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Don Lash: a new bouyon name revealed by the Trilla-G cypher

Published October 20, 2026

Don Lash is an emerging bouyon artist from Dominica, identified by the island press under the name Cadeem McPherson. His name appears publicly in one decisive place: the list of six guest voices on Trilla-G “Up Next Bouyon Cypher, Vol. 1”, released on October 2, 2026 on Still Trill Entertainment, alongside G’z Up, Ras B, Avatar Omish, Pa Pel and Pryhmex. The record took the number one spot on the Apple Music Top Songs chart in Dominica and passed 83,000 YouTube views in one week, according to BuzzDA. Don Lash was then confirmed, with part of that same collective, on the Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026 bill in Roseau. No solo release, no biography and no verified official account were found for him: this profile therefore documents the cypher, the collective and the context, and states openly what is still missing.

Who Don Lash is: Cadeem McPherson, one name and a first documented stage

The full name is the first solid fact in the file. In its October 8, 2026 article on the launch of the cypher, BuzzDA presents the guests of the first volume with their artist name and their full name in brackets, and Don Lash appears there as Cadeem McPherson. To date it is the only opened source that links the stage name to the full name, and this profile cites it for what it is: a press identification, published by a Dominican outlet that covers the bouyon scene from inside, and not a biography. No other page consulted gives an age, a home community, or a school or musical background for Don Lash.

The second solid fact is the status the sources give him. BuzzDA presents the cypher as a platform created for the next generation of Dominican artists, and Don Lash is counted among the emerging talents of the island that Trilla-G, through his Still Trill Entertainment banner, wants to have heard, seen and celebrated. In the interview published four days later by the same outlet, Trilla-G explains his choice in general terms: these are artistes he rates and whose craft he respects, brought together on one record to give each of them a chance to present himself. Don Lash is part of that choice, and that documented choice stands as his first public endorsement.

The third fact concerns how he got there. According to the first BuzzDA article, most of the artists seen in the video had already approached Trilla-G at some point, to work with him or to get a chance to show their talent. The project, which Trilla-G had carried for some time, took shape in late September 2026, when he brought those young artists together around one microphone. The account holds for the whole collective, Don Lash included, and it describes the economy of the bouyon new wave well: no contest, no intermediary label, but a direct approach to the established artist of the moment, then a collective answer rather than an individual one.

Everything else, this profile does not invent. No opened source describes Don Lash voice, his writing style, his influences or his precise part in the record, and no article consulted singles him out individually in the cypher, where BuzzDA singles out G’z Up, for example, as the breakout of the moment. That absence is not a judgement: it is the state of the public record on October 20, 2026, two and a half weeks after the release. The rest of this profile therefore follows the three written traces that carry his name: the cypher itself, its reception, and the confirmation of the collective at Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl.

“Up Next Bouyon Cypher, Vol. 1”: the record that carries his name

The full title, as the official video presents it, is “Up Next Bouyon Cypher, Vol 1.”, credited to Trilla-G featuring G’z Up, Ras B, Avatar Omish, Don Lash, Pa Pel and Pryhmex. The order of names in that official credit is the order this profile reproduces, because in bouyon the credit is a document: it is what writes an emerging name into the Apple Music and Spotify catalogs, whose links appear in the video description. For Don Lash, that collective credit is, to date, his only verified entry in a streaming catalog.

The production comes from a small workshop this site documents elsewhere. The instrumental is by Kwib La Beats, whom the first BuzzDA article names in full as Shane Massicott. The lead keys, the mixing and the mastering are by ThaWizZarD, named as Cecil Joseph Jr. in the same article. The production runs for almost ten minutes, according to the BuzzDA interview, which makes it a long format for current bouyon, built as a sequence of turns where each artist takes the microphone in rotation over one beat, the classic cypher form inherited from hip hop and adapted here to the sound of the island.

One production detail, reported by Trilla-G in the interview, says a great deal about the project: the team first considered rearranging the order of the verses, then decided to keep the exact order in which the artists had recorded the record. For the six guests, that order is therefore the order of the session, not a star order decided afterwards. For a listener discovering Don Lash in this record, it means his place in the sequence was not retouched to push him forward or hold him back: it is the place of the recording day, which Trilla-G presents as a flow that imposed itself.

The video completes the setup. It was shot at The Lot Bar & Grill, filmed and edited by Sois Genial Multimedia, whose operator BuzzDA names as Shane St. Claire, and directed by Trilla-G with his manager and creative collaborator Tridel “Wins” Edwin. The first BuzzDA article also notes, and this profile repeats it plainly, that some lyrics in the cypher contain adult language and mature themes, with a viewer discretion warning. The cypher is therefore at once a collective calling card, a complete streaming product and a located video object, three forms under which the name Don Lash has circulated since October 2, 2026.

