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Novy: eight years of bilingual rap, from 808 to the Gringo Jay duet

Published October 20, 2026

Novy is a rapper whose catalog, documented from 2018 to 2026, holds three albums, two EPs and a long run of singles in French and English, without any public biography saying who he is or where he comes from. The platforms file him under hip-hop and rap, and his name reaches this site through two precise doors: La marelle, a 2020 single recorded with Ricky Bishop, a voice of Dominican bouyon, and La petite m'a dit, released on September 26, 2026 as a duet with Gringo Jay, which became Gringo Jay's most streamed song. Between those two markers, Novy built an independent rapper's catalog, released on his own imprints or small labels, with one central collaborator, Joh'iz, present since 2020. This profile follows that catalog piece by piece, separates this Novy from his many namesakes, and states clearly what the sources do not allow anyone to know.

One name, many namesakes: identifying the right Novy

Novy is a crowded stage name. Search engines mix him up with Tom Novy, a German house DJ active since the 1990s, with Adam Novy, a trance producer, with Scor Novy, an R&B singer based in Geneva, with Novi, with Monsieur Nov, a figure of French R&B, and with a swarm of recent unrelated projects. None of those artists is the subject of this profile. The Novy documented here is the one the Shazam artist page ties to a precise catalog, filed under hip-hop and rap, with about 5,400 identifications on the platform at research time, and whose most recent release is the single La petite m'a dit, a duet with Gringo Jay.

The identification method matters more than the name. This catalog is recognized by its milestones, checked page by page: a first album, 808, in 2018; a joint EP with Joh'iz, Heart Season, Vol. 1, in 2020; an album called NUKETOWN (EXTENSION) in 2023; a single called La Hacienda in 2024; an album called Slizzy Novy in 2025; and a burst of singles in 2026. The La petite m'a dit single page itself points, in its more-albums block, to Slizzy Novy, NUKETOWN (EXTENSION) and 808: the platform itself certifies the continuity of the catalog, from the first album to the 2026 duet.

One borderline case is worth spelling out: Scor Novy, the Geneva R&B artist, is not a namesake to simply discard, because the catalog contains a joint single, Fendi, billed to Novy & Scor Novy in 2025. The two names are therefore two distinct artists who recorded together, and any search that merges their discographies invents a third artist who does not exist. This profile keeps only the releases attached to the artist page opened during the research, and reports collaborations for what they are.

About the person, the sources are silent, and this profile will be too. No consulted listing gives a biography, a city, a country of origin, a birth date or a verified social account. The catalog speaks two languages, French and English, tagged track by track by the platforms, and its titles quote La quête and COULEUR ANTHRACITE as readily as 6Am in La or Sunset Boulevard. That geography of titles does not make an origin: it describes a streaming-era rapper who writes in the language of each song and borrows his images from both sides of the Atlantic.

2018: 808, a first album that is already bilingual

The catalog opens on July 6, 2018 with 808, a thirteen-track album released on the iM Novy imprint and filed by Shazam under hip-hop and rap. The tracklist already gives the grammar of the project: Intro, Génération Pablito; Bonnie & Clyde; Enchanteresse; Groove, recorded with Iyo; Backwoods!; Shawties in Winter; Flexin, Interlude; Sunset Boulevard, with Kaix and Awa Lemen; Uber Life!, with Djoka; La quête; Fevaa!; Crew; and a collective finale, 777 Shades of Music Outro, lining up AD Kush, Weston, Ouss, Djoka, Blunt, Matoss and totorhina. A debut album ending in a seven-guest posse cut describes an artist who is already surrounded, and who thinks of his record as a group photograph.

The same year 2018 brings La quête as a single, drawn from the album, and an EP, Purpee Tape, Vol. 1, presented as Mah Presents Novy, the presented-by format common at the start of independent rap careers. None of these releases comes with any article, interview or biographical listing in the sources consulted: Novy's entry into the public record is purely discographic.

The bilingualism is there from the start. French and English titles share the album with no side-A, side-B logic, and the platforms confirm the split across the whole career: Vini tagged in French in 2020, Sexynextdoor tagged in English in 2025, La petite m'a dit tagged in French in 2026. For a site devoted to French-language and Creole bouyon, this is a familiar profile: an artist who works in the language of the song, not in a single identity language.

2020: the EP with Joh'iz, and the Ricky Bishop feature

On February 29, 2020 comes Heart Season, Vol. 1, a five-track EP billed to Joh'iz & Novy, which installs the central collaborator of the catalog. The tracklist shares the roles: Nice, by Novy & Joh'iz; Mayday, by Novy alone; Quartier, by Novy & Joh'iz; Accro, by Joh'iz alone; and Vini, by Joh'iz & Novy. The detailed page for Vini, released by HRG, in French at 96 BPM, gives the credits: performed by Joh'iz and Novy, composed by Ra Moon, lyrics by Yvon Abale and Joakim Canguio, arrangement by Yvon Abale. Two writer names therefore appear in the project's workshop as early as 2020, and one of them, Yvon Abale, will reappear six years later on the biggest title of the catalog, as the 2026 section will show.

