of Guadeloupean and Martinican artists claims it as a musical mother tongue. Alpha's series belongs to that movement: it takes the genre seriously, to the point of making it a numbered collection rather than a single's backdrop.

The series format also deserves to be read as a choice of its era. Streaming has accustomed Antillean scenes to riddim series and numbered concepts, where the listener follows an appointment rather than an isolated release. By numbering his chapters, 2.0, 3.0 then #4, with software version logic, Alpha turns each song into an update of the same product: the audience knows what it comes for, 160 BPM and the energy of bouyon, and loyalty is built on the regularity of the format as much as on the songs themselves. The parallel RR Trap series applies the same recipe to trap, proof that this collection thinking is the artist's production system, not a naming accident.

The question of filing remains. The platforms shelve Alpha under hip-hop and rap, Qobuz shelves his bouyon songs under world, and none of the series chapters is tagged bouyon as a genre by the listings consulted: the word exists only in the titles. That gap is common for the French-speaking Antillean scene, whose official platform categories, designed for mainland French and Anglo-Saxon markets, struggle to name Caribbean genres. That is precisely why this site documents these catalogs artist by artist: failing a bouyon category in the metadata, the RR Bouyon series and its constant 160 BPM stand as proof, listing by listing.

What this profile does not know: the limits of the file

This file is a catalog file, built only from the streaming platforms' pages and their distribution metadata: dates, imprints, tempos, credits and identification counters. It establishes the RR Bouyon series in full, the two older albums cited by Shazam, the collaborations and the chain of imprints, from RR Music to La Tanière Music Group. It does not establish Alpha's legal identity, his home island or his personal path, because no primary source opened during the research publishes them.

Two method notes close this profile. The first: the Alpha pages of generalist platforms mix several artists of the same name, and only the songs attached to the artist page identified by the number 1497932824, or released by his two documented imprints, were kept here. The second: the Shazam counters quoted are readings taken at research time, useful for ranking the songs against each other, not sales or streaming figures. If an interview, a label listing or a verified official account appears, this profile will be completed, in particular on the artist's origin, which the Creole titles and the collaboration network place in the French Caribbean without allowing any island to be named.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Alpha?

Alpha is an artist from the French Caribbean, filed under hip-hop and rap by the platforms and identified by Shazam artist page number 1497932824. He is known for his RR Bouyon series, four numbered songs released between 2022 and 2025 at 160 BPM, and for songs such as Ivresse with Kushy and Incognito with Dj Weezz and Ottomatik. No consulted source publishes his legal name or his home island.

What is Alpha's RR Bouyon series?

It is a series of numbered bouyon songs released by Alpha: RR Bouyon on January 26, 2022 on RR Music, RR Bouyon 2.0 on November 18, 2022 on RR Music Group, folded into the R.A.S EP in January 2023, RR Bouyon 3.0 with Tybi Production on May 10, 2024, and RR Bouyon #4 on May 16, 2025 on LTMG. Every chapter whose listing gives a tempo is measured at 160 BPM.

What is Alpha's most identified song on Shazam?

According to the all time counters read on his artist page during the research, Ivresse, with Kushy, leads with about 54,500 Shazams, ahead of Incognito, with Dj Weezz and Ottomatik, at about 25,500, and RR Bouyon, at about 8,100. The bouyon series is therefore at the heart of the catalog, even if its two biggest counters are dancehall and shatta songs.

Who is TybiProduction to Alpha?

TybiProduction, also credited as Tybi, is Alpha's recurring producer: he signs Tetris Bouyon in 2023, appears on PASSION and on RR Bouyon 3.0 in 2024, shares Sugar Stick with Edday the same year, and is credited as a songwriter on RR Bouyon #4 in 2025, where Alpha is himself credited with production. Alpha in return features on MIM, a song by Tybi.

Which artists has Alpha collaborated with?

The collaborations verified on the platform listings are Edday, on Mami Chula and Sugar Stick, LESTEF KJF BOYZ, on Loup Garou Freestyle in 2025, Kushy on Ivresse, Dj Weezz and Ottomatik on Incognito, Killi on Kenshiro and BIG LIASSE, Piwone on the An Brrr EP, Tofer and MALTY 2BZ on the RR Trap songs, and Lydogg and Scorphil on Risk Pou Money in 2026.

Where is Alpha from?

No primary source opened during the research says so. His catalog is sung in French and Creole, and his collaborations and the platforms' similar artists, 1T1, Kevni, Blicassty and Railfé, place him in the French Antillean scene, but no listing names his island or his town. This profile therefore describes an artist of the French Caribbean, without assigning him a more precise origin.

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