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Ricky Bishop: the New Wave of bouyon

Published October 7, 2026

Ricky Bishop is a rapper and sound engineer of Guadeloupean and Malagasy origin, based in Bordeaux, France. His Deezer biography and an interview published by Modzik present him that way, and that double root shapes all of his music. On Instagram, where he appears under the display name BIG RACKS at @rickybishop_, he had 15,310 followers and 40 posts at the October 17, 2026 check. His defining move is clear: he created the New Bouyon concept, bouyon mixed with trap and electronic music. The magazine Modzik profiled him under the headline La New Wave du bouyon, the New Wave of bouyon, a phrase that sums up his place on this map well: neither a rapper simply borrowing a rhythm, nor a classic bouyon producer, but an artist claiming a new branch of the genre. To understand why a Bordeaux artist of Guadeloupean and Malagasy origin matters in a story born in Dominica, you need to read his path, his records and the way he connects Guadeloupe, Madagascar and France. This page gathers only the verified facts from our dossiers, from his early albums to his first Paris solo show announced for Tuesday, October 20, 2026.

A Bordeaux profile, Gwada and Mada roots

The first thing to remember about Ricky Bishop is the geography. He is from Bordeaux, France, and his origins are Guadeloupean and Malagasy. That detail matters, because bouyon has long circulated between the French Antilles, the Indian Ocean and the large French cities, without always being named. In his case, the link is claimed in the music and in the image alike: the clip for his track Californienne was shot in Antananarivo, Madagascar, and the coverage package built by Bouyon Shattaz in October 2026 used exactly that reading, with the strips New Bouyon, Gwada x Mada and shot in Antananarivo.

His role is not limited to rapping over rhythms. He is also a sound engineer, which explains his approach to New Bouyon: work on the sound itself, on how to make bouyon percussion and energy live alongside trap codes and electronic textures. That double role as artist and technician also explains why his projects often take the form of concepts and series, rather than singles isolated from one another.

The flag in the coverage design deserves one clarification: it is the local Guadeloupe flag, the one Guadeloupeans call their own, with green bands at the top and bottom, a red middle band and a yellow star. That visual choice anchors the project in Guadeloupean culture as it claims itself, not in an administrative symbol. Reading the Guadeloupe chapter from Dominica helps explain why that Gwada link sits at the center of how this site documents bouyon today.

New Bouyon, a concept with his name on it

New Bouyon is the concept Ricky Bishop created and which gives his approach its name: take bouyon, the music born in Dominica, and openly mix it with trap and electronic music. The idea is not to dilute the genre, but to open another ground for it, the ground of rappers and producers trained in the current sounds of the platforms. In 2024, he gave that concept recorded form with two EPs, #newbouyon and #sexybouyon, two titles that work as manifestos as much as musical projects.

Among the tracks linked to that period is Anle mwen, kept in the track list on this page because it belongs to that concept-building sequence. Modzik also covered his #NewBouyonExperience event series, a sign that the concept does not live only in the studio: it is also tested in public, in events designed to let an audience hear that fusion. That is often where a concept proves its value, when an audience shows up for a proposal that did not exist under that name before him.

That approach connects to a wider question this site follows page after page: who moves bouyon forward, and from where? Ricky Bishop's answer is that of an artist from a widened diaspora, between Bordeaux, Guadeloupe and Madagascar. The page Producers and passers places that type of profile among all the relays that move the genre between islands and large cities.

From RAGE'n'B and BACKSTAGE to the Timing album

Before the 2024 EPs, Ricky Bishop had already released two albums: RAGE'n'B in 2022 and BACKSTAGE in 2023. Those two titles draw a readable progression: first a project whose name already displays the mix of influences, between rage and R'n'B, then an album named like a look backstage, before the fully claimed concept step with the New Bouyon EPs. Our dossiers give no sales figures or chart positions for those records, and this page invents none: it keeps the verified chronology, which is enough to show an artist working over time.

The track pushed hardest in his recent communication is Californienne, from his album Timing. His biography announces that album with the line Timing. Nouvel Album. Out Now. The Californienne clip was shot in Antananarivo, Madagascar, which closes the loop of his origins: a track by a Bordeaux artist of Guadeloupean origin, filmed in the Malagasy capital. Bouyon Shattaz built a cinema-style coverage package in October 2026 from his Californienne reel, with the mentions New Bouyon, Gwada x Mada, shot in Antananarivo and from the album Timing.

That coverage shows how this site handles a release of this type: connect the track to the album, the clip to its filming location and the artist to his concept, rather than sharing a clip without context. To follow the tracks that matter in the same vein, the site bouyon playlist gathers the reference selection, updated as documented releases arrive.

Jeunes Visionnaires and the 10000 HEURES label

Ricky Bishop does not move alone. In 2020, he co-founded the Jeunes Visionnaires collective, a structure that says a lot about his way of working: build a collective frame before chasing individual visibility. The collective is licensed under the label 10000 HEURES, according to the biography elements in our dossiers. That information matters for placing his path: New Bouyon is not just an idea launched on social media, it is a project carried by a team and backed by a label structure.

The collective path also explains the #NewBouyonExperience series covered by Modzik: events of that type require organization, partners and a vision beyond the artist alone. In the economy of bouyon and its neighboring scenes, it is often those discreet structures, collectives, independent labels and sound engineers, that let concepts last longer than a viral moment.

To place that path inside the long history of the genre, the History of bouyon page recalls the Dominican starting point of bouyon and the stages of its spread toward Guadeloupe, Martinique and France. Ricky Bishop belongs to the most recent phase of that history: the phase where the genre becomes a language that artists trained elsewhere claim, transform and sign with their name.

First Paris solo show, October 20, 2026

The most concrete announced step in his recent path is Parisian: his first Paris solo show, billed Ricky Bishop - 1st Paris Solo Show in the Shotgun event listing, takes place on Tuesday, October 20, 2026. The words first solo show matter: this is not a first visit to Paris in a broad sense, but his first solo concert in the capital under that billing. Our dossiers keep the date, the day and the exact billing from the listing, without adding a venue or program that do not appear in the source.

That date arrives after the full sequence that prepares it: the 2022 and 2023 albums, the two 2024 concept EPs, the Timing album and the Californienne clip shot in Antananarivo. Read that way, the Paris concert is not a beginning, but a move to another scale for a project built from Bordeaux with a collective, a label and a clear concept.

Whether you discover Ricky Bishop through Californienne, through Anle mwen or through the Modzik coverage, the entry point stays the same: an artist who says where he comes from, Gwada and Mada by way of Bordeaux, and who offers bouyon a named direction, New Bouyon. This page will be updated with the verified facts of future releases and dates, without adding details our dossiers do not confirm.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Ricky Bishop?

Ricky Bishop is a rapper and sound engineer of Guadeloupean and Malagasy origin, based in Bordeaux, France. He created the New Bouyon concept, which mixes bouyon with trap and electronic music.

What records has Ricky Bishop released?

Our verified dossiers list the albums RAGE'n'B in 2022 and BACKSTAGE in 2023, the EPs #newbouyon and #sexybouyon in 2024, and the album Timing, which includes the track Californienne.

When is Ricky Bishop's first Paris solo show?

His first Paris solo show, billed Ricky Bishop - 1st Paris Solo Show in the Shotgun listing, takes place on Tuesday, October 20, 2026.

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