Jason “Jelly Roll” Deford, the country music star famous for his raw lyrics and strong stage presence, is moving closer to putting his criminal past behind him. The Tennessee Board of Parole has unanimously suggested that Deford should receive a pardon for crimes he committed when he was young. This includes robbery and drug-related offenses.

One member of the board chose not to vote, but the rest agreed. However, this recommendation does not mean Deford’s record will be cleared automatically. The final choice belongs to Governor Bill Lee, who can either grant a full pardon, reduce his sentence, or deny the request completely, per People.

A pardon could affect more than just Deford’s professional life. It might also have a big impact on his personal relationships, especially his marriage to Bunnie XO. Her forgiveness and have been a major part of his journey toward redemption.

Jelly Roll might get his pardon soon

As NBC pointed out, his music told some of his story. Save Me has the lines, “Somebody save me, me from myself/I’ve spent so long living in Hell/They say my lifestyle is bad for my health/It’s the only thing that seems to help.”

A pardon won’t undo the pain his past actions caused, but it could offer legal and symbolic closure, affecting his ability to travel for concerts and even his right to vote.

Jelly Roll once told People, “And I just realized that was the most impactful thing that ever happened in my life, and the darkest moments of my life still were being that 15-year-old scared kid spending Thanksgiving away from his family.”

Deford’s history with crime started when he was just 14 years old. Over the next ten years, he was arrested many times and spent long periods in jail. His most serious conviction came from a robbery. But his time in prison wasn’t wasted. He worked on his rap skills and later combined them with country music to create a style that helped him become famous.

Many of his songs are based on his own life, telling stories of struggle, addiction, and time behind bars. Even with his troubled past, Deford’s career has taken off. He has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, showing an incredible change from a young criminal to a successful artist. But his story isn’t just about his own success.

He uses his fame to push for good causes, speaking in prisons, rehab programs, and schools. Because of this work, he was given an award by the World Literacy Foundation at Oxford University, proving his dedication to helping others face tough situations. He also spoke to Congress about the dangers of fentanyl, showing his commitment to tackling serious social problems.

Deford has often talked openly about his struggles and how his actions hurt his family, especially when a prison guard told him his daughter had been born while he was locked up. He has said that prison made him take responsibility for his life and think deeply about his choices. He also wants to inspire others who are dealing with similar challenges.

Jelly Roll will soon head out on the road with Post Malone, a stadium tour the duo announced back in November. The pair will also be ed by singer Sierra Ferrell.

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The tour will begin in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 19, 2025 and the pair will hit 25 cities and stadiums before the shows end in San Francisco on July 1, 2025.

Though he’s probably busy preparing for the tour ahead of its kickoff, Jelly Roll is also enjoying a lot of quality time with his family at home. Here’s what the “Need a Favor” singer has been up to.

Jelly Roll and BunnieXo grow their “lil farm” family

On Sunday Jelly Roll’s wife BunnieXo shared on Instagram that the family has grown by four — four new farm animals, that is. In the first video, BunnieXo posted she revealed the addition of three male calves named Crunch, Brownie, and S’more.

The video also features an excited Jelly Roll, who exclaims, “Oh! We got cows!” and the family’s dog, Chachi, who is excitedly rolling around. The pair’s daughter Bailee Ann and son Noah Buddy are also equally thrilled with the latest animal additions.

Noah says that his favorite is Crunch and explains, “I just feel like he’s going to be a great bull! He’s small, he’s got the same hair as me, and he’s probably nice!”

In another post shared on Instagram the same day, BunnieXo also revealed the family has added a donkey to the mix — an animal Jelly Roll added because he was “upset” that everyone else got their own new friend.

Jelly Roll hopes to “bring together” Eminem and MGK “one day”

During a recent interview on the “Flagrant” podcast, Jelly Roll also itted that he hopes to reconcile Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly. The pair have been locked in a feud ever since MGK said Eminem’s daughter Hailie was “hot as f–k.”

“My heart is always to bring them together one day,” Jelly Roll explained. “Because 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 glad that I’m still in that circumference to be able to have conversations. But I do see that there’s so much more in them than not.”

“But I also gave [MGK] some perspective, too,” he continued. “We all grew up watching Eminem take over the game early. If you got mentioned in an Eminem song it was like getting mentioned in a comedy special. You were on fire! You couldn’t be hotter if you got mentioned in an Eminem song or an HBO special. It’s what you wanted, your name to be brought up.”

