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Young Ob: a feature voice in the Knockin Records circuit

Published October 20, 2026

Young Ob is a singer who exists, in the public archives consulted, only as a feature. Two records carry him: “Believe In Love”, by Trixta Savage, released on January 29, 2023 on Knockin Records on the album “Street Politics”, then “Storybook Riddim Freestyle”, by D4A Nillio, released on December 8, 2025 on the same label, in a bouyon version produced by Xavvoknockin. On that second record, his songwriter name appears in full: Thaddeus Edwards. No solo record, no artist page, no biography and no verified official account was found. This profile publishes the two appearances, the songwriter credit and the circuit that connects them, and it states openly everything it does not know, rather than turning a guest voice into an invented portrait.

Who Young Ob is: a feature name and a songwriter name

Let us start with the exact inventory, because the whole file fits inside it. Young Ob is credited on vocals on two records by other artists. The first is “Believe In Love”, by Trixta Savage, where his name appears in the very heading of the title, as a feature. The second is “Storybook Riddim Freestyle”, by D4A Nillio, where he appears the same way, as a feature, in the bouyon version of the record. Between the two, almost three years, and the same label: Knockin Records. No source consulted documents a record where Young Ob is the lead artist.

The name appears in two spellings in the sources. The headings of the records and the everyday language of the scene write Young Ob, with a lower case b. The platform credits write Young OB, with both letters in capitals, as initials. This site keeps Young Ob as the main form, the one of the headings, and flags the credit form for what it is: the same signature, written differently from one support to another. The situation is ordinary in the credit rolls of small scenes, where names settle first in clip titles before they stabilise on song pages.

The most personal fact in the file fits into one writing credit. On the “Storybook Riddim Freestyle” page, the vocalists are two, D4A Nillio and Young OB, and the songwriters are two, D4A Nillio and Thaddeus Edwards. The match is direct: the second songwriter on the page is the name under which the second vocalist signs his writing, and this profile therefore reads Thaddeus Edwards as the songwriter name of Young Ob, presenting it as a reading of the credits, not as a biography. No source gives an age, an origin or a path for that name, and no interview with Young Ob, under either of his two names, was found during this research.

Storybook Riddim Freestyle: the bouyon feature of 2025

The appearance that connects Young Ob to this site is the more recent of the two. “Storybook Riddim Freestyle (feat. Young Ob) [Bouyon Version]” is the single of D4A Nillio, a rapper from Saint Martin who declares himself from SXM in his own lyrics. The song page gives a release on December 8, 2025, on Knockin Records, in English, at 160 BPM, the fete tempo of modern bouyon. The Bouyon Version mention, in brackets in the heading, claims the genre of the track: a rap freestyle laid over the Storybook Riddim, published in its bouyon version. Young Ob is on vocals there, alongside the lead artist, and on songwriting, under the name Thaddeus Edwards.

Production and recording engineering on the record are credited to Xavvoknockin, the producer and engineer of the same circuit, documented on this site for “WTHelly Bouyon” by BRG Hollywood and for the mixing and mastering of “Largent” by General Pye featuring Ebony Empress. The Young Ob feature therefore places him in the exact centre of the small world this site maps record by record: a rapper from SXM as lead artist, a credits producer at the controls, one banner, Knockin Records, returning from record to record, and a guest voice who also signs the text.

What the page does not say must be stated as clearly as what it says. It specifies neither the place of Young Ob in the record, nor the nature of his sung contribution, chorus, verse or bridge, and no documented listening describes it. This profile therefore does not describe his performance: it establishes his presence, his double credit, vocals and writing, and the full frame of the record, which are the facts the platform publishes. For a feature artist, that frame is already career information: it says who he works with, on which label, and in which genre he enters in 2025, bouyon, through the door of a freestyle. Our bouyon playlist follows the records of this circuit as they come out.

Believe In Love: the 2023 trace with Trixta Savage

The first documented appearance of Young Ob is older by almost three years. “Believe In Love (feat. Young OB)” is a record by Trixta Savage, released on January 29, 2023 on Knockin Records, within the album “Street Politics”. The song page files it under hip hop and rap, at 109 BPM, a tempo clearly more laid back than that of the 2025 bouyon freestyle. The same record also circulates in the headings of Trixta Savage videos, where the production credit appears in the very title of the clip: Prod. by XavvoKnockin, the two word spelling of the Xavvoknockin name. The voice of Young Ob and the production of that producer were therefore already crossing, on the same label, as early as 2023.

A precision of method is required on this record, as on the other thin files of this site. During the research, the “Believe In Love” page was indexed with its date, its label, its album and its tempo, but opening the page directly returned an unrelated title: the platform identifiers seem to have been reassigned between indexing and consultation. The record is therefore documented here at the level of its indexed page and its video heading, and it is kept out of the structured data of the page, which is reserved for the one recording whose page was opened in full, the 2025 freestyle. The distinction is the method of this site: one name can carry facts of different levels, and mixing the levels fabricates discographies fuller than the sources.

The gap between the two appearances tells, on its own, the readable path of Young Ob. In 2023, he is the guest voice of an album rap record, with Trixta Savage. In 2025, he is the guest voice, and a songwriter, of a bouyon single, with D4A Nillio. The label has not changed, nor has the producer of the circuit: what has changed is the genre of the record that carries him, from rap to bouyon, as with part of the Saint Martin scene our bouyon in Saint Martin page describes. A feature artist is read in the records of others: this one reads as a trusted voice of the Knockin circuit, called back when the circuit moves to bouyon.

