Jelly Roll criticizes the “slimy” music industry in a cryptic X article

Country singer Jelly Roll has sent the music industry into a frenzy.

“I learned a lot this week about how slimy the music business is. Don't worry, I will reveal it soon. The whole thing is just smoke and mirrors,” Jelly Roll wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

He added in his cryptic post: “Everything Russ talks about is REAL!”

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Country star Jelly Roll has slammed the music industry in a social media post and threatened to expose the “slimy” business. (WWE/Getty Images)

Jelly Roll, born Jason DeFord, had previously collaborated with rapper and songwriter Russ on a track called “Really Gone.”

Russ has gone viral before for exposing the music industry.

“I learned that the entire industry is run by a few people,” Russ explained. “You know that guy at Spotify, that guy at Apple, you know that person at Rhythm Radio and that person at Urban Radio… with four people you can run all this shit.”

Earlier this year, the New Jersey-born rapper also took aim at major record labels, accusing companies of buying fake streams.

“How are they cheating us?” asked Andrew Schulz on his podcast “Flagrant.” “Because I see these people going crazy, right? The album goes to number 1, but then they can't fill a show. So the calculation is not correct.”

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The “Save Me” singer was sent to juvenile detention at the age of 13 and spent several years in prison. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

“It’s a real thing,” Russ said. “Here’s the deal when you talk to these people — because I talked to these people because I was always wondering, ‘What is this? How do you all do it?' They never reveal the mechanisms of how they actually fake the streams.

Russ continued: “But the reality is that the labels are spending money… Devil's advocate, they're treating it like a marketing expense. Because in a way it almost is.”

The Schulz podcast has 1.76 million subscribers and he has high-profile guests, including former President Donald Trump on his show recently.

In an interview with Fox News Digital ahead of the 2024 CMT Music Awards, Jelly Roll said his belief in God was his “driving force.” (Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)

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Meanwhile, Jelly Roll rose to prominence in 2021 with his album “Ballad of the Broken,” but spent years working to break out in the music world, first in hip-hop, then in country.

In an interview with Fox News Digital ahead of the 2024 CMT Music Awards, Jelly Roll said his belief in God was his “driving force.”

Jelly Roll rose to fame in 2021 with his album “Ballad of the Broken,” but worked for years to break out in the music world, first in hip-hop, then in country. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Global Citizen)

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“A lot of it made me believe that it would work out for me,” he said. “Could you imagine being a 37-year-old unsuccessful musician telling people this is your job?”

The Tennessee native noted, “It wasn’t something I did on the side. It was my job, so to speak. And I just always had faith that God had a greater purpose for what I was trying to do.”