Qadir, an old friend of Hakim’s- whose childhood portrait graces the single cover - took his own life in 2018. Late last week, Hakim performed “QADIR” live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. It was a harsh reality Hakim would have to face. For Nick, mortality was an awakening to the complicated nature of our existence and it directly signified the growing pains of a rapidly changing city. “Vincent Tyler” is an ode to the traumatizing early experience of finding a victim of a senseless murder laid out in the alleyways he and his friends used to travel to get home.
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On “Crumpy,” the alt-rock tune perfectly tinged by Mac Demarco’s guest guitar, Hakim depicts how a bike accident brought him closer than ever before to his new hometown of New York City. He wrote the expansively melodic “All These Instruments” alongside his young brother Danny and collaborator Joel Matteo. On “Bouncing,” he presents a psychedelic jazz chorus that yearns for answers. The 29-year-old Chilean and Peruvian anomaly surfs through sound and substance spectrums. Hakim deals in grief, self-care, emotional heft, community and abstraction. “The title reflects looking at something and wondering if this is gonna help you or if it’s gonna hurt you?” “A lot of this has to do with the reflection on our mental health and over-medicating and experience with that and whether it’s prescribed pills or not, we all are creatures of habits and bad habits,” he added. And when I first heard it, I was thinking to myself, ‘That’s like the corniest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.’”
And she told me that I think too much with my mind and I have to think more with my heart. Hakim described the album’s title with an anecdote explaining, “I spoke to a spiritual healer on January 3 of 2019.
Then it came to him - Will This Make Me Good. The Berklee College of Music graduate is now building true rapport in the game with two cogent EP’s under his belt, including a critically acclaimed debut album in 2017’s Green Twins, and most importantly - room to fail.Īfter losing all of his lyrics while out in London doing shows, Hakim sunk into a deep writer’s block for months. Paak, Piink Sifu, Slauson Malone and KeiyaA. Hakim has already collaborated with some of the most intriguing underground acts around, including Onyx Collective, Anderson.
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