Nick Major of Spout Podcast chipped it up with Jelly Roll as he embarked on his “Beautifully Broken” tour. Jelly Roll shared candid insights about the tour’s early success, including five consecutive sold-out shows, and the emotional highs and lows of performing live. He opened up about his past struggles, the importance of staying connected with his roots, and the profound impact his music has on fans. Jelly Roll also discussed his exciting collaborations with artist like Eminem, his deep connection to his music’s purpose, and his latest album, set to drop on October 11th.
“Collaborating with Eminem is by far the most unreal thing that’s happened in my career yet. There are probably five people on earth I’d meet that I would clearly be jittery around. It’d be like Gareth Brooks, James Taylor, Bog Seager, Eminem. People I grew up knowing every word of every son they ever released.” said Jelly Roll.
Then he continued: “When he sent the record and I got to hear it first time, for me it was such a fan cause it reminded me a ‘Mockingbird.’ It reminded me The Eminem Show Em, that era of him cause the rest of the album kinda felt like earlier Slim Shady but these couple of songs, ‘Temporary,’ with my friend, Skylar Grey, they felt really nostalgic, like deep Eminem, like Stan Eminem, that real story-teller Eminem. That Eminem that made you feel like you were in his living room with him and you knew his daughter and you knew the family struggles and you knew what he was going through, you felt it. For that to be combined with the song that I think I was my version of that, I feel like ‘Save Me’ is kind of a peep into my soul. For that to be the song that brought us together, I think it was so serendipitous.
“It was deep man. People don’t know this but he showed me, when we were sitting backstage for the video, that Camcord footage is real. That’s not a fix. That was not a made-up thing. He had years of this old footage from his drug addiction years that he had never even really properly went through because he knew that was from those years. And somewhere in the process of the album, I don’t remember the exact story but it was like he had either seen that video the day he wrote Somebody Save Me or couple days after he wrote Somebody Save Me. It’s really deep man. We’ve spent a lot of time on that video set really hanging. That dude got really deep with me. He’s a great guy, man.”
“I’m glad I got a second time to hang out with him cause the first time I met him I just completely made a fool of myself. I just did the nervous talk your face-off kind of thing. He’s not talkative as me. So, in general, he was kind of quiet. And we were just meeting and every time it got quiet I just started spitting fun facts about me. I had to apologize doing it but he was like ‘it’s all good dude.'” Jelly Roll added. You can watch the interview below:
