php artisan migrate = connection refused (mac/laravel/xampp)

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so I'm getting this error when trying to run php artisan migrate on my newly created laravel project:

    Illuminate\Database\QueryException 

  SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = laravel-social and table_name = migrations and table_type = 'BASE TABLE')

  at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php:671
    667|         // If an exception occurs when attempting to run a query, we'll format the error
    668|         // message to include the bindings with SQL, which will make this exception a
    669|         // lot more helpful to the developer instead of just the database's errors.
    670|         catch (Exception $e) {
  > 671|             throw new QueryException(
    672|                 $query, $this->prepareBindings($bindings), $e
    673|             );
    674|         }
    675|

I have googled extensively and while finding similar errors and trying to change things, I could not resolve my issue.. some information that might help and the things I have tried so far:

I'm on a mac
I'm using Xampp
I had made sure I had started MySQL on Xampp before running the command
I had changed my DB_HOST from 127.0.0.1 to localhost on my .env file, cleared cache and tried again, it didn't work (it did give me an error of no such file or directory though) I had also changed that on the database.php
I had created the database "laravel-social" on phpMyAdmin
I had confirmed the port, database username and password (it is root with no password, I had tried using one though, but the error was the same, so I returned back for the sake of debugging)
This is a newly created project, so I'm not migrating a project from Windows or somewhere else
Funny thing is that with or without Xampp started, I get this same error. Maybe something there?

.env file:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel-social
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Thanks everyone!

php artisan migrate = connection refused (mac/laravel/xampp)

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