Dax, a Nigerian-Canadian poet and rapper, calls from a phone number with a Wichita, Kansas, area code to speak with The Tennessean about his outsider-to-insider rise in country music's mainstream.

Let’s take a second to talk about Dax, the dude who’s been blowing up by getting brutally honest on every track. This isn’t just another rapper gassing himself up. Born in Ottawa, raised in a Nigerian ...

Nigerian-Canadian rapper and artist Dax chatted about his new EP “What is Life?” This marks his first major release with Columbia Records. On the song selection approach for the new EP, Dax said, “God ...