The reception: a collective number one, and uneven light

The reception of the record is documented by the BuzzDA interview of October 12, 2026, and it is strong. Ten days after the release, the outlet recorded the number one spot on the Apple Music Top Songs chart in Dominica and 83,000 YouTube views in just one week. Trilla-G says there himself that the response exceeded his expectations, and that he first wanted people to pay attention to the artists and show them some love. For Don Lash, those figures are collective: they measure the whole record, not his verse, and this profile presents them that way, without converting them into a personal audience.

The same coverage also shows how the light is shared after a cypher. BuzzDA names G’z Up there as arguably the breakout artiste of the project so far, carried by his “Ya, Ya Ya” hook, taken up in memes, and already converted into an extended solo version released on Saturday October 10, 2026, credited with about 15,000 YouTube views at the time of the article. Don Lash has, in the opened sources, neither that kind of individual distinction nor a spotted solo version of his verse. The contrast is instructive: a successful cypher launches a collective, but the conversion into a solo career is then played out artist by artist, record by record.

The announced continuation of the project keeps the platform alive, though. In the interview, Trilla-G confirms that a second volume will come, that artistes are already messaging him, that producers want to send beats, and that the public is asking in particular for an edition with female artistes. No source says whether Don Lash will appear in that volume 2, and this profile does not assume it. What is established is the frame: volume 1 was not designed as a one off, but as the first issue of a series meant to introduce new voices of Dominican bouyon on a regular basis.

There remains the question BuzzDA asks at the end of its interview, and which holds for Don Lash as for his five partners: what happens after the visibility? The outlet recalls that recognition has to turn into chances to perform, to release more music and to develop a craft, with support from audiences, promoters and radio stations. On October 20, 2026, the first of those chances is already on the collective calendar, and it is played on stage, in Roseau, during Creole week: that is the subject of the next section.

Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026: the collective confirmed, with no published individual slot

On October 18, 2026, the confirmed artist list of Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026 rose to 29 names, and the additions of the day included, presented as a collective, Gz Up, Don Lash, Avatar Omish, Papel and Prymex, according to Dominica Weekly, which relays the announcements of the Ministry of Tourism and Discover Dominica. Don Lash is written there under his exact stage name, which makes that list the second opened public source carrying his name, after the two BuzzDA articles. The name of Ras B, the sixth cypher guest, does not appear in that collective addition, and this profile notes the difference without explaining it, for lack of a source.

The frame of the event, for its part, is fully documented. Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026 is the fifth edition of the Creole village of the independence celebrations, held from October 19 to 22, 2026 at the Botanic Gardens in Roseau, on the theme Tout Biten Domnik, with days running from midday to 8 PM, admission at EC$10 for adults and more than 90 entrepreneurs present. It is the great cultural stage of the week before the World Creole Music Festival, and appearing on it, even as a collective, places the young cypher artists inside the official programme of their island Creole season.

The next precision is owed to the reader, because lists and schedules do not say the same thing. The official day by day schedule, published on October 19, 2026 and relayed by Dominica Weekly, does not name Don Lash individually on any of the four days. Day 4, Thursday October 22, bills in particular Reo and Faithii, Trilla G and Prymex at 4:26 PM, then Asa Bantan, with Shelly and Signal Band closing. No collective cypher slot is detailed there under the names of its members. This profile therefore writes exactly what the documents support: Don Lash is confirmed in the Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026 artist list as part of the cypher collective, with no day or time of performance published under his name at the time of research.

That nuance takes nothing away from the main fact. In under three weeks, the name Don Lash moved from an approach made to an established artist to a streaming credit on Still Trill Entertainment, then to an official list of a national event. That is the typical path of the Dominican bouyon new wave in 2026, and it can be read entirely in public documents, as long as they are not made to say more than they say.

The context: the new wave of a genre with several generations already

To place what the cypher hands over, the depth of the genre Don Lash is entering has to be recalled. Bouyon is born in Dominica in the late 1980s, and its bouyon soca branch has its own documented starting point on this site: according to the first hand testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis, a Dominican born producer who lived that scene from inside, bouyon soca was started by Dada in 2003 in Dominica, then popularized by Triple Kay. An artist starting out in 2026 therefore inherits a sound that has already known the founding groups, the band wave, and then the streaming generation of Trilla-G and Signal Band.

The cypher is the answer of that streaming generation to an old question: how to hand over the microphone without diluting the sound. The form comes from hip hop, where artists rotate over one beat to show their technique and their personality, and Trilla-G claims it as such in his interviews, insisting on what the new artists bring of their own: personality, swagger, a youthful energy and a way of being authentically themselves, over the essence of bouyon. Don Lash is counted in that collective description, and this profile applies it to him only on that collective basis, without lending him an individual statement that no source reports.

