WWE Chief Content material Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque introduced on July 16 that chart-topping nation artist Jelly Roll will present the official theme songs for this 12 months’s SummerSlam occasion.
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The distinguished annual wrestling spectacle, scheduled for Aug. 3 in Cleveland, will showcase two of Jelly Roll’s tracks: “Lifeless Finish Street” from his album Twisters and his latest hit “Liar.”
Levesque’s social media announcement included a telling trace at a potential stay efficiency. “Excited to have my pal Jelly Roll again with two official #SummerSlam theme songs: ‘Lifeless Finish Street’ off Twisters: The Album, and ‘Liar’ off his album coming this fall.”
He added, “btw, @JellyRoll615 – let me know should you’re free on Aug. 3 to play a couple of songs for the @WWEUniverse,” he tweeted, leaving followers speculating about an in-person look by the musician.
This isn’t Jelly Roll’s first interplay with WWE.
The Nashville native has made a number of shock appearances at WWE occasions in his hometown, most memorably in November 2023, throughout which he obtained concerned in a match between wrestlers Randy Orton and Dominik Mysterio by pushing Mysterio and JD McDonagh after they confronted him exterior the ring.
“I simply felt like I used to be backing my boy,” Jelly Roll mentioned on the time.
It’s the most recent addition to Jelly Roll’s ever-growing checklist of achievements, with the nation famous person lately collaborating with Eminem on “Any individual Save Me,” which served because the nearer on the rapper’s newest album, The Dying of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce).
Reflecting on working with the Rap God, Jelly Roll shared, “I all the time say my childhood heroes lived someplace between Willie Nelson and Eminem.”
“As a youngster (and nonetheless in the present day) I might recite each music on the Slim Shady album, the Marshall Mathers album and The Eminem Present. After I bonded out of jail at 17 years previous and was sneaking into cyphers and battles in Nashville they’d additionally play the ‘Lose Your self’ beat after I got here out on stage on the freestyle battles.”
“I associated to each phrase Eminem wrote. I perceive him and felt like he understood me, which was uncommon trigger I spent most of my life feeling misunderstood.”