Singer/songwriter and rapper Jelly Roll has achieved remarkable success in recent years, delivering hit songs and teaming up with some of music’s biggest names. In a recent interview, he shared a heartfelt goal to reconcile two of his collaborators who have been in a years-long feud — Eminem and MGK (formerly Machine Gun Kelly).

Jelly Roll was featured in Eminem’s song “Somebody Save Me” and in MGK’s “Lonely Road,” both of which were released in July 2024. In a guest appearance on the podcast Flagrant, host Andrew Shulz commended the singer for his collaboration with the two artists, saying. “These guys are mortal enemies and somehow you are so talented that you are positioned in between both of them and they’re like ‘I still want to work with Jelly Roll.’”

The animosity between the two artists dates back to 2012, when MGK tweeted about Eminem’s daughter, who was 16 years old at that time, writing, “…she is hot as f**k, in the most respectful way possible cuz Em is king.” In the years that followed, the two engaged in a heated diss battle through their songs. 

Eminem talked about the beef in an interview in 2018, saying that his reason for slamming MGK was actually “more petty,” as it was a response to MGK implying that he hindered his career. “I don’t give a f**k about your career… You know how many f**king rappers are better than you? You’re not even in the f**king conversation,” he said. In the same year, MGK said Eminem didn’t want to have a conversation with him, adding, “F**k you. You blew it. You blew it. It’s cool ‘til it ain’t.”

Jelly Roll offered MGK a new perspective on Eminem’s disses

Jelly Roll has nothing but love for the two rappers but has been friends with MGK for a long time. He shared that he offered MGK his perspective on being dissed by Eminem, telling him that they both grew up idolizing the iconic rapper. “If you got mentioned in an Eminem song, it was like being mentioned in a comedy special. You’re on f**king fire. You couldn’t be hotter,” she stated.

He also feels that the rappers could patch things up, as he sees “so much more of them in each other than they know.” And while he’s talked to MGK about the issue, he hasn’t approached Eminem yet as right now, he’s just grateful to be in the rapper’s circle. Still, he has high hopes that they could bury the hatchet.

“They’re gonna get together one day eventually. I think that they’re gonna find each other’s heart more than they don’t. And if they never do connect that way, [the feud] did more for both of them than it did to hurt either one of them.”

Interestingly, Jelly Roll and MGK also had beef with each other before they became good friends. They laughed about it in the podcast Jelly Roll: Countdown to Beautifully Broken, where MGK said he hated Jelly Roll so much back then. Jelly Roll itted that he was hating on MGK for being a “skinny and handsome” dude, and the hostility, in part, stemmed from the fact that there were only a few white rappers at that time and they were “bred to hate each other.”

Singer/songwriter Jelly Roll, born Jason Bradley DeFord, has achieved significant success, but one of his proudest accomplishments is being a father to his two children, Bailee Ann and Noah, whom he often talks about in interviews.

Jelly Roll, who was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, had a difficult childhood fraught with challenges, including several arrests and drug addiction. In 2008, a then 23-year-old Jelly Roll was in prison when a guard notified him that his daughter, Bailee Ann, had been born. “The single most impactful event of my entire life was having my daughter. It changed everything,” the singer told People in an interview.

Learning that he had a daughter motivated him to turn his life around. While in prison, he focused on earning his GED, which he ed with ease. Just over a year into his sentence, he was released and was finally able to be present for Bailee Ann just in time for her 2nd birthday.

Bailee Ann, Jelly Roll’s daughter with ex-partner Felicia Beckwith, has had a tough childhood. Beckwith became addicted to prescription medication and heroin after being diagnosed with fibromyalgia, while her new boyfriend was a drug as well. The home environment wasn’t ideal for Baillee Ann who was just 7 years old and had to take care of herself as well as two young cousins who lived with her and her mother. Seeing his daughter’s living conditions, Jelly Roll, who was then in a relationship with now-wife Bunnie XO, filed for full custody of Bailee Ann, which was granted.