The duo with Joh'iz continues in 2021 with the single Mailler, still billed to Joh'iz & Novy, while Novy releases Backwoods, Pt. II solo, a declared sequel to the Backwoods! of the 808 album. But the most important piece of this period, for readers of this site, is elsewhere: on October 19, 2020, the single La marelle is released on the iMD-ds imprint, with Novy as lead artist and Ricky Bishop as the featured voice. To this file's knowledge, it is the first documented connection between Novy and Dominican bouyon: Ricky Bishop is one of the rising voices of the Dominica scene, and his own path is told on our Ricky Bishop page.

That 2020 feature changes how the catalog reads. Novy does not arrive near bouyon by accident in 2026: he recorded with a bouyon artist as early as 2020, then with Gringo Jay from 2024, before the duet that made him visible in 2026. The trajectory is that of a French-language rapper who durably frequents the same Caribbean network, without ever being tagged bouyon by the platforms, which file him under hip-hop and rap throughout.

2022-2023: the EAPN series and the NUKETOWN (EXTENSION) album

The year 2022 is a year of singles in series: FULL PRADA, then a triptych initialled EAPN, EAPN: Real Shit, EAPN, Pt. 2: Drill NC and EAPN, Pt. 3: Johnny Dang, named after the Texas jeweller who became a visual reference of American rap. No consulted source explains the initials EAPN, and this profile does not decode them: it records a numbered series, released within one year, showing an artist who has switched to series mode, the dominant format of platform rap.

On June 30, 2023 comes the second album, NUKETOWN (EXTENSION), fourteen tracks: INTRO, EN LOWKEY!, RDLV, RACK$ ON, FULL PRADA, carried over from the 2022 single, NUKE, JENNER$, PANAMA PAPER$, MAD!, COULEUR ANTHRACITE, FEAT DIPSET, GRTZKY, DERNIER DE$IGNER and READY TO BLOW. The album title borrows its name from a famous Call of Duty video game map, and the spelling of the titles, dollar signs in place of the letter s, designer names and financial scandals, builds a world of egocentric, reference-heavy rap, far from the love songs of the Heart Season EP.

Around the album, 2023 adds the singles SDM, RACK$ ON, FEAT DIPSET and GRTZKY, several of them folded into the album, and an EP whose title is a declaration, I <3 My Plug. The catalog then holds two albums, two EPs and some fifteen singles, still with no press coverage found: Novy is a pure catalog artist, whose entire public history fits inside his distribution metadata.

2024: La Hacienda, the trio with Joh'iz and Gringo Jay

On May 31, 2024, Novy releases the single La Hacienda on the VNTIWVTIERE imprint, and this single format is in reality a small trio project: its three tracks, La Hacienda, Pour Cible and No Love, eight minutes in total according to the Apple Music listing, all credit Joh'iz and Gringo Jay as features. It is the first documented meeting between Novy and Gringo Jay, the Dominican-born rapper whose catalog runs from Jump in 2020 to his 2026 singles, and whose full profile is on this site.

The formula is worth noting: where the ordinary feature invites one voice onto one track, La Hacienda lines the same trio up across three tracks in a row, like a group EP that does not say its name. Joh'iz, the partner of the 2020 Heart Season EP, is part of it, which makes this single a junction point between Novy's two networks: his original workshop, around Joh'iz and the writers Yvon Abale and Joakim Canguio, and the French-speaking Caribbean network of Gringo Jay.

The rest of 2024 is solo: Sexy Redd, featuring Mv, and Cash Cash, two singles that will be carried into the Slizzy Novy album the following year. The catalog therefore advances by deliberate recycling: the singles serve as a test bench, then the album gathers them, an independent's method that maximizes every track.

2025: Slizzy Novy and the peak of Sexynextdoor

On April 25, 2025 comes the third album, Slizzy Novy, eight tracks released under the Novy name itself as imprint: Cash Cash, Sexy Redd, featuring Mv, Lil Keed, Virgin, with Lejoconde & HKL, 2night, DND, Nails, again with Lejoconde & HKL, and Sexynextdoor. That last title dominates the catalog: according to Novy's Shazam artist page, Sexynextdoor is his most streamed song, ahead even of the 2026 duet with Gringo Jay. Its page specifies that it is sung in English, released by the Novy imprint, at 88 BPM, a slow R&B and melodic trap tempo, at the opposite end from the bouyon tempos covered on our bouyon BPM page.

