After viral dino rap, Lincoln Square sixth grader charts course for the future

JJ Qaiyum, aka “JJQ,” has the stage strut down: the requisite snarl when he spits rhymes; a loose-limbed bounce; a mop of honey-gold hair to flop along with his favored “golden era” boom bap beats. What JJ lacks right now is sleep. Stretching out on the carpet in his family’s Lincoln Square basemen...