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Keks Mafia: Dominican hip hop run through bouyon

Published October 20, 2026

Keks Mafia is a hip hop artist from Dominica who made bouyon his raw material. Where classic bouyon is a music of bands and carnival, he works it as a rapper: verses laid over Caribbean rhythms, hooks built for DJ mixes, and collaborations running from Dominican producers to the French Antilles. His documented catalogue runs from “Hello Kitty” in 2018 to “Hot Sauce” in 2024, through “POMPÉ”, recorded with Dcamp on the Lewismelo album “Premières Notes”. This profile follows those verified traces: the records, the mixes that carried them, the festival where he reinterpreted his repertoire as jazz, and the writing credits that sketch, in outline, the man behind the stage name.

Who Keks Mafia is: a rapper from Dominica, between hip hop and bouyon

The music databases describe Keks Mafia in one steady formula: a contemporary hip hop musician from Dominica, Dominica-born, whose sound fuses hip hop beats with Caribbean melodies. The platform Viberate, which tracks his catalogue, presents him as a rising talent of the modern Dominican hip hop scene, with a creative sound that draws audiences on the island and beyond. That double belonging is the heart of the act: Keks Mafia does not rap next to bouyon, he raps inside it, and his records circulate in bouyon mixes as much as on rap platforms.

Again according to the Viberate notice, his lyrics draw on his Dominican childhood and the hardships of his neighbourhood: he addresses social questions such as injustice and poverty, in verses filled with lived experience, and the platform describes him as an emerging voice of Dominican youth. That dimension sets his catalogue apart from the pure party records that dominate bouyon playlists: alongside the tracks made for dancing, his repertoire keeps a chronicler fibre, inherited from hip hop as much as from Dominican life.

One credit detail is worth recording, because no official biography gives it. The published writing credits of his records name one recurring songwriter: Kevin Lennard. On “POMPÉ”, the published writers and composers are Lewis Wayne Campbell, Dylan Davis Campbell and Kevin Lennard, that is, in the order of the guests on the record, Lewismelo, Dcamp and the third name, the one matching the KEKS MAFIA slot. On “Hot Sauce”, where Keks Mafia is a billed performer alongside Trns, the published songwriters again name Kevin Lennard. This profile reports those credits exactly as published: two records, twice the same songwriter name in the Keks Mafia position. The convergence is a fact of credits; the artist full civil identity, however, is published by no verified biography, and this page does not complete it by deduction.

His place on this site then reads simply. Keks Mafia is a bouyon artist not because he sings in a bouyon band, but because his whole catalogue lives inside the genre ecosystem: Dominican DJ mixes, remixes signed by bouyon producers, collaborations with the names of the scene, and a track on the album of one of the most active acts in the French Antilles. Following him means following the rap branch of bouyon, the one that grew up with platforms and shared files rather than with carnival stages.

The first documented records: “Hello Kitty”, “Granny”, and the Trilla-G generation

The published chronology of his catalogue starts at the end of the 2010s. Viberate dates “Hello Kitty” to 2018 and “Granny” to 2019, and presents both records as steps in his rise. “Granny” is described there as a track with a pleasant melody, whose lyrics tell of a grandmother who is there for her family no matter what: a family subject, far from street rap clichés, showing from the start the everyday chronicler touch the platform credits him with. “Hello Kitty”, listed among his best known records, plays the other card, the catchy hook built to stay in the head.

That period is also the period of a generation. In an interview given to Billboard and carried by the press, Trilla-G tells his Dominican beginnings: still in school, he became familiar with two other artists who were rising at the time, Reo and Keks Mafia; they performed together and even made a group for a short time. The testimony is valuable because it comes from a peer, not from a notice: it places Keks Mafia, from his first years, in the trio of names the new Dominican generation watched rising, alongside Reo, since become one of the known voices of bouyon, and Trilla-G himself.

