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| Destination | Link | |---|---| | SoundCloud | Play | | Artist | SoundCloud dajai-io · supercooldaj · Apple Music |
California, the Dom Kennedy record, is in the favorites. The upload carrying it here is not a label page and it is not a Daj' page. The artist field reads Jinxy Barksdale, and the path is soundcloud.com/jinxybarksdale/dom-kennedy-california. Plays: 174,834. The title is Dom Kennedy - California, so the songwriter's name is in the string the uploader chose. No genre, no runtime, no date on this pull.
An L.A. record in a Las Vegas likes list
Dom Kennedy's California is one of those songs people use when they want Los Angeles without a postcard. A rapper based in Las Vegas liking it is not a contradiction. Cities listen to each other. The 174,834 plays are on the Jinxy Barksdale upload specifically. They are not Dom Kennedy's official tally, because this page only has the counter on the file that was liked, and that file names Jinxy as the account. Quote the account you actually opened.
Daj' did not record it, produce it, or remix it. The action was a like. The music desk prints likes so the taste sits in public next to the session files. A catalog that never admits what it replays starts to sound like it was born in a vacuum. This like is the opposite of a vacuum. It is a specific song, with a specific host account, and a six-figure play count on that host's upload.
174,834, kept exact
The number is 174,834, not 175,000 and not "a couple hundred thousand." Rounding is how a listening note turns into a slogan. The August Daj' uploads in the same week's desk are in the low hundreds of plays. The gap is the point of printing both kinds of page. One is the work. One is the diet. California is diet.
No track page on dajai.io, because assigning a slug would look like ownership. The path above is the whole address.
Playing California from the file that was liked
soundcloud.com/jinxybarksdale/dom-kennedy-california. Dom Kennedy in the title, Jinxy Barksdale on the account, 174,834 plays, and a like from the dajai-io side of the graph. That is the whole receipt.
Los Angeles, heard from a Las Vegas likes list, on somebody else's upload
Dom Kennedy's California is one of those songs a city uses when it wants to miss itself. Hearing it from Las Vegas does not make it a Vegas record, and liking it does not make it a Daj' record. The artist field on the file that was liked is Jinxy Barksdale. The path is soundcloud.com/jinxybarksdale/dom-kennedy-california. The title the uploader chose still says Dom Kennedy - California, so the songwriter's name survived the re-upload. Good. The counter did not survive as Dom's counter. 174,834 plays are on Jinxy's upload. They are not an official tally, and they are not a career number I can move onto a different page.
No genre, no runtime, no date on this pull. I am leaving the holes. A listening note gets worse when it invents a year to sound researched. The like is the action. The song is the diet. The August files in the same week are the work, sitting in the low hundreds of plays. The gap between 174,834 and a session file at 230 is the reason to print both. One is a record he made. One is a record he keeps near the speakers.
No track page on dajai.io. California stays at the URL that was actually hearted. If you only know the song from a different upload, this page is not that upload, and the plays will not match. Quote the account you opened. Jinxy Barksdale. 174,834. Dom Kennedy in the title. A like from a rapper whose own files are having a much quieter week, on purpose.
FAQ
Is California a Daj' song?
No. It is Dom Kennedy's record, heard here via a Jinxy Barksdale upload that was liked.
How many plays are on that upload?
174,834.
Does dajai.io host the audio?
No catalog track page. The audio is on the Jinxy Barksdale SoundCloud upload.
Why mention Las Vegas at all?
Because that is the artist's base, and the like is his. The song itself is the Los Angeles record in the title.
Track Intel
| Field | Value | |---|---| | Title | Dom Kennedy - California | | Artist | Jinxy Barksdale | | Album / context | Single | | Plays (tracked) | 174,834 | | 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