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Jelly Roll on Doing What It Takes to Be a Changemaker: ‘I Know My Story Helps People — I’m Trying to Be a Good Steward’
Variety's Changemaker of the Year, Jelly Roll, talks about making a difference, and why he's opening for Post Malone in 2025, rather than headline.
Of course you’ve talked about wanting to reach people who have been or are dealing with substance abuse or incarceration or some of those heavy things that have kind of been causes of yours. That is such a deep issue for many people, and not that many artists in music are really addressing what it feels like believing you’re really fucked up in life and not knowing how they are going to get past it. Finally, just to ask about your transparency, which is part of what people find so refreshing about you… And your wife is so good at that too, and it almost seems like if one of you is not saying something, the other will, and so maybe you almost sort of keep yourself accountable… It feels like you have the attitude that if you’re gonna tell people they need to be real in their lives, then you can’t like be covering stuff up as a celebrity and leave amyone with the feeling that you’re not practicing what you preach in terms of candor and honesty.
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