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Banklaady: the ratchet rapper whose road ends in full bouyon

Published October 20, 2026

Banklaady is a rapper whose catalog, documented from 2020 to 2026, tells a complete crossing of French-language dance sounds: starting from rap and the ratchet aesthetic she claims in her album titles, she releases a single called Buzzballz Shatta in 2026, then Twavay Bay, a duet with Ricky Bishop whose lyrics name shatta and bouyon outright. In between, she released two albums, RATCHET SUPREMACY in 2024 and MONEY IN THE BANK in 2025, and recorded LEAN BACK with Gringo Jay. The platforms file her under hip-hop and rap, no public biography says who she is, and her own accounts tag Côte d'Ivoire while her documented stage is Parisian. This profile follows the catalog track by track, from the first BankyFunk singles to the 2026 peak, and carefully separates facts and credits from what the sources do not allow anyone to claim.

Who is Banklaady: a persona, and a signature inside the credits

Banklaady works under a persona name: Banky, the rapper of the titles BankyFunk, Banky Freaky B and Banky Story, and an aesthetic claimed right in her project titles, RATCHET SUPREMACY in 2024, RATCHET DEMBOW in 2026, and the name of her TikTok account, RATCHET MENTALITY. The platforms file her under hip-hop and rap, with about 1,100 Shazam identifications at research time. No consulted listing publishes a biography, and this profile invents none.

The credits, however, leave a regular signature. On ALL EYES ON ME, in 2026, the platform credits Eden Kouame as a performing artist, on rap, and as a songwriter, alongside Samuel Plon. On Buzzballz Shatta, the same year, Banklaady is credited on vocals and Eden Kouame on songwriting, with Joakim Canguio. And as early as 2024, the Qobuz editorial playlist Vol. 30: Bad Bitches Only places one of her tracks while crediting Banklaady as main artist and Eden Kouame as lyricist and composer. This profile reports that credit pattern as it stands: the name Eden Kouame is attached to her performances and her writing in platform metadata, without this file turning it into a confirmed legal identity.

On origin, the only available word is her own. Her TikTok account, opened during the research on one of her videos, shows a bio line pointing to her Instagram, and her posts tag Côte d'Ivoire, flags included, in her own hashtags. Her track RATCHET DE BABI carries the common nickname of Abidjan. On the other side, her only documented stage is Parisian, as the live section will show. This profile holds both ends without welding them together: an artist who presents herself with Ivorian markers, active and booked in Paris, whose nationality and home base no opened source confirms.

2020-2023: BankyFunk, Traitre and the Banky Story EP

The first traces of the catalog date from 2020, with two singles under almost identical titles, BankyFunk and Banky Funk, which the platform discography lists as two distinct entries: this profile reports them as such, without deciding whether they are two versions of one song. In 2021 comes Traitre, featuring Buffyrevenge, a breakup title in the middle of an otherwise self-assured catalog.

The first long format arrives on January 27, 2023: the Banky Story EP, five tracks that work as a calling card. Lambo opens, R.I.P YOUNG DOLPH, with Bi$hop, pays tribute to the Memphis rapper murdered in 2021, Banky Freaky B signs the persona, TR!LL invites BLUE B, and Phoenix closes on an image of rebirth. One detail matters for the rest of this site: BLUE B, the guest on TR!LL, is a recurring collaborator of Gringo Jay, documented in his profile. The network in which Banklaady releases her first tracks therefore already touches, through one guest, the French-speaking bouyon network she will join head-on in 2025 and 2026.

No album follows the EP immediately, and 2023 remains the year of a single format. Banklaady's catalog is built slowly, in layers: the founding singles, the calling-card EP, then, from 2024, a yearly album rhythm that changes the scale of the project.

2024: RATCHET SUPREMACY, the first album

On March 8, 2024 comes RATCHET SUPREMACY, the first album, nine tracks: CLICK, CHERCHES TA CHAÎNE, SI TU SORS JE SORS, BOMBA LATINA, ÉCHO, BF & CR, CHÈRE INDUSTRIE, BIG RATCHET and SEE YOU LATER. The titles draw the program: provocation, money, an address to the industry itself in CHÈRE INDUSTRIE, and a Latin detour in BOMBA LATINA that foreshadows the dembow and shatta excursions of the following years. BIG RATCHET remains one of the most streamed titles of the catalog according to the artist page.

The same year, the single HOLLON (Remix) extends the album, whose title track HOLLON will resurface in last position on the next album, a sign of deliberate continuity between the two records. Also in 2024, a Banklaady track enters the Qobuz editorial playlist Vol. 30: Bad Bitches Only, alongside French and American women rappers such as Shay, Doja Cat, GloRilla and Ice Spice: in the sources consulted, it is the first major editorial selection recorded for the project, and it places her squarely in French-language and international women rap, not in a Caribbean niche.

