Dax, a Nigerian-Canadian poet and rapper, calls from a phone number with a Wichita, Kansas, area code to speak with The Tennessean about his outsider-to-insider rise in country music's mainstream.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The rapper — who addresses societal expectations in his music — opens up in a new interview with PEOPLE about his latest single "A ...

Then we got Dax to shoot where he's at and Snak shot in his hometown and then my brother put all the footage together and tripped it out!" Peep the "Rap Sh*t" video above. The track is the first ...