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Jelly Roll and Shaboozey are still feeling the impact of "Amen," as the GRAMMY-winning song continues to climb the Country charts and forever links the two superstars in the history books. Both artists made time recently to connect with Katie Neal for the 'Superstar Power Hour,' sharing their mutual admiration for each other, and more.
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00:00roll there he is what's up katie how are you guys dude where's boozle i don't see the booze
00:15congratulations but i know you feel like a million dollars right now
00:19man dude listen man i feel like a grammy award-winning opera member
00:26yeah you do yeah katie you got that exclusive that's the first time i've got to call myself
00:31that that's pretty exciting how was last night did you have the best time it was electric it was
00:37unreal um i didn't go to sleep till three this morning and woke up at seven it was one of
00:42those
00:42things where i was so emotionally wired i couldn't go to bed it reminded me of when boozy won them
00:47grammys i had the exact same thing happened at night i bet you how many times you cry last night
00:51oh dude a dozen i had a cry headache by the end of the night i haven't had a cry
00:55headache since
00:56somebody died oh my god that is too funny well congratulations to both of you on this soon to be
01:03number one song grammy award-winning number one song um i want to get into the story behind the
01:09song in just a minute but first i want to talk about y'all's friendship because i actually don't
01:12know how the two of you met or do you remember like the first time you heard of the other
01:17person
01:18oh man i remember when i first heard of boozy man it was right but right
01:24for the year church like two months before that i had heard the bar song and i was like this
01:31is
01:31fixing to be the biggest song in the world like you know put it out kind of you know and
01:37i wasn't
01:37even familiar with the work on the beyonce record yet really do you remember the first time you met
01:42jelly or heard about jelly yeah i mean obviously i've heard about jelly since i was like younger man
01:46probably like middle school high school days man he's he's a legend you know um you know nashville
01:52tennessee antioch legend everything so yeah he's kind of had a crazy journey but um i think the story
01:59is right you know i remember him hitting me right around acms is that when they do the the big
02:05show
02:05of billy bobs every year yeah he brought him two years ago and um and man he's just shown me
02:12love
02:12ever since man this is really my brother but um you know i remember hearing um you know what's the
02:17chapel and i was just like man this is a insane album you know like the the level of production
02:23the level of writing the level of emotion like i was like no way this is the same jelly roll
02:28you know
02:28what i mean you know what i mean i knew i was in high school yeah you know it's ain't
02:32the same jelly
02:32roll you know i mean it can't be the vocals were crazy the performances it was like honestly
02:37reference that album every single time i go into a studio session because it's it's just that
02:44yeah jelly how does it feel to hear that i just love it man i just love i love you
02:47know what's
02:48been cool is first of all just it just warms my heart but getting to know him too and getting
02:52to
02:52hang out with shabuzi is like he is the ball of joy that y'all see in these interviews or
02:57that you
02:58see on the streets or like when you see him on stage like that is who he has got the
03:03best temperament
03:04of any human i've ever met under every circumstance we've toured the world together
03:08now i've seen him in all different environments climates and time zones and uh he's he's just he
03:14is who he is man the fact that we're forever going to be together with this song a number one
03:18on country radio a grammy award we got our first grammy how many grammy world winning number one
03:24country songs are are there have there been i mean it's been a couple probably but that's small
03:29this you know what else i was thinking i wonder how many won a grammy before it went number one
03:33at radio too i just thought about all this cool stuff this morning just like man i was thinking
03:37about this this day yeah and and um you know i know you're probably gonna ask this question but
03:42man every time i get on stage man i just like the stories i share about how this record came
03:46together
03:46i see people in the audience like literally shedding tears like actually crying you know because of just
03:51me and jelly's story about two like unlikely you know cast members or what you want to call us you
03:58know outlaws outcast whatever you want to call us like coming together and being like man let's
04:02look beyond the differences that people think that we should have or that we don't belong and let's make
04:07something that's really really special i think god really favored us and rewarded us that day for
04:12for making a choice to to look at each other and be like look man i see you you know
04:17i mean and i see you as
04:18one of me and i see you like i see myself and and everybody else and we i think we
04:22made something from
04:23that place and and really god rewarded us on a sunday you know and uh gave us a grammy for
04:28a
04:28song called amen i know i really there are so many like there's so many layers of beauty to this
04:34entire situation like number one you get to do a song with somebody that you love and respect it's
04:38number two it wins grammys it does amazing award shows it's number one but also then like the most
04:45people like the impact that it has on people's lives is so special it's so rare man so rare i
