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DJ Taffy: the bouyon producer behind the Riddim Beast

Published October 20, 2026

DJ Taffy is a bouyon DJ and producer from Dominica, known as the Riddim Beast. His label is called Riddim Beast Studios, his songwriting credits published by Shazam carry the name Tafari Maffei, and his name appears where Dominican bouyon is being made in 2025 and 2026: Producer of the Year finalist at the Dominica Music Awards 2025, co-credited name on “Make Her Bawl” with Shelly, Trixx and Signal Band, headline name of the Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl Super Mix with Taffy and Co, and a name on Night 3 of the World Creole Music Festival 2026, on Sunday, October 25, in Roseau, according to the published festival guides. This profile documents that path with its sources, no more and no less.

Who DJ Taffy is: a DJ producer, a studio name

The first thing to understand about DJ Taffy is his double trade. Band bouyon, the bouyon of WCK and the big groups, is played on stage with musicians. DJ producer bouyon is made in the studio and tested in the dance: a riddim, a voice laid over it, an immediate reaction from the crowd. DJ Taffy belongs to that second family, as DJ Cut did before him in the history of Wrecketeng. His stage name says it plainly: DJ for the booth, Taffy for the signature the audience remembers.

His second name is even more telling: Riddim Beast. The Dominica Music Awards 2025 list him, in the Producer of the Year category, in the form DJ Taffy (Riddim Beast). The description of the official “Kay ve yo” video by Shanika credits him as Produced by DJ Taffy Riddim Beast. And his label, which has released his tracks since at least 2023 according to the Shazam pages, is called Riddim Beast Studios. The nickname is therefore not social media decoration: it is a complete working identity, producer name, studio name and label name in one. On this site, nicknames are always reported with their source, and this one is documented by three independent sources.

The third identity element is a songwriter name. The Shazam pages of several of his tracks credit Tafari Maffei as songwriter: “Wake Me Up (Live)”, “Peep Peep Pop Pop”, and “On your back”, co-written with Kurt Douglas. This profile reports that credit for what it is, the name signing the published compositions of DJ Taffy on the platforms, without turning it into a complete civil record. No source consulted publishes a birth date or a hometown for DJ Taffy, and this profile invents none.

What the sources do establish solidly is the geography of his work: Dominica. The bouyon and soca trending charts for Dominica cite him, the Dominican awards name him, the Creole events of Roseau book him, and the national festival keeps him for its closing night. DJ Taffy is an actor of bouyon at home, in Roseau, before he is a travelling name. The sections that follow track that thread: the studio, the tracks, the awards, the Creole stages and the big WCMF night.

Riddim Beast Studios: the catalogue of bouyon producer DJ Taffy

The verified catalogue of DJ Taffy is organised around one constant label: Riddim Beast Studios. The Shazam pages give a series of dated releases that let the work be followed year by year. In 2023: “Peep Peep Pop Pop”, released on January 31, 2023, whose video title pairs DJ Taffy and Quan with the keywords BigTruckRiddim and RiddimBeast; “Situationship”, featuring Nice767, released on February 15, 2023; “On your back”, featuring Gwada G, released on March 1, 2023; “Gwada we going”, featuring Tidy, released on May 26, 2023; and “Wake Me Up (Live)”, released on September 1, 2023. Five dated releases in a single year, all on the same label: that is not the pace of an amateur, it is the pace of a studio producing continuously.

In 2024, the catalogue takes album form: “Tie up”, featuring Eks and Wotlis, and “Warm up”, featuring Jackie Beatz, were released on September 19, 2024 on Riddim Beast Studios, as part of the album Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, according to Shazam. In 2025, another album follows: “Sick”, featuring Wotlis and Paw, was released on September 17, 2025, in the album Pick your speed, Know your limit. Two albums in two years, with recurring guests such as Wotlis, draw a method: build riddims, invite the voices of the scene onto them, and release by projects rather than by isolated tracks.

To those studio releases add the top songs list published by Viberate for DJ Taffy: “LLSR (Last Lap Solo Riddim) Boyoun 2021”, “Situationship”, “Funny Riddim (Special)”, “Peep peep pop pop”, “Lighter, Bouyon Remix”, “Truth (Bouyon Instrumental), Remix”, “DJ Taffy X Quan (Bouyon stars)”, “Maltete Riddim” and “L2T Anthem”. That list, mixing riddims, bouyon remixes and instrumentals, confirms the profile: DJ Taffy is first a maker of riddims, in the Caribbean sense of the word, instrumental bases designed to carry voices, carnival seasons and whole nights of dancing.

