Jelly Roll to provide theme music for WWE SummerSlam, says Triple H

This is not Jelly Roll’s first interaction with WWE.

The Nashville native has made several surprise appearances at WWE events in his hometown, most memorably in November 2023 when he became involved in a fight between wrestlers Randy Orton and Dominik Mysterio by shoving Mysterio and JD McDonagh after they confronted him outside the ring.

“I just felt like I was supporting my boy,” Jelly Roll said at the time.

It’s the latest addition to Jelly Roll’s growing list of successes. The country superstar recently collaborated with Eminem on “Somebody Save Me,” which closed the rapper’s latest album. The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce).

Looking back on working with the rap god, Jelly Roll said: “I always say my childhood heroes lived somewhere between Willie Nelson and Eminem.”

“As a teenager (and even today) I could sing every song on the slim Shady Album that Marshall Mathers Album and The Eminem Show“When I got out of prison on bail at 17 and started sneaking into cyphers and battles in Nashville, they would play the ‘Lose Yourself’ beat when I came on stage at the freestyle battles.”

“I could identify with every word Eminem wrote. I understood him and felt like he understood me, which is rare because I’ve felt misunderstood most of my life.”