04:51was
04:51talking about this on stage last night that like i think i'm the most prideful of it because a lot
04:56of the content that i sing about and that shibuzzi sings about and that we tackled in amen are not
05:02songs or albums like beautifully broken are not ones that typically win grammys you know what i mean
05:07like as far as like the content like it's deep it's heavy uh the the pills ran out in a
05:11steel case
05:13you know what i mean like that's deep it might have been said to a little jazzy shibuzzi beat you
05:17know what i mean but at the end of the day that's deep you know what i mean that that
05:20that hits
05:21that's a whole different kind of prayer you know what i mean and uh for people to understand and
05:26that and it also and this is probably a darker moment but it's also sad because it kind of shows
05:30where the world's at that the world needed that kind of a healing man is i hope we get to
05:34a place
05:34where songs like this aren't as needed to be honest you know amen to that literally man i mean
05:40honestly my my three biggest songs even personally even with good news like that being another country
05:45number one you know it's like crazy that i'm like man this is i was like man people need to
05:49hear this
05:50song but i didn't like you said jelly i was like man i i really hope you know people don't
05:54don't
05:54always need this song man yeah but it's great but right now we can use some good news
06:00i'll tell you what baby we're a two-man celebration team again you got a lot of good you got
06:07a lot of
06:07good news coming man and more coming brother seriously seriously i love this it's just going to be like
06:1225 minutes if you guys compliment each other it's so good all right i would love will you guys tell
06:17the story behind writing amen because i i truly don't know that yeah um i think i can kind of
06:23start
06:23um jake tory um who's just one of my favorite writers um they came to me with this record and
06:29as soon as i heard it i was just like this is something i want to cut you know i'm
06:33like this is
06:33this is it like this is a song and we were kind of i kind of had it in in
06:37the pocket in the tuck for a
06:38little bit for a while and you know i just as soon as i heard i was like this is
06:42this is just a huge
06:43song so i got it and um you know cut it added my flavor change some things and then i
06:49had um
06:51an artist signed to me named kevin powers who's one of the most talented guys i've ever met
06:55writer um he helped kind of put jelly's verse together and and um and yeah just just was an
07:01amazing song honestly you know and i think jelly jelly you know he could speak to hearing the song for
07:06first time and feeling like man i gotta do this but yeah i think you know jelly heard it and
07:11you
07:11know i had to hit everyone i had so many people i had to dj uh his security at the
07:16time so many
07:16people like yo we got to get jelly on this song and he's he's got to be a part of
07:20this and i think
07:20jelly heard it was like yo i'm cutting this record and we kind of just sat there and waited you
07:24know
07:24it was kind of just like staring at you know like the clock and just being like when is he
07:28gonna
07:28send it when is he gonna send it yeah then his manager john hit us so it's just like yo
07:32he did
07:32the verse and we got it back and we were like crazy we got a song with jelly rolling you
07:37know
07:37like jelly is like you know that right now he's one of the biggest artists on the planet and one
07:41of the biggest you know names in country music and i think that was probably my first like major
07:47feature or collaboration i've done with a country artist and for it to be jelly roll it was it really
07:53was like just a dream come true man and um and he he you know obviously he's someone that like
07:59he
07:59every night we're on state we're out you know on stage you're doing a show he the way he preaches
08:05the word of god and the way he just and the way he just puts it into everything he does
08:10and he
08:11prays with his prayers before shows his prayers after shows the way he prayed for family it was
08:16just like you know my mother i grew up in the church and my mom prays for me every day
08:19so to see
08:20that tie-in from like my mom to jelly roll to all this it was just like it's just it's
08:25just really
08:25it's really inspiring and i feel like every time i perform that song that song it renews like
08:29and restores my faith and restores my my purpose and um man i don't even know i mean from the
08:37start
08:37of it to like us winning the grammys to about to have a country number one it's just honestly god
08:42just answering my prayers you know and asking god for um i asked you know asking god every single
08:49day to just help guide me and making sure i'm making the right decisions and i'm making the right
08:53kind of music and i have the right message and um and i think it's just like kind of this
08:58weird
08:59full circle moment that the song is just called amen and that's just god being amen your prayers
09:03are answered here you go so and it also is incredible because you think about it like
09:07there's certain songs that you'll never get through a show for the rest of your career without
09:11playing and like amen is going to be one of those and it's like how amazing that it's one that
09:15it does
09:15so much for you every time you sing it 100 and the big reason for even making that was you
09:20know
09:20when i made my first record with bar song you know bar song was the last song i made on
09:24my
09:24on my on my previous album and um you know i just made it for fun and then i ended
09:30up throwing up
09:30throwing it on there and it became like this huge obviously this huge showstopper but a lot of the
