{"id":5059,"date":"2023-09-02T14:07:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2024-11-29T17:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T22:24:25","slug":"thanks-to-his-intense-lyrical-delivery-and-high-concept-videos-dax-has-independently-built-a-large-following","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5059","title":{"rendered":"Thanks To His Intense Lyrical Delivery And High Concept Videos Dax Has Independently Built A Large Following"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian rapper Dax has independently built a large following thanks to his intense lyrical delivery and high-concept videos. \u2022 Before focusing on music, Dax had a promising college basketball career. He led his conference in scoring his senior year and had aspirations of going pro. \u2022 On his 2020 single \u201cDear God,\u201d Dax raps through a conversation with God, sorting through what he calls his \u201ccomplicated relationship\u201d with faith and religion. In the song\u2019s music video, Dax plays Jesus Christ bearing the cross. \u2022 In addition to releasing original music, Dax has made popular remixes of songs by 2Pac, Eminem, and others. \u2022 Dax released his second EP, I\u2019ll Say It For You, in early 2020 and followed it up in June with the single \u201cFaster,\u201d a collaboration with fellow speed rapper Tech N9ne.<\/p>\n

Canadian rapper Dax has independently built a large following thanks to his intense lyrical delivery and high-concept videos. \u2022 Before focusing on music, Dax had a promising college basketball career. He led his conference in scoring his senior year and had aspirations of going pro. \u2022 On his 2020 single \u201cDear God,\u201d Dax raps through a conversation with God, sorting through what he calls his \u201ccomplicated relationship\u201d with faith and religion. In the song\u2019s music video, Dax plays Jesus Christ bearing the cross. \u2022 In addition to releasing original music, Dax has made popular remixes of songs by 2Pac, Eminem, and others. \u2022 Dax released his second EP, I\u2019ll Say It For You, in early 2020 and followed it up in June with the single \u201cFaster,\u201d a collaboration with fellow speed rapper Tech N9ne.<\/p>\n

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The opening track of Canadian rapper Dax\u2019s What is life?, \u201cThe Abyss,\u201d is a vivid, detailed origin story, albeit a dark one. \u201cAll of this pain, I just wanna be happy\/Mama almost died the same day that she had me,\u201d Dax spits over a spare beat as he recalls childhood memories of \u201cfighting psychosis\u201d and \u201cplaying basketball religiously to drown out the noises\u201d of \u201cvoices\u201d in his head. The track turns somewhat hopeful, though, when he describes finding ways to turn his pain into art, though the \u201cabyss\u201d at the heart of the track belies a darkness difficult to overcome. That attention to detail is no accident, as Dax came to hip-hop via writing poetry while playing college basketball in Wichita, Kansas, during the mid-2010s. In the intervening years, Dax has carved a niche for himself within the sprawling genre, especially finding acclaim with his 2022 confessional \u201cDear Alcohol,\u201d on which he\u2019d later duet with Elle King for a remix. The original incarnation of that track appears here and is the beating heart of the EP, as Dax frankly confronts how his personal pain led to alcoholism. Other highlights on the project include \u201c2023,\u201d on which Dax considers the effects of modern societal ills with an agile, emotive flow, as well as closer \u201cLife,\u201d an affirming reminder to keep moving despite the setbacks.<\/p>\n

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Canadian rapper Dax has independently built a large following thanks to his intense lyrical delivery and high-concept videos. \u2022 Before focusing on music, Dax had a promising college basketball career. He led his conference in scoring his senior year and had aspirations of going pro. \u2022 On his 2020 single \u201cDear God,\u201d Dax raps through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[921],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-streamapse-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5440,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions\/5440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}