Watch Eminem join Jelly Roll onstage for surprise performance in Detroit

19 May, 2025

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Jelly Roll brought out Eminem as a special guest during a Detroit stop on Post Malone‘s ‘Big Ass Stadium Tour’ – watch footage below.

Having paid homage to Detroit’s own Bob Seger earlier in the night with a cover of ‘Old Time Rock and Roll’ on Sunday night (May 18), the Nashville rapper and singer-songwriter surprised fans at the Ford Field stadium by bringing out another hometown hero in Eminem.

The football venue broke out in cheers when the ‘Mockingbird’ rapper walked out to join Jelly Roll for the second verse of ‘Lose Yourself’, with one attendee later talking to X/Twitter to say the moment was the “coolest thing I’ve ever seen at a concert”.

“Detroit, what up?! Make some noise for Jelly Roll!” Eminem shouted to the thousands of fans. “Long time, no see. I love y’all. Peace!” As he left the stage, Jelly Roll said: “If you can’t tell, that was a childhood dream come fucking true, Detroit. This is the greatest show I’ve ever had in my fucking life.”

He also shared that Eminem’s music “helped me through the darkest moments of my life” and gave a shout out to his manager, Paul Rosenberg, who he told the audience “believed in me” early on in his career.

Last year, Jelly Roll – real name Jason Bradley DeFord – took to Instagram to name the rapper as one of his “childhood heroes” after collaborating with him on ‘The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)’.

Jelly Roll’s 2020 track ‘Save Me’ was sampled on closing track, ‘Somebody Save Me’, and he wrote of the experience: “When I bonded out of jail at 17 years old and was sneaking into cyphers and battles in Nashville they would also play the ‘Lose Yourself’ beat when I came out on stage at the freestyle battles.

“I related to every word Eminem wrote. I understand him and felt like he understood me, which was rare cause I spent most of my life feeling misunderstood. So you can imagine how I felt when I got that the call that Eminem would be sampling my song ‘Save Me’ on his new album. And for him to use the song to discuss the other side of what could’ve happened if he would’ve allowed his demons to win brought me to tears.”

Meanwhile, Post Malone announced two additional dates for his European and UK leg of the BIG ASS stadium world tour earlier the month, with the new dates seeing him play a second show in Berlin, Germany on August 19, as well as a second show at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on September 8. You can get your tickets here.

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