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TIITII NBA: the New Bouyon Age that started with a phone

Published October 6, 2026

TIITII NBA is a bouyon artist from Morne-à-l'Eau, Guadeloupe. In his stage name, NBA stands for New Bouyon Age. He built his following without a label, a studio or paid ads, starting with an iPhone, wired earphones and the BandLab app, then reinvesting his music income into better equipment, as told in the profile published by Dominica News Online on October 17, 2026.

From Morne-à-l'Eau to the New Bouyon Age, with no label or studio

TIITII NBA comes from Morne-à-l'Eau in Guadeloupe. His name already states his project: NBA, for New Bouyon Age, a new era of bouyon written from Guadeloupe. That name should be read with the respect for the genre that he defends himself: in his stated position, bouyon is Dominica's creation, and Guadeloupe is its second chapter. His ambition is therefore not to move the origin, but to write what comes next from his own island.

The starting point of that next chapter is deliberately modest. He started with an iPhone, wired earphones and the BandLab app. No label, no studio, no paid ads: the first tracks were made with the tools on a phone, and the audience was built track by track. When the music started to earn, he reinvested that income into better equipment. That path, told by Dominica News Online, makes him a readable example for a whole generation of island artists who no longer wait for a structure before they start.

That phone start is not a publicity anecdote, it explains the very shape of his catalogue. An artist who learns by recording on BandLab develops a particular discipline: write fast, test a riddim, release, hear the reaction, then start again. The volume that follows, more than 30 releases since 2022 according to Dominica News Online, comes from that working method as much as from talent. With TIITII NBA, the New Bouyon Age is first of all a way of making music without waiting for an industry's permission.

Kitty Kitty, the first track past one million streams

According to Dominica News Online, TIITII NBA had 68,026 monthly Spotify listeners, more than 1.65 million streams for his song 'Kitty Kitty', and over 30 releases since 2022, all without paid promotion. Those figures should be read with their source: they come from the profile published by Dominica News Online on October 17, 2026. They give a concrete measure of a path built with no label and no ads, and they place 'Kitty Kitty' at the centre of his public story.

'Kitty Kitty', produced by DJ Luchshiy, was his first song past one million streams. Crossing that threshold changes the status of an independent artist: the song becomes a calling card, proof that a wide audience can be reached from Guadeloupe with bouyon production and patient release work. For new listeners, it is the advised entry point, before going back to the phone tracks and following the recent collaborations. Our bouyon playlist helps place this track among the other markers of the Guadeloupe wave.

Before 'Kitty Kitty', one song had already drawn local attention: 'Brene Sa', recorded entirely on his phone over a Pyroman instrumental. That detail links the two stages of the path: the same artist who later passed a million streams first won local recognition with a phone track. His EP 'New Bouyon Age' was also recorded on his phone. Keeping those facts together avoids telling a sudden success story: with TIITII NBA, the progress is steady, documented and presented as such.

From WCK and jump up roots to the lesson of Dominican freestyles

His parents introduced him to WCK, which he knew as jump up. That family transmission matters in his story: before becoming a bouyon artist, he was first a child in Guadeloupe exposed, at home, to the music of neighbouring Dominica under the name audiences gave it at the time. In this path, bouyon does not arrive through a social media trend, it arrives through family and through the culture shared between the Creole islands.

Later, the freestyle approach of Dominican artist Mr Ridge showed him what the genre could become. We report that influence in paraphrase, as it appears in his portrait: a Dominican artist, through his freestyle freedom, widened the young Guadeloupean's idea of bouyon. That link between TIITII NBA and Ridge lights up the map of the current scene, where Guadeloupe and Dominica listen to each other, answer each other and pass on ways of working, without erasing the Dominican origin of the genre.

Our history of bouyon page places WCK and jump up inside the birth of the genre in Dominica. For French readers, that line is valuable: it shows that the current Guadeloupe wave does not come from nowhere. It comes from older listening, from Dominican bands heard in the family home, then from today's artists who reshape that heritage with a phone, an app and a regular release discipline.