The same set of titles returns in every source tracking his catalogue. Viberate holds as his most popular songs “Hello Kitty”, “WO TAT TAT”, “Drip Drip” and “Vicks”, with “Granny” and “Shake It” alongside, the latter described as an uptempo track urging listeners to let loose and enjoy themselves. In 2022, the platform flags “Bouyon Warm Up” as his most recent release, stressing that it shows his skill at fusing hip hop beats with Caribbean melodies. No full album is documented for that period: the Keks Mafia catalogue is a catalogue of singles, released one by one, as the digital bouyon economy works.

That absence of an album is not a gap, it is a format. In the Dominica of the 2020s, a record lives through mixes, DJ playlists and shares, more than through dated official releases. The rest of this profile shows it: the verifiable Keks Mafia discography reads in large part in other people track listings, DJs, podcasters and artists who invite him. That is a different way for an artist to exist, and it asks for a different reading of the evidence, record by record and credit by credit.

The catalogue in circulation: “Vicks”, “Wo Tat Tat”, “One Pot”, “Neighbours”

The best photograph of the Keks Mafia catalogue in full bouyon season is a DJ track listing. The “D Riddim Box” mix by Original DJ-Sly, subtitled “Best of 2020 Bouyon x Reketeng Mix”, presents itself as a collection of the latest bouyon music of 2020, most of it coming from Dominica and neighbouring islands. Keks Mafia appears in it four times: with “Vicks”, with “Wo Tat Tat” credited to Keks Mafia, Edday and Quan and subtitled “All Talk And No Action”, with “One Pot” featuring Quan, and with “Neighbours”. Four records by one artist in a single season mix, surrounded by Trilla-G, Triple Kay Band, Reo, Carlyn XP and Asa Bantan: the track listing places him at the centre of the 2020 Dominican scene, not at its margin.

The mix subtitle calls for a spelling note, because this site holds a rule on it. The mix writes “Reketeng”, the spelling that circulates in mixes and on the internet. The spelling this site keeps for the style is Wrecketeng, the one given by DJ Cut himself, the founding pioneer of the current built on sampled melodies and rap vocals. Keks Mafia, with his rapped verses over bouyon rhythms, works precisely in that sonic neighbourhood, where bouyon meets hip hop; the style page details that branch and its Dominican origins.

The circulation of his catalogue also reads in public DJ playlists. A Serato playlist published by Mr Ratty, dated 20 January 2022, lines up “KEKS MAFIA: VIX”, in an edit version, “KEKS MAFIA: TU VEUX ÇA”, tagged bouyon 2020, and “Keks Mafia x Dj Flip Tha Boss: You Draw”, in a bouyon remix. Three traces, three pieces of information: his records were still turning in sets in 2022, one of them carries a French title, a sign of listening that spills over toward the French Antilles, and a DJ producer, DJ Flip Tha Boss, signed a bouyon remix of one of his tracks. The catalogue lived in clubs and parties, not only in streaming.

A credit disagreement must be flagged honestly, because it says something about the documentation level of this scene. For “WO TAT TAT”, the Viberate notice names FerQuan as the notable collaborator, while the Original DJ-Sly mix track listing credits the record to Keks Mafia, Edday and Quan. The two sources do not necessarily contradict each other on substance, Quan possibly pointing to the same collaborator under a different name form, but no open source allows a clean decision. This profile therefore cites both forms without choosing one: on a scene documented through track listings, the credits themselves are part of the facts to pass on, variants included.

The 2021 Bouyon Jazz Festival: his repertoire reinterpreted as jazz

The most unexpected moment in the documented path of Keks Mafia is neither a mix nor a record, it is a festival. On Sunday 30 May 2021, the first ever Bouyon Jazz Festival was held, the second event of the inaugural Nature Island Jazz XPrience, in Dominica. The Dominican magazine eMAGE DM published a detailed review: an all white affair, backed by headline sponsor Trading International Group, headlined by Carlyn XP, with a bill that included Keks Mafia, Jade Leatham of Tropikal, the Cameron Pierre Band, Barbara Bully Thomas, Marie Pascale, Cornell Phillip, Gomez and Friends, and Rob Zii and Phyness, from Saint Lucia.