That starting position matters for reading what follows. Banklaady is not a bouyon artist who raps: she is a rapper of the Parisian and diaspora French-language scene who, record after record, absorbs the dance rhythms around her, dembow, shatta, then bouyon, until she puts them in her titles.

2025: MONEY IN THE BANK and the LEAN BACK duet with Gringo Jay

On January 10, 2025, the album MONEY IN THE BANK is released by NOVA CORP, eight tracks: ENTRANCE, LAME, RATCHET DE BABI, with Shinobihana, MONEY IN THE BANK, SHOTAS, with 4bluepills, AU TOP, LEAN BACK, with Gringo Jay, and HOLLON. The album is a French-language rap record, but two of its titles carry the marks of neighbouring worlds: SHOTAS, and above all the duet with Gringo Jay.

LEAN BACK, the penultimate track of the album, is Banklaady's first head-on connection with the network this site documents: Gringo Jay, the Dominican-born rapper who also collaborates with Novy, holds the feature on a French-language track filed under hip-hop and rap, at 95 BPM. The title stayed quiet on release, a single Shazam identification recorded when its page was opened, but it counts as a junction act: the partner's full profile is on our Gringo Jay page.

The most identified title of the album is another one: RATCHET DE BABI, with Shinobihana, about 195 identifications, and a tempo of 160 BPM recorded by the platform. That figure is not a detail on this site: 160 BPM is the cruising regime of bouyon, as our bouyon BPM page details. As early as 2025, then, Banklaady's fastest album title runs at exactly bouyon tempo, even though its tag remains rap.

The tempos that touch bouyon: 160 and 164 BPM, and dembow

Banklaady's discography also reads as a map of tempos, and that map leans towards the dancefloor. RATCHET DE BABI at 160 BPM in 2025, ALL EYES ON ME at 164 BPM on May 7, 2026, still on NOVA CORP: her two fastest titles are also recent, highlighted ones, and they run in the regime where Dominican bouyon plays its carnival titles, roughly between 150 and 165 BPM. At the other end, LEAN BACK at 95 BPM and the Go Banky freestyle at 80 BPM keep one foot in laid-back rap. In between, she tries the intermediate regimes of Afro-Caribbean rhythms.

On March 7, 2026, RATCHET DEMBOW (Version Dembow) is released by NOVA CORP, tagged Latin Urban by the platform, in French, at 127 BPM. The title is a method manifesto: take her own ratchet persona and run it through the dembow rhythm, the Dominican 3+3+2 pattern that became the backbone of Spanish Caribbean dance sounds. A French-language woman rapper who declines her signature title in a dembow version is working exactly on the border this site documents between rap, shatta and bouyon.

Precision matters on what these figures prove. A tempo does not make a genre: the platforms tag these titles as rap, Latin Urban or, for Buzzballz Shatta, reggae, and none is filed as bouyon. But the tempo trajectory, 95, 127, 160, 164 BPM, shows an artist who systematically climbs towards Caribbean party tempos, up to the title where the junction becomes explicit, lyrics included: Twavay Bay.

2026: the shatta year, from Buzzballz Shatta to Twavay Bay

Banklaady's 2026 is dense: RATCHET DEMBOW in March, ALL EYES ON ME on May 7, Go Banky (Freestyle NTD) on June 5, a duet with Nothing to Declare on Après la pluie, Buzzballz Shatta on August 26, and Twavay Bay with Ricky Bishop. The credits of this year draw a small stable team: Samuel Plon and Diakite Fagnouma producing ALL EYES ON ME, Nivert Ervin co-producing, and Joakim Canguio engineering, the same Joakim Canguio who co-writes Buzzballz Shatta with Eden Kouame, over production by Ervin Nivert and Joh'iz.

The name Joh'iz, producing Buzzballz Shatta, builds the most unexpected bridge in this file: Joh'iz is the long-standing partner of Novy, the other profile of this wave, with whom he billed the Heart Season EP as early as 2020. The two catalogs therefore meet through a shared producer, in the same year Banklaady sings with Ricky Bishop and Novy sings with Gringo Jay. Buzzballz Shatta, released by 8526079 Records DK2, in French at 103 BPM, carries shatta in its very title, after the BuzzBallz drink and the Martinican and Guadeloupean rhythm this site follows closely.

