#Johnny Depp's AMA Session
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Curiosities: Johnny Depp and his love for the Hip-Hop/Rap duo âRun The Jewelsâ.
On February 13, 2022, during his first âAsk Me Anythingâ session on his AMA channel on the Never Fear Truth Discord Server, Johnny was asked about his favorite songs and bands and one of them was âRun The Jewelsâ an American hip hop duo composed of Brooklyn-based rapper, producer El-P (Jaime Meline) and the Atlanta rapper and activist Killer Mike. One of the first times, Johnny talked about the Hip-Hop duo âRun the Jewelsâ was on 6 years ago, on February 13, 2016 during an interview for the charity network âChideoâ. On that day, the Hollywood Vampires were rehearsing for the their debut performance on the 58th Grammy Awards, and attended the 2016 Grammy Gift Lounge, at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California.
âThere are two guys a guys, a guy named Killer Mike and a guy named El-P and they've done two records, they're called âRun the Jewelsâ; and the beauty of what they do is, that it is, I mean it's brilliant musically, it's brilliant sonically, but the lyrics are very⌠They have a way of touching kids and maybe making people think. Making people think about the day-to-day and making people think about âHey, it's just as easy to do something good than it is to do something badâ and they're both fun, I get it, but it's time really now in the world, really now, because it's getting more and more unpleasant out there. It's important now for us to pay attention to the generations coming up and to salute them and teach them the best that we can, you know. So âRun the Jewelsâ is probably the best if I've listened to as of late, you know, and there's a message, you know, it's just good.â
One year later, on June 24, Johnny attended the Run the Jewels concert on the 2017 Glastonbury Festival, in Pilton, England and enjoyed the show from the side of the stage.
 Most recently, on June 4, 2020 as Johnny dedicated his 8th post on Instagram to talk about the killing of George Floyd, Johnny shared a 8 minutes video of Killer Mike giving an emotional speech, on the night of May 29 as he talks about his feelings about those sad days, as well encouraging protesters to fight for their rights in the city Atlanta.
Along sharing his own thoughts, Johnny also talked about Killer Mike:Â
âMy dear friend and brother, Killer Mike - (Run The Jewels), is a brilliant musician, artist, activist for social justice and the son of an Atlanta Policeman. He is also, one of the kindest, most caring and loving human beings that Iâve ever had the pleasure and honor to know!!! I beg everyone to listen to the remarks of this true statesman. True statesmen have never been so needed, and theyâve never been in such short supply.
So, for those who think Johnny only listens to rock bands, as he said: âthereâs no one particular music that I would say that I am stuck inâ and also is known that he enjoys Hip-Hop and some others rappers like: The Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar and Chuck D.
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[AUDIO] - Johnny Deppâs AMA Session â Question #1
On February 13, 2022, Johnny hosted his first âAsk Me Anythingâ session on his AMA channel at the Never Fear Truth Discord Server. The first question answered was sent by the user @Milos, who somehow managed to peak Johnny's attention by simply asking:
 Q: "Johnny, how are you?" And Johnny Depp, answered:Â
How am I?... I don't know how I am... I don't know how I am⌠I don't know how Iâve come into existence⌠(chuckles) But... I'm good! Everything's okay! Everything feels good, everything is... forward, onward and forward⌠Thatâs the direction of the day.
 >�� Curiosities:Â
* Following the audio, a message was also written on the post saying: âContent warning: welcome to the mind of Mr. Deppâ đŠ đ
* The audioâs achieve is titled âWhatsApp_Audio_2022-02-13_at_18.53.04_2.mpegâ , but was originally saved as âJD AMA Questions 6 Myloss How Are Youâ. * It seems that it was recorded while Johnny was in London, around 15h, few hours before officially posted.