Bailee Ann felt manipulated by her biological mother

Although Bailee Ann has a fractured relationship with Beckwith, she has a strong bond with her “mama,” step-mom Bunnie XO, whom Roll married in 2016. In 2023, she went on Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde podcast and opened up about Beckwith. Days before Bailee Ann’s 12th birthday, a sober Beckwith reconnected with her daughter after being released from jail. They began to build a relationship once again and Bailee Ann even spent the summer with her after she turned 14.

However, Beckwith’s sobriety was short-lived, and during their summer together, Bailee Ann came under her mother’s influence. “We start drinking together and I’m like, ‘Ok this is whatever, you’re just a cool mom, you’re letting me drink, you’re letting me smoke weed, this is cool,’” Bailey Ann recalled. She was eventually introduced to harder drugs and even accompanied her mother to meet a drug dealer. Looking back, she described her mother as being “persuasive” and “manipulative,” and she spent the rest of the summer with her “never sober.”

Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO sensed something was wrong when Bailee Ann returned from spending time with Beckwith, prompting all three to attend therapy to help her in her sobriety. She cut ties with her mother and as she said in the podcast, she is “very strict” when it comes to letting her mother in again. “I don’t believe in the middle line or the integration of emotion and logic… I’ve learned with my mother that there is no healing for her,” she expressed. Thankfully, she has the unwavering of her father as well as her step-mom, and Bailee Ann never shies away from publicly acknowledging how grateful she is for their presence in her life.

It looks like 2025 will be a health-focused year for Jelly Roll. The 40-year-old rapper-singer looks forward to shedding more weight in the new year, and hopefully landing a magazine cover to show off his body transformation.

On the Dec. 16 episode of his wife Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde podcast, Jelly Roll — given name Jason Bradley DeFord — revealed his weight loss goal for 2025, saying, “I wanna be on the cover of Men’s Health by March of 2026. That’s my new goal.”

The “Wild Ones” hitmaker has already lost 120 pounds from his former 550-pound frame, but he is determined to lose more next year because he wants to “have one of the biggest transformations.”

Addressing why he’s decided to go public with his weight struggles and fitness goals, Jelly Roll said, “I did this publicly for a reason. I wanna be honest about my struggles with it with people.” He noted that he was “so glad” to share this aspect of his life with an audience.

DeFord does not want to be like other celebs of a similar size, who go off the radar and quietly work on losing weight. He said most plus-size people do this because they are “kind of ashamed.”

“They’re so ashamed that they go hide and lose the weight, and then they come back out [and] they don’t really know how to interact with the world looking different or feeling different, and they kinda gotta find their whole new way,” he explained.

For this reason, the Grammy-nominated artist wants to be transparent about his weight loss journey, so he can openly talk about it to everybody.

“I wanna bring people along with me… I didn’t become successful because of my weight. I became successful in spite of it,” he added.

Hearing Jelly Roll’s words, Bunnie — real name Alyssa DeFord — praised her husband for opting to document his fitness journey, saying, “I think it’s awesome that people get to watch your transformation too because they get to feel like [they’re] not alone.”

In October, the “Save Me” crooner proudly shared on Instagram that he had lost 100 pounds while preparing for a 5K race. The revelation generated a lot of positive reactions from his fans, who encouraged him to keep going.

A month later, DeFord appeared on The Pat McAfee Show, where he revealed he was down by 120 pounds while on tour. According to him, he brought along his nutritionist, Ian Larios, on tour so he could focus on losing weight when not performing shows.

Earlier this December, Jelly Roll showcased his noticeable weight loss when he performed his new single, “Liar,” at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards, where he also received a trophy for his featured work on Falling in Reverse’s “All My Life” song.

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, DeFord shared the main reason why he’s decided to get fit and healthy. “I just want to feel good, want to feel normal,” he said. “I’ve been morbidly obese my entire life. I wanna feel normal, that’s just something I want to do. I’m pretty committed to it. I’m also glad I’m being so honest about it because I want the world to see it.”

Knowing that he’s made good on his promise to lose weight thus far, it’s very likely that Jelly Roll will achieve his fitness goals for 2025 and beyond. Fans will be happy to see him gracing Men’s Health by then.

Jelly Roll, Keith Urban, and Luke Combs will headline the 2025 Tortuga Music Festival next year in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The festival will take place on April 4-6.

