Alex Warren is breaking generational chains with some help from Jelly Roll. On Thursday (May 22), the two singers released their new collaboration, “Bloodline.”
The country-fied single finds the TikTok sensation-turned-pop singer ruminating over the ties that bind, as he sings, “Take that pain, pass it down like photos on the wall/ Momma said, ‘Your dad’s to blame, but that’s his daddy’s fault’/ Oh, there’s no one left to call,” over tense acoustic guitar.
The song soon breaks into a stomp-and-clap chorus where Warren promises, “From where you came isn’t who you are/ Oh, my brother/ You don’t have to follow in your bloodline,” before tossing the mic to Jelly Roll for a growling second versW.
In April, Warren made a surprise appearance during Jelly Roll’s Stagecoach set, where the duo performed the song live for the first time ahead of its release, as well as the singer/songwriter’s breakthrough hit single “Ordinary.”
The studio version of “Bloodline” arrives in the wake of “Ordinary,” reaching a new high of No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this month (chart dated May 10). The week of May 19, the hard-hitting gospel-inflected anthem simultaneously topped both Billboard Global tallies for the first time, adding to its quickly compounding chart successes that also includes Warren’s first Streaming Songs chart-topper and nine consecutive weeks and counting spent at No. 1 in the U.K.
Meanwhile, Jelly Roll has kept busy since his Stagecoach appearance by hitting the road with Post Malone on the ongoing Big Ass Stadium Tour and performing with Shaboozey at the 2025 ACM Awards. Earlier this week, Jelly also welcomed Eminem onstage in Detroit for a surprise duet version of “Lose Yourself.”
Stream Warren and Jelly Roll’s “Bloodline” below.
