Dax (rapper)

Daniel Nwosu Jr. was born on March 22, 1994, in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Nwosu grew up in Ottawa and moved to Wichita to attend university, after school he lived in Detroit for a short period before moving to Los Angeles, California. Nwosu then attended the Newman University, where he played guard for the Newman Jets basketball team.[5][6] He initially wrote poetry and was a motivational speaker prior to pursuing a rap career. During his tenure at Newman University, he worked as a janitor, which he claimed was a job he liked because he was able to work on building his rap career in his spare time from work.[7][8]

In 2016, Dax decided to write up a poem as he rode on a bus with his basketball team. After receiving positive feedback from a teammate about his poem, he recognized his passion for writing. Since then he began releasing and promoting music through his SoundCloud account dropping mixtape 2pac Reincarnation Vol 2: As Told By Dax in 2017. He rose to fame for the official music video of his song "Cash Me Outside" featuring Danielle Bregoli.[9]

In August 2018, he released his first extended play, entitled It’s Different Now which features guest appearances from other rappers including OT Genasis and Futuristic. The following year, he was featured on Hopsin's song "You Should've Known".[10] In June 2019, he went on "It goes up" tour with Tech N9ne and then later announced his first solo headlining tour "It's Different Now Tour" via Instagram and scheduled to tour in October across America and Canada.[11]

In 2020, he released another EP, I'll Say It for You which received generally positive reviews, the 7 track EP was preceded by the controversial single "Dear God".[12][13] Later that year he released two more singles, "Faster" and "I don't want another sorry" featuring Tech N9ne and Trippie Redd respectively.[14][15][16] In April 2020, he released the single "Coronavirus (State Of Emergency)", which was written about the COVID-19 pandemic.[17]

In July 2021, Dax released a sequel to "Dear God" called "Child of God".[18] In the following month, he announced his debut studio album and released "Propaganda" featuring Tom Macdonald as album's lead single.[19][20] The song peaked at number 15 on the Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales chart and at number 9 on the Rap Digital Song Sales chart.[21][22] In early October 2021, album's third single "40 Days, 40 Nights" featuring Nasty C was released.[23][24] On October 15, 2021, his debut studio album Pain Paints Paintings was released digitally through Living Legends Entertainment.[25]

On March 11, 2022, he released a new single titled "Dear Alcohol", which was written about alcoholism. It debuted at number 9 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 and at 28 on the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart, and was eventually certified Gold by both the RIAA and Music Canada.[26][27][28] On June 10, 2022, he released a country music crossover remix for the song featuring vocals from country singer Elle King.[29] He received a nomination for Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the 2023 Canadian Country Music Awards.[30]

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