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Jelly Roll will headline on April 4, Urban on April 5, and Combs on April 6. In addition to the festival’s main stage, the event will also host the “Next From Nashville” stage, which gives Nashville-based performers a shot at attracting fans and listeners. The performers for that stage include Noah Hicks, Bryce Leatherwood, and more.

Tickest for the festival went on sale on Nov. 1 and are also currently available on StubHub.

Urban recently announced dates for his 2025 “High and Alive World Tour.” He will be ed on the road by Chase Matthew, Alana Springsteen, and Karley Scott Collins. “Playing live is what I live to do,” Urban said in a statement shared by Live for Live Music. “Looking out from a stage and seeing people singing, forgetting about all the stress in their lives, cutting loose, and feeling ALIVE – that’s what it’s about for me. Lots of hits, new songs, things we won’t even think about until we’re onstage – and loads of guitar. We’re gonna make this tour the best night of your life!”

If you can’t catch Urban on his own tour, you can catch him at Tortuga! Here’s what you need to know.

How to buy VIP es for the Tortuga Music Festival

Three-day VIP es can be purchased for $1599 on the official festival website. The festival also offers three-day SVIP es for $2499.

Full Tortuga Music Festival lineup

Here’s how the three-day festival lineup will roll out:

Friday, April 4, 2025: Jelly Roll, Parker McCollum, Ludacris, Gary Allan, Marcus King, Gavin DeGraw, Artikal Sound System, Angie K, Drew Parker, Charlie Worsham, John Morgan, Bayker Blankenship, Jade Eagleson, Jenna LaMaster, and Denitia

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Saturday, April 5, 2025: Keith Urban, Jordan Davis, Shaboozey, Wyatt Flores, Ezra Ray Hart (ft. Mark McGrath, Kevin Griffin, and Emerson Hart), The Original Wailers, Meghan Patrick, Lily Rose, Abby Anderson, Wheeland Brothers, Ashland Craft, Bryce Leatherwood, Mae Estes, Avery Anna, and Karley Scott Collins

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Sunday, April 6, 2025: Luke Combs, Megan Moroney, Cody Jinks, Corey Kent, Rodney Atkins, Yelawolf, Caylee Hammack, Restless Road, Lauren Watkins, Bumpin Uglies, Kashus Culpepper, Lanie Gardner, Noah Hicks, and Thomas Edwards

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In addition, he’s slated to headline Coachella 2025 alongside Lady Gaga and Green Day. Posty’s a busy guy these days. On Tuesday, the “I Had Some Help” singer, 29, announced his largest tour ever, the “BIG A** Stadium Tour 2025,” on Instagram. The tour will kick off in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 19, 2025. It will stop in 25 cities, with the final stop being San Francisco on July 1, 2025. Jelly Roll, 39, and singer Sierra Ferrell, 36, will him on most stops.

How much are Post Malone tickets?

Prices for each city vary. Tickets to both the May 3 show in Las Vegas and the May 11 show in Atlanta can currently be snagged for as little as $101 each, whereas fans will pay $147 or higher to see him perform in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 29.

Who is Jelly Roll?

Jason Bradford DeFord, also known as Jelly Roll, is most notably known for his hit “Son of a Sinner.” The Tennessee native rose to fame after winning the New Artist of the Year Award at the Country Music Awards in 2023.

Post Malone 2025 tour schedule and dates

Fans can catch Post Malone in the following cities next year:

• April 29, 2025 – Salt Lake City, UT
• May 3, 2025 – Las Vegas, NV
• May 7 – San Antonio, TX
• May 9 – Dallas, TX
• May 11 – Atlanta, GA
• May 13 – St. Louis, MO
• May 18 – Detroit, MI
• May 20 – Minneapolis, MN
• May 22 – Chicago, IL
• May 24 – Philadelphia, PA
• May 26 – Toronto, CA
• May 28 – Hershey, PA
• May 29 – Pittsburgh, PA
• May 31 – Foxborough, MA
• June 2 – Washington D.C.
• June 4 – New York, NY
• June 8 – Miami, FL
• June 10 – Orlando, FL
• June 13 – Ridgedale, MO
• June 15 – Denver, CO
• June 21 – Glendale, AZ
• June 24, Boise, ID
• June 26, Seattle, WA
• June 28 – Portland, OR
• July 1 – San Francisco, CA

The tour is being produced by Live Nation and is sponsored by T-Mobile.

