Name: The Music That Built Jelly Roll
Uploaded: 2022-04-04T03:30:08.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Music That Built Jelly Roll' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-04-04. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Music That Built Jelly Roll' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-04-04. Transcript available.

music is the soundtrack of the soul and that's how i've always looked at it
just like tears are
the the expression of words we can't articulate and i've looked at music as
being the soundtrack
to the soul so i've always wanted to make music that would help people how did
you get into music
man how did it start for you when you're coming up where does music hit you
first in your life
my mother was probably like the sad part of the story is my mother always
struggled with
mental health issues and addiction and she didn't leave much at all when i was
a kid she was a
recluse she never really left the house and uh she would like her making it to
the kitchen table was
kind of like a big deal you know yeah and you'd walk in the house and mom would
be at the kitchen table
and she'd have a cigarette lit and she'd be sitting on a wood chair indian
style right there in the
kitchen back when you could smoke it when back when restaurants had smoking
sections smoking inside
places was a thing you know and she'd be there smoking a cigarette and she'd
have a record plan
and she'd just have her eyes closed and i just i could tell that the music was
doing something to her
man like i just remember watching her and thinking man this music's like
whatever that is is helping her
you know or she'd play like bett mittler the rose and cry i could i could still
hear in my head play this
in my funeral to this day if you play bett mittler the rose right now i might
tear up and she plays my
funeral jelly plays my funeral baby jason she just smoked cigarette and i just
remember thinking man i
want to make people feel the way this makes my mother feel that's the songwriting
aspect of it right that
was what ignited the songwriter in me now the influences are cool because i was
the baby right i was the
youngest how many uh two brothers one sister my sister who she's still with to
this day was within
so she's been with this man 30 something years he pretty much lived with us
from her high school
years up so i say i had three brothers two brothers a brother-in-law that lived
with us and a sister
and we always had of some broke cousin on the couch or some broke family and
you know in the living room
with their blow-up mattresses or something this was just like future convict
yeah this is our current
convict or somebody on the run from the police we had that kind of a house when
i got in the car with
anybody because i was the baby i had no fucking control of the radio dial i was
the last
motherfucker that got to pick the radio oh yeah and rate it was so important
you got that was it who
got to pick who got to pick the radio right i had one brother named scott that's
the middle older
that was a straight gangster rap guy like tupac biggie like gangster gang the
gangster the more gangster
the better what was he dating white chicks still or how gangster was he i mean
no he was everywhere
yeah he was yeah his dick didn't discriminate oh yeah we get in the car and
like all these different
radio stations will play so like one brother be gangster rap my sister listen
like nothing but
metallica or stone temple pilot yeah for sure like fucking nirvana when they
first came out this was
all oh yeah and then i had another brother listen to like super hip-hop shit
like biz marquee kind of
shit wu-tang shit you know what i mean yeah and then dad would listen to either
jazz or back then like
singer-songwriter stuff like james taylor jim croce my mother listened to motown
oldies and like outlaw
country music dang so it's like every room i'd walk into or every fucking
everywhere i'd go it'd be some
different music playing so when people are like dude you kind of do all kind of
music i'm like i'm a
a fucking human jukebox man i grew up and you know i didn't i didn't get to
pick a music i liked and
get to play it because i didn't fucking you know everybody else had their genre
of music
in their world but me i didn't have like a place i could go listen to what i
want right right right
yeah i just had to listen to whatever fucking room i walked in yeah that's
funny the younger brother
is kind of you kind of that that ear victim bro you know it's like whatever you
kind of you start
to get into whatever anybody else is into that's i never thought about that the
older brother
really gets to pick the radio and that kind of shapes the younger brother a
little bit it's like
if my brother's listening to uh dr dre then i'm all dre'd up i'm buying that t-shirt
with
the weed leaves and when he switches to nirvana dude i'm you know i'm cutting
my wrist but not with sharp
silverware yeah yeah i didn't get to get in the car and be like i really want
to listen to 1075 the
river nobody gave a fuck what i wanted to listen to you know like we didn't
know you could talk
i tell you the first cassette tape i ever got given they i got all these gifts
for christmas and
