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Pa Pel: from a cypher verse to the solo single IDGAF

Published October 20, 2026

Pa Pel is an emerging bouyon artist from Dominica, identified by the island press under the name Loic Arius. He is one of the six guests on Trilla-G “Up Next Bouyon Cypher, Vol. 1”, released on October 2, 2026 on Still Trill Entertainment, and one of the first two to convert his verse into a solo record: “IDGAF”, published as official audio under a Bouyon 2027 billing, written and performed by him, produced by Kwib La Beats and ThaWizZarD, with Trilla-G as executive producer. His name also circulates in the joined spelling Papel, in the Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026 list and in the credits of an interview show, The Flaming Table, where he appears with G’z Up and Pryhmex. This profile settles the spelling question from the streaming credits, follows the cypher and the single, and states what the public record does not yet contain.

Who Pa Pel is: Loic Arius, and the spelling to keep

The full name first. In its October 8, 2026 article on the launch of the cypher, BuzzDA presents the six guests with their artist name and their full name, and Pa Pel appears there as Loic Arius. It is the only opened source that links the stage name to the full name, and this profile cites it as a Dominican press identification, precise and checkable, but accompanied by no biography: no age, no community and no background are published for him in the sources consulted. Everything that follows therefore rests on his credits, which are, unusually for an artist at this stage, complete.

The spelling next, because it is part of the file. The main form kept by this profile is Pa Pel, in two words. It is the form of the official cypher credit on YouTube, the form used by BuzzDA in its two articles, and above all the form of the title and credits of his solo official audio, “Pa Pel - IDGAF (Bouyon 2027)”, where the writing line says “Written and Performed by Pa Pel”. When the press, the publisher and the artist himself, in his own writing credit, write a name the same way, that form is the one that counts for a catalog.

The variant exists, though, and it is documented instead of being smoothed away. The Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026 artist list writes the collective with “Papel” as one word. The title of episode 2 of The Flaming Table writes “PAPEL” in joined capitals. The hashtag of his own official audio is #papel, and his published social handle, @pa._.pel, reads as a run of syllables with no space. Pa Pel and Papel therefore point to the same person in every opened source, with a two word catalog form and a one word everyday form, close to the pronunciation. This profile writes Pa Pel throughout, and flags the variant here once and for all, so a reader who meets Papel knows it is the same artist.

His status, finally, is the one BuzzDA gives the whole collective: an emerging talent of the island, chosen by Trilla-G for a platform designed for the next generation of Dominican bouyon. In the interview with the same outlet, Trilla-G says he brought together artistes he rates and whose craft he respects, most of whom had approached him earlier to collaborate or to get a chance to be seen. Pa Pel is part of that group of six, and he is, with G’z Up, one of the two whose solo path is already documented a few days after the cypher.

“IDGAF”: the solo single, its full credits and its Bouyon 2027 billing

The solo record is titled “IDGAF”, and its official audio presents it without detour: “Official Audio for IDGAF by Pa Pel from the Up Next Bouyon Cypher by Still Trill Ent.” The record is therefore, like G’z Up “Fix Up”, a cypher passage turned into a single in its own right, published with its own streaming links, an Apple Music link to an IDGAF single and a Spotify link to an album of the same title appearing in the video description. The video carries the Explicit tag in its title, which matches the BuzzDA warning about adult language in some cypher lyrics: this profile reports it as publishing information, without reproducing lyrics.

The credits of the single are the most detailed in the whole Pa Pel file, and they deserve to be read line by line. Written and performed by Pa Pel. Produced by Kwib La Beats and ThaWizZarD, the two makers of the cypher sound, the first named as Shane Massicott and the second as Cecil Joseph Jr. in the BuzzDA coverage. Mixed and mastered by ThaWizZarD. Executive producer: Trilla-G, which places the single in the direct continuity of his platform, the established artist keeping his hand on the release of the extract. Artwork by Shan GrapArt, the same artwork credit as on the G’z Up single, which gives the solo extracts of the cypher a shared graphic identity.

The billing of the title also says something about the mechanics of this scene. The video classes the record as “Bouyon 2027”, although the cypher came out in October 2026: in Dominican bouyon, records of the end of the year are regularly billed to the following year, the one of the carnival season they aim at. This profile reports the billing as published, without converting it into a release date. No precise release date for the single is in fact published in the opened sources: the official audio appeared in the days following the cypher, and that is all that can be written with certainty.

The last element of the credit is social: the description publishes the handle @pa._.pel as the artist contact, the same handle The Flaming Table episode credits attribute to him under the name Papel. To date it is the only official handle published for Pa Pel in an opened source. In line with the method of this site, it is quoted here as a text credit, but no external link is carried in the structured data of this page, because no profile was opened and verified directly during this research.

