Jelly Roll delivers impassioned testimony before Congress as lawmakers push for new anti-fentanyl legislation

Grammy-nominated musician Jelly Roll delivered an impassioned testimony before senate as lawmakers push for new anti-fentanyl legislation.

Grammy-nominated singer Jason DeFord, known to fans as Jelly Roll, urged lawmakers on Thursday to pass anti-fentanyl legislation and invoked his own past with substance abuse in an effort to help save lives.

DeFord testified in front of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs as ranking member Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) continued to push for the passage of his bill, the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act.

"I was a part of the problem. I am here now, standing as a man that wants to be a part of the solution," DeFord said during his opening remarks.

"I brought my community down. I hurt people. I was the uneducated man in the kitchen playing chemist with drugs I knew absolutely nothing about, just like these drug dealers are doing right now when they're mixing every drug on the market with fentanyl and they're killing the people we love," he said.

The 39-year-old rapper turned country singer has been outspoken about his history with drugs, having struggled with addiction and at one point dealing drugs. His story was the focus of the Hulu documentary, "Save Me."