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Gaza Girls Crew: one single, one Paris stage, one name explained by a thesis

Published October 20, 2026

Gaza Girls Crew is a group from the Guadeloupe bouyon scene whose verified public record comes down to three pieces, and this profile publishes all three without adding a fourth. The first is a record: the single “Sa Zot Vlé”, released on May 1, 2011 on Bouyon Concept. The second is a stage: in December 2012, according to the Rebel Up collective, the group is among the artists of the first bouyon show in Paris, filmed by a 50 minute documentary in French and Creole. The third is a book: a 2013 university thesis on dancehall in the French Antilles names the Gaza Girls Crew of Guadeloupe to explain the origin of their name. The rest, members, town, path, is not documented in the sources consulted, and this profile says so instead of inventing it.

Who the Gaza Girls Crew are: a female group of bouyon gwada

The Gaza Girls Crew belong to the world of bouyon gwada, the Guadeloupe form of the bouyon born in Dominica. Rebel Up, the Brussels collective that documented this scene at the very moment it was exploding, describes the current of the period, bouyon hardcore: raw lyrics, in English, French or Creole, over heavy percussive riddims with simplified melodies, where one successful riddim receives several versions as in dancehall. It is in that Guadeloupe landscape of the early 2010s that the name Gaza Girls Crew appears, in two neighbouring forms: Gaza Girls in the Rebel Up account, Gaza Girls Crew on the cover of the single.

The group is female, and that simple fact matters in the history of the genre. The bouyon of the 2010s is a largely male scene in its published credits, and women formations are rare in it. Our women of bouyon page gathers what this site documents about that presence. The Gaza Girls Crew hold a dated, sourced place in it: a single in 2011, a historic Paris stage in 2012. No source consulted gives the names of the group members, their number, or their home town in Guadeloupe, and this profile lends the group neither a biography nor a line up.

Three names that search engines mix together must also be kept clearly apart. Gaza Girls Crew is not Gaza Crew, a neighbouring name covered on its own page of this site from an even thinner file, and no source consulted proves a link between the two. Gaza Girls Crew is not Yellow Gaza either, another name from the same Guadeloupe scene, cited by reference articles among the popular musicians of bouyon gwada: each of these names has its own file, and this profile borrows neither the records nor the path of the others.

Sa Zot Vle: the 2011 single on Bouyon Concept, read credit by credit

The record is the strongest piece in the file, because it can be read credit by credit on its platform page. “Sa Zot Vlé”, a Creole title that can be rendered as that is what you want, was released on May 1, 2011 on Bouyon Concept, as a single, under the name Gaza Girls Crew. Its Shazam page shows a tempo of 160 BPM, right at the top of the bouyon zone, that of records made to lift a room. The label, Bouyon Concept, attaches the record to the production circuit of early 2010s bouyon gwada, the same world of close banners as the Vadore Concept circle documented elsewhere on this site.

The published credits are short and this profile gives them in full. The performer is Gaza Girls Crew. The songwriter is Gaza Girls Crew. The credited composer is Jessica Petrokassi. That name is, to date, the only personal name attached to the group by a published source consulted, and it is attached in one precise role, composition, not as a declared member of the group: this profile therefore cites it in that exact role, without making her a singer or a leader. No other record by the group was found on the platforms consulted during this research: the verified discography of the group comes down, in the present state of the file, to this single alone.

One single is not a small fact in this scene. In the early 2010s, bouyon gwada travelled first through parties, mixtapes and videos, and many formations active on stage left only one record, or none, in the platform catalogues. “Sa Zot Vlé” gives the Gaza Girls Crew what so many names of the period do not have: a date, a label, a tempo and a composition credit, checkable by any reader. To hear the sound of that generation in its context, our bouyon playlist gathers the records followed by this site.

December 2012: the first bouyon stage in Paris

The second piece in the file is historical. In its long article on bouyon hardcore, which accompanies its “Bouyon Hardcore 2k13” mixtape, Rebel Up writes that internationally, it took until December 2012 before the first Dominican and Guadeloupean MCs and DJs came to Paris, home to a large part of the Antillean diaspora in France, and that there is a 50 minute documentary, in French and Creole, of the first and impressive performance in Paris of Suppa, Gaza Girls, Dj Joe and others. The group is therefore named, in the only source that documents that moment in detail, among the artists of the first Paris stage for bouyon.

That moment deserves its setting. Bouyon was born in Dominica, and our history of bouyon page traces its path from Roseau, while our bouyon in Paris page follows its settlement in the capital. Its arrival in France did not first pass through institutions or general media: it passed through the artists who stepped onto a Paris stage in December 2012, in front of the diaspora audience, with the raw sound of bouyon gwada. That the Gaza Girls Crew are part of that first bill, alongside Suppa, a central figure of bouyon gwada, and DJ Joe, places the group in the history of the export of the genre, not only in a catalogue of singles.

Rebel Up adds, with humour, that the questions of the documentary interviewer are not necessarily more interesting than the answers, which it does not fully understand because they are in Creole. The detail matters to a researcher: the documentary is a primary source, spoken in the language of the scene, and it is today the richest trace that exists of the group in action. No source consulted gives the setlist of that night, or the line up of the group that evening, and this profile reconstructs neither one nor the other.

