


His death and the birth of her daughter, Namiko Love are the defining moments of her life.ĭealing with the death of her brother, Jhene admits to numbing the pain with different drugs, including over-the-counter (sleeping) pills, valium, percocet and cocaine. Miyagi was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2010, and succumbed to cancer two years later, at the age of 26. And then some days I wake up, and I’m like, ‘Wait, what? Where’s my brother?’ And it’s literally like, I don’t know what kind of day it’s going to be, and because we were so close, it feels wrong when I start to fade. That was not something I ever thought was possible, you know? Sometimes I’ll have a great understanding of life, and understand he’s still here, that’s he within me and my siblings and my daughter and my parents and in the stars. Showing off two tattoos that she got in honor of her late brother’s memory, “Miyagi Hasani Ayo Chilombo” in red cursive and one of his last tweets, “Why aren’t you smiling?” on her right wrist, Jhene speaks candidly about the effect of his death on her.
