XlXPasDire

Stevie Deshaun Henry (James) also known as XlXPasDire an American musical artist from Lansing, Michigan. Early Life Stevie Henry (James)(aka.XlXPasDire or DYRE: name will be presented in bio more than once for any confusion DYRE is Stevie evolved) was Born September 17, 2002 in Ingram County, Lansing, Michigan. DYRE had a terrible childhood growing up. XlXPasDire was sent to foster care (Caucasian race family with only his younger sister and him) at the age of four. He would do visits with his birth mother and sisters father and remember having a good time then see his mother get beat by her boyfriend. There will be times DYRE will try to protect his month but realize he couldn’t do nothing because he was only four. Meanwhile whenever he not doing his visits, he loved going outside and play and would love to hangout with older people around him at a young age. He would always attend daily Sunday service with his foster mother. DYRE was always a pleasing kid he always tried to make someone happy and smile, but inside him he knew there was some type of anger in him and whenever he gets upset he'll take it upon someone else. DYRE said "My temper was so bad then, I remember beating n****s up with hangers." As he said in laughter moment that he realize time flew by. Growing Up DYRE was soon adopted by an African American family. It was heart breaking at first for DYRE, then he realized he needed to start over. DYRE adopted parents did first to see if he was healthy, and sure he was talking care of. Second thing they work on was his anger. For a 5 or 6 year old had anger problems and would talk to talk to a social working in his school. DYRE always had a passion for music when he was younger he said he would love to listen to Chris Brown with one of his favorite songs by him was "With You" and when he was 2nd grade Mindless Behavior and Big Time Rush was one of his favorite groups he'll listen to since it was a very clean and popular group in his time. DYRE was very active in sports too. He always wanted to make a career with sports such as football and basketball. DYRE started playing basketball at his elementary school and since then he believed at a young age his passion was for basketball. DYRE was baptized at the age of ten and and Joined his church activities. A year later DYRE was pulled off his school basketball team from his parents because he said he wanted to kill himself because of his actions and his parents didn’t like to play with suicide and so they pulled him out of other activities including at his church. Then soon DYRE got back into activities at his church such as the mime ministry, choir, and the step team. DYRE soon found his passion through mime at his church at a young age. A lot of people would tell DYRE he was anointed and he has a testimony to share at the age of eleven and ever since then DYRE took it serious to heart. His church (New Hope Baptist Church) would participate in festivals to mime at and connect with others. As DYRE grew up his mother realize he couldn’t express his-self and he would bottle stuff in and when something major happens he would explode and break down and harm his-self and go back to the decision of suicide. later on DYRE went back to the idea of listen to music and would make songs to tell how he feels and and keep it to himself at the age of 11. Him and his friend (rtk Ameri) would always song together whenever they were around. DYRE would join clubs that would include music in his after school programs to learn how to make beats. DYRE in the 7th grade begin to listen to Tory Lanez and later XXXTentacion and looked up to XXXTentacion. Beginning of his Career DYRE freshman year in high school he joined his school football team (Westland John Glenn High School) and played as cornerback and special teams. He loved the sport and always do his best as a team leader on the field, but since his academics wasn’t the acquirements that his parents wanted the took him of the football team, so DYRE knew that football wasn’t for him even it hurt him see the boys wear their jerseys every game day. In school he took the language french which he was very interested in and and study words and phases that he'll remember. He thought of the phase "Pas Dire" which means "Not To Say" to describe himself all the time because he never told people who he really is and let them find out. His friends would always call him unique because of his actions although he was goofy he would hide who he really is behind it all. Later on when XXXTentacion passing, he came up with his artist name to dedicate to him because how he was a great role model to him. He came up with "XLXPASDIRE" he said that the "XLX" part came from the dedication of Jahseh Onfroy and he loved his music and how he was a huge character in his life. All DYRE friends or who he was associated with was a rapper or singer and would record music. He met a freshmen his sophomore year that told DYRE one day when he dress as XXXTentacion as Halloween to sing one of X's songs since the kid (KiddNeutron" was a big fan of XXX himself and he said DYRE reminded and sounded like X and so Stevie had sing "I dont wanna do this anymore" By XXXTentacion and the kid told DYRE one day they one day gotta go to the studio and make music together one day and since then they would stay in contact with their other friend (Gabe). Since all that DYRE knew he had to start recording songs. His junior year in high school he was going through some stuff he never told people about and held it in. One night DYRE wasn’t feeling good and he always brought up suicide , so he decides to take liquid medication and tablets of medication that night then he woke up for school and took three more medication before getting on the bus and toke six more pills through out the day at school. DYRE was at his after school program playing football and he sat down and passed out and didn’t remember what happened, but he said he remembered looking at his little sister crying by his friends and her friends and the ambulance and his mother was right there guiding him. He lost his memory for a second and was very sarcastic with the ambulance when they would ask him questions to