Prince Harry just got his first tattoo, courtesy of singer-rapper Jelly Roll.  On Tuesday, the official Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025 Instagram released a promotional video featuring Prince Harry visiting the NYC-based tattoo parlor East Side Ink to meet up with the recording artist and invite him to perform at the closing ceremony.

“Hey, hey! Tattoos! Speaking of, what’s up man?” Jelly Roll — real name Jason Bradley DeFord — greeted the duke enthusiastically in the clip. “So good to meet you,” Prince Harry responded, extending his right arm for a handshake and saying he is “such a big fan.”

“Do you know I could not believe it when they called me and told me Prince Harry wanted to get a tattoo today, and he wanted me to give him his first tattoo? This is the coolest thing ever!” DeFord said after their pleasantries. 

Although taken aback, Meghan Markle’s husband agreed to have DeFord ink him his first tattoo when he learned that this was the only way for him to get the Grammy nominee to perform at the closing ceremony. “I’ll play the Invictus Games, you just let me give you your first tattoo,” Jelly Roll told Harry, who then repeated the deal and said, “Alright, screw it, let’s go!” 

The comical banter between the two continued after Jelly Roll fired up the tattoo gun. “I was thinking the lower back or on my ass,” Prince Harry interjected when DeFord aimed for his neck, saying, “We gotta go for the neck!” After letting out a few laughs, Jelly Roll told the royal, “Nobody wants to see your ass, Harry!”

Despite being covered in skin art from head to toe, Jelly Roll is not a tattoo artist. Prince Harry learned this the hard way halfway through their session when he got a feeling that his tattoo would be bigger than what he asked for.  “It feels big, man.” But DeFord, who seemed proud of his work, responded, “This is going to be huge, man.”

Indeed, it’s bigger than what he expected. When he saw his neck tattoo in the mirror, Harry exclaimed, “What’s that?” The camera then panned to the tattoo, which says, “I AM Jelly Roll,” as the singer assured the royal that “it’s awesome.” But Harry could not get over its size. “Dude, it’s enormous!”

As he continued to examine his new accessory, Prince Harry realized what Jelly Roll had done. “Is that your name? You put your name on my neck?” He started to yell as though he was ready to throw some hands. But then DeFord quickly exited the scene, leaving Prince Harry apparently agitated and disappointed.

On the same day the video was released, the organization announced that Jelly Roll would be headlining the closing ceremony in Vancouver on Feb. 16, 2025. So it seems Prince Harry’s decision to get inked by the singer didn’t go in vain. But then again, the tattoo appears to be purely for the promo since, according to People, the video was filmed during Prince Harry’s solo trip to the Big Apple in September. He hasn’t been spotted with his supposed neck ink after that. Maybe he’s covering it up with Dermablend or maybe… just maybe, this whole thing was a publicity stunt. 

He’s been on the rise for a long time, but now everything’s coming up Milhouse for Jason Bradley “Jelly Roll” DeFord as he scores his first number-one album on the Billboard 200 chart. The former criminal wants to jettison the negativity in his life as he enters this new phase of fame, and getting rid of one particular “toxic” app is part of that plan.

DeFord rose to prominence in 2022 after scoring hit singles with “Son of a Sinner” and “Need a Favor.” He went on to win three CMT Music Awards in 2023, as well as the New Artist at the ceremony. Then he won Best New Artist at the 66th Annual Grammys. His latest album Beautifully Broken, which debuted on Oct. 11 and just hit number one on the Billboard 200, will push him even further into the mainstream zeitgeist.

The musician’s past is not a sparkling one that’s full of accolades or positivity. He was arrested multiple times in his youth, including for armed robbery when he was just 15 years old. In his new life, he hopes he can be forgiven, a sentiment he shared on Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast.

“I really want to have a conversation with them. I’ve thought about reaching out. This has been 24 years ago now. And I just don’t know how that would even start — you know, how I would go about it — because sometimes I wonder if they might have even seen me in ing or are aware of my success.” DeFord is open about his issues with addiction, and he said the victim of his crime is on his “amends list.”

True to this attitude, DeFord took to Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, to share his opinion on the site. He emphatically called it the most extremely negative place to ever exist and likened it to the Wild West. X, he said, makes it OK to be mean to people and provides them a “safe place” to do so. He doesn’t like that there aren’t consequences for that. “I’m out lol,” he said.

