Dax Recalibrates the Bar

You are in for a roller coaster ride into the truth about you. Truth as in truth you won't want face in yourself but in order to evolve you know you must examine your own shadow self and admit some things to yourself.

So rarely it happens that someone so far advanced with such ease and fluidity perfect their craft and present it to the world with such rapid and reactive results.

True Individuals are the rarest of breeds. They know what they have to offer is precious and beautiful and is nothing if not fraught with meaning and substance.

It's not that the Individual are blessed or gifted-nay, they have earned every ounce of talent they have whether they practiced their art unceasingly or whether they just can pick it up seemingly effortlessly and deliver their craft flawlessly on the natch.

The True Individual also is one of profound Integrity-in whatever they are doing. If it's for good, it's great. If it's for bad, it's awful. True Individuals do not half-step-they know exactly who they are and what they themselves are capable of as well as knowing what they won't do all in order to maintain said integrity.

Even fewer True Individuals are truly optimistic-more of them are realists to pessimists that see little hope in humanity. Some may appear to be chaotic, violent, shocking thus viewed or assumed to be a negative thing. If it's anything this life has taught me, it's that nothing is merely what it looks like.

Some individuals, for the sake of making someone stop in their tracks and pay attention to what's going on will lay himself out wide open, raw and vulnerable, screaming saying "This is the truth that I'm telling you but take your best shot because I know who I am and I'm walking in Grace!" knowing that they have something important and meaningful to share with the world. The paths they blaze are etched deeply upon the ethers of 3D reality and the individual, as catalysts of change and growth, breathes new life into established forms of communication. But it's not just about communication.

It's about the ever diminishing contact each of us have with one another. It's about the real you, the real me, the real any one. It's asking, begging, pleading with the higher source we call God to give humanity validation for Life itself and then we know God's real too. Not whether what we do is right or wrong. We're all adults here, we know exactly what we do. It's not just a river in Egypt. Let's not kid ourselves any longer.

Pop culture and whatever happens to be "trending" is part and parcel to an entire culture focused on the fake. The fake presented as Real. When you think about it like that, well my head anyway is like "WTF, really? This is what society has come to? This is the standard of normality? When one can "fake it til they make it?" That's so wrong."

And let's face it, virtually no one is calling anyone on it. I can think of one guy who is, however and by a landslide.

Meet Mr. Daniel Nwosu Jr., otherwise known as artiste extrordinaire-DAX. From the moment I first heard him rap-okay, his phenomenal talent for rapping aside, it's his messages that breaks down the most hardened, cold heart. That's an understatement, my apologies. What he raps about may be pointed in particular areas but can be applied in any situation before any personality about just about anything. To say that he is brilliant poetically just doesn't do him enough justice.

Listening to Dax , I get the sense of urgency, the same sense I get about so much in the world lately. We all have been systematically conditioned and inclined toward armageddon, destruction, finality and entropy. It's why we die the way we do.

But the way Dax challenges the listener to question their own comfort zone(or discomfort zone), their own preconceived notions, their own belief systems, their own motivations for why they do anything, is beyond refreshing. It's one of the very reasons for existence in the first place--to be an iron sharpening other iron. To be our brothers keepers-and yes we all are each other's keepers. Not obviously in the literal sense but we are supposed to look out for one another and give heads up to someone who's not seeing things or a thing objectively.

Dax challenges people to ask questions:

"What if hell's on earth

What if being born is dying, and dying's birth

Would that mean life's not Gods gift but the devils curse

And to LIVE was to be EVIL cuz it’s words reversed"

and

"Where do we run

Where do we go

Who do we talk to

We look around and everyone we see is lost too"

From the song, Book of Revelations

These seem like basic questions but make no mistake: Dax's music is straight meat. Manna in fact, for the soul and for the heart.

Nothing I can say will convince you.

Why is it that when a person appears to be so far beyond the norm, so advanced that they are seen as a threat to the status quo? See? This is how I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there are active forces in the world that try to buy, control or force brilliant and special people to be an agent for an entirely different agenda. If that doesn't happen, brilliant people who find cures or speak too much truth start dying as has been happening in the science community.

