bijaan

Golden age prose with modern day flows.

The year is 2008. Bijaan spends his days slinging CDs out of his Junior High School locker, and his nights crafting beats and uploading them to MySpace. Breaking Bad debuts for its first season…Bijaan is too young to watch. “Lollipop” by Lil Wayne is the number one song in the country, while Common’s “Be” is in heavy rotation on Bij’s first-generation iPod Mini. Life is good.

It was just like any other Friday, as Bijaan waited the standard 15-20 minutes to reboot his laptop. Just as he began to open the previous night’s recording session, the unthinkable occurred. An old Limewire virus embedded in Jay-Z’s “The Black Album” launched a full-out assault on Bijaan’s Toshiba Protége, corrupting the software and short-circuiting the wiring. This created a vacuum, a Black Hole of epic proportions, drawing Bijaan into a vortex of time and space.

Crash landing in 2022, surrounded by surgical masks and trap beats, Bijaan is here to merge the lyricism and rawness of hip-hop’s golden age with the polish and poise of the modern era. Come along for the ride.