Daj' · DAJAI.IO

Daj' (also DAJAI.IO) — Las Vegas hip-hop artist. ~9.91 million catalog plays, multi-year discography, vertically-integrated independent operation.

Daj', releasing under the new name DAJAI.IO, is a Las Vegas-based hip-hop artist (Daniel Dajai Stewart-Handy). Multi-year discography includes Athletics 2017, Tax Season (2023), Dark, Too Dark, Flight to Vegas 2, DARK I (Outwitting the Devil, Apr 2026), and the ongoing 150 Mixtape and DARK series. ~9.91 million total catalog plays across SoundCloud (@supercooldaj 8.42M legacy archive + @dajai-io 1.38M new chapter), YouTube (110K), Spotify, and Apple Music. Influences: Nipsey Hussle, Future. Building a sovereign AI music & entertainment company — vertically integrated, owner-operated, no labels, no agencies.

Daj' — releasing new material under DAJAI.IO — is the artist project of Daniel Dajai Stewart-Handy, an independent recording artist and operator based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The catalog spans more than a decade: Athletics 2017 marked the first full-length statement, followed by Tax Season (2023), the Dark / Too Dark albums, Flight to Vegas 2, DARK I (Outwitting the Devil, released April 7 2026 on Apple Music + Spotify via UnitedMasters), and the currently-shipping 150 Mixtape and DARK series. The total recorded archive is 19,353 tracks across 12 named projects, with ~9.91 million cumulative plays (verified 2026-08-15). SoundCloud is the primary listener surface across two profiles: @supercooldaj carries the 8.42M-play legacy archive (the original 12-year catalog), and @dajai-io carries the 1.38M-play new chapter and where DARK lands. YouTube (@dajai) adds 110K plays. Tracks are also available on Spotify (Daj') with 284 monthly listeners on the legacy profile, plus a parallel Dajai.io profile for the new chapter. Apple Music carries the released albums and EPs. Influences: Nipsey Hussle, Future. The artist business is structurally unusual: vertically integrated by a local AI engine. Custom mastering pipelines (Diamond Mastering, the DARK Library aesthetic), a self-built distribution surface at dajai.io, and proprietary infrastructure (Code Black Associates, Hellcat Blondie LLC, the sovereign AGI/ASI stack) underpin every release. The .io is part of the new artist name on purpose: it auto-promotes the website every time it's spoken or queued in a playlist, building a self-referential loop between catalog, web, and audience. No labels, no agencies, no platform middlemen. Built brick by brick — the Nipsey Hussle model of community-owned vertical integration, applied to AI-era music.