The review sentence about Keks Mafia is worth quoting for what it documents. The reviewer writes that Keks Mafia certainly proved that bouyon can be as versatile as one wants it to be, with his jazz interpretation of his popular tunes. In other words, the rapper did not come to the jazz festival as an exotic guest: he reworked his own repertoire there, the same records the DJs played in bouyon form, inside the arrangement of a jazz context, before an audience of a festival that mixed the island two musical worlds.

That passage matters in the history of the genre as much as in his own. Bouyon has long been described, including in Dominica, as a party and carnival music, hard to take out of that frame. The 2021 Bouyon Jazz Festival was built on the opposite bet: that bouyon material can stand reinterpretation, arrangement and a seated stage. That a hip hop artist like Keks Mafia, and not a historic band, served as the example quoted by the critic shows where the energy of the genre stood at that moment: with the singles and platforms generation, able to move from a DJ mix to a jazz festival without changing repertoire.

The rest of the bill finally sets Keks Mafia back into his genealogy. Sharing the bill with Cornell Phillip, founding keyboardist of WCK, the band that created bouyon in 1988, and with Carlyn XP, the dominant figure of the Dominican scene in those years, drew a passing of the baton in a single evening: the founders of the sound, its star of the moment, and the rapper plugging it into hip hop. No source says whether Keks Mafia measured the symbolic weight of the evening; the review alone is enough to document it.

The collaborations: DJ Taffy, Trixzmigos, Trns, and “POMPÉ” with Dcamp

The second half of the documented Keks Mafia catalogue is a story of collaborations. In 2023, a YouTube video presents “KEKS MAFIA X HOT HEAD X WALLEY THE RAPPER: SUPERSTARS BOUYON REMIX 2023”, produced by DJ Taffy, with a description crediting the writing to the three artists. The format is that of modern bouyon: a remix, three voices, a DJ producer in command, and a record built for the mixes. DJ Taffy, a Dominican producer already met in the scene track listings, holds there the role producers hold across the whole genre: that of architect of the record.

The platforms also document his guest appearances on other people records. The most listened Trixzmigos songs, as published by Shazam, include “Open Wide”, featuring Keks Mafia and Fetty Mark, and “Man She Want”, featuring Keks Mafia. A soca podcast track listing shows him again in a trio on “Krireky”, alongside Totally Spice and Simsima. Those appearances sketch an artist integrated into the network of Dominican voices of his generation: he is invited for a verse, he invites for a hook, and the shared catalogue grows by accumulation of joint records.

On 12 April 2024, Shazam documents a release in full form: “Hot Sauce”, by Trns and Keks Mafia, released by the label VGM PRODUCT. The published credits name Trapking, Terens Felicianne, Kevin Lennard and Jehan Dagnet as songwriters, and Dj-Micky on mixing. The record is in English, its technical sheet is complete, label, date and credits included: it is, in the Keks Mafia file, the best documented kind of release, and it confirms that his activity runs into the mid 2020s, beyond the period covered by the platform notices.

The most significant collaboration for readers of this site remains “POMPÉ”. The record appears on “Premières Notes”, the Lewismelo album released in 2024 by Aztec Musique, with the exact credit “POMPÉ (feat. Dcamp and KEKS MAFIA)”. Dcamp, one half of the duo Lewismelo forms with his brother, and Keks Mafia share the same record there, with writing credits naming Lewis Wayne Campbell, Dylan Davis Campbell and Kevin Lennard. The bridge is complete: a rapper from Dominica, guesting on the album of a French Antilles artist, alongside one of the most active bouyon names from Guadeloupe. That is the real geography of bouyon today, a music born in Dominica circulating between Roseau, Guadeloupe and Martinique through collaborations, record after record.

