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YSN: the French West Indies beatmaker behind Lapli Season

Published October 20, 2026

YSN is a producer and beatmaker from the French West Indies, presented that way by his biography published on Qobuz: a creator active on the local scene, whose style blends Caribbean sounds with contemporary influences, and who released the collaborative album “Lapli Season” on March 29, 2024. Behind the three letters, platform credits publish a name: Nicolas Lanclume, whom Deezer even writes in the explicit form “Nicolas Lanclume (YSN)” among the composers of “PKM” by Rachelle Allison. Featured artist, composer for others and producer of his own records on Hakuna Music Company, YSN is one of the studio men of the current Guadeloupe bouyon and dancehall circuit, alongside Aknose, Krys, Rachelle Allison and Young Chang MC. This profile gathers that credit record, and it starts with the sorting competing pages do not do: there are at least two other artists named YSN on the same platforms, and their records are not his.

Who YSN is: a beatmaker from the French West Indies, credited as Nicolas Lanclume

YSN is a producer and beatmaker from the French West Indies. That is the presentation of his biography published on Qobuz, written by Music Story: active on the local music scene, he made a name for himself with a style blending Caribbean sounds with contemporary influences, and his work shows a modern approach to urban music while remaining rooted in West Indian culture. Three elements of that short portrait structure this whole profile. The trade first: producer and beatmaker, a studio man before a stage man, who appears as composer, producer or featured artist as much as headline artist. The anchor next: the French West Indies, with no home community or island of birth published in the sources consulted, but with a readable working circuit, that of Guadeloupe, of the labels Hakuna Music Company and MBI Family and of the artists he produces. The method finally: constant collaborations, to the point of building a whole album, “Lapli Season”, on features.

The name behind the initials is published by the credits, and one platform writes it without ambiguity. On the Deezer listing of “PKM” by Rachelle Allison, the composers are listed this way: Mike Saint-Auret, Nicolas Lanclume (YSN), Rachelle Paturot and Yohan Corneille Lanclas. The bracket is an identity document: it says that the composer credited as Nicolas Lanclume is the artist named YSN. Shazam confirms the same songwriter name across a run of records where YSN appears as performer, composer or producer: “Viré” with LULOS in 2025, “BBL” with Waysee in 2024, “HOLIDAY” by Krys and “Bad” with Sanchii in 2025, all with Nicolas Lanclume credited as songwriter. This profile reports that name exactly as the credits publish it, the way this site reports the songwriter name of Aknose, Gael Rampath: a documented writing and production name, with no invented civil record around it, no source consulted publishing a date or place of birth under that name.

The public signature of YSN, on the other hand, is a sound. The official video of “Palabras”, his record with Aknose released in 2025, opens on a shout the published lyrics transcribe in capitals: “YSN MAKE THEM MOVE!”. The hashtags of the same video decline the brand, YSNMAKETHEMMOVE and YSNMAKEITMOVE, and the video credits publish his accounts in forms that confirm the first name of the credits: Instagram /nicolasysn, Snapchat nicolas_ysn, TikTok /ni.ysn, X account Nicolasysn and YouTube channel @ysnmakeitmove. Those accounts are reported here as published in the official video credits. None of them was opened and verified directly during this research, so the sameAs list in the structured data of this page stays empty, under the rule of this site. The title of this page keeps the shout, because it sums up the trade: a beatmaker exists to make bodies move, from the bouyon of Guadeloupe parties to the dembow of “Palabras”.

Sorting the homonyms: the American records of another YSN are not his

Searching YSN on the platforms returns a mixed record, and mixing it is the error this profile refuses. The pages headed YSN on Qobuz and Viberate also carry, interleaved with the West Indian records, records by an American rapper of the same name: the album “MG2X” and the singles “Stunna 2X” and “Toe 2 Toe”, released in 2020 and 2021 on Muzik Junky, and the records “OTA”, with Euro Gotit and YFN Lucci, and “WORKIN”, with Young Dolph, released in December 2020 on Authentic Empire Music Group. The Viberate text devoted to that conflated page even describes, in one of its versions, an artist from Columbus, Ohio. No source opened ties those American records, their labels and their guests to the beatmaker from the French West Indies: neither the name Nicolas Lanclume, nor Hakuna Music Company, nor any artist of his circuit appears there. This profile therefore excludes them from his catalogue, and says so, because a listener who lands on “MG2X” believing he is hearing the maker of “Lapli Season” would be hearing another artist.