#Johnny Depp#Never Fear Truth#Johnny Depp's AMA Session#AMA Session#Answering Followers#Special Audios#Johnny Depp's Audio Voice#February 2022#London#England#WhatsApp Audios#NFT Collection
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[AUDIO] Johnny Deppâs AMA Session â Question #5
On February 13, 2022, Johnny hosted his first âAsk Me Anythingâ session on his AMA channel at the Never Fear Truth Discord Server. The fourth question answered by Johnny was submitted by the user @QueenSanne who asked about his plans for the future in other arts such as music and writing. This time Johnny talks about when he first started to play guitar, the beginning of his career as an actor, his respect for the arts, upcoming new Hollywood Vampires songs, his love for writing and the book he has been writing for years.
[Question]
â - You really seem to be a multidimensional artist. I love your acting skills, I can't wait for the Vampires to come back to Germany and now I also fancy your painting skills. What will be the next dimension? Are you already writing some lines on a book? Or maybe some poems? Any other creative plans on your mind?â
[Johnny Deppâs Answer]
â Thank you very much for your question! Itâs a great question. I suppose, you know, after a certain amount of time you start to realize things that you allowed yourself in life and things that you⌠Thought it best to⌠Let go of or walk away from in life. And sometimes those things in life are very dear, I mean dear to the point of itâs truly a part of you, like the guitar, playing the guitar and playing music was my, well, is my life â was always my first love and I did it. I started playing it at 12 and taught myself how to play the thing I joined bands and ended up playing clubs at a very young age, you know. So for me there was â It was immediate; there was no question that the guitar was everything for me.
Then suddenly, couple years, well, a number of years later, I end up in Hollywood and the band breaks up and my friend asks me, âWhy donât you meet my agent?â So I did and she sent me to this audition and I got the gig somehow as an actor in some movie. And I didnât have much of an interest in it, you know, I always planned to go back to music and then made that film. Suddenly I found myself on this other road which was acting and that, once  I suppose, I was exposed to a lot of people, that is to say when people started to recognize me; it was a very odd feeling for me. And I think part of that was because I knew that I had achieved, I suppose, a certain amount of success in the acting field from, you know, the TV show or whatever. And, I just knew that I then had to make a choice to sort of say goodbye to music.
Yeah, you know, I didnât want to like⌠âHey! Iâm an actor! Iâm on this TV show!  Come! Come see my band play! or Come see me play!â I couldnât do that because I loved music far too much, I had far too much respect for it. So I did the acting thing and accidentally and kept on going still kind of trudging through the tundra there, of that arena. But at the moment because I did make the decision to unlock those barriers that I put upon myself, where I limited myself.
I donât think Iâll ever call myself an artist. I donât believe thatâs my place. I donât⌠I can certainly, and I do approach my work, my music, my whatever, as an artist but thatâs when youâre commencing on a blank page. Even if youâre an artist, at that moment, youâre an aspiring artist because you donât know what comes next. So I canât call myself an artist but, do I paint? Do I draw? Yeah. Do they mean something to me? Yeah, because they represent my interpretation of friends and energies and moments and the luck, the amazing moments that I have been gifted with in my life, you know.
So yeah Iâm painting a bunch and it feels good. Iâm writing and recording music. Thereâs stuff with the Vampires thatâs already sort of ready-to-go. Thereâs writing, you know, as you say, am I writing? I find I am constantly writing. I have always a notebook at my side and Iâm constantly writing. And whatever Iâm writing at the time that depends on whatever Iâve just laid down, you know, whatever Iâve just witnessed. I write all the time sometimes theyâre songs and sometimes theyâre slivers of a memory that will end up in this, what right now feels like a huge tome, which is a book Iâve been writing a book for about five or six years or so. Approaching that blank page is, truly one of the greatest challenges that one could face, you know. If you can keep a sense of humor, youâll get through it.
So yes, Iâm doing a whole bunch of stuff. Probably a bunch of stuff I shouldnât be doing, but themâs the brakes*.
