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D4A Nillio: a Saint Martin rapper who signs a bouyon freestyle

Published October 20, 2026

D4A Nillio is a rapper from Saint Martin, the island his own lyrics name by its code, SXM. He enters bouyon through a record that says so in its very title: “Storybook Riddim Freestyle (feat. Young Ob) [Bouyon Version]”, released on December 8, 2025 on Knockin Records, at 160 BPM, produced by Xavvoknockin. His other documented record, “Different Pains”, is a rap track where he writes: “I'm from sxm”. This profile is deliberately honest about its scope: two records, platform credits, one line of origin signed by the artist himself, and nothing else public. It documents what exists, the bouyon freestyle, the Knockin Records circuit that carries it, and the blanks of the file, without turning a freestyle rapper into an invented portrait.

Who D4A Nillio is: one name, one island code, no public portrait

Let us start with the exact inventory, because the whole file fits inside it. D4A Nillio is the lead artist on two records carried by platform song pages: “Storybook Riddim Freestyle (feat. Young Ob) [Bouyon Version]”, released as a single on December 8, 2025, and “Different Pains (feat. TrayoDeYoungin)”, whose page publishes the full lyrics. On those two pages he is credited on vocals and, for the first record, on songwriting. No artist page under his name, no biography, no interview and no verified official account was found during the research for this profile, on any of the platforms consulted.

The name itself reads like a rapper signature. In “Different Pains”, the artist spells his own name in two sung forms: “DfourA, we welcome back”, then “D-four-A-O-W-O”, before closing with “you know the gang”. The form kept by the platforms, and therefore by this site, is D4A Nillio. No source gives his full name, his age, or the meaning of the word Nillio. This profile does not guess them: it publishes the stage name, the two records, and the only statement of origin the artist has himself recorded.

That statement fits in one line of “Different Pains”: “I'm from sxm where people don't show no love to a local, you know”. SXM is the airport code of the island of Saint Martin, in the northern Caribbean, and it is the name the whole island goes by in local popular culture. The line therefore files the artist: a rapper from Saint Martin, not from Dominica, whose scene this site follows for bouyon. No source consulted says which side of the island he is from, the French side, Saint-Martin, or the Dutch side, Sint Maarten, and this profile does not settle a question the artist has not settled in public. What he claims is the island, whole, and the difficulty of being a local artist on it: the rest of the verse says he stays in his lane, hopes to make it out, and wants to make a way out for his mother.

Storybook Riddim Freestyle: the bouyon record, read credit by credit

The record that connects D4A Nillio to this site is a single whose title is a programme: “Storybook Riddim Freestyle (feat. Young Ob) [Bouyon Version]”. The bracketed mention, Bouyon Version, is the claim of the record: this is the bouyon version of a freestyle laid over a riddim named Storybook. The song page gives a release on December 8, 2025, on Knockin Records, in English, at 160 BPM, the fete tempo of modern bouyon, the one of the Gwada and Dominican records our bouyon playlist follows all year. The format is that of the standalone single: one record, published under the same name as its single album.

The credits on the page are complete, and they draw a small team. D4A Nillio is on vocals and songwriting. Young Ob, the guest on the record, is on vocals, and the second songwriter name on the page is Thaddeus Edwards, the name under which Young Ob signs his writing. Production and recording engineering are credited to Xavvoknockin, the producer and engineer of the same circuit, documented on this site through his credits on “WTHelly Bouyon” by BRG Hollywood and on “Largent” by General Pye featuring Ebony Empress. Three names on vocals and writing, one name on production: the freestyle is short team work, typical of island scenes where the same studio carries several artists.

The word freestyle, in the title, must be read for what it announces: an exercise in style, a free verse laid over an existing riddim, rather than a single built around a chorus. The form matters for placing the artist. D4A Nillio arrives in bouyon as a rapper, through the freestyle door, and not as a bouyon singer raised in the island bands. The bouyon version of the record is therefore a documented crossover: a Saint Martin rap flow, a production from the Knockin circuit, and a tempo and a label tag that write the result into the bouyon of 2025. This profile describes neither the flow nor the text of the freestyle beyond what the page publishes: the page consulted gives the credits and the metadata of the record, and that level of fact is what is published here.