The filter used to rebuild the real catalogue is simple, and it is stated here so anyone can redo it. A record is kept when at least one of these published signs ties it to the West Indian beatmaker: the label Hakuna Music Company, MBI Family, Mimesis or Step Out Productions on his records of the period; the songwriter or composer credit Nicolas Lanclume; a partner of his published circuit, Aknose, Krys, Rachelle Allison, Young Chang MC, Waysee, LULOS or Sanchii; or his Music Story biography, which names “Lapli Season” and its guests. Every record cited in this profile passes at least one of those signs, and most pass two. A third artist, YSN Flow, an American rapper on entirely other labels, completes the family of homonyms and has, likewise, no published link with this record.

That sorting work is not a librarian detail. In bouyon and in West Indian urban musics, the short names of producers travel fast, platforms merge homonyms without warning, and a wrongly credited record distorts everything: streams, bookings, songwriter payments. Bouyon Shattaz documents the same standard across the whole site, from the Dominican founders to the Guadeloupe beatmakers: a genre whose credits are exact is a genre whose creators can make a living. The bouyon producers page of this site gathers those studio men and women, and YSN holds his place there for a precise reason: his verified catalogue, once the sorting is done, is one of the densest of his generation on the Guadeloupe circuit.

Lapli Season: the collaborative album of March 29, 2024

The centre of the catalogue of YSN is an album, and that is a rarity in this beatmaker record: “Lapli Season”, released on March 29, 2024, on Hakuna Music Company, according to his Music Story biography and the Qobuz discography. The biography presents it as a collaborative project bringing together several artists, including Matieu White, Rachelle Allison and Young Chang MC. The title itself, lapli, rain in Creole, announces a season rather than an event: an album conceived as a shared working period, where the producer holds the centre and the voices of his circuit pass through. NRJ Antilles, in an article published on September 28, 2026, likewise presents “Sansasyon”, the record of YSN with Young Chang MC, as a track of the album “Lapli Season”, “reputed for its features with 19 artists of the local scene”. Nineteen featured artists, in the wording of the Antillean outlet: at that scale, the album stands as a photograph of the local scene of 2024, taken from the studio of YSN.

The singles around the album make it possible to follow its construction on platform listings. On November 3, 2023, “Nouvo Mood” came out on Hakuna Music Company under the name of YSN. On December 22, 2023, “DWXG” followed, again on Hakuna. On March 27, 2024, two days before the album, “Sansasyon” came out on Hakuna under the name of YSN, and NRJ Antilles ties it to “Lapli Season” as the record of YSN and Young Chang MC. Those three dates are those of the Qobuz listings consulted, and this profile gives them as such, without rebuilding a complete tracklist of the album that the opened sources do not publish in full. What is published is nevertheless enough to read the method: a producer who installs his name with singles under his own name in the autumn of 2023, then converts that visibility into a collective album in the spring of 2024, keeping the same home label from one end to the other.

The place of Rachelle Allison in that project deserves underlining, because it ties the album to the other great worksite of YSN, writing for others. The Music Story biography names her among the guests of “Lapli Season”, and it is for her that YSN would co-write, the following year, the record “PKM”, with the explicit credit Nicolas Lanclume (YSN) on Deezer. In the same way, Young Chang MC, guest of the album and partner on “Sansasyon”, is an installed name of Antillean dancehall, and Matieu White a dancehall and reggae singer of the same basin. The album of YSN is therefore not the album of a beginner surrounded by unknowns: it is the album of a producer already plugged into the voices that count on his scene, which the rest of his catalogue, from Krys to Aknose, would confirm record after record.

The composer for others: PKM, GOD BLESS, HOLIDAY, BBL

Half of the published work of YSN is done on the records of others, and the best documented record of that half is “PKM”, by Rachelle Allison with YSN. The official video of the record is tagged #Bouyon on YouTube, and the Deezer listing of the single, released on January 17, 2025, on Mimesis, gives a duration of 2 minutes 31 and four composers: Mike Saint-Auret, Nicolas Lanclume (YSN), Rachelle Paturot and Yohan Corneille Lanclas. A dancehall and bouyon record of two and a half minutes, written by four published hands, where the beatmaker appears both in the artist billing and in the writing credits. The collaboration continues the same year on “Parè Ba-Y” by Rachelle Allison, released on August 11, 2025, on Mimesis, which Deezer credits to Ysn as composer, then in 2026 on “Nyèt”, where the published composers bring together Rachelle Allison, Aknose and Ysn: three names of this site in a single credit block.