The Knockin Records circuit, seen from the guest voice

The world of Young Ob fits into the credit rolls of his two records, and those credit rolls have a geography. Knockin Records is the banner of both releases, in 2023 as in 2025. The same name appears as a technical credit, recording, mixing and mastering, on “WTHelly Bouyon” by BRG Hollywood, released on May 16, 2025, while Xavvoknockin handles its production with Xavern Labega. Trixta Savage and D4A Nillio, the two artists who invite Young Ob, belong to the rap and bouyon circuit of Saint Martin and Sint Maarten: D4A Nillio declares himself from SXM in his lyrics, and BRG Hollywood is an artist from Sint Maarten. No source says where Young Ob himself comes from, and this profile therefore places his scene, the scene of his credits, without lending him an unpublished personal origin.

No source consulted says either who owns or runs Knockin Records, and the question holds for this whole file: the name of the producer, Xavvoknockin, and the name of the banner share the Knockin root, without any document identifying the two as one. What the credit rolls establish is simpler and stronger: one banner publishes, in 2023 and in 2025, the records of a small circle of Saint Martin artists, and Young Ob belongs to that circle twice, in two posts, vocals alone in 2023, vocals and writing in 2025. In island scenes of this size, recurring guest voices are the very matter of the network: they say who trusts whom, studio by studio.

The context of the genre recalls why this circle matters to this site. Bouyon was born in Dominica at the end of the 1980s. Bouyon soca was started in Dominica in 2003 by Dada, according to the first hand testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis, a Dominican-born producer and a participant in that era. A generation later, the genre has secondary strongholds, among them Saint Martin, where rappers lay down freestyles tagged bouyon over local productions. Young Ob is, to date, a voice of that stronghold, heard only on the records of others: that is little, and it is exactly the kind of trace a profile by name can fix before it gets lost inside the credit rolls.

What the file does not say: the limits, stated

This profile ends with its limits, because they form half of its information. No solo record by Young Ob was verified on the platforms consulted during this research: no single under his name, no artist page of his own, no album. No biography, no interview, no official photograph and no social media account confirmed by direct opening was found, so the structured data of this page links to no external account. His personal origin is published by no source: only his collaborators place his scene, the Knockin Records circuit of Saint Martin. Even his name asks for a reading of the credits: Young Ob in the headings, Young OB in the credit rolls, Thaddeus Edwards in the songwriter post.

The verified scope fits into two appearances and one songwriter credit. The first, “Believe In Love” with Trixta Savage, is documented by its indexed page: released on January 29, 2023, label Knockin Records, album “Street Politics”, 109 BPM, and by the heading of its video, which credits production to XavvoKnockin. The second, “Storybook Riddim Freestyle” with D4A Nillio, is fully documented by its opened page: released on December 8, 2025, same label, 160 BPM, vocals by Young OB, songwriting by Thaddeus Edwards, production and recording by Xavvoknockin. Anything circulating elsewhere about Young Ob without a source, an age, an island of origin, a solo discography, should be read with the caution that scope imposes.

The listening, while waiting for what comes next, fits into two records, in the reverse order of their discovery by most readers: the 2025 bouyon freestyle first, because it is the record that connects him to this site, then “Believe In Love” from 2023, to hear the same voice in the rap format of the same circuit. If Young Ob one day publishes a record under his own name, an artist page or a biography, this profile will be completed and dated, like every page on this site. In the meantime, it publishes what the credit rolls give, no more and no less: a guest voice of the Knockin Records circuit, two appearances three years apart, and a songwriter name, Thaddeus Edwards, that only one platform page delivered, alongside D4A Nillio and Xavvoknockin, whose profiles this site publishes.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Young Ob?

Young Ob is a singer known only through two feature appearances in the Knockin Records circuit: “Believe In Love”, by Trixta Savage, released on January 29, 2023 on the album “Street Politics”, and “Storybook Riddim Freestyle”, by D4A Nillio, released on December 8, 2025 in a bouyon version. No solo record, no biography and no verified official account was found during the research for this profile, carried out on October 20, 2026.

What is the songwriter name of Young Ob?

Thaddeus Edwards, according to a reading of the credits of “Storybook Riddim Freestyle”. The song page credits two vocalists, D4A Nillio and Young OB, and two songwriters, D4A Nillio and Thaddeus Edwards: the second songwriter name matches the second vocalist. This profile presents that name as the songwriter name of Young Ob, read in the credits, and not as a biography, no other source documenting it.

On which records can Young Ob be heard?

On two verified records. “Storybook Riddim Freestyle (feat. Young Ob) [Bouyon Version]”, by D4A Nillio, released on December 8, 2025 on Knockin Records, at 160 BPM, where he sings and co-writes, produced by Xavvoknockin. And “Believe In Love (feat. Young OB)”, by Trixta Savage, released on January 29, 2023 on the same label, on the album “Street Politics”, at 109 BPM, a rap record.

Has Young Ob released solo records?

No solo record was verified during this research, carried out on October 20, 2026 across the platforms and the credit rolls of the Knockin Records circuit. No single under his name, no artist page of his own and no feature outside that circuit were confirmed. This profile states that openly rather than filling the gap, and it will be completed if a solo release is published.

Where does Young Ob come from?

No source consulted publishes his personal origin, and this profile does not invent it. What is documented is the scene of his two credits: Trixta Savage and D4A Nillio belong to the rap and bouyon circuit of Saint Martin, D4A Nillio declaring himself from SXM in his lyrics, and both records appear on Knockin Records, the banner of that circuit. Young Ob is therefore placed through his collaborations, with no island of birth stated.

Who produced the records of Young Ob?

The 2025 bouyon freestyle, “Storybook Riddim Freestyle”, is produced by Xavvoknockin, also recording engineer of the record, according to its page. For “Believe In Love”, from 2023, the heading of the Trixta Savage video credits production to XavvoKnockin, the two word spelling of the same name. Both appearances of Young Ob therefore pass through the same producer and the same label, Knockin Records.

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