On the one hand, it is a reminder of the other children Chicago has lost, a reminder that a similar song could be written about each and every one of them. It's also a reminder of the connections between these lives, the branches that will never bloom and intersect, the seemingly insignificant events--like Hadiya Pendleton returning to King College Prep as an art teacher--that, in a different context, are blessings. Hadiya was one of 12 Chicago kids under 20 years old. Yes, Hadiya's story gained wider media coverage due to her connection with Barack Obama, but to me, the fact that we know Hadiya's name is more important than the reason we know it. Back in December, after the Sandy Hook shooting, the Sun-Times ran a headline that read something like "Goodbye Noah" above an article about the burial of 6-year-old Noah Pozner. The track imagines everything Jonylah would have accomplished had she not been killed; it is an astounding piece of art, and a great example of hip-hop's ability to turn current events into music faster than any other musical genre. 
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Yes, Hadiya's story gained wider media coverage due to her connection with Barack Obama, but to me, the fact that we know Hadiya's name is more important than the reason we know it.
But there is one element that leapt out at me as being particularly significant. I have no choice!
Lupe Fiasco Releases ‘Jonylah Forever’ (Jonylah Watkins Tribute)
This is why I sound preachy in my songs! The people who didn't need a bullet to know the name Hadiya or a song to know the name Jonylah. It comes in fiasvo song's second verse. The people for whom tragedies aren't just dramas unfolding on YouTube, Facebook or Twitter.
Lupe Fiasco - Jonylah Forever
Hadiya was one of 12 Jonylsh kids under 20 years old. So it is promising that we now know at least two names: As we remember the fallen, we should remember these people too.
Discuss this article and others on RedEye's Facebook page. Where you bumped into Hadiya teaching art". What impacted jontlah most, though, was simply my recognition of the name "Hadiya," and my awareness that Lupe's main audience--the city of Chicago--would recognize it as well.
When I first listened to the track, the name "Hadiya" rocked me. Jack M Silverstein is a RedEye special contributor. This is why I speak out!
Lupe Fiasco Tributes Slain Chicago Infant On 'Jonylah Forever' - MTV
On the one hand, it is a reminder of the other children Chicago has lost, a reminder that a similar song could be written about each and every one of them. Back in December, after the Sandy Hook shooting, the Sun-Times ran a headline that read something like "Goodbye Noah" above an article about the burial of 6-year-old Noah Pozner.
And if you find yourself welling up with tears while listening to Lupe's song, or wishing there was something you could have done to help one jonylaah these children, just remember that every luep in Chicago, in any community, is blossoming right now, today, at this very moment, and that each one has the potential to be the Hadiya Pendleton who teaches art at King in her 20s, or the Hadiya Pendleton mourned at King in her teens.
There's a lot to say about Lupe Fiasco's brilliant, searing, heartbreaking track "Jonylah Forever," which he released on Soundcloud three days after the shooting of 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins, whose funeral was Tuesday.
If you feel overwhelmed or don't know where to start. It's also a reminder of the connections between these lives, the branches that will never bloom and intersect, the seemingly insignificant events--like Hadiya Pendleton returning to King College Prep as an art teacher--that, in luep different context, are blessings.
What the long-term effects of that knowledge will be, I don't know, but the city dropping a collective "Goodbye Hadiya" last month is at least hope that people will begin to examine the connective tissue that runs through our city.
I don't remember if that was the exact headline, but that was the gist of it, and it bothered me that here in Chicago, we had learned the name of a child killed in Connecticut yet never seemed to know the names of children dying in our own city. The track imagines everything Jonylah would have accomplished had she not been killed; it is an astounding piece of art, and a great example of hip-hop's ability to turn current events into music faster than any other musical genre.
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