Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Success stories like Jason DeFord's — the artist better known as Jelly Roll — are one in a billion. "There was a time in my life ...

Growing up in poverty in rural Tennessee, Jelly Roll cycled in and out of substance use and incarceration in his younger years. Spending nearly two decades in hip-hop, the “Son of a Sinner” crooner’s ...