The year 2025 adds two duet singles that map the alliances of the moment: 6Am in La, billed to Novy & Cycy, and Fendi, billed to Novy & Scor Novy, the collaboration with the Geneva namesake already flagged, which proves the two artists know each other and work together without being the same person. Novy also appears on JOLIE MADAME (REMIX), a collective track by Djizzy, AMI, Kole B and HOTLINE, listed among his most streamed songs.

At this stage, Novy's catalog holds three albums in seven years, a steady output and one clear lead title, but still no media exposure found. Everything changes scale, relatively speaking, with 2026 and a duet recorded with his La Hacienda partner.

2026: five singles, then La petite m'a dit

The year 2026 opens with a burst of solo or close-duet singles: They Know, Work, Secure the Bag, Intro 26, a title that reads like a program note, and Bossin Up, which brings back Joh'iz as a feature, six years after the joint EP. All of them appear in the most streamed list on the artist page, a sign that the recent output concentrates most of the catalog's current listening.

On September 26, 2026 comes La petite m'a dit, billed to Novy & Gringo Jay, released by the Novy imprint, in French, and filed as Afro-Beat on the single page. The credits opened during the research give the performers, Novy and Gringo Jay, and two names on vocals, lyrics and composition: Yvon Abale and Josef Soliman. The name Yvon Abale closes a six-year loop: he was already credited with lyrics and arrangement on Vini in 2020. This profile reports that credit thread as it stands, without settling the question the sources leave open, namely whether Yvon Abale is a workshop writer or the artist's own writer name.

The effect of the title can be measured on the partner's side: on Gringo Jay's artist page, La petite m'a dit is both his latest release and his most streamed song, ahead of his whole solo catalog since 2020. On Novy's side, the duet ranks second among his most streamed songs, behind Sexynextdoor. The same single is therefore the documented peak of one catalog and the number two of the other: exactly the kind of junction this site documents, where French-language rap and the Dominican diaspora bouyon network overlap. Find the track in our bouyon playlist, which follows these crossings week after week.

What this profile does not know: the limits of the file

This file is a catalog file, not a biography. The opened sources, artist, single and album pages on the platforms, establish dates, imprints, tracklists, writing credits and Shazam-internal listening rankings. They do not establish Novy's legal identity, his origin, his city, his social accounts or any element of his personal path. Any listing that handed this Novy a city, an age or a backstory without a source would be making exactly the mistake the namesakes section describes.

Two questions remain open at the end of the research. The first is the exact role of Yvon Abale, credited as a writer in 2020 and as a voice and writer in 2026: the metadata does not say whether he is a collaborator or the artist under his writer name. The second is the real geography of the project: a catalog in French and English, Dominican partners, and a writer named Joakim Canguio who also turns up, in 2026, in the credits of a Banklaady track produced by Joh'iz, which links this file to the neighbouring profile on this site. This profile stops where the sources stop, and will be completed if an interview or an official listing appears.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Novy?

Novy is a rapper documented from 2018 to 2026 and filed under hip-hop and rap by the platforms. His catalog holds three albums, 808 in 2018, NUKETOWN (EXTENSION) in 2023 and Slizzy Novy in 2025, two EPs and many singles in French and English. No consulted source publishes his biography, his origin or his official accounts: this profile reports only his verified catalog.

What is Novy's most streamed song?

According to his Shazam artist page, opened during the research, Novy's most streamed song is Sexynextdoor, from the 2025 Slizzy Novy album, sung in English at 88 BPM. The duet La petite m'a dit, with Gringo Jay, ranks second for Novy, while it is the most streamed song of Gringo Jay's catalog.

What are Novy's links to bouyon?

Novy is not tagged as bouyon by the platforms, but he has recorded with two artists of the bouyon network: La marelle, featuring Ricky Bishop, in 2020, then the La Hacienda trio in 2024 and the La petite m'a dit duet in 2026 with Gringo Jay. Those documented collaborations are why he appears on this site.

What are Novy's albums and EPs?

The verified albums are 808 (July 6, 2018, thirteen tracks), NUKETOWN (EXTENSION) (June 30, 2023, fourteen tracks) and Slizzy Novy (April 25, 2025, eight tracks). The EPs are Purpee Tape, Vol. 1 in 2018 and Heart Season, Vol. 1 in 2020, the latter billed with Joh'iz and containing Vini, Nice, Mayday and Quartier.

Where is Novy from?

No source opened during the research says so. The platforms publish neither a city nor a country of origin for this artist, and his catalog mixes French and English titles. This profile therefore refuses to assign him an origin: it describes a bilingual catalog and collaborations with artists of the Dominican diaspora, which are the established facts.

Is Novy the same person as Tom Novy or Scor Novy?

No. Tom Novy is a German house DJ active since the 1990s, unrelated to this catalog. Scor Novy is an R&B singer based in Geneva, a distinct artist with whom Novy recorded a joint single, Fendi, in 2025: two separate artists who collaborated, not one and the same person.

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