09:35other records on my album were kind of more like they're more introspective i like slower music you
09:40know i mean like that's kind of the stuff i listen to maybe i'm just a moody guy but i
09:44end up i end up
09:45listening to a lot of like more um you know i'm more of a listen for the lyrics and the
09:49storytelling
09:50and the narratives so i could my album was a little on the slower side and i would do the
09:55shows i'm like man i need some tempo i need some energy and that's kind of where i started like
09:59this journey to find these the good news is and the amens and blink twice and adding those to my
10:04show really like elevated the experience and i can tell that like those songs like everyone's
10:10everyone's amped it's not just like bar song now you know or like 30 minutes and some guys are like
10:15when's when's he playing the song you know i mean it's like there's other songs that are that excite
10:19them just as much if anything good news and amen are bigger songs now live than bar song is so
10:24yeah i feel like every video i see from your shows it's just it's so funny to think of you
10:28as like a
10:29slow song guy because i always yeah nah i love the slow stuff man i listen that's kind of like
10:36what i
10:36find myself listening to majority of the time but but uh but shows you know people love energy man and
10:41i
10:41saw that in jelly show too i think at the time when my record came and i went on tour
10:45jelly i only had
10:46uh my album right but seeing jelly come in and it's just guns blazing you know i mean energy tempo
10:54everyone's engaged there's crowd participation i'm like i need i need that energy in my shows too so
10:58it definitely inspired me to get back and just making sure there's just moments where
11:02the crowd can engage and and there's chance and there's moments breakdowns and there's you know
11:09there's um you know ups and downs and everything so yeah a lot of heart boozy
11:14a lot of heart too i cry everything you know i do i still do too man it's not this
11:21is not normal
11:21yeah how long you do it i don't care i'm so disgusted
11:27yeah all my friends now are like like this has got to be like an act right like
11:32you don't know this is you don't i dude i got in my car the other night to do something
11:38and just
11:38getting in my car at a moment where i was like and i don't always have this perspective clearly
11:43there are days where i like lose my shit over nothing but it's where you know what i mean which
11:48is like the entitled artist thing but like a car some days you're like i can't believe i have this
11:53car it's like i can't believe that's why i'm gonna get into trouble i'm so disgusted with artists
11:58who are any different like artists standing on that stage looking at the crowd like y'all are
12:04welcome i'm here you know what i'm saying like what is this no it's so true but i think it
12:11also
12:11like it's goes to show that like where you both have come from and all the things that you've gone
12:15through like what's important to you and how you don't lose that like i'm the same way as usually i'm
12:20about to get a new car for the first time in my entire life this weekend and i'm like losing
12:24my mind
12:24i'm like oh my god those are the things that are exciting i'm getting a little gx 550 yeah let's
12:31go
12:32yeah yeah i'm excited but no i think it's important to have that perspective like and i love to hear
12:36that you're crying getting in the car like do you still not have a phone or are you back on
12:40a phone
12:41nope i got a phone but i just don't have the internet okay wait you literally don't have the
12:46internet or you don't have service i don't have um i don't have like anything on there at all i
12:51have
12:51like i can text on wi-fi that's incredible this is like my number ever doesn't load or you don't
12:59see it it's because it's not on wi-fi so my god that's so funny carry the phone thing but
13:04i think
13:04i'm gonna get rid of i don't like it it does make it more convenient for my family but like
13:09i'm just
13:09still bad with it it's just not something i'm like just i am i have always been challenged i've
13:16always challenged by communication in a way that's like not like this you know what i mean
13:21like it's just yeah i'm good at well i feel like you got a lot of a lot of people
13:25want stuff from
13:26you you know what i mean like when you guys are at the level that y'all are at like
13:30people come
13:31out of the woodwork like everybody needs something from you all the time whether it's work family
13:34friends people that you don't want to hear from you know like it's just it's a lot so i don't
13:38blame
13:38you yeah i just recognized the opryland hotel hat that is so sick i wore this for you even though
13:45i
13:45haven't been i haven't played the opry yet man man also man hey i'm sorry man sorry i might
13:51cry right now oh where are you by the way man i mean i have the craziest week man i'm
13:58performing
13:58i'm doing the houston rodeo in two days i only had one rehearsal i can't do a sound check because
14:04i'm uh i'm doing a rehearsal for the oscars two days later i'm doing uh i'm performing
14:10with uh sinners i'm doing i'm doing i never lied or i lied to you i think yeah i lied
14:14to you from
14:15the sinners soundtrack with like you've seen them i don't know if you've seen the movie sinners i saw
14:19it yeah it's incredible um yeah they're recreating the whole scene when they go through all the
14:23different eras of of music and it's showing the lady twerking and the the guy playing electric and
14:29the blues and everything so we're recreating that at the oscar stage and the oscar look dude
14:37oh y'all wish holy boozy baby yeah man but also the opry the opry man is uh that's such