Unsurprisingly, people quickly started saying “mean s**t.” One person called the musician “soft af lol.” Another told him to “toughen up buttercup.” Internet personality Andrew Tate said DeFord was describing the most fun app in the world, and then leaving.

Others pointed out that he once posted a picture of himself getting brained on the beach and now has the audacity to take a moral high ground. I’m not sure when he was doing that but people seem to get triggered very easily on X. For the alpha keyword warriors out there, some of them act just as thin-skinned as their Tesla god Musk.

DeFord’s album Beautifully Broken crowns Billboard’s Oct. 26 chart, with 161,000 equivalent album units earned for sales through Oct. 17. He also sold an impressive 114,000 physical albums, something that’s increasingly hard to do in the streaming era. This is his second top-ten album, after 2023’s Whitsitt Chapel. It follows the release of three charting songs in a row: “I Am Not Okay,” “Lonely Road,” and “Liar.”

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Country singer/songwriter Jason Bradley DeFord, aka Jelly Roll, had a rough life before making it big as a singer. He’s been open about the challenges he faced early in his life and the steps he took to overcome them.

Jelly Roll grew up in the rural neighborhood of Antioch, a rural neighborhood in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was exposed to drugs at an early age. “I just everybody doing drugs. I was in my 20s before I realized that having a drug addict in your family wasn’t normal,” he said in a GQ interview. He was first arrested at just 14 years old and was in and out of prison for the next 10 years for robbery and drug charges. In addition to his battles with drugs and alcohol, Jelly Roll also struggled with his weight.

In an Instagram post in 2018, Jelly Roll shared one of the most embarrassing moments he experienced in his life. In 2015, he weighed more than 500 pounds and during a visit to the doctor, he was told to visit a truck stop or meat processor so he could get his actual weight as the weighing scale at the doctor’s office only reached 500 pounds maximum. In the same post, he wrote he had always been obese since he was a kid and he was miserable.

“I wanna sky dive, bungee jump, ride a bull, parasail, ride roller coasters, I want to LIVE a normal life and have a normal relationship with food. I fight addictions and alcoholism everyday.”

Jelly Roll inspiration for his weight loss

Jelly Roll recalled being in prison and described his past self as “scum of the Earth” and a “horrible, horrible human.” What made him realize that he had to make changes was his first child, Bailee Ann, born in 2008 while he was incarcerated. The then 23-year-old learned the news from a prison guard who let him know that he was a father. “I’ve never had nothing in life that urged me in the moment to know that I had to do something different,” he told Billboard. Eight years later, he welcomed son Noah Buddy, and he continues to make better choices for himself and his family. Bailee and Noah are from two previous relationships.

Jelly Roll has been working hard to lose weight and has since lost about 200 pounds in the last couple of years. In Jan. 2024, he was a picture of happiness as he attended the 2024 ACM Awards. In April, he revealed that he lost 70 pounds more while training for a 5K race. “I’m doing two to three miles a day, four to six days a week. I’m doing 20 to 30 minutes in the sauna, six minutes in a cold plunge every day. I’m eating healthy right now,” the singer proudly told People. Jelly Roll completed the race, which was held in May, and was emotional as he crossed the finish line and said he felt motivated.

In 2016, Jelly Roll married Bunnie XO, and the couple revealed that they want to add to their family and are undergoing IVF treatments. The decision further motivated Jelly Roll to live a healthy lifestyle to see his kids grow up. “My wife and I are talking about having a baby. And it really made me realize, at almost 40, I was like, ‘That means I gotta live ‘til at least 60. I gotta see this kid into college,” he said.

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Jelly Roll (AKA Jason Bradley DeFord) is so much more than a country music superstar. Believe it or not, he is also a father to not one, but two children — a daughter named Bailee Ann and a son named Noah Buddy — as well as a husband to social media sensation and podcaster Bunnie XO.

The “Halfway to Hell” singer has been open about his relationship with Bailee Ann, his 16-year-old daughter, who was born on May 22, 2008, while the talented singer/songwriter was in prison for drug dealing. Jelly Roll recalled in an interview with Billboard, “A guard knocks on my cell door mid-afternoon during lockdown. He goes, ‘You had a kid today.’ I’ve never had nothing in life that urged me in the moment to know that I had to do something different. I have to figure this out right now.”

