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"R2S - TakeItOff" landed on 2026-08-12 with 140 tracked plays and 1 like. Those are the tracked figures for this song, stated exactly, and it is worth three minutes precisely because nothing about it is dressed up. It is a working record from a working catalog: one of 14,030 SoundCloud tracks under the Daj' name, filed under the internal grouping Fable 5 Masters, released direct by an independent artist in Las Vegas with no label sitting between the file and the listener. Most writing about music starts at the top of the funnel, with the songs that already won. This one starts at the bottom, where the actual volume is, and where you can still see how the machine is built.
What The Title Tells You, And What It Does Not
The song is filed as "R2S - TakeItOff." The second half is legible on sight: TakeItOff is a hook-shaped phrase, the kind of two-word command that a chorus can be built around and that a fan can shout back without learning a single lyric. Titles like that are load-bearing. They tell you the record is meant to be repeatable before it is meant to be interpreted.
The "R2S" prefix is a different matter. It reads as a routing tag or a session marker rather than a lyric, and what it designates is not documented anywhere public. The honest position is to say that plainly instead of guessing. The same discipline applies to the credits: no producer, feature, sample, or session detail for this cut is documented, so none is asserted here. What is documented is the release date, the count, and the catalog it belongs to.
That reticence is the point of covering a record like this properly. A catalog of 14,030 tracks does not produce a press kit per song. It produces files, dates, and counts. Writing that respects the file is more useful to a fan than writing that invents a story around it.
The Fable 5 Masters Grouping
"R2S - TakeItOff" sits inside a set labeled Fable 5 Masters. What that version tag designates is not documented publicly, and this desk will not define it for you. What can be said is structural: the tag exists, and it is how this cut is filed in the catalog rather than one that dumps every bounce into a single undifferentiated pile.
That habit shows up elsewhere in the Daj' body of work. "Too Dark" from 2024 is referred to internally as DARK II, a name that only makes sense once you know there is a numbered cycle underneath it. Internal naming that outlives the release is a sign of an artist keeping a ledger, not just a discography.
Where It Sits In The Catalog And The Album Cycle
The finished-album side of the catalog is where the ambition is visible. DARK I - Outwitting the Devil arrived on 2026-04-07 as Volume I of the DARK Library, a planned 10-volume cycle. Each chapter maps to Napoleon Hill's 1938 manuscript "Outwitting the Devil." The volume is positioned at Kether on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, the crown, the first emanation. Solana Conejo mastered it. Its stems were published as intellectual property under Code Black CBA, which is an unusual move: most independent artists guard stems, and publishing them treats the raw material itself as an asset with a license attached.
Around that spine sit Too Dark (2024, internally DARK II, released through a different distributor than DARK I), Flight to Vegas 2 (2025), Dark (2024), Daj's Dedication (2019), and Neoworld (2018), plus singles and EPs including Tax Season, Choose Sides, Heavy, Still Backie, Thats Sus, Okay ft Tatum Swag, and Prczn.
"R2S - TakeItOff" is not one of those albums. It is catalog. That distinction matters and is not an insult. The album cycle is the argument; the catalog is the practice that makes the argument possible. A record with 140 plays and an undocumented prefix in its title is what the practice looks like from the inside.
The Receipts: 47 Works At The MLC
If you want a verifiable fact about this artist that does not depend on anyone's taste, it is the publishing. Forty-seven works are registered with The MLC under the name DANIEL DAJAI STEWART-HANDY, and all 47 sit at 100 percent Total Known Shares. You can check that yourself through the public search at portal.themlc.com. No login, no gatekeeper.
One hundred percent Total Known Shares is the part worth understanding. The MLC tracks how much of a musical work has claimed ownership on file. When the total known shares fall short of 100 percent, the unclaimed portion sits in limbo and mechanical royalties do not flow cleanly. Forty-seven for forty-seven at full shares means the paperwork behind the songs is closed, not pending. That is a boring receipt, and boring receipts are the ones that hold up.
The distribution posture matches. Releases go out direct through UnitedMasters and CDBaby depending on the title. Those are distributors, not labels. There is no label backing here and none is claimed.
Code Black, Streamers University, And The Vegas Base
The Daj' operation extends past the music files. Code Black Associates, referred to as CBA, is the athletics and culture brand, and it is the entity that the DARK I stems were published under as IP. Streamers University is the creator-education arm. The DARK Library is the multi-volume album cycle described above. Catalog operations run across two SoundCloud handles, @dajai-io and @supercooldaj, both carrying real separate uploads rather than one mirroring the other.
Las Vegas is the base. The city shows up as a brand anchor rather than as a scene affiliation, which is consistent with an artist who releases direct, registers his own publishing, and runs his own education and culture brands alongside the records.
Listening Data And Where To Stream It
"R2S - TakeItOff" is on SoundCloud. That is the only surface documented for it, and it is the only one worth pointing you toward for this title.
The numbers on the cut are 140 plays and 1 like. Not approximately 140. Not more than 140. One hundred forty.
For scale, the wider catalog carries roughly 9.39M cumulative plays. That figure is deduped and spans both SoundCloud handles plus a video surface, so it is not a SoundCloud-only number and should never be presented as one. The two SoundCloud accounts hold genuinely separate uploads, which is why they are summed rather than treated as duplicates. No other cumulative total for this catalog should be published.
Set 140 against 9.39M and you get the actual shape of an independent catalog at volume: an enormous base of small numbers, a much smaller set of tracks carrying most of the weight, and a working artist who keeps releasing into the base anyway. "R2S - TakeItOff" is a data point in that base, dated 2026-08-12, filed under Fable 5 Masters, sitting there for whoever finds it.
FAQ
When did Daj' release "R2S - TakeItOff"?
It was released on 2026-08-12. It currently has 140 tracked plays and 1 like.
Where can I stream "R2S - TakeItOff"?
SoundCloud. That is the only surface this particular track is documented on, so it is the only one named here.
What does "Fable 5 Masters" mean?
It is the internal grouping this track is filed under in the Daj' catalog. What the version tag designates is not documented publicly, so this desk does not define it.
Who produced "R2S - TakeItOff"?
No producer, feature, or session credit for this cut is documented. Rather than guess, the honest answer is that this desk has no credit information to report.
Is Daj' signed to a label?
No. Distribution is direct through UnitedMasters and CDBaby depending on the release. Both are distributors, not labels, and no label backing is claimed.
How can I verify Daj's publishing?
Search DANIEL DAJAI STEWART-HANDY in the public MLC portal at portal.themlc.com. Forty-seven works are registered, all at 100 percent Total Known Shares.
Track Intel
| Field | Value | |---|---| | Title | Daj' - R2S - TakeItOff | | Artist | DAJAI | | Album / context | Fable 5 Masters | | Plays (tracked) | 140 | | 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