The Funny Riddim deserves a stop, because it connects the catalogue of DJ Taffy to the Francophone scene. The description of the official “Kay ve yo” video by Shanika, an artist of the Guadeloupe bouyon scene, states: produced by DJ Taffy Riddim Beast, with the keyword FunnyRiddim, produced and edited by Voodoo Studio. A Dominican producer producing a track for an artist of the Guadeloupe scene, on his own riddim: the Dominica and French Antilles circulation that structures all current bouyon also runs through the studios of the DJ producers, not only through singer duets.

“Make Her Bawl”: the track that put DJ Taffy in the trends

The most documented track of the recent period of DJ Taffy is “Make Her Bawl”. Bouyon mix tracklists credit it consistently: Shelly, Trixx and DJ Taffy, and in its full form, Signal Band featuring Shelly, DJ Taffy and Trixx. The track therefore brings together a singer, Shelly, the voice of Signal Band, an artist of the young scene, Trixx, an established band, Signal Band, and the producer DJ Taffy. It is an exact photograph of how Dominican bouyon was made in 2025: the DJ studio at the centre, the voices and the band around it.

The track has a chart trace this profile can report precisely. Island Vybe, relaying Sokah2Soca, publishes the trending bouyon and soca songs for Dominica for the week ending April 26, 2025, a chart compiled by The Soca Source on Spotify. “Make Her Bawl”, credited Signal Band x Shelly x DJ Taffy x Trixx, appears there alongside “What She Like” by Trixmigos and Hussey, “Bouwéy” by 1T1 and Theomaa, “Fuck Everybody” by Asa Bantan and “Bye To de Old Me” by Signal Band and Shelly. A weekly trending chart is not a gold record, and this profile presents it for what it is: dated proof that in spring 2025, the DJ Taffy track was playing among the most listened Dominican bouyon tracks of the measured week.

The track also circulates where bouyon lives daily: in the mixes. The Bouyon Mix 2025 of the Blaqrose Supreme podcast programmes it at 27 minutes 02, between TK International and Mr. Delly. The DJ Close Connections podcast, in its Bouyon Passport 2026 episode of February 2026, lists it among the programme tracks, alongside “Take Me As I Am” by Trilla G and “La Vie Doux” by Reo. The WillyWonka Factory catalogue also carries it. Three independent selections, across two years, for one track: that is the form of longevity bouyon knows best, the longevity of DJ selections.

To discover DJ Taffy, this profile therefore recommends starting with “Make Her Bawl”, then going up to the Riddim Beast Studios albums. The track appears in the structured data of this page and in our bouyon playlist, with the other verified tracks of the producer.

The Riddim Beast collaborations: Gwada G, Nice, Wotlis, Quan and the studio voices

A producer is read through his guests. Those of DJ Taffy draw the complete map of his network. On the Guadeloupe side: Gwada G, a bouyon gwada figure, guest on “On your back” in 2023, and partner on the tracks “Se Pa Taw” and “Money”, credited Mr Gwada x DJ Taffy in the Soca Podcast tracklists, as well as “S.O.T.T”, credited DJ Taffy X Zone Rouge X Gwada G. The same Gwada G appears, like DJ Taffy, on the programme of Night 3 of WCMF 2026: the studio collaborators meet again on the big Roseau stage, which shows the coherence of the network.

On the Dominica side: Nice, guest under the name Nice767 on “Situationship” in 2023, and also billed on Night 3 of WCMF 2026 according to the published guides, where this site documents him on the Nice page. Wotlis, recurring guest of the albums, on “Tie up” in 2024 and “Sick” in 2025, and on “Dat She Want”, credited Dj Taffy featuring Paw and Wotlis in mix tracklists. Paw, present on “Sick” and on “Dat She Want”. Quan, paired with the track “Peep Peep Pop Pop” in its video title, and with the “DJ Taffy X Quan (Bouyon stars)” of the Viberate list. And “Leaving”, credited Litleboy x Quan Dan x DJ Taffy in the tracklists, connecting the DJ Taffy studio to Litle Boy, another producer named at the Dominica Music Awards 2025.

Two more traces complete that network. “L2T Anthem”, credited DJ Taffy and Shabbeh in the Soca Podcast tracklists, also appears in the Viberate top songs list. And “Home”, credited Taffy x Shelly in the Soca and Bouyon 2025 to 2026 mix of the Jamz Podcast, extends the collaboration with Shelly beyond “Make Her Bawl”. None of those traces is a chart or an award: they are tracklist and platform credits, reported as such, showing a studio plugged into both shores of bouyon, Dominica and Guadeloupe.