Why Keks Mafia matters, and what this profile does not know

Keks Mafia matters because he holds one precise post in the bouyon ecosystem: the rapper post. The genre was born with bands, it grew with singers and producers, and its meeting with hip hop produced whole branches, from bouyon muffin to Wrecketeng. His generation, the generation of Trilla-G and Reo, added a practice: short, rapped records, built for platforms and mixes, keeping the tempo and energy of bouyon while importing the posture and writing of rap. The four records lined up in the Original DJ-Sly mix and the 2021 jazz reinterpretation show an artist that double culture carried further than most of his contemporaries.

This profile also states its limits, because they are part of the file. No official biography of Keks Mafia was found during the October 2026 research: no birth date, no published home town, no long interview beyond the Trilla-G testimony that mentions him. The platform notices describing him are database texts, useful for dates and titles, but written with no identifiable author signature. No official account of the artist was opened and verified one by one for this page: the sameAs field of his schema therefore stays empty, rather than risking a link to a namesake.

Listening, on the other hand, is simple to organise. Start with the records the sources hold up: “Hello Kitty” and “Granny” for the beginnings, “Vicks” and “Wo Tat Tat” for the 2020 season, “Hot Sauce” for the documented 2024 release, and “POMPÉ” for the collaboration with Dcamp. Our bouyon soca page and our bouyon playlist then set that catalogue back into the full landscape of the genre, from Roseau to the French Antilles. If an official biography or album appears, this profile will be completed and dated, like every page on this site.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Keks Mafia?

Keks Mafia is a hip hop artist from Dominica, Dominica-born according to the music databases tracking his catalogue. His sound fuses hip hop beats and Caribbean melodies, and his records circulate in Dominican bouyon mixes: “Vicks”, “Wo Tat Tat”, “One Pot” and “Neighbours” all appeared in the Original DJ-Sly “D Riddim Box” mix in 2020.

What name appears in the Keks Mafia writing credits?

The published credits of his records name Kevin Lennard as a songwriter: on “POMPÉ”, alongside Lewis Wayne Campbell and Dylan Davis Campbell, that is Lewismelo and Dcamp, and on “Hot Sauce” in 2024. No official biography publishes the link between that name and the Keks Mafia stage name; this profile reports the credit convergence, two records running, without turning it into a civil identity.

What are the best known Keks Mafia songs?

The platforms hold “Hello Kitty” (2018), “Granny” (2019), “Vicks”, “WO TAT TAT”, “Drip Drip” and “Shake It” among his most popular songs, and “Bouyon Warm Up” (2022) as a notable release. His collaborations add to the list: “Hot Sauce” with Trns in 2024 and “POMPÉ” with Dcamp on the Lewismelo album.

Was Keks Mafia in a group with Trilla-G and Reo?

According to the Trilla-G testimony in a Billboard interview, yes, briefly: still in school, Trilla-G became familiar with Reo and Keks Mafia, two rising Dominican artists; they performed together and made a group for a short time, before each followed his own road.

What did Keks Mafia do at the 2021 Bouyon Jazz Festival?

He gave a jazz interpretation of his popular tunes. The review by the Dominican magazine eMAGE DM of the first Bouyon Jazz Festival, held on 30 May 2021 as part of the Nature Island Jazz XPrience and headlined by Carlyn XP, writes that Keks Mafia proved there that bouyon can be as versatile as one wants it to be.

Where can I hear Keks Mafia and the bouyon of his generation?

Look for “POMPÉ” on the Lewismelo album “Premières Notes” for his collaboration with Dcamp, “Hot Sauce” with Trns for his 2024 release, then hear our bouyon playlist, which follows the Dominican scene and the French Antilles, and read our bouyon soca page for the most travelled branch of the genre.

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