HAKUM HONORS THE GREATS AND LIVES UP TO CREED WITH DEBUT ALBUM AND VIDEO RELEASE
NEW YORK, NY – Hakum echoes Pa A’zumaat, The Greats, refusing to capitulate and water down his message. In the spirit of the Honorable Dr. Khalid Muhammad, Hakum “holds the line”. His songs express truths in doses that help to empower and liberate the downtrodden. His mix works, 3rd I First, 2nd 2 Nun, and From Da Ground Up, available to the general public at no cost, have positioned Hakum as an artist truly in a class of his own.
His debut LP, The Nu Dawn, lives up to the Land And Water creed: “As the creative extension of the human spirit, music will always defy attempts at control.” Available at the record company’s site, www.landandwaterrecords.com, The Nu Dawn offers listeners something other than mere skepticism and cynicism, it offers listeners solutions, it offers people direction. It puts forth a new approach to existence, a new approach to being.
The work is prefaced with Malcolm’s declaration that “the day of the sit in, the lying, the crawling, and the begging, is outdated.” A wise man once said, “the helping hand that we need is at the end of our own arm,” and listening to The Nu Dawn it’s apparent that when knowledge speaks, wisdom listens. Having listened to this wise man, having observed and absorbed this wise man’s lessons Hakum --in a clear, precise, and craftful manner-- presents his worldview to listeners.
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