“I felt that it wasn’t edgy and it wasn’t rock and roll,” Shaddix said, until he realized he wasn’t “here to prove that I’m edgy and rock and roll—I done lived it and I saw where it was taking me.”
Instead, he shared, “I’m trying to break that chain…I’m here trying to break that chain. And I ain’t trying to repeat, ’cause the Shaddix family, like where I’m from, my people come from a long line of of alcoholics, cheaters, broken people, murderers—that type of lineage.”
“So I’m like, that’s not who I am. That’s not why I’m here. It’s not me,” Shaddix said.
Alisa DeFord Tells Jacoby Shaddix They’re ‘Making God Cool Again’
DeFord praised Shaddix for his transparency and described his faith journey as “beautiful.”
“I feel like that’s what people need to hear, especially from somebody like you,” she said. “I’m so proud of you because to say what you just said was just so beautiful. You’re bringing people to faith and letting them know that it’s cool. You know, we’re making God cool again.”
Shaddix offered similar praise in return, saying he is inspired by watching Jelly Roll speak about Jesus on various platforms.
“Watching you and Jelly, your life, and the arc of you guys from afar, it’s like I see the same in you guys,” he said. “When [Jelly Roll] is talking about God onstage, I love that. That inspires me. It makes me go, ‘Okay, I can get up here and talk about this.’”
“And the more and more I open up about it, the more and more I realize I’m not in this rock and roll family—this rock and roll world [alone],” said Shaddix. “There’s more believers than I realized.”
Warning the following interview includes explicit language.
