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Just John x Dom Dias are a Canadian hip hop duo from Toronto, Ontario, consisting of rapper John Samuels and producer Dominique Dias. [1] They are most noted for their song "Soundboi", which was a shortlisted nominee for the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in 2019. [2]

They formed in early 2018 after the duo met on Instagram; [1] both Samuels and Dias were already active in Toronto's music scene, with Samuels releasing the solo hip hop EP Black Beret in 2017 and Dias active as a club DJ. [3]

They released the EP Don in June, [4] and followed up with the EP Don II in November. [5] The third and final EP in the trilogy, Don III, followed in April 2019. [6] In November 2019 they released the full-length album PROJECT. [7]

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