Rokas Tarulis (born April 24, 1999), best known under the alias Yabujin (stylized as YABUJIN or ), is a Lithuanian experimental musician, rapper, and artist. 
Career.
Tarulis began releasing music in 2016 under the monikers "Nomad" and "Bleach Drinkers." He first gained popularity in July 2016 through an accidental inclusion of his song "yellow.salt" in a fan compilation of songs made by the artist Joji. The first song released under the name "Yabujin" was "COIF VERAL" made in late July 2018. He had remained underground with limited recognition until he started releasing music with the internet label Dismiss Yourself, expanding his reach to Spotify listeners, and later blowing up on TikTok. His account on streaming services fell victim to falsely assigned features on songs by different artists, and its last official release was the song "Birth" from his mixtape titled "? ? ? ?" (commonly referred to as "XERO").""
Besides his main alias, Tarulis also releases music under different names, with the most notable ones being "DJ GYROTTA ZAO", "ligonis24", and "LAMIANAGA", where he has also reached success with the songs "ZETRAKORE XAOS DA JUMPING GARGOYLZ" and the unofficially titled "STONER PARK" from his DJ mix titled "▯▯" (commonly referred to as "HYDRA" because of its original URL).
Since early 2023, Tarulis had taken down his largest SoundCloud, Instagram, and YouTube accounts, having fans rely on reuploaded content, his Instagram account, and the official account on music streaming apps such as Spotify.
Artistry.
Tarulis' music is self produced, and has incorporated elements of cloud rap, memphis rap, ambient music, dark ambient, DnB, jumpstyle, and more obscure genres such as dark cabaret, cumbia and Lithuanian folk music throughout his discography. Most of his work is distinctly lo-fi, often achieved through manually rendering out his tracks at an extremely low bit-rate in order to achieve a muffled, distorted effect akin to the sound of the compressed audio heard in early independent browser games. Much of his music has been loosely placed within the broader movement of hypnagogic pop, an umbrella term for music attempting to evoke feelings of nostalgia.
Beginning in 2018, under the Yabujin name, Tarulis released an eight part series of extremely abstract animations, titled "AZEROY". The series follows a protagonist, Guheitta, from a third person perspective, attempting to "create life" in order to achieve access to the titular Azeroy, an abstract place which is thought by many (even Guheitta himself) to be similar to Heaven, but in reality is actually a lot more like Hell. The protagonist repeatedly fails, creating "Abominations", which are usually depicted with real life NSFL medical photography of human infants with cyclopia. The series ends on the 7th entry, depicting Guheitta consuming his only successful creation, which he named "Yyate". The 8th and final entry does not continue the story, instead being a 20 minute long chronological DJ mix of Tarulis' previous works under different abandoned aliases, symbolizing the concept of death and rebirth.
Tarulis has also released video games, including a short visual novel called "Somewhere Else" on Newgrounds in 2021. The only surviving artifact from the game is a YouTube upload of the games soundtrack, a single ~5 second long loop. Another visual novel, "Zmul", was never released but footage of the game was uploaded by Tarulis himself on a now deleted YouTube channel.
Tarulis does not give interviews.
Personal life.
Tarulis possesses many tattoos, including a North Korean flag prominently displayed on the left side of his chest.