> Johnny Deppâs AMA Audios:
- Question #1Â -Â Question #2Â - Question #3 - Question #4
> Curiosities:
* Following the audio, a message was also written on the post saying:
âWho's excited for how we can collab with Johnny's # đľď˝music this year?â The Music Channel on Never Fear Truth Discord still has not opened yet, and will be another place to collaborate with Johnny, although more info will be revealed when the channel opens. Up until now, the only message there is Johnnyâs audio voice answer for the 8° question of the second AMA session.
 * The audioâs achieve is titled âWhatsApp_Audio_2022-02-13_at_18.53.03.mpegâ, but was originally saved simply as âJD AMA Questionsâ
* When Johnny said âI have always a notebook at my side and Iâm constantly writingâ this is indeed a fact. Wherever he goes Johnny HAS ALWAYS a small notebook on the pocket of his jeans or shirt, as well dozens of pens.
* Â About writing a book, this is also a fact. According to Johnny, he started a book a couple of months before the end of his relationship with Amber Heard; and by August 16, 2018 he had written 300 PAGES, which according to him, he was still in the middle, and had at least more 300 pages to finish. [Letâs talk about this on the next post]
*Â Johnny finished the message with the expression âThemâs the brakesâ which also means âthat is the way things happenâ or âthatâs how it worksâ
* This is the longest audio sent by Johnny for the first 7 questions of the first session and the next 6 answers of the second session. We know that he hates speak in public, but when it comes to speak to friends he goes for hours⌠Also, he is probably one of the few people weâd love to receive a long voice message on WhatsApp.
* Just like all the audios of the first session, it seems that it was recorded while Johnny was in London. Also, they were originally recorded via WhatsApp and edited on Adobe Premiere Pro video editing software on his (or someoneâs) Apple MacBook computer before being posted on Discord, on mpeg format before being changed for mp3 formats after dozens of complains many couldnât listen.
#Johnny Depp#Never Fear Truth#Johnny Depp's AMA Session#Question 5#AMA Session#Answering Followers#Special Audios#Hollywood Vampires#NFT Collection#Johnny Depp's Audio Voice#February 2022#London#England#WhatsApp Audios#Upcoming Projects
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[AUDIO] Johnny Deppâs AMA Session â Question #10
On February 22, 2022, Johnny returned for a second session for his first âAsk Me Anythingâ session on his AMA channel at the Never Fear Truth Discord Server. The tenth question answered by Johnny was submitted by the user @yolanda who was curious to know his purposes with the community.
[Question]
âWhat is your marker of success for âNever fear Truthâ?
[Johnny Deppâs Answer]
â What I love about the idea of community, I can send someone some drawing or some painting and I can write something and they can elaborate, you know. If they send me something - an idea - that they have for this or that; maybe a film, I don't know⌠The possibilities are kind of endless, you know. I would hope that there should be âa cauldronâ in there and âa think tankâ in there and I think there should be ideas for the future. Yeah, we create a community that is collaborative and coexisting and, yeah, dedicated to being involved and creating something.
> Johnny Deppâs AMA Audios:
~ [SESSION 1] ~ /// ~[SESSION 2]~ /// - Question #1 Â Â Â Â Â Â - Question #8 - Question #2Â Â Â Â Â Â Â - Question #9 - Question #3 - Question #4 - Question #5 - Question #6 - Question #7
> Curiosities:
* Following the audio, a message was also written on the post saying: âA cauldron and a think tankâ Â
âA cauldron and a think tankâ is originally the # đ | holder-collabs channel on the Never Fear Truth Discord, which planned to be âA place where one person creates one element, and passes it on for another person to work on.âÂ
* Throughout the second session, all the audios were released in MP3 formats after dozens of complains once many couldnât listen. Due to that the titles changed a bit: This one was posted as âCommunity_Success.mp3â, but the whatsapp file was titled âWhatsApp Audio 2022-02-22 at 15.37.56.mp4â, then the achieve was titled âJD Collaborating With Communityâ, but was originally saved as âSuccess Communityâ
* Interestingly this and the 8° question were weirdly tagged in âNorthumberland Stâ, known as the major shopping street in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the North East of England.
