Simply inspiring. Several weeks ago during a tour stop in Indianapolis, Indiana at Gainbridge Fieldhouse for his Beautifully Broken Tour, Jelly Roll visited Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility to talk with the young men who are currently in custody there. He's been making stops at prisons and juvenile facilities all over the country during this tour, speaking with inmates and showing them that there's hope beyond the walls of prison, speaking from very personal experience and it's been really amazing to see. But up until now, we haven't really seen his full speech before, and the Indiana Department of Correction shared a video of it and it's really inspiring and a neat peak into this side of Jelly Roll and what's so important to him. He encouraged the boys to take their "fearlessness" and apply it to something they're really passionate about in order to stay out of trouble and turn their life around: "Two things I want y'all to know. The smartest kids I ever met in my life was in the juvenile with me. The smartest men I ever met was in prison. The most driven people ever ever met, the hardest working people I ever met, were stone cold drug addicts or stone cold drug dealers. To this day, I’ve never seen more talent, more songwriting, more spirit, more energy than I’ve ever seen in these walls, man. Because I know anybody that is fearless as y'all are to be in this facility, to live in this, and to have to wake up every day in the unknown in these kinds of environments, if you could apply that same kind of fearlessness to anything else in life... that's what I realized about me, man. I realized that this didn't make me f****d up, this made me special. That's what changed my perspective, y'all. Whenever I finally quit looking at myself like a victim of the system, and I started realizing that, man, I might be as smart as some of these dudes in here, I might be able to figure this out. I'll tell y'all what I know, I know that I went to jail and juvenile the first time, and I could barely read and write. To this day, I'm the most articulate person I know. You know why? I had to talk my way out of a bunch of sh*t, I had to figure my way through the system for 10 years as a kid... some of y'all are the most charismatic kids on earth." He also perform his song "The Hate Goes On" for them, and handled it brilliantly when one of the boys wasn't paying attention and talking to others rather than paying attention (obviously, he has a lot of experience, but still, it was amazing to watch): "Here's the deal, man. That is exactly how I expected that to go. And I expect if I sit here for 15 more minutes and let y'all talk to each other, five more kids would stand up with something to say. Because that's how it works, that's expression. Don't ever lose that, whether you try to do it for a living or not, man, being in a place like this and not being able to get the thoughts out of you is so special, man. Whether you want to rap it to me or not, that's cool, just keep writing it, though... tell y'all the truth man, I'm not no f****n' phony dude that comes in here to talk to y'all. I talk to y'all 'cuz I love y'all, I've been in this motherf****** for real, for real. Been through it three for four times, looked 50 years in the face and turned it over, been to the big prison, been stabbed, been shot, I'm a grown f****n' man in here dog. And I believe in y'all, and I love you. Period. I think y'all can turn this thing around, man." It's easy to think he's already inspired hundreds and even thousands of young men and grown men in juvenile facilities and real prison alike, and the fact that Jelly Roll takes the time out of his day at all of his tour stops is really impressive, and quite literally the definition of "putting your money where your mouth is." You can watch the full speech here, and I'd highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppXajbwTkkM