Jelly Roll
Jason DeFord
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Growing up in Nashville’s Antioch area, he earned the nickname Jelly Roll from a childhood love of doughnuts; a troubled youth involving arrests and a decade of incarceration ended with a GED at 23 and a gubernatorial pardon. Influenced by Southern rap groups such as Three 6 Mafia and UGK, he began selling mixtapes from his car in the early 2000s, later releasing projects like the Gamblin’ on the…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