With Krys, an installed artist of Antillean dancehall, the collaboration takes the form of two published records. “GOD BLESS (Ah la vie qu’on mène)”, by Krys featuring YSN, came out on June 28, 2024, on KRYSmusics according to the Qobuz discography of Krys, and Viberate places it at the head of the popular records tied to the page of YSN, ahead of “Manawa” and “Palabras”. “HOLIDAY”, published as a record of Krys with YSN, pushes the role of the beatmaker one step further: the Shazam listing of the record credits YSN with Vocals and with production, “Producer”, and Nicolas Lanclume as songwriter, at 130 BPM, on Step Out Productions. The sources do not agree on the exact release day of that single, Qobuz dating it February 28, 2025, and Shazam June 27, 2025: this profile keeps the year 2025 and reports the disagreement, rather than choosing a date the listings dispute. The solid fact is the credit block: on a record by an artist of the calibre of Krys, YSN is published as producer.

The other collaborations of the period draw the same profile of a versatile studio man. “BBL”, by Waysee and YSN, came out on August 21, 2024, on Hakuna Music Company, at 117 BPM, in French according to Shazam, with Nicolas Lanclume and Yohan corneille as credited songwriters. “Viré”, by LULOS and YSN, came out on June 22, 2025, on Hakuna, at 100 BPM, with YSN credited as performer and as composer, and Nicolas Lanclume among the songwriters. Two records, two very different published tempos, 117 and 100 BPM, far from the fast zones of party bouyon: the beatmaker of this record also works the mid tempos of dancehall and of sung formats, which his biography sums up as the blend of Caribbean sounds and contemporary influences. It is that versatility, documented listing by listing, that explains why his name appears in credit blocks as different as those of Rachelle Allison, of Krys and of Aknose.

The duet with Aknose: Manawa, then Palabras in dembow

The most followed partnership of the record is the one tying YSN to Aknose, the Guadeloupe bouyon artist whose page this site documents. On September 6, 2024, “Manawa” came out on Hakuna Music Company under the names of Aknose and YSN, according to Qobuz and the YouTube listing of the record, provided by TuneCore with the mention P 2024 Hakuna Music Company. The biography of Aknose places that single in his run of 2024 singles, between “Kalollipop” and the preparation of 2025, and Viberate places “Manawa” among the most heard records tied to the page of YSN. For both artists, the record works as a joint visiting card: the bouyon voice on one side, the studio of the beatmaker on the other, on the same label.

On January 31, 2025, the duet followed with “Palabras”, on Hakuna Music Company and MBI Family. The official description of the video presents the record as a new title “in the Dembow style”, the fast Dominican rhythm, and credits YSN as composer of the record, with mixing and mastering by Zweeng. The video, directed by Ruddygst according to the same credits, thanks places and supporters between Guadeloupe and the Dominican Republic, and its hashtags assume the geography of the track: GUADELOUPE and REPUBLICADOMINICANA side by side, with DEMBOW, SHATTA, DANCEHALL and BOUYON in the published keywords of the video. The lyrics published in the description sing in mixed Guadeloupean Creole and Spanish, on the theme of palabras, the sweet talk to which the chorus answers with a repeated refusal. This profile cites that record as the point where the beatmaker of the gwada bouyon circuit explicitly plugs his work into the Dominican Republic and its dembow, without leaving his label or his partner: an opening of style, documented by the official credits of the video, not by a statement of intent.

That duet also matters because it ties two records this site built separately. Aknose brings the gwada bouyon path documented since “Moustik” with 1T1 in 2023, and YSN brings the studio, the composition and the collective album of 2024. Their joint records of 2024 and 2025, “Manawa” and “Palabras”, come out on the label that also releases the singles of YSN and part of those of Aknose, Hakuna Music Company, with MBI Family co-signing “Palabras”. In a scene where collaborations are often one night encounters, two records in five months, with an official video and complete credits, draw a followed working partnership, and it is as such that this profile documents it.

2025, 2026 and the limits of the record: Pran On Pyé, Bad, La Manigance

The published production of YSN continues after the duet with Aknose, still on the same circuits. On June 27, 2025, “Pran On Pyé” came out under his name on Hakuna Music Company according to Qobuz, and Viberate presents it as a collaboration with 1T1 and Lejuh, the two central names of current bouyon gwada documented on this site: if that reading is exact, the record plugs the beatmaker directly into the first circle of the genre, and this profile reports it with its attribution, Viberate, for lack of a complete credit block opened on the listing of the record. On December 12, 2025, “Bad”, by Sanchii and YSN, came out on Hakuna, with YSN credited as producer and Nicolas Lanclume as songwriter according to Shazam. On December 18, 2025, the Qobuz discography records his presence on “La Manigance”, the big collective record released on Because Music and ANTIHERO, where he appears among the many featured names alongside notably Aknose. In June 2026, “Tou Lannwit” again came out under his name on Hakuna Music Company: four years of continuous releases, from “Nouvo Mood” in November 2023 to that single of 2026, with no documented gap.

