“We wanna thank God for giving us the grace to provide him a little bit glory on this constructing tonight,” rapper-slash-country hit-generator Jelly Roll stated onstage in Might on the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards. The speech got here throughout an exultant efficiency of his collab with Shaboozey, “Amen,” which options the refrain, “Someone say a prayer for me / ‘Trigger the tablets ran out and I nonetheless can’t sleep.” The tune particulars a spiritual devotion earned by means of a wrestle with darker forces. “Even a crooked street can nonetheless get you dwelling,” Jelly Roll concluded.
Jelly Roll would possibly appear to be a stunning mouthpiece for this sort of preachy second, however the tune is successful even outdoors the nation bubble. In a current article for Christianity Today, musicologist Kelsey McGinnis recognized the work of artists like Jelly Roll, Brandon Lake, and Thomas Rhett as “barstool conversion rock,” a notably masculine type of music that sits adjoining to modern Christian music (CCM).
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