[00:07.620]Jonylah Forever
[00:20.620]How bout them bullets ain't slow you up
[00:22.253]You ain't really die, we watched you grow up
[00:25.477]At 12 months you took your first steps
[00:27.244]Awkwardly across the kitchen floor to your best
[00:29.827]Your first breaths that we can call words
[00:32.494]In your father's lap on November 23rd
[00:35.221]They were "live for me", and he did for you
[00:37.729]Flipped to Neutron and stayed inside the crib for you
[00:40.748]And this commitment from your father
[00:42.189]Imparted a deep sense of value you forever harbor
[00:44.589]And we were all so proud as we seen you getting smarter
[00:47.191]And bond grow deeper between a mother and a daughter
[00:50.853]But you were not a martyr
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[01:10.165]At six, you started reading whole books
[01:12.508]At seven, you knew how a brain looked
[01:14.453]And could roughly describe, all the different regions
[01:16.894]Could tell when we was sick and even knew the reason
[01:19.236]The world wasn't at peace, gunfire every weekend
[01:21.654]But you were hardly there, cause you was always leaving
[01:24.713]Field museum planetarium aquarium
[01:26.558]You saw something special in that tank you were starin' in
[01:29.587]And those moments as a little girl
[01:32.316]You realized it was a bigger world
[01:34.420]Bigger than the South Side, bigger than Chicago
[01:36.693]You were bigger still wanted rims on your car, though
[01:39.100]And big ass woofers in your car door
[01:41.342]So you could wang like your daddy at the park eating sharks
[01:44.477]Went to King where you were teased for being smart
[01:47.012]Where you bumped into Hadiya teaching art
[01:49.405]You live forever
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[02:29.230]At sixteen is when you got your scholarship
[02:31.590]At twenty-two is when you got your doctorate
[02:34.021]Even now it's kind of hard to believe
[02:35.858]But your father taught you work hard, and achieve
[02:38.842]And you complied, accepted by every medical school you applied
[02:42.277]But the coolest thing is when they offered you that high paying slot
[02:45.266]You replied: "they need me in the hood" and that's where you reside
[02:48.491]Free clinic, nobody denied
[02:50.888]And that's where you heard the shots and quickly ran outside
[02:53.134]And saw a man and a van and a bleeding baby in his hands
[02:55.940]Fading fast, but you knew she could survive
[02:58.626]Did everything you could to keep this girl alive
[03:01.011]Stabilized until the ambulance arrived
[03:03.611]And in that moment, where you gave your help
[03:05.744]I bet you didn't know that you saved yourself
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