The collection consists primarily of Hasan’s vision and images, alongside contributions from other artists, writers, and public domain photographs, all working to uplift Black voices and perspectives. Through his art, Hasan uses this as a way of coping with the trying year we've all dealt with.
After the academy lost its principal Dez-Ann Romain, to COVID 19, Ibrahem felt a calling to heal the school in some aspect. It occurred to him that students needed laptops, especially during the pandemic, and thus the reason for Love is Why was born.
The inspiration for this book stemmed from Maxwell Street, Hasan's mentors, and the pillars which the Chicago-born-and-raised artist sprouted from. "I met my four black mentors on Maxwell Street," Ibrahem explains. "It’s on the South Side of Chicago. Blacks migrated up north for work, and after work they’d congregate and just kinda kick it. But that’s where the Chicago Blues started, and it became kinda like an open-air market where people would sell things, hang out, listen to the blues and eat food, and it was really chill. We would go there at like 4 in the morning, we’d pick up records and I’d hang out with them [his mentors]. Saturdays, I’d go to work, crash, go out around 12 or 1, and then around 4 am — Maxwell street.