Jelly Roll calls Eminem his “childhood hero”

Jelly Roll has revealed Eminem as considered one of his “childhood heroes” after collaborating with the the rapper on the latter’s new album ‘The Dying Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)’.

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On Saturday (July 13), Jelly Roll – actual identify Jason Bradley DeFord – took to Instagram to share and appreciation put up in celebration of Eminem’s twelfth studio album, which arrived on July 12. Jelly Roll’s 2020 observe ‘Save Me’ was sampled on the closing observe of ‘The Dying Of Slim Shady’, titled ‘Someone Save Me’.

I can’t consider I’m on Eminem’s album

— Jelly Roll (@JellyRoll615) July 12, 2024

DeFord wrote: “I at all times say my childhood hero’s lived someplace between Willie Nelson and Eminem. As a young person (and nonetheless at this time) I may recite each music on the ‘Slim Shady’ album, the ‘Marshall Mathers’ album and ‘The Eminem Present’”.

He continued: “After I bonded out of jail at 17 years previous and was sneaking into cyphers and battles in Nashville they might additionally play the ‘Lose Your self’ beat after I got here out on stage on the freestyle battles. I associated to each phrase Eminem wrote. I perceive him and felt like he understood me, which was uncommon trigger I spent most of my life feeling misunderstood.”

So you may think about how I felt after I received that the decision that Eminem could be sampling my music ‘Save Me’ on his new album. And for him to make use of the music to debate the opposite aspect of what may’ve occurred if he would’ve allowed his demons to win introduced me to tears. If you happen to haven’t heard it but, take a look at ‘Someone Save Me’ on Eminem’s new album ‘The Dying Of Slim Shady’”.

See the total put up beneath.

On ‘Someone Save Me’, Eminem raps about an alternate actuality wherein he by no means received sober in April 2008 and misplaced his life to drug dependancy, and the way he would’ve missed his children rising up and his daughter Hailie Jade’s wedding ceremony. Eminem infamously had a near-fatal drug overdose in 2007.

Take heed to Eminem’s ‘Someone Save Me’ that includes Jelly Roll beneath.

Eminem’s 2020 studio album, ‘Music to Be Murdered By’ scored a three-star evaluate from NME, writing: “He’s able to move on hard-earned knowledge earlier than working his mouth like he hasn’t discovered his personal classes. And he affords informal followers a hook or two earlier than embarking on one other lyrical work-out. It might truly be fairly disappointing to see Eminem develop up solely, and he appears to be having enjoyable as he navigates his personal idiosyncratic house.”