The role of the workshop counts as much as that of the voices. Kwib La Beats on the instrumental and ThaWizZarD on keys, mixing and mastering form the sound backbone of the two documented releases of this Still Trill wave, the cypher and the solo versions drawn from it. On this site, the Kwib La Beats page documents the producer, and the Trilla-G page the path of the artist who holds the platform. For Don Lash, working in that precise workshop, from his first public credit, places him from the start in the production circuit that builds current Dominican bouyon, between Roseau and the platforms.

Finally, the collective itself is part of the context. The six guests, G’z Up, Ras B, Avatar Omish, Don Lash, Pa Pel and Pryhmex, are presented by BuzzDA with their full names, in a single editorial gesture that installs them as a class, in the school sense of the word: a year group of the new wave, photographed together at the moment of its entry. The pages of this site devoted to G’z Up and Ras B document two of those paths, and our bouyon playlist follows the wave in which the cypher sits, week after week.

The limits of the file: one single credit, and this profile says so

Honesty requires closing this profile on what does not yet exist in the sources. For Don Lash, the research carried out for this page found no solo release: no single under his lead name, no solo extract of his cypher verse published as such, while G’z Up and Pa Pel each converted theirs into a solo record on the same banner. If such a record exists under a different spelling or on an unindexed platform, it was not found, and the only recording carried in the structured data of this page is therefore the collective cypher, where he is credited as a feature.

No official account was verified by direct opening either. Where the official credits of his partners solo records publish a social handle, no handle is published for Don Lash in the opened sources of the cypher: not in the official video description, not in the BuzzDA articles, and not in the Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl list. The external links list of this page is therefore empty, by method: this site links an artist to an account only when it has opened and verified it itself, and it prefers a missing link to a supposed one.

Likewise, no streaming platform artist page was opened for Don Lash during this research: his name circulates there inside the credit of the cypher, without a consulted artist page that would give a catalog, his own listening figures or a biography. No individual figure, no date of birth, no place and no quote from the artist therefore appear in this profile, because no opened source provides them. The figures quoted, the Dominica number one and the 83,000 views in one week, are those of the collective record, recorded by BuzzDA on October 8 and 12, 2026.

If Don Lash releases a single, opens an official account or gives an interview, this profile will be completed and dated like every page on this site. In the meantime, his listening starts and, for now, concentrates on a single object: the “Up Next Bouyon Cypher, Vol. 1”, almost ten minutes where six voices of the Dominican new wave share a Kwib La Beats rhythm and the keys of ThaWizZarD, under the Trilla-G banner. It is a small amount of material, but it is real, verified and located material, and that is exactly how this site documents beginnings.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Don Lash?

Don Lash is an emerging bouyon artist from Dominica. BuzzDA, in its October 8, 2026 article on the Up Next Cypher, gives his full name as Cadeem McPherson. He is one of the six guest artists of volume 1 of the Trilla-G cypher, with G’z Up, Ras B, Avatar Omish, Pa Pel and Pryhmex. No more detailed public biography was found.

On which record can Don Lash be heard?

On one verified record to date: the “Up Next Bouyon Cypher, Vol. 1” by Trilla-G, released on October 2, 2026 on Still Trill Entertainment, where he is credited as a feature with five other artists. The record, produced by Kwib La Beats with ThaWizZarD on keys, mixing and mastering, runs for almost ten minutes. No solo Don Lash release was found during this research.

Is Don Lash linked to Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026?

Yes, as part of a collective. The confirmed artist list of Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026, updated on October 18, 2026, adds “Gz Up, Don Lash, Avatar Omish, Papel, Prymex” as a collective, for the fifth edition held from October 19 to 22, 2026 at the Botanic Gardens in Roseau. The official day by day schedule, however, does not name Don Lash individually and gives him no published day or time.

What results did the cypher achieve?

According to the interview published by BuzzDA on October 12, 2026, the “Up Next Bouyon Cypher, Vol. 1” took the number one spot on the Apple Music Top Songs chart in Dominica and passed 83,000 views on YouTube in one week. Those are results of the collective record, not figures of Don Lash alone, for whom no individual counter is published in the sources consulted.

Has Don Lash released a solo version of his verse?

None was found. Two cypher partners converted their verse into a solo record on Still Trill Entertainment: G’z Up with “Fix Up (Ya Ya Ya)”, in an extended solo version released on October 10, 2026 according to BuzzDA, and Pa Pel with “IDGAF”. For Don Lash, no equivalent release appears in the opened sources on October 20, 2026.

Where can I follow Don Lash and hear the cypher new wave?

No official Don Lash account was verified by direct opening during this research, so this profile links no social profile. The verified entry point remains the cypher itself, on the platforms linked by the official video. Our bouyon playlist follows this Dominican new wave, and the Trilla-G, G’z Up and Ras B pages document the platform and two of its voices.

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