Nick Hakim - "QADIR" from the 2020 album WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD on ATO Records.

On today's KEXP Song of the Day, New York-based artist Nick Hakim shares a deeply personal tribute to his childhood friend Qadir Imhotep West, who passed away in 2018 at the age of 25. (That's a photo of West that adorns the cover of Hakim's latest album, WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD.) 

“He was a little younger than me, but we had a similar path,” Hakim says in a press release. “We both had trouble in school and switched schools a lot. He was the youngest in his family and his older sisters asked me to watch out for him. The song is my ode to him. It’s my attempt to relate to how he must have been feeling.”

Read the full post on KEXP.org

Nick Hakim - "QADIR" from the 2020 album WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD on ATO Records.
On today's KEXP Song of the Day, New York-based artist Nick Hakim shares a deeply personal tribute to his childhood friend Qadir Imhotep West, who passed away in 2018 at the age of 25. (That's a photo of West that adorns the cover of Hakim's latest album, WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD.)&nbsp;
&ldquo;He was a little younger than me, but we had a similar path,&rdquo; Hakim says in a press release. &ldquo;We both had trouble in school and switched schools a lot. He was the youngest in his family and his older sisters asked me to watch out for him. The song is my ode to him. It&rsquo;s my attempt to relate to how he must have been feeling.&rdquo;
<a href="https://www.kexp.org/podcasts/song-of-the-day/2020/7/28/nick-hakim-qadir/">Read the full post on KEXP.org</a>

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