The name Gaza: what a university thesis explains, and what it does not say

There remains the question every reader asks in front of this name, and this is where this profile answers what an ordinary profile does not even ask. A university thesis devoted to dancehall in the French Antilles, defended in 2013 and consultable under the reference 2013AGUY0728, treats the word Gaza as the most striking example of the influence of francophone dancehall of the period. According to that analysis, many francophone dancehall artists and supporters took up the term Gaza popularised by the Jamaican artist Vybz Kartel, who uses it to name his clan, and the thesis names, as followers in Guadeloupe, the Gaza girls crew, before citing in Martinique the portmanteau Volgaza, a contraction of Volga, a working class district of Fort-de-France, and Gaza.

That analysis must be read for what it is, and this profile presents it with its exact limits. It establishes a lineage of vocabulary, documented by university work: the name of the Guadeloupe group belongs to the wave of adoption of the word Gaza by the dancehall youth of the French islands, at the very moment the group releases its single and steps onto the Paris stage. It establishes, on the other hand, no organisational, label or personal link between the Gaza Girls Crew and the Jamaican circle of Vybz Kartel, and no other source consulted establishes one either. This profile therefore does not tell the Jamaican story of Gaza as if it were the story of the group: the two stories touch through one word, and through that word alone.

Understood that way, the lineage sheds light on the group instead of crushing it. To choose Gaza as a crew name, in Guadeloupe, in 2011, was to speak the international dancehall language of its generation, that of crews, clans and displayed allegiances, while singing over bouyon riddims, the music born in Dominica and reworked in Guadeloupe. The name is Jamaican in inspiration, the sound is Dominican by birth and Guadeloupean in practice: that triple anchoring is exactly that of bouyon gwada, and the Gaza Girls Crew are one of its clearest examples, because a thesis wrote it down in black and white.

What this profile does not know, and why this page exists anyway

The blanks in the file must be named without detour. No source consulted gives the names of the members of the Gaza Girls Crew, their number, their home town, or the date the group formed or split. No source consulted documents a second record, an album, a tour or an interview by the group. No official social or platform account was verified by direct opening as theirs, so the schema of this page links to no external account. The only personal name published in the credits is that of the composer of “Sa Zot Vlé”, Jessica Petrokassi, cited in that precise role.

This page exists because the three pieces in the file, on the other hand, are real, dated and verifiable. A 2011 single with a label, a tempo and credits. A named place on the first bouyon stage in Paris, in December 2012. A citation in a 2013 university thesis, which makes the group a published example of the travel of dancehall to the French Antilles. Few formations of early 2010s bouyon gwada can line up three traces of that quality, and none should have to invent a fourth to deserve a page.

If the members of the group, Bouyon Concept or the witnesses of the 2012 documentary publish a biography, names or official accounts, this profile will be completed, corrected and dated like every page on this site. In the meantime, listening starts with “Sa Zot Vlé”, reading starts with the Rebel Up account of the Paris night of December 2012, and context starts with our bouyon gwada and bouyon in Paris pages.

Frequently asked questions

Who are the Gaza Girls Crew?

The Gaza Girls Crew are a female group from the bouyon gwada scene of Guadeloupe, in the early 2010s. Their verified public record comes down to three pieces: the single “Sa Zot Vlé”, released on May 1, 2011 on Bouyon Concept, their presence named by Rebel Up at the first bouyon show in Paris in December 2012, and a citation in a 2013 university thesis on dancehall in the French Antilles.

What is the known record of the Gaza Girls Crew?

“Sa Zot Vlé”, a single released on May 1, 2011 on Bouyon Concept, at 160 BPM according to its Shazam page. The published credits name Gaza Girls Crew as performer and songwriter, and Jessica Petrokassi as composer. No other record by the group was found on the platforms consulted in October 2026.

Where does the Gaza name of the Gaza Girls Crew come from?

According to a 2013 university thesis on dancehall in the French Antilles, the word Gaza, popularised by the Jamaican artist Vybz Kartel to name his clan, was taken up by many francophone dancehall artists and supporters, and the thesis names the Gaza girls crew in Guadeloupe as an example, with the Martinique portmanteau Volgaza. It is a lineage of vocabulary documented by that university work, not a membership of the Jamaican crew, which no source consulted establishes.

Did the Gaza Girls Crew play in Paris?

Yes, according to Rebel Up. The collective writes that in December 2012, the first Dominican and Guadeloupean bouyon MCs and DJs performed in Paris, and that a 50 minute documentary in French and Creole films that first performance by Suppa, Gaza Girls, Dj Joe and others. It is the most important stage trace of the group.

Are the Gaza Girls Crew and Gaza Crew the same group?

No, nothing in the sources consulted allows them to be merged or even proves a link between them. Gaza Girls Crew has a documented single and stage trace. Gaza Crew, covered on its own page of this site, survives only in a keyword list of a video from the Suppa circle. This profile keeps the two names strictly separate, as the sources present them.

Where can I hear the Gaza Girls Crew and the bouyon gwada of their period?

Start with “Sa Zot Vlé”, the 2011 single, then read our bouyon gwada and bouyon in Paris pages, and hear our bouyon playlist, which gathers the records of that generation followed by Bouyon Shattaz.

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