User:Raxion Stance

Lindokuhle Georgiano Jack (born April 26, 1998), known professionally as Raxion Stance (/ rackson/; stance/; often pronounced as Rax-i-n), is a South African rapper, songwriter, and sound designer. Credited with redefining hip hop in Middle Mpumalanga, Raxion Stance’s music success and acclaimed works are largely regarded as having broken contemporary ideas for the acceptance of conscious raps in popular music. While much of his transgressive work during the early months of 2018 made him hugely controversial, he came to be a representation of solid musical angst and the South African underclass. He has been influential to a handful of younger aspiring artists of various genres and is often cited as one of the greatest rappers of his generation. [3]

After his debut hit single Run Nthosko (2015), Raxion Stance became a household name, and arguments arose between him and his crew members of the Trizzer Crew, which he parted ways with the following year. It was after that he came across Reno, and they created Horizon Gang Music, which is a duo. They released their debut hit single Grind IV (2016), and got met with great reception. After his debut EP The Conversations EP (2018), Raxion Stance terminated his recording deal with Dipin Entertainment. It was after he finished his debut extended play Things That Take A Life And A Half LP (2019), that he met Mseventy DeeTee, and partnered up with him on a new exclusive recording deal with In A Motion Entertainment and subsequently released a number of solid records, among includes Nightmares Of A Sleepless Sinner EP (2019), King (2019), Love & Other Addictions (2019). His next release Pray For Me (2019) set him apart. After the release of what was considered to be his final single for the quarter[citation needed] Love & Other Addictions Pt. 2 (2020), Raxion Stance reportedly suffered an array of breakdowns and mental disorders. [4] He returned to the music industry five months later with the release of Pound Cake Freestyle (2020), having pushed back the long anticipated release of his debut album Damned & Tainted, Raxion Stance announced that he was working on yet another extended play Before The Trip LP to introduce the album.

Raxion Stance made his debut into the motion picture division with a short clip of him rapping in his native language, IsiZulu, in a competition hosted by Ndebele Student Association, rapping about the effects of Covid19. He was met with great reception and progressed to the next round, where he had made another video rapping about the effects of poverty, unfortunately he did not make it past this round and got terminated from the competition.[5] He has made solid appearances in the songs Run Town (2018), and Why I Do Dis? (2020). Raxion Stance has developed other ventures, including novel writing, to which he has released two consecutive books in a gap of two months, Damned & Tainted : The Book, and Remembering Home. In addition to his solo career, Raxion Stance is a member of In A Motion Entertainment, which is associated with the likes of Mseventy DeeTee, Deejay Boe, Tiga Maine, and Yunit Yuniverse, among others.

Raxion Stance is among the best lyricist of his genre. Hype Magazine named him the “Artist of the year (2020)”, while Slikouronlife personally named him the “Best newcomer of the year (2020)”.

Life and Career

Lindokuhle Georgiano Jack was born on April 26, 1998 in Bethal Hospital, the second child of Dieketseng Jack and Phila Nzama. He is of Zulu and Colored ancestry. His mother left him at a friend’s place when he was two years old and never returned to get him. His father, referred to by his first name, Phila, reportedly left the family, moving to Nquthu, Kwazulu Natal after he split with Raxion Stance’s mother. Raxion Stance was eventually picked up by his grandmother, Martha Motaung, who raised him. During his childhood, Raxion Stance lived with his great grandmother, who passed away the year 2005, then he moved to live with his grandmother full time.

Raxion Stance lived on Kgotsong Street in Nthoroane.

As a teenager, Raxion Stance was in contact with his mother, which was a difficult thing since his grandmother and mother didn’t get along. Friends and family remember Raxion Stance as a happy child, but “a bit of a loner and a disturbed child”[citation needed]. [4] Raxion Stance spent much of his youth finishing high school in Nthoroane High School and finding piece jobs to compensate for his dream. As a child he was interested in drawing, aspiring to be a comic-book artist and a 3D portrait artist before discovering Hip Hop. [5] Raxion Stance heard his first rap song (“3 Peat”, by Lil Wayne) on a friend’s phone, a while later he owned his first cellphone and listened to the song repeatedly, mimicking Lil Wayne’s lyrics.