*Â Â Just like on the first session it seems that it was recorded while Johnny was in London. Also, they continued being edited on Adobe Premiere Pro video editing software on his (or someoneâs) Apple MacBook computer before being posted on Discord as MP3.
#Johnny Depp#Never Fear Truth#Johnny Depp's AMA Session#AMA Session#Answering Followers#Question 10#Special Audios#February 2022#Johnny Depp's Audio Voice#WhatsApp Audios#London#England#NFT Collection
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 [AUDIO] Johnny Deppâs AMA Session â Question #12 (Finale)
On February 22, 2022, Johnny returned for a second session for his first âAsk Me Anythingâ session on his AMA channel at the Never Fear Truth Discord Server. The twelfth and last question from the second session answered by Johnny was submitted by the user @millerroom who made the most different question by far, bringing some fresh air apart the serious stuff.
This time, Johnny took a long way, detours, and gone philosophical in order to answer a simple question about... Eggs. đł
 [Question]
â - How do you like your eggs?â
 [Johnny Deppâs answer]
 â - How do I like my eggs? Well honestly, I mean, I have to be honest with you. I have to meet the eggs first for it to actually mean something to me, to make that decision, because, listen, you know, there are a lot of good eggs out there and as we all know there are a few bad eggs⌠(chuckles)
But we've all met and experienced. You want to be careful of the bad eggs, yeah⌠Stay in the arena of the good egg. Be a good egg, and then it don't matter. You can boil them, you can fry them, you can scramble them, you can⌠Omelets are nice⌠I don't know⌠There's all ways you can do that stuff. I myself don't really⌠I don't really have the culinary gift as of yet, but it's something Iâm looking to⌠to clobber. Thank you very much for the question.â
> Johnny Deppâs AMA Audios:
~ [SESSION 1] ~ /// ~[SESSION 2]~ /// - Question #1 Â Â Â Â Â Â - Question #8 - Question #2 Â Â Â Â Â Â - Question #9 - Question #3 Â Â Â Â Â Â - Question #10 - Question #4 Â Â Â Â - Question #11 (Pt. 1) - Question #5Â Â Â Â Â - Question #11 (Pt. 2) - Question #6Â -Â Question #7
> Curiosities:
* Following the audio, a message was also written on the post saying: âBe a good eggâ â¤ď¸ This expression is known for being used to refer to a kind, nice person.
* It seems that Johnny still hasnât conquered his culinary skills, but is aiming for. For those having trouble with Johnnyâs formal speech, âto clobberâ means âto defeat completelyâ.Â
* Throughout the second session, all the audios were released in MP3 formats after dozens of complains once many couldnât listen. Due to that the titles changed a bit: This one was posted as âEggs.mp3â, but the achieve was an audio (not from WhatsApp) titled âAUDIO-2022-02-13-09-50-52.m4aâwhich was originally saved as âJD AMA Questions 2âÂ
* Just like on the first session it seems that it was recorded while Johnny was in London. Also, they continued being edited on Adobe Premiere Pro video editing software on his (or someoneâs) Apple MacBook computer before being posted on Discord as MP3.
#Johnny Depp#Never Fear Truth#Johnny Depp's AMA Session#AMA Session#Answering Followers#Question 12#Special Audios#February 2022#Johnny Depp's Audio Voice#WhatsApp Audios#London#England#Be a Good Egg
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[AUDIO] Johnny Deppâs AMA Session â Question #11 (Part. 2)
On February 22, 2022, Johnny returned for a second session for his first âAsk Me Anythingâ session on his AMA channel at the Never Fear Truth Discord Server. The eleventh question answered by Johnny ended up creating a multitude on answers, and instead of one, two snippets from Johnnyâs responses was shared. This is the SECOND answer and itâs unknown if it was submitted by a user or if was taken form Johnnyâs social medias.