Jelly Roll was released from prison moments before Bailee’s second birthday, when they “grilled hamburgers and hot dogs” together. The country crooner and Bunnie XO were later granted full custody of Bailee after her mother fell victim to drugs in 2017.

Mentioning Bailee during his ion-packed speeches at award shows, and slightly bringing her into his world firsthand — making an appearance in his Hulu documentary, Jelly Roll: Save Me, coming onstage during his Stagecoach 2024 performance and more — many country music lovers were unaware that Jelly Roll has a son as well from a previous relationship.

Who is Noah Buddy exactly? Keep scrolling for everything we know about Jelly Roll’s 7-year-old son…

Born on August 23, 2016, Jelly Roll has not spoken much about his 7-year-old son, aside from a birth announcement on Facebook at the time:

“God Bless this Child to be everything I am not! Noah Buddy DeFord! I pray he nor Bailee ever have to pay for their father’s sins. I’ll post more pics tomorrow.”

He stepped into the spotlight for the first time in a TikTok video posted by his stepmom in July of 2023, where he shyly shared that his favorite color is red, his favorite hobbies are Pokémon and soccer, and that he wants both a dog and a cat for a pet. He stepped into the spotlight for the second time in yet another TikTok video posted by his stepmom earlier this week.

“Hey guys, can you watch my bonus son really quick? Thank you,” Bunnie XO said in the video, leaving Noah to take the reins:

“Hello. My name is Noah and this is my first time doing a video so I might be a little… I don’t really know what to say that much, but can you take it easy on me">Whether or not Noah becomes more involved in his father’s booming country music career as he gets older is still up in the air, but our fingers are crossed nonetheless. He is as cute as can be!

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Jelly Roll was one of the singers who performed during the season 25 finale of The Voice, and he debuted an unreleased ballad called “I Am Not Okay.” So, is it coming out soon?

As another The Voice season came to an end, the finale featured a star-studded lineup who performed new or unreleased songs. Standing in front of the judges, Lainey Wilson, Kate Hudson, The Black Keys, Thomas Rhett, and Gina Miles were among the guest performers, as well as Grammy-nominated artist Jelly Roll.

Jelly Roll might seem like he has a lot on his plate, but he surely can balance it all. The country hit singer has recently previewed what’s coming next at the 59th ACM Awards, where he debuted a brand-new song called “Liar. Now, he continued the promo with “I Am Not Okay.”

When is “I Am Not Okay” coming out?

Jelly Roll put all his emotions into the unreleased song “I Am Not Okay,” which is a ballad about acknowledging the fact that you’re not always yourself during hard times. The song received praise from his fans, and the new track resonates with people who are struggling or went through a dark time in their lives. The song paints a picture of trying to act like everything is okay but it also is meant to let the public know that other people are struggling, too.

“I am not OK, I’m barely getting by / I’m losing track of days, I’m losing sleep at night /I am not okay, I’m hanging on the rails / So if I say I’m fine, just know I learned to hide it well,” Jelly Roll starts in the first verse, with the singer moving on to a more hopeful message for better days ahead in the chorus as he sings, “I know I can’t be the only one who’s holding on for dear life / But I know God knows when it’s all said and done / I’m not okay, but it’s all gonna be alright / It’s not OK, but we’re all gonna be alright.”

The new song doesn’t have an official release date, but it’s expected to be on the singer’s album. The forthcoming LP will be his first since his critically acclaimed breakout album, Whitsitt Chapel, released in 2023.

When is Jelly Roll’s new album coming out?

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Jelly Roll has been working on new music. The singer confirmed that he has been working on a lot of new music, and he’s currently trying to figure out the album or how to release the new songs.

“Man, there’s a lot of storytelling on this album,” Jelly Roll confirmed to Taste of Country Nights. “I wrote probably a hundred and something songs last year — maybe 150+ — trying to figure this album out.” He also teased there are “a lot” of new songs coming during an interview with Country Now at the ACM Awards, and revealed that he doesn’t know how or when he’s going to release them, but that he’s very excited about them.

So far, there’s no release date for Jelly Roll’s currently unnamed album. The singer is about to embark on his headline tour, Beautifully Broken Tour, in August this year, so he will have many opportunities to release some of the new songs.

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