This work then has to be placed honestly in the genre this site documents. Platforms class the records of YSN in moving categories, Hip-Hop and Rap for “Lapli Season” and its 2023 singles, Pop for “Palabras” and “Pran On Pyé”, Dancehall, Reggae or World depending on the listings, and this profile will not reclass those platform labels into a bouyon certificate. The tie to bouyon is that of the circuit and of the records: the video of “PKM” is tagged #Bouyon by its own rights holders, the official keywords of “Palabras” list bouyon among the styles of the record, his partners Aknose, 1T1 and Lejuh are documented bouyon artists, and his label Hakuna Music Company releases part of the Guadeloupe bouyon and shatta scene. Bouyon itself was born in Dominica, with WCK, and its bouyon soca branch, started by Dada in 2003 according to the signed testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis, a Dominican-born producer, became one of the travelling forms of the genre: Guadeloupe beatmakers like YSN work in the space that history opened, between bouyon, dancehall, shatta and dembow, and it is in that space, named exactly, that this site classes him.

The limits of the record are the same as for his whole studio generation. No source consulted publishes his date or place of birth, his home community in the French West Indies, or an interview where he would tell his path before “Nouvo Mood” in 2023. His Music Story biography holds in a few lines. No consolidated listening figure of his own can be published here, the counters of the platforms mixing his name with that of his American homonyms, as the sorting section explains. What the record does make it possible to state is already solid: a songwriter name, Nicolas Lanclume, a dated collective album, a run of complete credit blocks across four labels, and a signature shout his own videos publish. In the meantime, listening follows the order of the record: “Lapli Season” for the collective project, “PKM” and “Parè Ba-Y” for the writing for Rachelle Allison, “GOD BLESS” and “HOLIDAY” for the work with Krys, “Manawa” and “Palabras” for the duet with Aknose, then “Viré”, “Pran On Pyé” and “Bad” for the recent period. Our bouyon playlist places those records in the Guadeloupe circuit they feed, week after week, from the studio of YSN.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Nicolas Lanclume?

Nicolas Lanclume is the name published in the credits of the records of YSN. Deezer writes it in the explicit form Nicolas Lanclume (YSN) among the composers of “PKM” by Rachelle Allison, and Shazam credits him as songwriter on “Viré”, “BBL”, “HOLIDAY” and “Bad”, records where YSN appears as performer, composer or producer. No source consulted publishes any other biographical element under that name, neither a date nor a place of birth.

Are “MG2X”, “OTA” and “WORKIN” by YSN of the West Indies?

No, not according to the sources opened for this profile, and it is the main trap on this name. Platform pages headed YSN mix the beatmaker from the French West Indies with an American rapper of the same name: “MG2X”, “Stunna 2X” and “Toe 2 Toe” on Muzik Junky, “OTA” with Euro Gotit and YFN Lucci and “WORKIN” with Young Dolph on Authentic Empire Music Group, in 2020 and 2021. None of those records carries the credit Nicolas Lanclume, the label Hakuna Music Company, or a partner of his circuit. This site excludes them from his catalogue.

What is “Lapli Season”?

“Lapli Season” is the album of YSN released on March 29, 2024, on Hakuna Music Company. His Music Story biography presents it as a collaborative project bringing together several artists, including Matieu White, Rachelle Allison and Young Chang MC. NRJ Antilles describes the album as reputed for its features with 19 artists of the local scene, and ties the record “Sansasyon”, by YSN and Young Chang MC, to that album.

Who composed “PKM” by Rachelle Allison and YSN?

According to the Deezer listing of the single, released on January 17, 2025, on Mimesis with a duration of 2 minutes 31, the composers of “PKM” are Mike Saint-Auret, Nicolas Lanclume (YSN), Rachelle Paturot and Yohan Corneille Lanclas. The official video of the record is tagged #Bouyon on YouTube. YSN was then credited as composer of “Parè Ba-Y” by Rachelle Allison in 2025, then as co-composer of “Nyèt” in 2026.

What does the shout “YSN Make Them Move” mean?

It is the published sound signature of YSN: the shout “YSN MAKE THEM MOVE!” opens the lyrics of “Palabras”, his 2025 record with Aknose, and the official hashtags of the video decline it as YSNMAKETHEMMOVE and YSNMAKEITMOVE, which is also the name of his YouTube channel published in the credits, @ysnmakeitmove. For a beatmaker, the formula is a programme: make the audience move.

Where does YSN come from?

His biography published on Qobuz presents him as a producer and beatmaker from the French West Indies, active on the local scene, with a style blending Caribbean sounds and contemporary influences. His published working circuit is that of Guadeloupe: the label Hakuna Music Company, MBI Family, and partners such as Aknose, Krys, Rachelle Allison and Young Chang MC. No source consulted specifies his island or community of birth, and this site does not invent it.

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