This time, Johnny talked about his relationship with Tim Burton and revealed that Tim has thousands of characters that we never saw.
[Johnny Deppâs answer]
âTim and I have been friends, and collaborators, for a very-very long time now - 30 and some years, I think. And I asked Tim many years ago because we were both doing gigs for studios and blah-blah-blah; and I just - I thought about it and I thought: âMan, this is⌠ This is one of the most creative, most visionary auteursâŚâ As soon as you see a character you know immediately when it's tuned. But Tim has so much more to give, visually, new characters⌠Tim has his little notebook every second of the day with these little watercolors and stuff. There are thousands of Tim Burton characters that people haven't met. He's not published them, he's not done, you know, turn them into movies⌠Thousands and thousands and they're amazing.â
  > Johnny Deppâs AMA Audios:
~ [SESSION 1] ~ /// ~[SESSION 2]~ /// - Question #1 Â Â Â Â Â Â - Question #8 - Question #2 Â Â Â Â Â Â - Question #9 - Question #3 Â Â Â Â Â Â - Question #10 - Question #4Â Â Â Â Â - Question #11 (Pt. 1) - Question #5 - Question #6 - Â Question #7
> Curiosities:
* According to the administrator who posted Johnnyâs answers, this question ended up leading to a series of answers. But only two was released. According to them âsharing more now isn't possible but we're certainly excited to see where this takes us.â It was also said that this could be something to be posted on the # đ | black-canvas Channel, which up until now itâs unknown whatâs the purpose and only a question mark was posted. By the way, the audio seems had been edited, and cut to become shorter.
* Following the audio, a message was also written on the post saying: â...and a note on a dear friend, long time collaborators looking for a new arena?â This is probable a hint of a future collaboration between Johnny and Tim. Maybe Johnny has plans to release some of Timâs never seen characters as NFT, just like he already did with a drawing of Jack Depp.Â
* Throughout the second session, all the audios were released in MP3 formats after dozens of complains once many couldnât listen. Due to that the titles changed a bit: This one was posted as âA_Dear_Friend_cut.mp3â, but the achieve was a WhatsApp audio titled âWhatsApp Audio 2022-02-22 at 15.37.56.mp4â which was originally saved as âMetaverse 2 Tim Burton V2â
* Just like on the first session it seems that it was recorded while Johnny was in London. Also, they continued being edited on Adobe Premiere Pro video editing software on his (or someoneâs) Apple MacBook computer before being posted on Discord as MP3.
#Johnny Depp#Never Fear Truth#Johnny Depp's AMA Session#AMA Session#Answering Followers#Question 11#Special Audios#February 2022#Johnny Depp's Audio Voice#WhatsApp Audios#Tim Burton#London#England#Upcoming Collaborations
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[AUDIO] Johnny Deppâs AMA Session â Question #3
On February 13, 2022, Johnny hosted his first âAsk Me Anythingâ session on his AMA channel at the Never Fear Truth Discord Server.
The third question Johnny answered was submitted by the user @Carolyn, but could not be found once she deleted her account. Carolyn asked for suggestions and tips for those who wants to follow Johnnyâs path in the art road.
[Question]:
Hello! Thank you so much for your art (of all forms!) Can you please give us a prompt & we shall all try to create some art from it?!â đâ¨đ
[Johnny Deppâs Answer]:
- What I would suggest? Just as... itâs an interesting exercise and of course there are certainly psychological angles to it, but I would suggest - not necessarily in a setting that youâve seen before, anything like that, just somehow â draw your family, draw your father, your mother, your grandma â whoever was around in your life â your sister, your brother, this, that. Draw them, in various positions that you would put them in, that you see them in or that you think of them in on one big piece of paper. Itâs your image that exists in your head and itâs something that is quite healthy to draw, when you start to look and see who ended up where and wonder why they ended up there; âwhy did I have them playing the violin?â, you know, whatever it might be. Because itâs really about observation, itâs really about observation and capturing a moment. Itâs not the most luxurious and quick and simple and easy, click-click, way. Itâs a sketch from your mind of how you see your family. I think youâll find it interesting.