That density of collaborations explains the form of his recognition at the Dominican awards. A producer who supplies riddims to the singers, who produces for the Francophone scene and who releases his own albums becomes, season after season, a name that juries and audiences associate with the making of the sound of the year itself. That is exactly what the next section documents.

Producer of the Year: the Dominica Music Awards 2025 recognition

The institutional recognition of DJ Taffy has a date and a list. Black Island Girl publishes the official finalists of the Dominica Music Awards 2025, ahead of the ceremony announced for January 2026. In the Producer of the Year category, the finalists are: Arade “Maskman” Moses, Tha Wizzard, Andel “Fre3ze” Horsford, DJ Taffy (Riddim Beast), Litle Boy and Cross D Bridge Studio. This profile reports a finalist nomination, and only that: no source consulted credits him with the win in that category, and this profile does not credit him with it either.

The company of that list matters as much as the nomination itself. Tha Wizzard and Litle Boy are established producers of the Dominican scene, documented on this site. Being a finalist beside them places DJ Taffy in the group of sound makers Dominica officially recognises for the year 2025. For a DJ producer, whose work is often done in the shadow of the singers he produces, a category dedicated to producers is the most direct recognition there is: it judges the riddim, the studio and the regularity, not only the hook.

The same finalists list also lights up the rest of his record. It holds, in other categories, the names of his network: Shelly and Signal Band for Band of the Year and the album “The Electric Room”, Nice among the rising artists of the year, Trilla G and Reo in the artist and video categories. In other words, the scene that named DJ Taffy a Producer of the Year finalist is the same one filling his tracklists and his albums. The Riddim Beast studio is not an island inside the island: it stands at the centre of the documented Dominican bouyon of 2025.

The precision of the name in that list is also worth noting: DJ Taffy (Riddim Beast). The Dominican awards therefore validate, in their own publication, the complete identity of the producer, DJ name and studio name together. When this profile calls him the Riddim Beast of bouyon, it only takes up, with its attribution, the form the Dominica Music Awards themselves use.

The Creole stages: Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl, Taffy and Co and the Mas Domnik 2026 launch

Before the big festival stage, DJ Taffy holds the Creole stages of Roseau. Riches Karayib, in its report on Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2025, at the Roseau Botanic Gardens, cites among the stage artists Asa Bantan, DJ Taffy and Friends and the Swinging Stars, in an event where, the text recalls, cadence-lypso and bouyon, born in Dominica, remain the stars of the programme. Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl, the Creole village of the Independence season, is the family and cultural gathering that precedes WCMF: playing there means playing in front of the whole of Dominica, across all generations.

In 2026, the presence sharpens and moves up a level. Dominica Weekly publishes the official programme of Day 2 of Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026, on Tuesday, October 20, 2026: at 5:40 PM, the Super Mix brings together Taffy and Co, Gwada G, Real Reel, Trixx and Kenny G, before the DJ MJ finale at 7:00 PM. In its headliners to watch for the day, the same outlet presents Taffy and Co with the gloss “the Bouyon Boss”. That title is reported here for what it is: the presentation of a local media outlet for that precise billing, an attributed and subjective title, like all the crowns of the genre. The verifiable fact is the billing: Taffy and Co heading the Day 2 Super Mix, alongside his collaborator Gwada G and Trixx, his “Make Her Bawl” partner.

The third Creole stage is the carnival one. Variety News Group announces the official launch of Mas Domnik 2026, on Friday, November 28, at The Factory, on Valley Road, hosted by the Ministry of Tourism and the Discover Dominica Authority. The entertainment programme of the launch brings together live performances by TK Combo and Riddim Knockaz and sets by DJ MJ and MV on the Keys, DJ Taffy and Friends, DJ Sleem, DJ Snow and DJ Flip. Being kept, in the form DJ Taffy and Friends, to launch the carnival season of his island, Mas Domnik, nicknamed The Real Mas, places the producer in the restricted circle of the DJs Dominica trusts with its great season openings.

Those three gatherings tell the same thing in three forms: the Creole village, the headliners Super Mix and the carnival launch. In all three cases, DJ Taffy does not appear there as one name among others in a long list, but as a named attraction, with his formation, and Friends or and Co. That is the status of a DJ producer who has become a safe value of the official stages of Roseau, just before the consecration of the festival programme.

