Nick Hakim - QADIR

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🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

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.”

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0:00.0	Oh. Oh, we have a ballman as a whole, and we have a hole.
0:17.0	And it was a hole without thinking without thinking
0:31.2	without thinking about a loved one. without any
0:35.0	about a loved once
0:39.0	who might be shrinking
0:42.0	into a smoking space with a glass surrounding
0:47.0	that the powers that are helping
0:51.0	in the temple.
0:57.0	In the mind, there seems to be a good complexity to be kind
1:07.0	to your space
1:10.0	to the end of the number Till you're never born
1:16.0	any neighbors who we see the changes
1:20.0	we all change
1:22.0	We all change
1:26.1	Stop us wear masks to hide the pain
1:29.6	And I just wish I could last.
1:36.0	Could be here,
1:40.0	or what's until now? What did you
1:45.0	you last in your mother's art?
1:54.0	Look a deal for a miss you to me. With a bishop hand in your mother's lunch.
1:59.0	Oh, you Masido is a glove.
2:08.0	To these systems that protect false beauty.
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