Overview
- Benét posted an Instagram video criticizing Jelly Roll for declining to address current events after delivering a faith-centered Grammy acceptance speech.
- In a follow-up video, Benét argued that condemning acts like genocide or the harming of children is not political but a basic Christian obligation.
- Backstage at the Grammys, Jelly Roll told reporters he keeps his views private, said people should not care about his opinion, and described himself as a “dumb redneck.”
- Jelly Roll also said he had a lot to say and promised to speak within a week, yet, according to reporting three weeks later, he had not publicly expanded on that pledge.
- Billboard linked the questioning to outrage over ICE shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota and reported it had asked Jelly Roll’s representative for comment.