Jelly Roll’s son Noah, eight, made a rare red carpet appearance with his father at the Sonic The Hedgehog 3 premiere in Los Angeles this Tuesday.
Father and son struck a heartwarming pose, with Jelly beaming and placing his hands proudly on his son’s shoulders as Noah stood grinning in front of him.
They even matched outfits that evening, both wearing black bomber jackets with white stripes over otherwise black clothes.
The 40-year-old rapper shares Noah with his ex Melisa, who has custody of him, although Jelly has retained a close bond with his son.
Meanwhile Jelly, whose Christian name is Jason DeFord, retains custody of his 16-year-old daughter Bailee from another previous relationship.
He married his current wife Bunnie XO, aka Alyssa DeFord, in 2016 and she has been a loving stepmother to both of his children.
Jelly Roll’s son Noah, eight, made a rare red carpet appearance with his father at the Sonic The Hedgehog 3 premiere in Los Angeles this Tuesday
During his showbiz outing with his father, little Noah revealed which of Jelly’s songs is his personal favorite, in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
Noah’s song of choice was Creature, a 2020 number in which Jelly sings about a ‘monster under my bed’ as a metaphor for his personal demons.
‘I’m not afraid of the boogieman. Instead, I look at him like he’s a friend,’ runs the song, which was included on Jelly’s album A Beautiful Disaster. ‘There’s not a monster out there in the world that’s scarier than the one that’s within.’
Jelly Roll was in prison for drug dealing when he received news that Bailee had been born – an occasion he referred to as his ‘road to Damascus’ moment.
‘I’ve never had nothing in life that urged me in the moment to know that I had to do something different. I have to figure this out right now,’ he told Billboard.
He is now her ‘full-time parent,’ he remarked last year, joking that he is ‘the judge, the jury and the executioner, when it comes to decisions with her.’
Meanwhile he allows Melisa to take the driver’s seat in Noah’s upbringing, and has always been protective of their privacy.
‘I try not to get in the way of what she is building over there, and I never want to step on her toes, with what she’s doing with him, that I want to just respect that boundary,’ he shared last year in an interview with Taste Of Country.
Father and son struck a heartwarming pose, with Jelly beaming and placing his hands proudly on his son’s shoulders as Noah stood grinning in front of him
They even matched outfits that evening, both wearing black bomber jackets with white stripes over otherwise black clothes
The 40-year-old rapper shares Noah with his ex Melisa, who has custody of him, although Jelly has retained a close bond with his son
The little boy made his social media debut last year on Bunnie’s TikTok, heartwarmingly telling fans: ‘My name is Noah and my favorite color is red.’
Jelly revealed shortly thereafter that Bunnie cleared the TikTok appearance with Marisa before allowing the tyke to appear on video.
‘That was more on Bunnie and his mother. So, uh, they spoke about it, and he was on vacation, he always goes on vacation with us, and we just always try to shoot around him,’ the Son Of A Sinner Revealed.
The TikTok transpired when ‘my wife was like: “I’m just gonna hit her up and tell her I wanna post,” and she was like: “Yeah, totally cool.”‘