Keneth Riddim, New Bouyon Wave and the recent collaborations

In June 2023 TIITII NBA opened the Keneth Riddim one riddim project with 'No Sex Over Money'. Opening a one riddim project is not a neutral role: it means placing the first voice on a base that other artists will then inhabit. That placement speaks of the trust the scene already gave, in 2023, to an artist who had started with a phone and a free app a few years earlier.

Later in 2023, 'New Bouyon Wave #1' gathered the emerging Guadeloupe wave: TIITII NBA, 1T1, Softee, Aknose, Nils, Lucky Lukee, Le Juh and Théomaa. That grouping is a scene document as much as a song: it names the artists who, together, form the new bouyon generation in Guadeloupe. To understand TIITII NBA, you therefore also have to read him as a member of that wave, with identified peers, and not as a solitary path cut off from his island.

Recent collaborations extend that logic. 'Full Speed', featuring Milly, released June 30, was produced by DJ Taffy for Big Bang Records 767. 'Shake It' brings him together with Trixz Migos. In addition, 1T1, an artist from the same wave, has produced for Mr Ridge, which tightens the links between the Guadeloupe wave and the Dominican scene still further. To follow those songs, the bouyon playlist gives the listening context, track by track, without mixing up anyone's credits.

Bouyonews, a Bouyon Shattaz partner and a WCMF relay

TIITII NBA also runs the bouyonews page. In October 2026 bouyonews agreed to publish French versions of Bouyon Shattaz news as Instagram Collabs, and shared a Guadeloupe and Paris DJ and radio programmer list with Bouyon Shattaz. For Bouyon Shattaz he is therefore a peer and a collaboration partner, and this page treats him with the respect due to that status: facts, sources, and no wording that would reduce his work to that of a simple relay.

On October 19, 2026 his night by night WCMF reel corroborated the split of artists across the three festival nights, presented on WCMF, the Creole festival. That kind of post shows the other side of his work: beyond his own songs, he documents the scene, organises information for French speaking audiences and circulates the markers of the Roseau festival towards Guadeloupe and France. Artist and media at once, he holds a double place in today's bouyon ecosystem.

To discover TIITII NBA, the fairest path takes a few steps: 'Kitty Kitty' for the song past a million, 'Brene Sa' for the phone stage, the 'New Bouyon Age' EP for the project that gives his name its meaning, 'No Sex Over Money' for the Keneth Riddim, 'Full Speed' and 'Shake It' for the recent collaborations. Each step comes from his public file, and together they tell a New Bouyon Age built with no shortcut, from Morne-à-l'Eau. His path finally speaks to artists starting today with the same modest tools: a phone can open a career, provided you add regularity, reinvestment and respect for the origin of the genre. TIITII NBA hides neither his starting point nor his debt to Dominica. That openness, present throughout his portrait, is part of the trust Bouyon Shattaz places in him as an artist and as a partner.

It is worth underlining how unusual that combination remains. Many artists can point to one strong song, and many pages can point to one strong news cycle. TIITII NBA can point to both a catalogue built in public since 2022 and a media page that other outlets and partners actually use during festival season. That double record, artistic and editorial, is the reason his name keeps appearing when the Guadeloupe wave and the Dominican source are discussed together in 2026.

His own releases remain the place to verify all of it. Play the phone era tracks beside the million stream title and the recent features, and the arc described by Dominica News Online becomes audible without any extra claim: the equipment improves, the collaborations widen, and the name, New Bouyon Age, stops sounding like a slogan and starts sounding like a work plan carried out release after release since 2022.

Frequently asked questions

Who is TIITII NBA?

TIITII NBA is a bouyon artist from Morne-à-l'Eau, Guadeloupe. NBA stands for New Bouyon Age in his stage name. He started with an iPhone, wired earphones and the BandLab app, with no label, no studio and no paid ads.

What is TIITII NBA's biggest song?

According to Dominica News Online, 'Kitty Kitty', produced by DJ Luchshiy, passes 1.65 million streams. It was his first song past one million streams.

How many songs has TIITII NBA released?

According to the Dominica News Online profile of October 17, 2026, he has over 30 releases since 2022 and 68,026 monthly Spotify listeners, without paid promotion.

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