On Friday, January 24, Kane Brown’s new album, The High Road, will be released. It has a partnership with Jelly Roll over a challenging topic: depression.
In a candid interview with Taste of Country Nights, Brown maintains that Jelly Roll once detested him, despite the fact that they are clearly cool now.
“I heard of him before he had ever gotten in the country industry, because I was hanging out with some other guys that were in the world that Jelly was in,” Brown relates. “We had the same kinda background.”
Despite having mutual friends, they never spoke to one another.
“Our buddy, Taylor Phillips, he told Jelly … so Jelly will tell you this, he hated me,” adds Brown.
As his admirers may recall, Brown was a quiet and reserved artist when he first started out.
“Taylor told him [Jelly] ‘Nah, man, you don’t know him he’s just really quiet.'”
The 31-year-old Brown remembers that he made direct contact with Jelly Roll in an attempt to resolve their differences and, ideally, win her friendship.
“After Taylor told me the story, I finally contacted Jelly and said, ‘Hey buddy, this industry is crazy.'” I play a lot of Call of Duty, so if you ever need to sit down and talk to me or play COD, you can come talk to me about it.”
They played Call of Duty together after Jelly accepted his offer. They became friends quickly.
“So we ended up laying Call of Duty and hitting it off and basically just text all the time,” Brown adds of their current connection. “Random FaceTimes at 3AM.”
“I wrote this song and though of him jumping on it.” It’s called “Haunted.”
“But the funny thing is, the other day we were shooting the music video for it and he was like, ‘Is this thing on?'” Brown claims that Jelly mimicked the “Save Me” hitmaker’s next move when she requested.
“He was like, ‘I used to f–kingng hate this dude!'” According to Brown, Jelly Roll spoke into the camera. “That was his first statement. It happened directly in front of my team.
“Then, he [Jelly] was like, ‘But now I love this guy!'”
Even though Brown knew Jelly didn’t like him before they truly got to know one another, it caught him off guard.
“I was like, ‘You never told me this in person,'” he recalls.
Thankfully, these days it’s all love and positive energy.
“Dude, Jelly is such a kind person. I’m just happy he’s on it,” Brown says. “I adore him and I’m delighted of his accomplishment. He magnified this song.” “Hopefully we get a big hit that’s huge awareness for people to know they’re not alone going through depression.”
In March, Brown will start his The High Road Tour to promote his new album.