In Raxion Stance’s song “Walk Away”, he states that he suffers from depression and anxiety, he also opens up on how he had attempted to commit suicide, after his grandmother passed away in 2018.

Raxion Stance’s home life seldom cosy, he had frequent arguments with his grandmother, whom a social worker described as “very distant and does not wish to connect emotionally”.

Eminem’s home life was seldom stable; he frequently fought with arguments with his grandmother, who never fully understood or accepted him.

At age 14, Raxion Stance began rapping with a high-school friend Sabelo Moshelle; they had hopes of gaining one of the most popular local rapper’s attention, Burner B, in hopes of being adopted into the Hyper Crew. Instead, Raxion Stance didn’t get accepted into the crew, however, he met another classmate who was in one of the opposing crews, Double B, by the name of T-Jay (now known as G-Tro 9), and together they founded Trizzers, adopting another friend, Gasla G. [6] Raxion Stance and G-Tro 9 would attend ciphers and freestyle rap battles every now and then. [7] A year later Raxion Stance had an argument with G-Tro 9 about initiation school, to which G-Tro 9 dissed Raxion Stance publicly and exposed some of his shameful secrets. Trizzers disbanded the following year. After finishing high school, and struggling to succeed in the music industry, Raxion Stance started adopting NF, and was appreciated predominantly by underground hip hop audiences.

2018–2019: Early career, The Conversations EP and family struggles

In 2018, after his grandmother passed away, prior to the death of Mimi, who had acted as a prominent mother figure, Raxion Stance fell into a pit of depression. At that point he had already founded Horizon Gang Music with Reno, but because the two lived in separate states they were not in contact regularly. His grandmother’s older brothers, after the death of his grandmother, attempted to kick Raxion Stance out of his grandmother’s house, but his grandmother’s younger sister, Beauty Jane Motaung disputed the attempts and secured Raxion Stance’s home for him. In the midst of all the commotion and depression Raxion Stance decided that music was no longer working for him, he made a decision to quit, but a handful of people talked him out of those thoughts, hence The Conversations EP was birthed. [8] He wrote this EP inspired by the things these people told him, and released the EP under DIPIN Entertainment, which became a dismall commercial failure.

The following year, still battling depression and suicidal thoughts, Raxion Stance met Mseventy DeeTee, and recorded his debut extended play Things That Take A Life And A Half LP for their independent label. [9] The extended play became yet another commercial failure upon its release in 2019. One lyrical subject of Things That Take A Life And A Half LP, was his struggle to love himself, and his will to love. Raxion Stance’s rhyming style, primarily inspired by rappers NF, Eminem, G-Eazy and Witt Lowry, lacked the comically dramatic slant for which he later became known for. [10] Nthoroane disc jockeys and Mpumalanga promoters largely ignored Things That Take A Life And A Half LP, and the feedback Raxion Stance did receive (“Why are you so emotional?” “You’re pathetic”) led him to craft angrier and moodier tracks. [11] At this point Raxion Stance had a joint at a local charity home, where he served tables and cleaned toilets. [12] Compelled by his grandmother’s sister expectations he quit his job and enrolled at Gert Sibande College to study Electrical Engineering, by then he had released Love & Other Addictions (2019) and Love & Other Addictions Pt. 2 (2020).

2020–Present : Introduction to Damned & Tainted and Before The Trip LP

Raxion Stance attracted more attention when he rapped about his emotions, even though a lot of people had criticized this about him, he continued doing it. It was after he successfully merged his emotions with critical rhyme schemes and released Pray For Me, to which he got great reception, and then cited the release of his debut double album Damned & Tainted, however, Covid19 interrupted his plans to drop this album. [13] He then decided to release an extended play Before The Trip LP to introduce the album by. The extended play is expected to drop around September or October, 2020.

Alter Egos

Raxion Stance uses alter egos in his songs for different rapping styles and subject matter. His best-known alter ego, Periegá Alter Mind, first appearance on the unreleased hit song in The Conversations EP, So-Called Squad and Why I Do Dis? His other alter ego, simply named Raxion Stance, first appearance in Things That Take A Life And A Half LP, is the most dominating ego, which makes up his entire music.