> Johnny Deppâs AMA Audios:
- Question #1 - Question #2Â
 > Curiosities:
* Following the audio, a message was also written on the post saying: âWould love to see your guys responses in # đ¨ ď˝fan-art this week!â
The âfan-artâ channel, is a place on Discord for Johnnyâs followers share their arts.
* The audioâs achieve is titled â WhatsApp_Audio_2022-02-13_at_18.53.04_1.mpegâ, but was originally saved as âJD AMA Questions 5 Caroline Prompt to Create Art â * Just like all the audios of the firsts session, it seems that it was recorded while Johnny was in London. Also, they were originally recorded via WhatsApp and edited on Adobe Premiere Pro video editing software on his (or someoneâs) Apple MacBook computer before being posted on Discord, on mpeg format before being changed for mp3 formats after dozens of complains once many couldnât listen.
#Johnny Depp#Never Fear Truth#Johnny Depp's AMA Session#AMA Session#Answering Followers#Question 3#Special Audios#Johnny Depp's Audio Voice#February 2022#London#England#WhatsApp Audios#NFT Collection
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[AUDIO] Johnny Deppâs AMA Session â Question #9
On February 22, 2022, Johnny returned for a second session for his first âAsk Me Anythingâ session on his AMA channel at the Never Fear Truth Discord Server. The ninth question answered by Johnny was asked by his followers on social medias; and this time, Johnny talked about the NFTs he gave as a thank you for his warriors.
[Questions]
Johnny, I see you're holding NFTs back for you and your team, what are your plans with them?
[Johnny Deppâs Answer]
âThey've been out there for years, so, yeah, I wanna - I want desperately to be able to repay them in some way, you know. âThank youâ is fine âThank you' is never enough, though. So I would love to give them some NFT, you know. I just want to do the best that I can for these warriors, you know. And there's a few of them.â
> Johnny Deppâs AMA Audios:
~ [SESSION 1] ~ /// ~[SESSION 2]~ /// - Question #1Â Â Â Â Â Â Â - Question #8 - Question #2 - Question #3 - Question #4 - Question #5 - Question #6 - Question #7
> Curiosities:Â
* Throughout the second session, all the audios were released in MP3 formats after dozens of complains once many couldnât listen. Due to that, the titles changed a bit: This one was posted as âJohnnys_NFTs. Mp3â. but the achieve instead of a WhatsApp file was titled âJD Giving back to his warrior fansâ, being originally saved as âGive back to fansâ
* Just like on the first session it seems that it was recorded while Johnny was in London. Also, they continued being edited on Adobe Premiere Pro video editing software on his (or someoneâs) Apple MacBook computer before being posted on Discord as MP3.
#Johnny Depp#Never Fear Truth#ohnny Depp's AMA Session#AMA Session#Answering Followers#Question 9#Special Audios#Johnny Depp's Audio Voice#February 2022#London#England#WhatsApp Audios#NFT Collection#Johnny Depp's Army#Johnny Depp's Warriors
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Johnny Deppâs Riddle Challenge on Discord:
Along Johnnyâs A.M.A Sessions on his Never Fear Truth Discord server, audio recording can also be listened on the Riddles channel, where Johnny would ask some riddles made from himself for his followers to decypher and win a NFT.
> About the Riddles:
On February 20, 2022 it was announced in one of the Never Fear Truth channels of the community on Discord, called âRiddlesâ that over the next three days during, they were going to release 7 riddles made from Johnny himself.
The rules were simple:Â
1) The users should solve all of them correctly to have a chance to win a surprise prize. 2) where the first 50 full sets of correct answers would win an awesome prize. 3) The answer of each riddle should be sent in another site, the Dyno Discord Bot. Each original post had a different link to send the answers, 7 in total.
