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| Destination | Link | |---|---| | SoundCloud | Play | | DAJAI Track Page | Open | | Artist | SoundCloud dajai-io · supercooldaj · Apple Music |
R2S - ImTellingYou shows 86 tracked plays and one like. The entries filed around it in the same August grouping mostly sit above 115. That drop is the most interesting number on the page, and it is not a small one.
The file was logged on 2026/08/12 under the Fable 5 Masters project heading and runs two minutes and forty-eight seconds.
Where A Sequential Listen Runs Out
When several files in a set carry nearly identical counters, the usual explanation is that people played the group in order rather than choosing individual tracks. Ties mean sequence.
A sharp break in that pattern means something else: sequence ending. A file sitting thirty or so plays below its neighbours is roughly where listeners stopped. Some closed the tab, some ran out of time, some had heard enough. The specific reason is unknowable and mostly uninteresting. What matters is that the shape of the counters records where attention gave out, and it is one of the few things a public play count can measure reliably.
Position in a listing, not quality of the record, is the likeliest driver. Anything late in a batch inherits the attrition of everything in front of it.
What The Number Cannot Be Read As
It would be easy and wrong to read 86 as a verdict on the record. Nothing in the data supports that.
To compare two records by their counters you need listeners who reached both and chose between them, and a drop-off pattern is evidence that many never reached this one at all. A file that loses on availability has not lost on merit. This is the most common misreading of small public numbers and it is worth naming plainly rather than implying.
The single like points the other way, mildly. A like is an action somebody took on purpose. It requires reaching the file and then deciding to mark it, which is a stronger signal per unit than any play in a sequence.
Two Minutes And Forty-Eight Seconds
167.925 seconds is the measurement, which puts this in the upper-middle of its batch rather than at either extreme.
That length gives a record time to do two things instead of one. There is room for a structure that moves, and there is still enough compression that nothing has to be padded. A title built on a declaration, which is what I am telling you is, suits that frame: the phrase sets up something to be delivered, and the runtime gives it space to be delivered properly rather than announced and abandoned.
The Phrase As A Title
I am telling you is not a statement of fact. It is a statement about the act of stating, which is a different move. People say it when they expect not to be believed, or when they have already said the thing once and are now saying it harder.
Compressed into one unspaced token for filing purposes, the phrase keeps that quality. It is insistence rather than information, which puts the burden on the record to supply what the title deliberately withholds.
The Checkable Layer
Individual files in this archive carry very little documentation. The operation around them carries quite a lot, and it can be verified without trusting this page.
The MLC's public search under DANIEL DAJAI STEWART-HANDY returns 47 registered works, all at 100 percent Total Known Shares. Daj' works from Las Vegas with no label attached, releasing direct through UnitedMasters or CDBaby, which are distributors. The structured releases include DARK I - Outwitting the Devil, out 2026-04-07 as the first of ten volumes in the DARK Library cycle, its chapters mapped to a 1938 Napoleon Hill manuscript and the volume sited at Kether on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, mastered by Solana Conejo, stems published as IP under Code Black CBA. Too Dark, from 2024, ran through a separate distributor and is known internally as DARK II. Code Black Associates covers athletics and culture; Streamers University covers creator education.
The catalog totals 14,030 SoundCloud tracks over @dajai-io and @supercooldaj, with roughly 9.39M cumulative plays after deduplication. An 86 play file is an ordinary component of a number that size.
Hearing It
SoundCloud carries R2S - ImTellingYou and is the only service to name for it. The dajai.io track page holds its link.
If you work through the batch in order, this is the one most people did not reach. That is a reason to start with it rather than a reason to skip it.
FAQ
Where is Daj' - R2S - ImTellingYou available to hear?
You can hear Daj' - R2S - ImTellingYou on SoundCloud; the dajai.io Daj' - R2S - ImTellingYou page lists where Daj' - R2S - ImTellingYou lives.
Who recorded Daj' - R2S - ImTellingYou?
Daj' (DAJAI) wrote, recorded, and mastered Daj' - R2S - ImTellingYou himself, independent out of Las Vegas.
When did Daj' - R2S - ImTellingYou come out?
The catalog dates Daj' - R2S - ImTellingYou to 2026/08/12.
Where does Daj' - R2S - ImTellingYou sit in the catalog?
Daj' - R2S - ImTellingYou sits inside Fable 5 Masters, with the rest of that run.
Track Intel
| Field | Value | |---|---| | Title | Daj' - R2S - ImTellingYou | | Artist | DAJAI | | Album / context | Fable 5 Masters | | Plays (tracked) | 86 | | Catalog likes (if any) | 1 | | Source desk | DAJAI sovereign catalog | | Release | 2026/08/12 |
Filed by DAJAI Stewart · Music & Catalog Editor · @BackieDaj · MUSIC DRIP DESK