“It is, it is,” Hudak responded, “but I would say, respectfully, if it’s a platform that preaches about love and acceptance, I feel like that responsibility should be there.”
It was here that Hudak brought up the fact that Jelly Roll declined to comment on current societal events at the Grammy Awards.
Responding to Hudak’s statement that some people were caught “off guard” by what Jelly Roll did and did not say at the Grammys, Lake said, “I can understand that, but I’ll say as somebody that knows him a little bit more than the person who’s just waiting for his sticky statement, I think that’s the problem, is that people are looking for a statement and not looking at our lives.”
“Jelly Roll isn’t perfect, just like I’m not perfect. But Jelly Roll is trying to use his entire life to advance the kingdom, to do good, to love people,” said Lake. “And I know he’s doing that, like, he’s loved by this community…not just because of the songs he’s written, but because of the things that he’s done, you know?”
Lake said that Jelly Roll embraces not having to have life figured out but lets his actions speak louder than his words.
“And that’s what I’m trying to do, too, is like, I think [that] how I can serve the best is [to] write these songs,” Lake continued, “but also the things that maybe you only find out if you’re really, really digging and looking of like, how I love my community, and how I’m actually trying to be the answer—not say the answer, but like, actually be the answer, be the hands and feet.”
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“You’re talking about living it, as opposed to speaking it, right?” Hudak said. “Living the word, as opposed to speaking.”
“Exactly,” Lake agreed. “I would much rather be known for how I live it than what I said on an interview.”
“Because there’s a lot of people who are saying things who aren’t doing it, and there’s a lot of people who are doing it and not saying it, or don’t get an opportunity to say it,” he observed. “And so I’ll just say, I don’t know, but I’m trying to live it. I’m trying to be love. I’m trying to be who I feel God’s called me to be with…everything that I do.”
