DOING THE RIGHT THING –
Dec. 16, 2025 – No fanfare. No ribbon-cutting. Simply an opening at 5 am.
Jelly Roll stood in the quiet Tennessee dawn and unlocked Jelly Roll Haven, a 200-bed, completely free medical and recovery center built exclusively for the homeless in Nashville – the first of its kind in American music history. Cancer screening area.
Emergency medical wing.
Mental health and trauma counseling center.
Addiction recovery and detox unit.
Dental and primary care clinic.
100 permanent transitional housing units on the upper floors.
All free, forever.
$118 million was raised quietly over 20 months, funded by Jelly Roll’s personal earnings, touring revenue, and private donors from both the music and sports worlds who requested anonymity.
The first patient: a 58-year-old former construction worker named Ray, who hadn’t received medical care in over a decade.
Jelly Roll himself carried the man’s duffel bag, sat beside him, and said:
“This place carries my name because I know what it feels like to be written off. Here, nobody is disposable. This is the legacy I want to leave behind when I’m gone — not platinum records, not sold-out arenas, but lives pulled back from the edge.”
