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| Destination | Link | |---|---| | SoundCloud | Play | | Artist | SoundCloud dajai-io · supercooldaj · Apple Music |
Better Have Your Gun is not a Daj' song. It is a Pop Smoke record that shows up in Daj's SoundCloud favorites, and this page is written from the listener's chair, not the artist's. The SoundCloud upload it points to shows 5,192,073 plays, which puts it in a completely different weight class from anything on Daj's own newer handle. That gap is exactly why it is worth writing about.
A favorites list is the closest thing a rapper has to a public notebook of influences. It is not a press statement or a curated interview answer. It is a record of what someone actually saved, one tap at a time.
Why Favorites Are Worth Reading
When an artist uploads music, you learn what he makes. When he saves someone else's music, you learn what he hears. Those are different pieces of information, and the second is often more honest. Nobody builds a favorites list for an audience.
For an independent artist like Daj', who runs his catalog out of Las Vegas with no label intermediary, the listening graph is also a map of the lane he is working in. Better Have Your Gun is tagged hip-hop on its page. Seeing it saved next to his own trap and street rap uploads draws a line between the two.
The Scale Gap
Put the numbers side by side. This Pop Smoke upload shows 5,192,073 plays. Daj's own singles posted in 2026 on the @dajai-io handle generally sit in the low hundreds each; several of them show around 300 plays. Across his entire archive, the deduplicated play count is near 9.39 million, spread over 14,030 SoundCloud tracks and two handles.
That comparison is humbling and useful at the same time. One song from an artist at that scale can match more than half of a whole independent catalog built over years. For a new listener, it frames what Daj's numbers actually mean: they are earned one upload at a time, without the machinery that pushes a single record into the millions.
What a Title Like This Does
Better Have Your Gun is an imperative. It is a warning and a rule in four words, the kind of title that sets a tense mood before the first bar. Hard, direct, second-person titles like that are part of the vocabulary of street rap, and they are the same kind of blunt, one-line framing you can see in Daj's own titles, from Choose Sides to Heavy.
This page will not make claims about how the Pop Smoke track was produced, who worked on it or when it was released, since none of those details are part of the information here. What it can say is that the listener who saved it makes records built on the same kind of directness.
The Artist Doing the Listening
Daj' is an independent rapper from Las Vegas. His biggest project so far is DARK I - Outwitting the Devil, released April 7, 2026, as Volume I of the ten-volume DARK Library, with each chapter tied to Napoleon Hill's 1938 manuscript. It was mastered by Solana Conejo, and its stems were published as intellectual property under Code Black CBA, the athletics and culture brand in the same orbit.
His songwriting is registered with The MLC: 47 works under DANIEL DAJAI STEWART-HANDY, every one at 100% Total Known Shares, all viewable through portal.themlc.com. The wider public brand also includes Streamers University, which focuses on creator education.
Two Handles, One Ear
Daj' runs two SoundCloud accounts. The older @supercooldaj handle carries about 8.42 million plays, and the newer @dajai-io handle about 0.86 million. Favorites like this one are part of how the two sides connect: the uploads show the output, and the saved tracks show the input.
There is one more lesson in a favorite like this. Independent artists are often told to study the market, but the most useful study is simpler: listen closely to records that connect with huge audiences and figure out what they do in the first ten seconds. A title that works as a warning, a hook that repeats a short phrase, a voice that sounds certain. Those tools are free to learn, and a saved track is a note to come back and learn them.
Where to Listen
Better Have Your Gun is on SoundCloud, where its upload shows 5,192,073 plays. Play it, then play one of Daj's own 2026 singles right after. You will hear what the two share and what an independent artist is building toward.
FAQ
How do I listen to Better Have Your Gun?
You can hear Better Have Your Gun on SoundCloud; the dajai.io Better Have Your Gun page lists where Better Have Your Gun lives.
Who is the artist behind Better Have Your Gun?
Daj' (DAJAI) made Better Have Your Gun in-house - writing, recording, and mastering, no outside studio.
Does Better Have Your Gun belong to an album?
No album run claims Better Have Your Gun - it holds its own slot in the catalog.
Track Intel
| Field | Value | |---|---| | Title | Better Have Your Gun | | Artist | POP SMOKE | | Album / context | Hip-Hop | | Plays (tracked) | 5,192,073 | | Catalog likes (if any) | 0 | | Source desk | SoundCloud favorites / likes graph | | Release | n/a |
Filed by DAJAI Stewart · Music & Catalog Editor · @BackieDaj · MUSIC DRIP DESK