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Originally published on HuffingtonPost.com on 6/22/2017 at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/594be3cfe4b07cdb1933c05c#

Hak!m is your average 16 year old. He’s looking forward to a summer off from school, hanging with his friends, and catching up on all the things he didn’t get to do during the school year. He is also my nephew and an aspiring songwriter. Unlike your average 16 year old looking forward to a summer of leisure, Hak!m plans to put in work and that work all focuses on elevating his music and artistry to new heights. While he has been honing his skills songwriting, composing and writing rhymes and lyrics, year round, this summer, Hak!m has his sights on performing.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/594be3cfe4b07cdb1933c05c#

You can hear “Run” by Hak!m on Soundcloud at https://m.soundcloud.com/user-145294852/run-away-prod-hakim.

Follow Hak!m on Twitter @YaBoiHakim.

 

Published by Aisha K. Staggers

Aisha K. Staggers, M.F.A., is a writer and literary agent. She appears weekly as a political analyst and culture critic with Jill Jones and Dr. Vibe on the award-winning, internationally syndicated Dr. Vibe Show. Her work has been published by Paper Magazine, Medium, The Spool, GREY Journal, MTV News, HuffPost, Blavity, AfroPunk, Atlanta Blackstar, For Harriet, The New York Review of Books and a host of other first-run publications and syndicated outlets. She agented the book 'There Was A Time: James Brown The Chitlin' Circuit And Me' (Post Hill Press, 2020) by Alan Leeds with foreword by Questlove of The Roots and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

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