While in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. for the Riptide Music Festival, rock duo The Black Keys' Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach chatted with Audacy's Ashley O about several topics, including a run-in with another artist on the Riptide bill, Jelly Roll.
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"What had happened was, I met Jelly Roll 13 years ago, before he was famous and he's just like right out of prison probably, it was 2010," Carney recalled. "I was with this friend of ours, Harmony Korine, we were in Nashville at this hip hop show. Yelawolf was just coming out starting to perform and I went and Jelly Roll was there. I didn't know who he was."
The filmmaker behind "Kids" (1995), "Gummo" (1997) and "Spring Breakers" (2012), Korine spent part of his childhood living in Nashville. He's directed numerous music videos, including the one for The Black Keys' 2012 song "Gold in the Ceiling."
"Harmony was joking around about something," Carney continued. "Jelly Roll thought we were making fun of him, and he just rolled up to me and just scared the living crap out of me. Like, 'Do you wanna go...?' And I was like, 'Nope, I'm good dude. Nice to meet you though.'
To Jelly Roll's defense, he readily admits —in song and elsewhere— to having changed dramatically as a person prior to his rise to country stardom.
"He seems a lot different. He was very angry then. He was a rapper then," Carney said. "We had just made a hip hop record that came out like a year earlier. So, I guess we were kind of on his radar and he might have, I don't know. He just, he kind of flexed on me and I was like, 'Oh, you don't realize I'm a wimp.' I mean, I can talk some smack, but I, I'm not backing it up."
Both members of the Akron, Ohio-formed Black Keys now reside in Nashville.
