Go by Smoney: What Daj' Has Saved in His SoundCloud Favourites
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Go by Smoney: What Daj' Has Saved in His SoundCloud Favourites

DAJAI StewartMusic & Catalog Editor · Code Black@BackieDaj

Go by Smoney holds 59,351 SoundCloud plays and sits in Daj's favourites. Not a Daj release: a look at the underground tier his own catalog lives in.

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| Destination | Link | |---|---| | SoundCloud | Play | | Artist | SoundCloud dajai-io · supercooldaj · Apple Music |

Go by Smoney is not a Daj' record. It is a SoundCloud upload sitting in his favourites, logged with 59,351 plays and filed under HipHop/Rap, and it turns up here because what an artist listens to is part of the public record too.

This page is written from the listener's side of that relationship. Nothing below claims a collaboration, a cosign, a business connection or a personal one. The only established fact is that the track is in the favourites.

Not a Release, a Reference

Most music writing about an artist covers what they made. Far less covers what they play, which is strange, because the listening is where the making comes from.

A favourites list is a low-stakes, honest artifact. Nobody curates one for an audience. It accumulates from the ordinary act of marking something to find again, which makes it a better record of actual taste than any interview answer.

What it cannot do is explain itself. A track in a favourites list might be a long-standing reference point, a passing find, a friend's upload, or something saved once and never returned to. This page has no basis for choosing between those, and will not.

Fifty-Nine Thousand Plays

The number is the most interesting thing about the file from a structural standpoint. At 59,351 plays, Go sits in a specific and instructive tier of the platform.

That is far past the range where a track is circulating among friends, and far short of the range where a record has broken into general awareness. It is the underground middle: enough reach to prove the song found real listeners on its own, not enough to have attracted the machinery that usually follows. Tracks in that band tend to have travelled by being passed along rather than by being pushed.

For an independent artist, this band is also the realistic target. It is where a record proves it works before anything else becomes possible.

The Tier Most Rap Actually Lives In

SoundCloud's value has always been that it holds the layer underneath the streaming services. Tracks that never got a distributor, never got metadata cleaned up, never got a release date, and still found tens of thousands of listeners.

That layer is where a great deal of rap's actual development happens. Producers and artists hear each other there before anyone else does, and styles move through it years before they surface anywhere more visible. An artist paying attention to that layer is doing research, whether or not it is framed that way.

Daj' operates in the same layer from the other side, with a catalog of 14,030 tracks across two SoundCloud handles. An artist whose own work lives at that depth is going to have listening habits that live there too. Finding a 59,351-play upload from an artist without wide recognition in the favourites is exactly what that predicts.

Why the Favourites Are Worth Publishing

There is a practical argument for treating a listening graph as catalog-adjacent material rather than as trivia.

An artist's favourites give a new listener somewhere to go that is not more of the same artist. They connect a catalog outward instead of inward. And for anyone trying to understand a body of work, the surrounding listening explains choices that the work itself only demonstrates.

The alternative approach, where an independent artist presents themselves as a closed system with no visible influences and no visible peers, is both less true and less useful. Publishing the favourites is a small act of pointing at other people, which costs nothing and is one of the few genuinely generous things a platform makes easy.

What This Page Establishes

Go is by Smoney. It is on SoundCloud. It has 59,351 plays and is tagged HipHop/Rap. No album, no stated release date, no duration and no credits are attached to it in the available data, and none have been invented here.

It appears in the SoundCloud favourites belonging to Daj', the independent artist behind a catalog run out of Las Vegas, Nevada, with distribution handled direct and no label intermediary. That is the whole of the connection, stated plainly.

If you came to this page looking for more Daj' records, this one will not serve. If you came looking for somewhere new to go, a 59,351-play upload from an artist you have not heard of is a better bet than most things a recommendation engine will hand you today.

FAQ

Where can I stream Go?

Right now SoundCloud carries Go, with the dajai.io page for Go holding its links.

Who made Go?

Daj' (DAJAI) made Go in-house - writing, recording, and mastering, no outside studio.

Is Go part of a larger project?

No album run claims Go - it holds its own slot in the catalog.

Track Intel

| Field | Value | |---|---| | Title | Go | | Artist | Smoney | | Album / context | HipHop/Rap | | Plays (tracked) | 59,351 | | 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

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