4) The users should sent ONLY ONE ANSWER, otherwise was going to be disqualified from the game.
 The first Riddle was posted on the same day (February 20, 2022), as an audio mp3, but many people using smartphone couldnât listen, so on the next day (February 21, 2022), the format was changed and Johnnyâs first riddle was uploaded again as a video MP4 with transcript to make easier and better for everyone to listen and understand. As announced before, two Riddles were going to be shared on the next days, and the second was released later that day, followed by two on February 22 and 23.Â
On February 24, it announced that within minutes the first 50 people answered all of Riddles correctly and out of them, only one person was chosen after a raffle, and the winner was the user @DiskyX , who won a Never Fear Truth NFT.
Along the announcement of the winner, it was also shared all the correct answers of the Riddles, which interestingly matches with parts of Johnnyâs life during the last years.
 Ps. For those who are not on Discord, the audios was reposted by followers on YouTube, and Twitter and I will also upload all of them here, along Johnnyâs AMA Sessions.
#Johnny Depp#Never Fear Truth#NFT Collection#Johnny Depp's Riddles#Special Challenge#Audio Messages#Special Audios#February 2022
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Curiosities: Johnny Depp and his love for the Hip-Hop/Rap duo âRun The Jewelsâ.
On February 13, 2022, during his first âAsk Me Anythingâ session on his AMA channel on the Never Fear Truth Discord Server, Johnny was asked about his favorite songs and bands and one of them was âRun The Jewelsâ an American hip hop duo composed of Brooklyn-based rapper, producer El-P (Jaime Meline) and the Atlanta rapper and activist Killer Mike. One of the first times, Johnny talked about the Hip-Hop duo âRun the Jewelsâ was on 6 years ago, on February 13, 2016 during an interview for the charity network âChideoâ. On that day, the Hollywood Vampires were rehearsing for the their debut performance on the 58th Grammy Awards, and attended the 2016 Grammy Gift Lounge, at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California.
âThere are two guys a guys, a guy named Killer Mike and a guy named El-P and theyâve done two records, theyâre called âRun the Jewelsâ; and the beauty of what they do is, that it is, I mean itâs brilliant musically, itâs brilliant sonically, but the lyrics are very⌠They have a way of touching kids and maybe making people think. Making people think about the day-to-day and making people think about âHey, itâs just as easy to do something good than it is to do something badâ and theyâre both fun, I get it, but itâs time really now in the world, really now, because itâs getting more and more unpleasant out there. Itâs important now for us to pay attention to the generations coming up and to salute them and teach them the best that we can, you know. So âRun the Jewelsâ is probably the best if Iâve listened to as of late, you know, and thereâs a message, you know, itâs just good.â
One year later, on June 24, Johnny attended the Run the Jewels concert on the 2017 Glastonbury Festival, in Pilton, England and enjoyed the show from the side of the stage.
Most recently, on June 4, 2020 as Johnny dedicated his 8th post on Instagram to talk about the killing of George Floyd, Johnny shared a 8 minutes video of Killer Mike giving an emotional speech, on the night of May 29 as he talks about his feelings about those sad days, as well encouraging protesters to fight for their rights in the city Atlanta.
Along sharing his own thoughts, Johnny also talked about Killer Mike:Â
âMy dear friend and brother, Killer Mike - (Run The Jewels), is a brilliant musician, artist, activist for social justice and the son of an Atlanta Policeman. He is also, one of the kindest, most caring and loving human beings that Iâve ever had the pleasure and honor to know!!! I beg everyone to listen to the remarks of this true statesman. True statesmen have never been so needed, and theyâve never been in such short supply.
So, for those who think Johnny only listens to rock bands, as he said: âthereâs no one particular music that I would say that I am stuck inâ and also is known that he enjoys Hip-Hop and some others rappers like: The Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar and Chuck D.
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