Subliminal Valley’s storyline takes place between 2015 and 2017. The story stars Bob Dadood (“The Dude”), a highly successful Black entrepreneur hailing from Brooklyn who runs x23, an AI startup he launched while studying at MIT, and Subliminal Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund. Bob documents his meteoric rise to the forefront of the VC scene and the internal struggle that comes with it in his personal diary—a powerful lyrical platform that is filled with hidden references and that draws on the cultural elements that shaped his life: Black aesthetics, New York’s upbeat conversational style, MIT’s tech culture and Harvard’s Hip Hop Institute.