The occasion will showcase two of Jelly Roll’s tracks.
Jelly Roll performs on the T-Cell Mane Stage through the 2024 Stagecoach Pageant at Empire Polo Membership on April 26, 2024 in Indio, California.
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WWE Chief Content material Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque introduced on July 16 that chart-topping country artist Jelly Roll will present the official theme songs for this yr’s SummerSlam occasion.
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The celebrated annual wrestling spectacle, scheduled for Aug. 3 in Cleveland, will showcase two of Jelly Roll’s tracks: “Lifeless Finish Highway” from his album Twisters and his current hit “Liar.”
Levesque’s social media announcement included a telling trace at a attainable dwell efficiency. “Excited to have my pal Jelly Roll again with two official #SummerSlam theme songs: ‘Lifeless Finish Highway’ off Twisters: The Album, and ‘Liar’ off his album coming this fall.”
He added, “btw, @JellyRoll615 – let me know when 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.
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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 bought concerned in a match between wrestlers Randy Orton and Dominik Mysterio by pushing Mysterio and JD McDonagh after they confronted him outdoors the ring.
“I simply felt like I used to be backing my boy,” Jelly Roll stated on the time.
It’s the most recent addition to Jelly Roll’s ever-growing record of achievements, with the nation celebrity just lately collaborating with Eminem on “Somebody Save Me,” which served because the nearer on the rapper’s newest album, The Death 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 young person (and nonetheless at present) I might recite each tune on the Slim Shady album, the Marshall Mathers album and The Eminem Present. Once I bonded out of jail at 17 years previous and was sneaking into cyphers and battles in Nashville they might 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.”
