Pupa Nas-T and Lava release Pelt Out on Thursday, November 19, 2026, a soca single built for the Carnival road and the fete. The pelt out riddim arrives on all platforms via Digital Drum Records, and Nas-T has already shared the main mix so listeners can hear it ahead of release day, as DancehallMag reported.
The song has pure Carnival energy, made to mash up the road and the fete.
That is Nas-T on the record he made with Lava. For Toronto’s Caribbean diaspora, that road and fete circuit is home territory: the city runs one of the largest Carnival cultures in North America, and a November soca release is timed for the winter fetes and the road season that follows.
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The Pelt Out riddim is an open call
The single is only the first step. Nas-T is turning Pelt Out into a riddim project: he will choose ten artists to voice it first, his team will choose others after that, and emerging artists are invited to try as well, as long as they link him first so it is done properly. A riddim release, where many voices ride one production, is soca and dancehall’s oldest sharing economy, and this one is being run as an open door rather than a closed camp.
The Work lineage reaches Drake
Nas-T has sent a soca record around the world before. Born Anastas Hackett, the Brooklyn born producer, composer, drummer and remixer created and co-wrote Work, the 2001 soca house track featuring Trinidadian singer Denise “Saucey Wow” Belfon. Work later found its way into Drake’s BBW, which gives this Toronto facing story its direct line: a soca production from 2001 sits inside the catalogue of the biggest artist this city has produced.
His catalogue also includes If I Can’t Have You and Put Your Back In It, and it has found a new audience in recent years through remixes and collaborations with house and electronic artists.
Three decades across the diaspora
Nas-T founded Traveling Man Productions and Digital Drum Records, and he has spent more than three decades moving between soca, calypso, reggae, dancehall, hip hop and electronic music. He has worked with Sugar Minott, Leroy Sibbles, JC Lodge, Leroy Smart and The Abyssinians, and as a drummer and band leader he performed on two Synergy Reggae Sunsplash World Tours.
Pelt Out lands November 19. A producer with that history choosing to open his new riddim to emerging voices is the story here: the record is built for the road, and the invitation to ride it is part of the release.