The “Up Next Bouyon Cypher, Vol. 1”: the platform IDGAF comes from

To understand the single, the parent record has to be revisited. The “Up Next Bouyon Cypher, Vol 1.”, presented by Still Trill Entertainment and Trilla-G, credits as features G’z Up, Ras B, Avatar Omish, Don Lash, Pa Pel and Pryhmex, in that official order. It was released on October 2, 2026 according to the BuzzDA interview, runs for almost ten minutes, and rests on a Kwib La Beats instrumental, with ThaWizZarD on lead keys, mixing and mastering. The video was shot at The Lot Bar & Grill, filmed and edited by Sois Genial Multimedia, and directed by Trilla-G with his manager and creative collaborator Tridel “Wins” Edwin.

The principle of the cypher, as Trilla-G explains it to BuzzDA, is to place several voices over one beat, each in turn, to show technique and personality. The team kept the exact order of the recordings instead of rearranging it, and Trilla-G says every participant exceeded his expectations and treated the opportunity with respect. For Pa Pel, that collective frame has a concrete and rare consequence: his verse was identifiable enough to be detached, credited to his name alone and released as a single, with its own streaming page and its own artwork.

The reception of the parent record is documented with figures by BuzzDA on October 12, 2026: the number one spot on the Apple Music Top Songs chart in Dominica and 83,000 YouTube views in one week. Those figures are those of the collective, and this profile attributes them to the collective, including when measuring what the Pa Pel single owes to the platform: without the cypher number one, the solo extract would have neither its starting audience, nor its executive producer, nor its production workshop already in place.

BuzzDA names G’z Up as arguably the breakout artiste of the cypher so far, with an extended solo version released on October 10, 2026. The Pa Pel case is different and complementary: no documented extended version, no breakout status granted by the press consulted, but an extract cleanly released, with full credits and a double streaming presence. In a scene where many cypher verses get no discographic follow up, that quick conversion into a single is the most tangible fact in his file, and the one that distinguishes his path from that of Don Lash or Avatar Omish at this stage.

The Flaming Table and Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl: the two other public traces

The second public trace of Pa Pel is a show. Episode 2 of season 1 of The Flaming Table, an interview show that receives new and established artists, brings together G’z Up, Papel and Pryhmex around the cypher, to talk about the challenges and everyday life of a new artist. The episode is shot and edited by thaLoFieYe, sponsored by DSN Island Rums, and its Instagram credits give Papel the handle @pa._.pel, confirming through a second independent source that Papel and Pa Pel are indeed the same person, and that this handle is his in public credits.

That appearance matters for a simple reason: it is, in the opened sources, the only time Pa Pel is presented in an interview setting, and not only in a record credit. The show provides no transcribed quote and no biography element in its description, and this profile therefore lends him no statement. But the very fact of the format, three cypher voices seated at a table to talk about the trade, shows that the Trilla-G platform produces media follow ups for its guests, beyond the streaming record alone.

The third trace is institutional. On October 18, 2026, the confirmed artist list of Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026 rose to 29 names, with among the additions, presented as a collective, Gz Up, Don Lash, Avatar Omish, Papel and Prymex, according to Dominica Weekly. The event is the fifth edition of the Creole village of the independence celebrations, from October 19 to 22, 2026 at the Botanic Gardens in Roseau, on the theme Tout Biten Domnik, with admission at EC$10 and more than 90 entrepreneurs. Pa Pel is written Papel there, in one word, which makes that official list the most visible source of the variant.

The usual precision is required here as for his partners: the official day by day schedule, published on October 19, 2026, names neither Pa Pel nor Papel individually on any of the four days, and day 4 bills Trilla G and Prymex in particular without detailing a collective slot. This profile therefore writes that Pa Pel 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, in either of its two spellings, at the time of research.

The context: a new wave, a workshop and a bouyon soca lineage

Pa Pel starts out in a genre that already has its generations and its lines. Bouyon is born in Dominica in the late 1980s, and its bouyon soca branch, documented on this site, has a precise starting point: according to the first hand testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis, a Dominican born producer who lived the scene from inside, bouyon soca was started by Dada in 2003 in Dominica, then popularized by Triple Kay. The cypher generation, recording over studio instrumentals and releasing on worldwide streaming, is the direct heir of that line, even when it does not cite it.

The distinctive trait of this generation, according to Trilla-G himself in the BuzzDA interview, lies in what the new artists bring to the genre: personality, swagger, a youthful energy and a claimed authenticity, over the essence of bouyon. Pa Pel is counted in that collective description, and the “IDGAF” extract, detached under his name with a title that displays a posture, is its clearest discographic illustration in the group after G’z Up “Fix Up”. This profile describes the posture as the title and the credits publish it, without commenting on lyrics it has not verified line by line.