The peak arrives with Twavay Bay, billed to Ricky Bishop & Banklaady, presented by Shazam as her latest release and her most streamed song. The lyrics, published by the platform, leave no doubt about the ground: the track opens with a call, Shatta, Bouyon, les shattas venez ici, shatta, bouyon, shatta people come here, follows with the self-proclamation Ratchet queen dans la maison, ratchet queen in the house, and builds its hook in Creole, An ka twavay bay, I am working for it, before the landing line Jump dans la party twerk sur New bouyon. It is a bouyon and shatta party track sung by a ratchet rapper and a Dominican artist, and to this day the most bouyon piece of her whole catalog. The partner's path is told on our Ricky Bishop page, and the track sits in our bouyon playlist.

The stage: Paris, December 2025, and the Artem sessions

Banklaady's documented stage trace is Parisian. The Swag Dictature festival, a free entry event held on December 12 and 13, 2025 at 105 Rue Curial, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, books her among its live performances, on a bill whose declared moods are hip hop, rap, shatta, R&B and trap: shatta therefore figures in the very frame of the festival that hosts her, a year before her shatta and bouyon titles. The event page counted 864 interested people at research time.

On the image side, a CAR RIDE ARTEM - BANKLAADY video exists in the Artem session format, those filmed car conversations and performances that circulate artists of the Paris rap and Afro scene: the research recovered only its title, and this profile assigns it neither a date nor an audience. Her TikTok account, meanwhile, shows steady short-video activity, one of which displayed about 93,500 plays at opening, a sign of a maintained platform presence rather than an official video catalog.

That contrast is part of the file: Banklaady is a platform-era artist whose public trace fits inside distribution metadata, one Qobuz editorial selection, one Paris festival date and social media, with no interview or press portrait found. That is exactly why her arrival in bouyon, in 2026, reads first in her titles and her credits, before it reads in articles.

Limits of the file: what the sources do not say

This profile rests on platform sources opened during the research: Shazam artist, album and song pages, the Qobuz editorial playlist, the Shotgun event page, a TikTok video page and a YouTube video title. These sources establish dates, imprints, tracklists, credits, tempos and platform-internal rankings. They do not establish a biography, a confirmed nationality, a home city or a legal identity.

Three points therefore stay open, and this profile leaves them open. Origin: the Ivorian markers come from the artist's own tags and from the title RATCHET DE BABI, the documented stage is Parisian, and no source settles the question. Identity: the name Eden Kouame recurs in her credits as performer and writer, without any consulted source presenting it as her legal name. And the measure of success: the counters quoted, about 1,100 Shazam identifications and tens of thousands of TikTok plays, are readings at research date, not certifications. If an interview or an official listing appears, this file will be the first completed.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Banklaady?

Banklaady is a rapper filed under hip-hop and rap by the platforms, documented from 2020 to 2026. Her catalog holds an EP, Banky Story in 2023, two albums, RATCHET SUPREMACY in 2024 and MONEY IN THE BANK in 2025, and a run of singles that goes from rap to dembow, shatta and bouyon. No public biography was found during the research.

What is Banklaady's link to bouyon?

In 2026, Banklaady releases Twavay Bay with Dominican artist Ricky Bishop, whose lyrics call out shatta and bouyon and sing twerk sur New bouyon: it is her most streamed song according to Shazam. The same year, Buzzballz Shatta carries shatta in its title, and her fastest titles, at 160 and 164 BPM, run in the bouyon regime.

What are Banklaady's albums?

Two albums are verified: RATCHET SUPREMACY, on March 8, 2024, nine tracks including BIG RATCHET, and MONEY IN THE BANK, on January 10, 2025 on NOVA CORP, eight tracks including RATCHET DE BABI and LEAN BACK with Gringo Jay. The five-track Banky Story EP precedes them in January 2023.

Who has Banklaady collaborated with?

Verified collaborations include Ricky Bishop on Twavay Bay, Gringo Jay on LEAN BACK, Nothing to Declare on Go Banky (Freestyle NTD), My Sozo on LES VRAIS GO, Shinobihana on RATCHET DE BABI, 4bluepills on SHOTAS, Buffyrevenge on Traitre, Bi$hop on R.I.P YOUNG DOLPH and BLUE B on TR!LL.

Who is Eden Kouame in Banklaady's credits?

Eden Kouame is the name that recurs in the platform credits attached to Banklaady: performing artist on rap and songwriter on ALL EYES ON ME in 2026, songwriter on Buzzballz Shatta, and lyricist and composer credited as early as 2024 in the Qobuz editorial playlist. This profile reports that credit pattern without turning it into a confirmed legal identity.

Where is Banklaady from?

No source opened during the research publishes her biography or a confirmed origin. Her own TikTok posts tag Côte d'Ivoire, her title RATCHET DE BABI carries the nickname of Abidjan, and her documented stage is a Paris festival, Swag Dictature, in December 2025. This profile presents those elements for what they are, without deriving a nationality from them.

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