14:44a revered
14:45space man i'm i'm honest i cannot tell you i think i'm more nervous than than anything to play that
14:50space to play that i was the most nervous i've ever been my first of every show and i still
14:55get like
14:55you've seen me like i still get super anxious before shows but the every time i play it now i
15:02will
15:02say this last night it was eerily i was eerily relaxed yeah right before i went out but i was
15:09eerily relaxed but i think it was because i felt so warm like ernest was there leanne morgan was there
15:17laney was there and craig morgan was there that was the lineup it was us five so it was like
15:22literally a family affair back and my whole family came up with it everyone was standing ovations and
15:28everything man and like honestly i feel like country man your story brother that that's a wall
15:34of stories you know what i mean and you're there because of your story man you're trying a lot more
15:38than that but i think a wall of stories what a songwriter dude everyone there could have their
15:45own biopic man you know what i mean so literally i really you know that's the one that i'm like
15:51man
15:51that's the opry so you know um that would have been it but you know the houston rodeo that houston
15:59rodeo is also another big thing too i'm a little nervous about that but uh that is a whole bunch
16:02of people at the houston rodeo oh yeah 75 000 baby and the stage spins and you don't get to
16:08practice
16:08it spinning you just gotta feel it cody johnson had to come give me the whole breakdown i was so
16:13nervous backstage he had to go bubba this is about how fast it goes cody's back there showing me kind
16:17of like give to the concept or when you get off the little the circle do you does it keep
16:23going
16:23no there's a part you can stand where it doesn't go around but so you can jump off like on
16:29the wings
16:29for a minute and then you rise up but ultimately that thing's spinning the whole time bubba did you
16:34go on the riser did you rise up at any point no you know i'm scared of heights
16:39what works out because i'm scared of heights on the point star how are the people behind me
16:45gonna see because the riser doesn't the riser doesn't spin that point doesn't spin
16:50uh-uh no but it'll drop you back down and put you back on the thing okay
16:55yeah you'll be moving as much as you like to move around you're gonna love it man i like to
17:00move
17:01it's gonna be lit man it's gonna be it's gonna be fun i'm so happy for you i also shabuzi
17:05i was
17:05dying because i i saw the news right before we hopped on here that you were performing at the oscars
17:09and i also at the same time saw the news about the oscars goodie bags and i was like i
17:13hope shabuzi
17:13it's a goodie bag because they're crazy that's another one i'm finding i don't know if i'm more
17:17nervous than oscars with opry yeah it's great things um before we wrap up real fast because
17:24i know you guys have a heart out here in just a second but congratulations on the oscars shabuzi
17:27man that's really really good thank you man and that's a conversation we're gonna have later
17:33feel that one baby thank you yeah soak up every second of that it's huge feel that one let that
17:38one sit when katie said that on there for a second i had to let that one sit i had
17:41sorry
17:42katie i had to bring that one back that's big i would just listen to the two of you talk
17:46about
17:46all your stuff this is amazing but i would love like a new music update from each of you with
17:51what
17:52is next after amen whoever wants to go first jelly um i'll go so i think that um i should
18:00my goal is to
18:01release an album this year so okay i didn't release an album last year and that was only the second
18:07time
18:07that i've went a year without putting out an album in like a decade like 13 14 years crazy number
18:12so it's been a year yeah beautifully broken came out august of 20 october of 25 before 20 october of
18:2124 that's great time is flying y'all yeah this album just came out yeah so so for me it's
18:28going to be
18:28almost two years so i'd like to put one out this year katie thanks for asking nobody ever asked about
18:32music no more it means a lot all right guys so obviously amen has been huge but are we will
18:36we
18:36collab together again like is this why i keep doing it i feel like listen i have a rule i'm
18:42an
18:42old hip-hop kid at heart so my rule is real simple if shabuzy got me on his album he
18:46owes me one to be
18:47on mine and that is that is the hip-hop way baby and what people don't know you've ever seen
18:52me
18:53feature on somebody's album i'm secretly going oh i got you later baby wait yeah some people
18:58cashing to me i did a record with uh with someone recently and uh yeah they brought me in the
19:03studio the
19:03next day hey this is what i need you on i was like okay you know what while i got
19:08you well i got
19:09you do that with a famous gospel artist recently oh man that's at the grammys we bumped into each
19:15other and he came to the studio with something he wanted to do and i already had something i wanted
19:19him to do all right y'all i gotta i gotta close out 225 so you can get to your
19:23next thing listen this
19:24was like the joy of my entire week this was so much fun thank y'all congratulations on jelly roll
19:31i love you baby we'll be watching you thank you thank you guys good luck in houston oscars and then
19:38when you play the opry jelly and i are gonna be there jelly you got that text right i know
19:42i know i didn't i didn't make it didn't make it but yeah come on oh i love you brother
19:47i'm gonna see you
19:47you
19:48you
19:52you
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