Singer-rapper Jelly Roll has made his primetime TV debut — and he premiered a brand new track in the identical episode.
Showing on the April 11 episode of the hit CBS drama Hearth Nation, Jelly Roll, 40, performed healthcare employee and former convict Noah. The function marked Jelly Roll’s first scripted TV look after a earlier cameo as himself on the Paramount+ sequence Tulsa King.
Then, after his character was launched, Jelly Roll’s new track, “Goals Don’t Die,” premiered later within the episode.
Now in its third season, Hearth Nation follows a younger convict, Bode, searching for redemption and a shortened sentence by becoming a member of a firefighting program in Northern California.
Jelly Roll’s look on the present got here after he crossed paths with its star and government producer Max Thieriot on the CMT Music Awards.
“I stated, ‘Thanks for letting us have a few of your songs on the present,’” Thieriot not too long ago advised US Weekly. “And he’s like, ‘Dude, how do I get on the present? I’ve been petitioning on-line and speaking to my individuals and you bought to get me on that present.’”
Thieriot advised the outlet Jelly Roll referred to as him the following day to observe up on his need to look on the present.
“We labored on developing with a personality [for him] that all of us thought could be attention-grabbing, distinctive and particular and nonetheless. It tells a few of the story about second possibilities and what he actually represents,” Thieriot advised US Weekly. “However [it] additionally feels totally different from who he’s and the way individuals see him everyday as a rustic singer.”
Jelly Roll’s look and track resonated with followers of his, and of the present.
“Jelly Roll was nice on the present. Want he was on there for good,” one fan wrote on Fb.
“He hit a homerun once more with this track,” one other particular person wrote.
“Jelly Roll on Hearth Nation is so clutch!!” another person shared on X.
The Save Me singer’s large episode comes simply days after he introduced a serious weight reduction milestone.
“I began at 540 kilos and I used to be 357 kilos this morning,” he stated on the April 9 episode of Pat McAfee’s Massive Evening Aht present. “I’m gonna lose one other 100 kilos and go skydiving with my spouse in Sweden, child!”
