Going deep into the Southern roots of various styles, Tennessee rapper/vocalist/songwriter Jelly Roll explores themes of addiction, pain, and struggling to reach better days with Southern rap beats and soulful, bluesy vocal performances. His music took the form of rugged Southern rock, R&B-tinged instrumentals, country-inspired acoustic numbers, and hardcore rap on albums like 2020's A Beautiful Disaster, 2021's Ballads of the Broken, and 2023's Whitsitt Chapel, the latter of which helped earn him his first Grammy Award nomination.