The song “Blessings” describes Jalen’s life hardships between losing his uncle and striving to make it out the hood for his mother. https://youtu.be/8nqWTZGw4P4 Growing up in Co-Op City located in the northern area of the Bronx, Jalen always had music looming around him. Coming from the birthplace of hip-hop, he had an unavoidable disposition for greatness in music. Between being dragged to church on Sunday mornings and being born into the era of YouTube university, Jalen discovered his ear for music. At the age of thirteen, Jalen fell passionately in love with hip-hop sonically. At the age of seventeen, after recording his first song, he learned he had a voice.…