help if he had his memory and he was rushed to the ER to be checked. He had suffered a seizure from overdose of drugs and his parents was very confused on how and why he took so much medication. He later confessed he tried to kill himself and his mother and father was disappointed and wanted to send him to a mental hospital for him, but ever since when he told them that it open his eyes that he is supposed to be dead right now and why he here on this earth although he doesn’t like it he here for a reason. Then That’s when DYRE knew it was time to record his first song. Middle Of His Career DYRE and his little sister was at church one day when he had pulled up a beat from one of XXXTentacion's first songs "Palm Trees" and put his twist in on the beat and they went to record on on it, but never finished it since they was at church, but later DYRE took her off of it and recorded it and called it "Mixed Intentions" https://youtu.be/6Z12r6lJIlIthen later on would try to make beats and made his first debut album called "Where to Start" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQNdwkUmC1A&list=PLAv167FMeUkjwYQTGmsa06WJRReXs82Jr him playing around with his sound and skills even tho he just used his phone and headphones and express how he’s in love with someone but have no intentions being with her. Then he took it a different step with his vocals when he made his second album "What Is It Like" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hQSvTre2vM&list=PLAv167FMeUki3dLr5MW-TqoK-yJcR1n0_ which he made still with different sounds and skills and made a song about someone new he currently in a relationship with now. He took a break from music for a couple months because of the pandemic that’s going around and he focused on finding himself and spending time with his family more. Then DYRE decide to interact with everyone and make music since the pandemic was out of control and there was really nothing to do. So he decided to drop another album in the summer called "Spicy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCJh5EDiaI&list=PLAv167FMeUki1t60tCz1FuK8si85tDYPO with his top song "Get down" https://youtu.be/4uwmzFdMUEQ (with the inspiration of The weeknd and Tory Lanez). He asked all his supporters and fans to help him interact with them more and let him know how can he make things better with his music and he started with the money he will get invest on equipment so he can have better sound. DYRE would go on and drop singles and features with other upcoming artists to help spread his talent to a different crowd and different places in the USA. DYRE is very inspirational to so many people because he showed people that everything takes time and dedication although its hard for him to blow u in his eyes because of the music today and he told everyone he worked with "Don't put your mind on what you love, put your heart in it because you don't wanna over think it." people would always question his artist name on how to say it and what it means and he quoted "XlXPasDire my artist name which means Not To Say, well the Pas Dire part means Not To Say, but the XLX part was a dedication to XXXTentacion and it also means Unknown Loner Of Love and I call myself that because I feel like I fall in love with people that don’t understand or don’t know what love is and get played at the end of everything, so I stand on this earth with my two feet in love alone." Later on when he decided to get back in contact with his ex to admit he done wrong and he needs her to carry on with life and so he he was working on another single called to "Letter To My Ex'" about memories they had and his current girlfriend wasn’t happy with it and thought that they should go there separate ways and it broke DYRE down and talked to her telling her it wasn’t like that and it was hard for that situation to calm down and so DYRE went to go on and make an EP Called "Right My Wrongs" to let his significant other know he sorry then later on after he let her hear it he end up deleting some songs on it such as "Letter To My Ex" and "Teach Me a Lesson, I'm Dumb". He Eventually signed up with United Masters to distribute his music on all platforms and dropped her and his one year anniversary being together called "January 6, 2020" https://youtu.be/YLYjxNnRZQ8 and went on and send how he met her while both of them looking for be in love with someone and that someone was each other. then he decided to just to drop some thing to drop "Teach me, I’m Dumb For This" https://youtu.be/hVdL_OaJFg0 which he had on his EP. He dropped other songs after that like "Check Me" https://youtu.be/NQraRvI_Mvs and "Tell Me What You Want, Mary" https://youtu.be/zkWHjPsoPVQ. He stated that "Tell Me What You Want, Mary" was for couple that was going through a lot till this moment and the boyfriend didn’t know how to say or ask and DYRE decide to make a song to help and played with the frequency to mess with the audience mind when they hear a up tempo beat but made it sad. Love and Affection album cover Flash Backs when DYRE was with his ex and other females he was talking to and was with got to him with so much hatred to his new girlfriend he currently with and he went on to make his most recent album with his first album feature from his sister's boyfriend and made "Love and Affection" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-8R4BWuh0A&list=OLAK5uy_nDutB4r3j_OdXFoK7ays_MGEauwBDo1uQ and when he made that he knew his an R&B artist and that what type of genre he would focus on the most. But DYRE state from one of the Tracks "3am Thoughts" "Flashing titties but your loving aint show s***..." and he continued to say, " I don’t understand how females can expose their body parts, but afraid to be in love, to be in relationship....You should never be afraid to be in love you should be afraid of who you in love with, you feel me?" Although start career is still continuing there is a lot to learn from this unique artist from Lansing, Michigan. Social Media DYRE is very active on social media here are his social media and platforms you can stream is music on different and multiple streaming platforms such as Soundcloud, Youtube , Apple Music, and Spotify- @XLXPASDIRE @Ayo_Dyre333