Different Pains: the other record, and the line that places the artist

The second documented record by D4A Nillio is “Different Pains”, featuring TrayoDeYoungin. The song page publishes the full text of the track, and that text carries most of what is known about the artist. The register is that of introspective rap: a heart to protect, friends who called yesterday, rain and a hoodie, then the verse climbing, money to make fast, the road, mistrust, and the spelled out signature of the name, D-four-A. Nothing in this record belongs to bouyon: it is the track of a rapper, and it is published here as such, because it establishes the identity that the bouyon freestyle then puts on stage.

A precision of method is required on this record, and this profile gives it openly. During the research, the “Different Pains” page was indexed with its complete lyrics, but opening the page directly returned, repeatedly, an unrelated title: the platform identifiers seem to have been reassigned between indexing and consultation. The direct consequence: no release date, no label and no tempo are stated for “Different Pains” in this profile, for lack of metadata read back on the page itself, and the record is kept out of the structured data of the page, which is reserved for the one recording whose page was opened in full, the bouyon freestyle. The text of the track, on the other hand, is quoted at the level at which it was read: as the published lyrics of the artist page.

What that text establishes goes beyond origin alone. The SXM line also states the relation of the artist to his scene: a local the island gives no favours to, who knows it, and who still writes from the island. It is an old theme of Caribbean island rap, and it lights up the path the two records draw: a Saint Martin rapper who records an introspective rap under his own name, then enters, at the end of 2025, the bouyon circuit of his region through a freestyle produced by the producer of that circuit. The two records do not tell of two artists: they tell of one artist in two posts, his own, and the one the Saint Martin bouyon scene offers him. Our bouyon in Saint Martin page tells that scene as a whole.

The Knockin Records circuit: the label of the freestyle and the producer behind it

The label of the freestyle, Knockin Records, is the thread that connects D4A Nillio to the rest of the scene documented by this site. The same banner name appears in the credit roll of “WTHelly Bouyon” by BRG Hollywood, released on May 16, 2025, where Knockin Records is credited with recording, mixing and mastering, while Xavvoknockin, whose name shares the same root, produces the record with Xavern Labega. On the D4A Nillio freestyle, at the end of 2025, Knockin Records is the label, and Xavvoknockin is the producer and the recording engineer. No source consulted says who owns or runs the banner, and this profile does not guess it: it records the recurrence of the name, in the technical posts then in the label post, in the same small circuit, on the same dates.

That circuit has a geography that can be read in the credits of this site. BRG Hollywood is a bouyon artist from Sint Maarten. Trixta Savage, whose album “Street Politics”, released on Knockin Records in 2023, carries a feature by Young Ob, belongs to the same world of records. D4A Nillio, who declares himself from SXM in his lyrics, enters it through the same banner and the same producer. Bouyon, born in Dominica at the end of the 1980s, spread to the neighbouring islands, and Saint Martin is one of its secondary strongholds best documented through credit rolls: producers, labels and singers there come down to a handful of names, crossing from record to record. The D4A Nillio freestyle is one dated and credited piece of that puzzle, and it is on that basis that it appears on this site.

The context of the genre, on the other hand, stays Dominican, and this profile recalls it like every page on this site. Bouyon soca was started in Dominica in 2003 by Dada, according to the first hand testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis, a Dominican-born producer and a participant in that era. That rappers from Saint Martin lay down, twenty years later, freestyles tagged bouyon over the productions of their local circuit measures the path of the genre: from a Dominican invention to a regional rhythmic language, which each island speaks with its own accent. The accent of D4A Nillio, on the two known records, is that of English language rap from SXM.

