Jelly Roll Reveals His Favorite Nashville Slang | Billboard Cover

Billboard cover star Jelly Roll reveals some of his favorite Nashville slang.

Jelly Roll
What’s up, y’all? This is Jelly Roll, and this is my favorite Nashville slang.

Before I say No. 1, I must preface all of this by saying I’m actually from Nashville and anybody else who’s given you Nashville slang that’s not from Nashville’s opinion doesn’t matter in this matter.

No. 1 is “Bubba.” We’ve been calling each other “bubba” since we was in middle school. I don’t know what it was or how it stuck, but everybody I know calls everybody “bubba.” It’s just always been a term that we’ve used around the town.

No. 2: “Cashville.” That is an old-school Nashville term ever since Young Buck dropped the multi-platinum album Straight Out of Cashville, it was such a big deal for the lower-class and middle-class community in Nashville, Tenn., that we had Cashville T-shirts for a decade after that. If you ever hear somebody call it Cashville, they’re old-school Nashville or “Tennekey,” any of that slang that Young Buck ushered in in the early 2000s.

No. 3: Hot take, little hot take here, you ready? Word: “hot chicken.” Word hot chicken is a big thing … it’s but it’s over-popularized. This is real Nashville food. It was called the Nashville meat and three. So you come to somebody in Nashville and they say, “Man, you want to go get to Nashville food,” and they take you to a meat and three? Now that meat and three might serve hot chicken. But if they don’t take you to a meat and three, they did not take you to get real, old-school authentic, “we invented it” Nashville food.

And that was three Nashville slangs you probably didn’t know.