Daniel Nwosu Jr. (born March 22, 1994), better known by his stage name Dax (often stylized as DAX), is a Nigerian Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter.[3][4]
Daniel Nwosu Jr. was born on March 22, 1994, in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. He grew up in Ottawa and moved to Wichita to attend university, and he later moved to Los Angeles, California. He 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]
Dax decided to write up a poem as he rode on a bus with his basketball team in 2016. After impressing one of his teammates with the poem, Dax realized he had a knack for putting words together. He began seriously 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]
He released his first extended play in August 2018, 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 called "I'll Say It For You" which received generally positive reviews, the 7 track EP was preceded by the controversial single "Dear God", in which Dax asks questions for God as he contemplates the existence of both himself and the world at large. The song was praised by the critics for its subject matter and lyricism, the music video of the song has over 50 million views on YouTube and has been streamed more than 50 million times on Spotify.[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" in which he responded by thanking God for what he had done for him.[18] In August 2021, Dax 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]