I personally don't see why anyone would try to thwart or suppress truth, passion and integrity. Only answer that makes sense is that so few people actually want to be accountable and transparent that they will posse up and eliminate anyone who they may have to one day answer to. Or anyone who does a thing with more skill and heart than anyone else. And money, let's not forget how far someone will go for a dollar.

Whole societies, "brotherhoods" and religious orders all set in place to establish control over the masses and keep track of the money. And all based upon "popular" opinions and "trends". Pshaw!

So what life all comes down to is some popularity contest? Who's got the most "followers" dictates the moral compass of the world? I'm sorry, that moral compass clearly points south.

And I think that's part of what Dax raps about:

A world that values the wrong ish, people so tuned into their phones, people so driven and tossed by the ill winds of what's and who's trending that someone needs to get silly smacked with a selfie-stick. Okay seriously smacked with a selfie-stick.

I'm making light right there at people but I'm not the only one who sees how absurd the state of the world is and how it invokes laughter and crying simultaneously.

"If you’re fragile don’t you even try come to this place

They gon' build you just to break you then rebuild you to break

Let you reach your own limit then heroically save and that’s exactly how Gotham turns you into a slave"

From the song "Gotham"

Dax is a brand new breed of mankind-sensitive, strong, passionate, able to see and acknowledge his own flaws and willing to burn off the dross within his own crucible. All without ever compromising his values, at the core. Knowing that above it all is love and to keep spreading that love and peace is the only way to heal.

Dax invites you to be uncomfortable, so that you know and appreciate when it is that you are comfortable. He invites crazy so you appreciate sanity. He gives the most brutally honest glimpses into his heart, for all the mayhem swirling around him, his optimism shines through all of the pain, through all of the opposition and through the self-doubt.

I think Dax being as raw emotionally as he is, should be something that other men look to as a strength to have. A "real man" shouldn't be defined by his quiet, stoic demeanor of just sucking it in and bottling things up. A real man should be able to be vulnerable, safely and readily be in touch with his feelings. There is strength in being enough of a hard ass to make people respect you for your sensitivity. That's part of what being a Man is, isn't it?.

Any man(or woman) who refuses to show vulnerability in any capacity has only faux strength. His strength is, as his ego, a house a cards in the wind.

That Dax not only expresses his emotions readily but he exposes his own clay feet and his mental frame of mind, admitting to his own mental instability is refreshing in an age and from a place where vulnerability on any level will get you at the very least, ostracized from your peers.

But then, if you are a-ok with yourself, your life and the world at large then you are not reading this article because you must be living under a rock or insulated from everyday reality-much like many of "the rich and the famous" seem to be.

Completely dysphoric and delusional after so much time being fussed over, coddled, protected and having everything done for them and from people telling them only what they want to hear. So long having their egos hand feed to them to the point of glottony, they become this meccha monster, completely out of touch with reality.

I don't foresee any of that happening to this fellow though. I'd bet he knows this too that as long as you are questioning your own sanity or your own validity, you cut back the amount of confusing red tape or distracting red flags that would start to erode personal growth and transformation.

"You wouldn’t know real if it slapped you right in the face

Ain’t for the culture I can tell by the sh*t you embrace"

From the song "Gotham"

Dax obviously sees very clearly the hypocrisy, the greed , the shallowness and hollowness of L.A., how very sick and twisted folks are there, everything is reversed. But it's not just L.A. and it's not just California, not just America.

"Everywhere you look is plastic all fabricated

Everything you’ve seen on tv was exaggerated

Don’t nobody see you till you get a million

followers and when you do they treat you like you’re someone and you’re validated"

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"And that’s what happens when the master starts fearing the student

In this city you’re a number they don’t see you as human

Just a puppet they replace for their games and amusement

In a city full of angels with the biggest influence I see demons with a platform who just fucking abuse it"

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Toxic Westful Thinking has spread worldwide and everyone thinks they want to be here when anyone could do their own souls a favor and make your dream happen where ever you already are.

Only the very rare individual can come here and withstand the constant blows to the ego and the self-confidence and be stronger for it. You need a good and healthy support system and I hope Dax has that.

I'm hoping for the thousand shallow empty vessels he encounters one or two people that have some substance and heart and that he can call a friend .