What the file does not say: the limits, stated

This profile ends with its limits, because they are the most useful information it can give about D4A Nillio today. No full name is published by the sources consulted. No biography, no interview, no official photograph and no social media account verified by direct opening was found, so the structured data of this page links to no external account. No concert date, no festival appearance and no press coverage was documented. The side of the island the artist comes from, French or Dutch, is not specified by his lyrics, which say SXM, and it is not specified here either.

The verified scope therefore fits into two records and their credits. The first, “Storybook Riddim Freestyle (feat. Young Ob) [Bouyon Version]”, is fully documented by its page: released on December 8, 2025, label Knockin Records, 160 BPM, production and recording by Xavvoknockin, vocals and songwriting by D4A Nillio, vocals by Young Ob and songwriting by Thaddeus Edwards. The second, “Different Pains (feat. TrayoDeYoungin)”, is documented through its published lyrics, which hold the statement of origin of the artist, but whose release metadata could not be read back on the page during this research, for the technical reason explained above. Anything circulating elsewhere about D4A Nillio without a source, an age, a town, a style described in superlatives, should be read with the caution that scope imposes.

The listening, while waiting for what comes next, fits into two records: the bouyon freestyle first, for the crossover it documents between Saint Martin rap and the bouyon tempo, then “Different Pains”, for the voice and the signature of the artist outside the bouyon format. If D4A Nillio publishes a solo bouyon record, an artist page or a biography, this profile will be completed and dated, like every page on this site. In the meantime, it publishes what the song pages and the lyrics give, no more and no less: a rapper from SXM, two records, and a dated entry into bouyon, on December 8, 2025, alongside Young Ob and Xavvoknockin, whose profiles this site publishes in the same family of pages.

Frequently asked questions

Who is D4A Nillio?

D4A Nillio is a rapper from Saint Martin, known through two records documented on the platforms: “Different Pains”, featuring TrayoDeYoungin, whose page publishes the lyrics, and “Storybook Riddim Freestyle (feat. Young Ob) [Bouyon Version]”, released on December 8, 2025 on Knockin Records. No public biography, no full name and no verified official account was found during the research for this profile, carried out on October 20, 2026.

Where does D4A Nillio come from?

From Saint Martin, according to his own lyrics. In “Different Pains” he writes: “I'm from sxm”, SXM being the code of the island of Saint Martin. He adds that people there show no love to a local artist. No source specifies the side of the island, French or Dutch, and this profile does not specify it either. He is therefore not an artist from Dominica, but an artist from Saint Martin active in the regional bouyon circuit.

What is the bouyon record of D4A Nillio?

“Storybook Riddim Freestyle (feat. Young Ob) [Bouyon Version]”, released as a single on December 8, 2025 on Knockin Records, in English, at 160 BPM. D4A Nillio is on vocals and songwriting, Young Ob on vocals, Thaddeus Edwards on songwriting, and Xavvoknockin on production and recording engineering. The Bouyon Version mention, in the title itself, is the genre claim of the track.

Who produced the bouyon freestyle of D4A Nillio?

Xavvoknockin, credited as producer and recording engineer on the song page. He is the producer of the Sint Maarten bouyon circuit documented on this site for “WTHelly Bouyon” by BRG Hollywood, with Xavern Labega, in 2025. The label of the freestyle is Knockin Records, the same name as the technical banner credited on that BRG Hollywood record.

Which other records by D4A Nillio are verified?

Only one other record is documented: “Different Pains”, featuring TrayoDeYoungin, an introspective rap track whose page publishes the full lyrics, with the line “I'm from sxm” and the spelled out D-four-A signature. Its release metadata could not be read back on the page during this research, the direct opening returning an unrelated title, so no date is stated for that track.

Where can I hear D4A Nillio?

On his two documented records: the freestyle “Storybook Riddim Freestyle” in its bouyon version, with Young Ob, on Knockin Records, then “Different Pains”, for his rap outside the bouyon format. Continue with the profile of his producer Xavvoknockin, that of his guest Young Ob, our bouyon in Saint Martin page and our bouyon playlist.

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