and they were like we got one last gift from you and this is from your bro this
is from your brothers
and sisters i was like oh this is probably gonna be the coolest gift ever and
they gave me a little
big package and it was a cassette tape and it was rex and effects rump shaker
yeah and i was like this
is gangster and i remember at that moment it was something that was finally
mine because they some
mama had bought me a boom box and daddy bought me a boom box but nobody i didn't
have none to play in it
yet yeah so then my brother and they did the coolest thing besides that then
this then they when they hand me the
rex and effects tape then they handed me five blank cassette tapes and i said
what are these for and
they were like we're gonna show you how to record songs off the radio you
remember this era oh right
when you put the cassette tape in listen for all of y'all you want to know how
old i'm i'm that
fucking old top 10 when that top 10 came on yeah you'd go to the top 10 and you'd
wait and wait for
the perfect moment for the song to start then you'd hit the play and record
button you got to get it
just right because you didn't want to hear the radio dj or the skip you want to
just the song you
stop right there yeah and you play it for one more second so there was a space
between the two songs
and then you'd hit it again you know are you calling request a song that wasn't
popular yet you'd have
to wait for hours for them to play it they're like who's this donkey and they
taught me that so i started
making like mixed cassette tapes and i knew i was on to something different
then because like i'd get in
the car and find out i got a cassette tape like we don't care about your
cassette but please play it
and it would like go from like rap to something else and the brother would be
like what the
is up like well shelby taught me about this song so everybody got happy so you
really were you really
were like a jukebox yeah oh to this day man you play very few songs that i'm
not like yeah i know that
era how did you get into the music dan i was just i started writing raps young
just because i didn't
think i had a cool voice to sing you know and nobody in the family sang to
teach me to sing so i would write
like raps and that was obviously like i i don't know how much of that we caught
earlier but that
was the language of the community hip-hop was the language of the neighborhood
you know yeah super
mixed community i grew up like you you know what i'm saying like it always is a
poor neighborhood
man it's really because black shit is cool usually so it's like black always is
the cool
shit right 100 no it's to this day hip-hop has influenced every genre of music
on earth
for other people want to admit it or not i hear it the most in country music
yeah i mean i hear
hip-hop melodies hip-hop drums 808s that is just so prevalent in country music
but
you know hip-hop was the language of the community so that was kind of what i
got into first and i'd
freestyle at tables and in juvenile i'd freestyle battle people i fell in love
with songwriting through
the process of writing raps i immediately i was boxed into being a freestyle
rapper okay and i was like i
don't want to be known for that so i started writing like songs and all of my
courses were
really soulful and i'd wrap the verses i had a song called you pull up right
jelly roll riding all
alone and i had this record called riding all alone and it was really slow and
being a little white
first of all the white from three six mafia you probably remember yeah still
one of my best
friends to this day and when i first came from memphis huh yeah yeah yeah he's
memphis as
fuck too when i first came home from jail we did a song together and juicy j
and dj paul ended up
three six mafia producing an album with me white and a guy named b peasy but
outside of the first song
i put out with him i started putting out these super like soulful joints like
this uh maybe go to like
the minute mark or something i just want you to hear the chorus so you can kind
of get a feel for
where i'm coming from here and see this was released in 2010 right so this is
you know
fucking 12 years ago right i just keep on smoking like it i'm prepared to die
say a prayer cause lord if
you're there right here watch this check this out the end i swear i hate my
knees and pray my mind is
filled with pain so many things have changed i'm looking at my life like
kissing our glass
i just be riding all alone i just be riding all alone
you stop right there here but it's like yeah but it's like this you know 12 13
years ago right
because if it went yeah that would be good that that that would be good now i
mean that's good now
yeah so then i didn't realize i was singing that chorus right you know what i
mean like i didn't
register to me that i was singing because i wouldn't like open up and sing it
you know what i mean
so i just kind of like did this like talk sing thing because i wasn't confident
in my voice so i've
kind of always knew and this is something else i'm glad i got to show this to a
platform as big as yours
because the therapeutic music that i make now that's so personal has always
been my approach
to music hope you enjoyed that video and you can watch another and you can
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