Jelly Roll has recently sat down on FLAGRANT where he breaks down all the inside baseball of the country music charts, explains how he got features with Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly and has some hilarious behind the scenes stories from SNL and his tour.
“I always bring up Paul in interview because I feel like he never gets brought up enough. Paul Rosenberg has been Eminem’s manager since Eminem has had a manager. Lifelong, Detroit-homie kinda s–t. Really cool inception story. The cool story about Eminem is, I believe, his publicist, his assistant, he’s had like the same four people around him for his entire career.” said Jelly Roll.
Then he continued: “Eminem’s a wizard, man. He’s the biggest selling artist of our generation. He sold more records than Elvis. It’s insane when you think about how big he is. You don’t really get to see the wizard a lot. But I’ve seen a wizard now and I hung out with him. He’s f–king great guy. He’s really down to earth. He’s super honest. He’s very intentional with his words. We hung out for the video set for 12 hours. Just like, d–kng around.”
“To show his personality, he walks in my Green Room, going: “Somebody shave me, I need some Gillette…” He’s f–king funny guy. Paul has always been trying to get me and Em together. Every time I’ve seen Paul he’s like ‘If Marshall don’t understand anybody else, he’s gonna get you.’ He’s been telling me this since I was working with Yelawolf a decade ago. So Paul calls and he’s like ‘send me the Save Me record, I think Marshall wants to f–k with it.’ So, I’m like, you know how rap works? I’m getting an Eminem remix. Like, he just drops a verse one day. Whenever it comes, thank you god. That’s what I thought.”
“I had already told Kells [MGK] that story back then and Kells is a real friend, he was like ‘yo, that’s huge, keep me posted.’ He’s cheering for me at heart. This was 18 months ago. So I kinda get to the point where I thought it [Eminem remix] was not coming. I was like ‘ah, it happens.’ Then I get a call, they were closing the record. I was like ‘WHAT?’ Second singe! They wanted to shoot a video. Me and Kells already worked on two or three records together. Me and Kells are hanging out every day and suddenly this Eminem thing is real. Paul was like ‘We love Jelly’ and he never brought up Eminem’s beef with MGK.”
“My heart is always to bring them together one day cause I see so much more of them in each other than they know. I hadn’t really brought it up to Marshall yet cause I’m just kinda glad to be in that circumstance to be able to have them conversations. But I do see there is so much in them than not. I also gave Kells a perspective too like we all grew up watching Eminem take over the game early. If you get mentioned in an Eminem song, it was like getting mentioned in the comedy special. You were on f–king fire. You could not be hotter if you get mentioned in Eminem special or HBO special.”
“There are gonna get together. One day eventually. It’s inevitable. The world’s a circle. I think they are gonna find each others heart mere than they don’t. And if they never do connect that way, I think that it did more for both of them that didn’t hurt either one of them.” Jelly Roll added. You can watch the interview below:
