Jamal Delacroix

Name: Jamal Lorenzo Delacroix
Portrayed By: Romeo Miller
Parents: Anthony Delacroix (father), Ophelia Cameron (mother)
Siblings: Selina Delacroix (sister), Mason Delacroix (brother)
Marital Status: Val Ruiz (dating,) Maya Cross (ex-girlfriend)
Occupation: Music producer, owner Club Vertigo
Written by: Chris

 

Born out of pure love Jamal Lorenzo Delacroix is the only child of Ophelia Cameron and Tony’s baby boy. Jamal grew up with his parents separated never truly getting the attention of either of them he felt he needed. Pouring his heart into music Jamal quickly became a prodigy. Piano, drums, saxophone, and bass guitar were mastered. In his youth Mason put a video of him up and it went viral, Jamal had opportunities to sign with plenty of record labels. However Ophelia and Tony declined saying they wanted him to be child. With the gifts that he had, Jamal developed a nasty attitude. He however was best friends with Rory and Brooke.

Jamal in high school was wild and rebellious never doing anything to get himself into too much trouble. Still the whip smart Jamal graduated high school with honors.  Jamal met Maya in college and it was a bad romance for both of them. They both introduced each other to dark things that still weigh on Jamal. Now in his senior year Jamal is planning on doing a showcase for his thesis paper called The Struggle. Jamal has started to live two lives to achieve his dream of someday creating a new Motown. Even if both of his parents disapprove.

Season 1

Jamal started the year out leading to very different lives. The first being Jamal Delacroix of the upper-crest of Atlas Falls the other as Jamal Baptiste down on his luck middle class college student that was down with the thug life. As Baptiste he became friends and associates with Kendrick Watkins and his gang, moving up the rankings to Ronan Madden to the point where he began to deal drugs to college kids on campus. It wasn’t long before he was introduced to Yasmine Kohl at the club as he moved up the ranks and he quickly got a crush on her, though she was eyeing his best friend Rory Devonshire. Soon enough the double life would catch up with him when his mother and father would begin to worry about him about what he was doing at night and with whom. He and Rory began to drift apart and actually beef over Rory wanting the stripper Diamond at the club, who was really Yasmine. He walked the streets at night for Kendrick when he ran into Rachel Morrison whom he had known since high school, he simply rescued her from the Scottswood boys that night and decided to date her to keep her at bay from that side of town. He also then witnessed Ronan Madden kill Benny Ruzzo in cold blood in a parking garage and realized he was in to deep with all of it. His mother and father found a loaded gun at his condo on the eve of his sisters wedding to Chauncey and he was arrested at the reception by his cousin for his own protection for an illegal firearm. Later his cousin Devin introduced him to the FBI where he was pressured into becoming a state witness against Kendrick, more importantly Ronan Madden. He knew he was in danger on house arrest and visited Yasmine dropping off his drug stash with her in order to try and get out of Ronan’s grasp. It backfired horribly and Kendrick went on a power trip kidnapping both Yasmine and a pregnant Dani Fraiser. Once they were both home safe and Kendrick was dead Ronan allowed Jamal to be let go per and agreement with Lowell for his casino. Jamal went to Lowell who informed him of the deal and gave him the money to start up a music label if he promised to stay away from Ronan, Jamal then went and found Ivan Castillo signing the gang member as his new artist at his label.

Season 2

Jamal worked over the summer to get his studio up and running, he learned that Rachel had died due to carbon monoxide poisoning and had begun a new relationship with designer Val Ruiz. He and Rory actually made up and when he approached Jamal to have his label stream exclusively on his new app that he designed for DGI RePlay, a live stream music streaming and video service. He broke up Rory and Ivan at each other’s throats when they began to goad each other at the studio reminding Ivan he promised to give up the gang thug life when he signed with the label. At Jons’ trial he was put on the stand against Braden Fraiser her former brother in law where the sparks flew and he realized he sunk Elliot’s case against Jon with his testimony handing his brother the win, he also confessed he felt he had been too sheltered in his upbringing and that was why he drifted towards Kendrick and the Scottswood neighborhood. He learned that Val was also seeing Kelsey Fraiser and instead of being angry at her and her bisexual nature he told her it was alright. Later at one of the parties at his club he and Val lured Kelsey to his office where they engaged in a steamy threesome where he had both girls, wondering if it was something that he really wanted or not. Afterwards he went to the roof where Ivan and Rory were beefing and stepped in front of Ivan for his friend, Ivan sent him flying off the roof into the street before. He was rushed to the hospital with a severe concussion, a broken ankle and cracked ribs lucky to be alive. He stood up for Rory and begged him to cover for Ivan, which Rory did and then shot Ivan a warning he stopped beefing with Rory or he was gone from the label and could go back to the streets. He was furious when Selina told the family that he had been hiding her abuse with Dimitri from them and went to bat for her along with Mason when they proceeded to beat him down. He and Mason bonded even more after the trial where Mason encouraged him to not be involved in his throuple relationship if his heart wasn’t in it. He went head to head with his father over his homophobia towards Mason and told him to either get over it and make it right or to leave the family. Val broke up with him claiming she needed space to figure things out and he discovered he was actually kinda attracted to Rory’s little sister Belle instead and decided that he was just going to stay single for a while instead.

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