Jelly Roll says he’s almost ready — almost — to speak out about politics.
Speaking in the 2026 Grammys press room following his win for Best Contemporary Country Album (Beautifully Broken), the musician told Rolling Stone that people shouldn’t “care to hear my opinion.”
“You know, I’m a dumb redneck. I haven’t watched enough,” he added.
That quip came after Jelly Roll slightly touched on the current political climate in the US during his award acceptance speech, saying, “I believed that music had the power to change my life and God had the power to change my life. Jesus is for everybody. Jesus is not owned by one political party…. Jesus is Jesus. Anybody can have a relationship with him.”
He added, “I hate to be the artist aesthetic, aloof, but I’ve become so disconnected from what’s happening.
“I grew up in a house insane pandemonium. I didn’t even know politics were fucking real until I was in my mid-twenties in jail…. When you grow up in a drug addict household, do you think we have common calls about what’s happening in world politics? We’re just trying to find a way to survive, man, you know?”
Jelly Roll insisted that he had “a lot to say” and would say it “in the next week.”
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“Everybody’s going to hear exactly what I have to say about it in the most loud and clear way I’ve ever spoken in my life. So I look forward to it,” he said.
Jelly Roll hasn’t always avoided political matters, previously addressing US Congress about the fentanyl crisis.
After meeting Donald Trump at a UFC match in New York City following the 2024 election, he insisted he was “not political.”
“Dude, there’s not a chance in hell that I’m not going to meet the president-elect,” he said at the time. “If I got a call to meet Joe Biden, I would have stopped at any point to meet him. That’s the active president. I don’t care about what he thinks or I think about policies.”