The Still Trill workshop works like a small complete house: a beat producer, Kwib La Beats, a keys and final sound man, ThaWizZarD, an executive producer who is also the host artist, Trilla-G, and a shared graphic designer, Shan GrapArt, for the extracts. The pages of this site devoted to Trilla-G, Kwib La Beats and G’z Up document that house and its first star extract, and our bouyon playlist follows the whole wave, from the cypher to the singles drawn from it.

There remains the question BuzzDA asks at the end of its interview and which holds for Pa Pel as for the other five: the visibility of the cypher now has to convert into stage chances, radio and promoter support, and new records. For Pa Pel, two conversions are already written, the single and the show, and a third is entered on an official list at Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl. That is, for an artist whose full name was published nowhere a month ago, a dense start to a file, as long as it is read without rounding it up.

The limits of the file: two records, and no biography

The Pa Pel file holds two verified recordings, and this profile counts them without adding any. The collective cypher of October 2, 2026, where he is credited as a feature, and “IDGAF”, his solo extract published as official audio with Apple Music and Spotify links. No other record, under his lead name or as a feature, was found during this research on the platforms and in the press consulted. The structured data of this page therefore carries exactly those two recordings, and nothing else.

No precise release date for the “IDGAF” single is published in the opened sources: the official video presents it as an explicit audio billed Bouyon 2027, appearing in the days following the cypher, and any more precise date would be an invention. Likewise, no opened artist page on a streaming platform was verified for Pa Pel during this research: the links in the description lead to the single and to its attached album, without a consulted artist page that would give a catalog or his own figures. The only figures quoted in this profile are therefore those of the collective cypher, recorded by BuzzDA.

No biography exists in the sources: no place of birth or residence, no age, no declared influences, no transcribed interview. The appearance on The Flaming Table is documented by the description of the episode, not by a text of his answers. This profile therefore does not turn either the “IDGAF” title or the #dohtalkagain hashtag into an interpretation of his life or his intentions: they are credit and publishing elements, reported as such, and the meaning of the name Pa Pel itself is explained by no source consulted.

If Pa Pel releases a second single, a project or a full interview, this profile will be completed and dated like every page on this site, and the spelling question will be rechecked on that occasion against the new credits. In the meantime, his listening holds in two linked objects: almost ten minutes of cypher on Still Trill Entertainment, then his verse turned into “IDGAF”, written and performed by him, produced by Kwib La Beats and ThaWizZarD. That is the real file of a bouyon career beginning in October 2026, no more, no less.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Pa Pel?

Pa Pel is an emerging bouyon artist from Dominica. BuzzDA, in its October 8, 2026 article on the Up Next Cypher, gives his full name as Loic Arius. He is one of the six guests of volume 1 of the Trilla-G cypher, and the writer and performer of the solo single “IDGAF”. No detailed public biography was found.

Pa Pel or Papel: which spelling is right?

The catalog form is Pa Pel, in two words: it is the form of the official cypher credit, of the BuzzDA articles and of the title and credits of his official “IDGAF” audio, where it is written and performed by Pa Pel. The joined form Papel appears in the Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026 list, in the title of The Flaming Table episode and in the #papel hashtag. Both forms point to the same artist, whose published handle is @pa._.pel.

What is Pa Pel “IDGAF”?

“IDGAF” is the solo single drawn from his verse in the Up Next Bouyon Cypher, published as official audio under a Bouyon 2027 billing and tagged Explicit. It is written and performed by Pa Pel, produced by Kwib La Beats and ThaWizZarD, mixed and mastered by ThaWizZarD, with Trilla-G as executive producer and artwork by Shan GrapArt. The video description links an Apple Music single and a Spotify album of the same title. No precise release date is published in the sources.

On which records is Pa Pel credited?

On two verified recordings: the “Up Next Bouyon Cypher, Vol. 1” by Trilla-G, released on October 2, 2026 on Still Trill Entertainment, where he features with G’z Up, Ras B, Avatar Omish, Don Lash and Pryhmex, and his solo single “IDGAF”. No other record was found during this research.

Is Pa Pel on the Ti Vilaj Kwéyòl 2026 bill?

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

Where can I hear Pa Pel and follow the cypher wave?

Through the cypher and through “IDGAF”, linked from the official video descriptions on Apple Music and Spotify. His handle published in official credits is @pa._.pel, quoted here without a link verified by direct opening. Our bouyon playlist follows this new wave, and the Trilla-G and G’z Up pages document the platform and the other solo extract of the cypher.

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