Jelly Roll Visits Alma Mater After Shooting
Jelly Roll paid a visit to his Nashville High School, Antioch High, last week after a school shooting there in January. On a mission to comfort the students, Jelly visited…
Jelly Roll paid a visit to his Nashville High School, Antioch High, last week after a school shooting there in January.
On a mission to comfort the students, Jelly visited Tennessee's Antioch High School to meet with students on February 25, over one month after a student shot two classmates before turning the gun on himself, resulting in two deaths and two additional injuries, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.
Metro Nashville Public Schools shared photos from Jelly's visit in a February 26 post on Instagram. They captioned the post of him posing with students, "Music superstar @jellyroll615 visited @antiochbearshome on Tuesday to talk to students and staff about the tragedy that took place there last month."
They added, "Thank you, Jelly Roll, for reaching out to the Antioch community and offering some comfort during a difficult time. We appreciate your support!"
Many commented on the post, including one person who wrote, "Jelly Roll, you are a good man with a Godly heart! Also, love your music." Another fan said, "That's actually cool as hell that he would do that."
See that post here.
Jelly sat for a candid interview with country superstar Eric Church during CRS week in Nashville recently, and Jelly posted a clip from the interview on his Instagram.
Jelly was quite funny during the country star sit-down and even discussed his childhood with Church. He said in the video clip when Eric asked him what his childhood was like, "I was the baby. To this day, my Uncle calls me Baby Jason. I am 6'2, 370 pounds, dawg. I am a 40-year-old (expletive) man, and he is like, 'Baby Jason,' and Mama Jane kisses me on the cheek and pinches my ear and sh--."
He continued, "It's super cool. We lived in a middle, lower-class neighborhood in Antioch right out here. Mother kind of stuggled with drug addiction. Daddy drank, you know what I mean? I was probably 13 years old when I found out Vodka wasn't a sweetener. If you watch Vodka get poured into a Stanley coffee cup your whole life at 5 am, you just assume it's (expletive) Sweet and Low. Until you're 13 and you're old enough to want to drink some Sweet and Low with your coffee (laughs). I'll never forget that conversation when I showed up to elementary school drunk."
See that post (with many expletives) here.
