Jelly Roll Featured as Latest Billboard Magazine Cover Story!

Tennessee has a zero-tolerance policy for violent offenders, so that one charge is still on his record — and has very real repercussions. Jelly, an avid golfer, tried to buy a house in a community with its own course not long ago and was rejected. “Imagine changing your life in such a way that you can afford the kind of house in this community I was looking at,” he says. “My money was welcome, but I wasn’t, all because of something I did [almost] 24 years ago.”
Jelly can’t vote, or volunteer at most nonprofits, or own a firearm. Until recently, he couldn’t get a passport, which limited his ability to tour abroad. “The trick is when America finally says, ‘We’ll let you leave,’ the amount of countries that won’t let you come in … We had to cancel my London debut show.”
From Jelly Roll Across Social Media: This is the things I used to dream about right here. billboard has always been the industry standard when it comes to charts and what’s hot and what’s not. I’ve been reading Billboard since I was child. Long before I understood anything about record sales I just knew if Billboard talked about you, something big was happening —- This is amazing to me that Billboard told my story and gave me a cover profile. Thank y’all- just wow!
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