Beautifully Broken<\/em> on Oct. 11. Jelly Roll and mgk previously teamed up for the song \u201cLonely Road.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI felt early in this writing process, it was becoming my journal of mental health,\u201d Jelly Roll said, adding, \u201cIt\u2019s the longest time I\u2019ve took writing a single project\u2026 I really wrote this record hoping that people would feel that they were spoken for. What I hear the most from people is, \u2018Man, this song says what I can\u2019t.\u2019 And that sticks with me, dude\u2026 That\u2019s what I want them to get from this album.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThey also discussed how they went from enemies to friends, with mgk saying, \u201cSo, our beginnings were interesting,\u201d and sending Jelly Roll into a deep laugh. \u201cIt is so funny how much I love you now,\u201d said mgk, \u201cbecause like, God, I hated you so much back then.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tJelly replied with a laugh, \u201cI was just a spiteful, bitter f\u2013kin\u2019 dude, you know what I\u2019m saying?\u201d adding, \u201cI explain this to people and they don\u2019t understand the concept because of our age now. Whenever I talk to my daughter, I\u2019m like, \u2018You gotta understand there was only like seven white rappers on Earth at this time, so it was so competitive when you was in that pool, that we were kind of automatically forced against each other anyways.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cFor sure,\u201d mgk said. \u201cYou\u2019re bred to hate each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAnd you were just like, just skinny and handsome,\u201d Jelly Roll said. \u201cSo I was like, I was just a hater. I was just a hater, dude! It\u2019s hard to grow up in front of the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThis might be one of my favorite mgk disses, was, \u2018F\u2013k Machine Gun Kelly and his mohawk,’\u201d mgk said, eliciting more laughs from Jelly Roll. \u201cBecause you just had this Southern drawl on your voice, where you didn\u2019t say \u2018mohawk,\u2019 you said \u2018mo-hawck.\u2019 And that mohawk, dude, my mohawk was f\u2013kin\u2019 just a nice, eight inches of just egg whites and cheap hairspray\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tJelly Roll\u2019s song \u201cI Am Not Okay,\u201d featured on Beautifully Broken<\/em>, is currently at No. 9 on Billboard<\/em>\u2018s Hot Country Songs chart. Meanwhile, the album shares its name with Jelly Roll\u2019s just-launched arena tour, which also features openers Warren Zeiders and Alexandra Kay.<\/p>\n\n\tJelly Roll also talked about the struggle of balancing life on the road with being there for his family, and the two also discussed the ever-broadening reaches of country music, and compared the widening borders of rock and country.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cCountdown To\u00a0is the latest effort in our ongoing commitment to spotlight artists and their new music on Spotify,\u201d\u00a0Sarah Patellos<\/strong>, head of Spotify Music Studios, said in a statement. \u201cWorking with director\u00a0Karam Gill<\/strong>\u00a0and mgx creative, these intimate conversations are shot documentary-style to really get to the root of each artist\u2019s creative journey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tSee Jelly Roll and mgk\u2019s discussion below:<\/p>\n\n
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