WCMF 2026: DJ Taffy and Night 3 on Sunday, October 25

The central fact of the DJ Taffy year 2026 is his presence at the World Creole Music Festival. According to the published festival guides, notably writeups24 and Sweet TNT, Night 3, on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau, brings together Machel Montano, Uncle Waffles, Fridayy, Maxi Priest, Diblo Dibala, Les Aiglons, Jean Marc Ferdinand, Shelly and The Signal Band, Gwada G, Unstoppable Shax, Nice and DJ Taffy. Writeups24 dates the 26th edition of the festival from October 23 to 25, 2026, during the Independence season, under the theme Pulsating Rhythms. Sweet TNT presents that closing night as one of the strongest combinations of the festival, between Trinidad soca, South African amapiano, reggae and a Francophone Caribbean presence.

The place of DJ Taffy in that list carries a particular meaning. Night 3 is the closing night, the night of Machel Montano, presented as a Trinidad and Tobago soca superstar, and of Uncle Waffles, South African amapiano star, whose inclusion Sweet TNT underlines as introducing one of the most influential dance movements of the moment to the festival. In such a night, the Dominican part of the programme is carried by Shelly and Signal Band, Gwada G, Unstoppable Shax, Nice and DJ Taffy. The producer therefore meets again, on the biggest stage of his island, his direct collaborators: Shelly and Signal Band of “Make Her Bawl”, Gwada G of “On your back”, Nice of “Situationship”. The studio network becomes, for one night, the official poster of Dominican bouyon.

That place must be compared with the other nights to be measured. Night 1 entrusts the decks of the programme to DJ MJ and MV on the Keys, according to the same guides. Night 3, by contrast, writes the name of a Dominican DJ producer into the main artist list, at the same typographic level as the bands and the singers. For a maker of riddims, that is a form of recognition the awards had already announced: the producer is no longer only behind the tracks, he is on the poster, with his stage name and his audience.

Bouyon Shattaz documents that night as the outcome of the path told in this profile: a studio, Riddim Beast Studios, releasing since 2023; a trending track in spring 2025; a Producer of the Year nomination; the Creole stages and the carnival launch; then the closing of WCMF 2026 in Roseau. To hear the tracks cited here, find the site bouyon playlist and the profiles of Shelly, Signal Band and Gwada G. The place of DJ Taffy in bouyon can be summed up this way: the Riddim Beast is the producer Dominica chose to make part of its sound, and to carry it, in person, to the closing night of its festival.

Frequently asked questions

Who is DJ Taffy?

DJ Taffy is a bouyon DJ and producer from Dominica, known as the Riddim Beast. His label is Riddim Beast Studios, and his songwriting credits published by Shazam carry the name Tafari Maffei. He is a Producer of the Year finalist at the Dominica Music Awards 2025 and he appears on the programme of Night 3 of WCMF 2026 according to the published guides.

Why is DJ Taffy called Riddim Beast?

The name is documented by three sources: the Dominica Music Awards 2025 list him as DJ Taffy (Riddim Beast) among the Producer of the Year finalists, his label is called Riddim Beast Studios, and the description of the official “Kay ve yo” video by Shanika credits him as Produced by DJ Taffy Riddim Beast, on the Funny Riddim.

What is the most documented track by DJ Taffy?

“Make Her Bawl”, credited Signal Band x Shelly x DJ Taffy x Trixx. Island Vybe, relaying Sokah2Soca, lists it among the trending bouyon and soca songs for Dominica for the week ending April 26, 2025, in a chart compiled by The Soca Source on Spotify. The track also circulates in the bouyon mixes of 2025 and 2026.

Which albums has DJ Taffy released on Riddim Beast Studios?

According to Shazam, “Tie up”, featuring Eks and Wotlis, and “Warm up”, featuring Jackie Beatz, were released on September 19, 2024 in the album Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, and “Sick”, featuring Wotlis and Paw, was released on September 17, 2025 in the album Pick your speed, Know your limit. The label catalogue also holds, in 2023, “Peep Peep Pop Pop”, “Situationship” featuring Nice767, “On your back” featuring Gwada G, “Gwada we going” featuring Tidy and “Wake Me Up (Live)”.

Does DJ Taffy play WCMF 2026?

Yes, according to the published guides of the World Creole Music Festival 2026, notably writeups24 and Sweet TNT, DJ Taffy plays Night 3, on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau, on the closing night with Machel Montano, Uncle Waffles, Fridayy, Maxi Priest, Shelly and The Signal Band, Gwada G and Nice.

What is Taffy and Co at Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026?

According to Dominica Weekly, the official programme of Day 2 of Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026, on Tuesday, October 20 at the Roseau Botanic Gardens, places at 5:40 PM a Super Mix bringing together Taffy and Co, Gwada G, Real Reel, Trixx and Kenny G. The same outlet presents Taffy and Co with the gloss the Bouyon Boss for that billing. In 2025, Riches Karayib already cited DJ Taffy and Friends among the stage artists of Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl.

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