#Johnny Depp's AMA Session

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Curiosities: Johnny Depp and his love for the Hip-Hop/Rap duo “Run The Jewels”.

On February 13, 2022, during his first “Ask Me Anything” 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 “Run The Jewels” 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 “Run the Jewels” was on 6 years ago, on February 13, 2016 during an interview for the charity network “Chideo”. 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.

“There 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 ‘Run the Jewels’; 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 ‘Hey, it's just as easy to do something good than it is to do something bad’ 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 ‘Run the Jewels’ 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.”

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: 

“My 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 I’ve 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 they’ve never been in such short supply.

So, for those who think Johnny only listens to rock bands, as he said: “there’s no one particular music that I would say that I am stuck in” 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 Depp’s AMA Session – Question #1

On February 13, 2022, Johnny hosted his first “Ask Me Anything” 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: 

How am I?... I don't know how I am... I don't know how I am… I don't know how I’ve come into existence… (chuckles) But... I'm good! Everything's okay! Everything feels good, everything is... forward, onward and forward… That’s the direction of the day.

 >  Curiosities: 

* Following the audio, a message was also written on the post saying:  “Content warning: welcome to the mind of Mr. Depp”  🎩 🙃

* The audio’s achieve is titled “WhatsApp_Audio_2022-02-13_at_18.53.04_2.mpeg” , but was originally saved as “JD AMA Questions 6 Myloss How Are You”. * It seems that it was recorded while Johnny was in London, around 15h, few hours before officially posted.

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[AUDIO] Johnny Depp’s AMA Session – Question #5

On February 13, 2022, Johnny hosted his first “Ask Me Anything” 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]

“ - 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?”

[Johnny Depp’s Answer]

“ Thank you very much for your question! It’s 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 it’s truly a part of you, like the guitar, playing the guitar and playing music was my, well, is my life – 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 – 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, ‘Why don’t you meet my agent?’ So I did and she sent me to this audition and I got the gig somehow as an actor in some movie. And I didn’t 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 didn’t want to like… ‘Hey! I’m an actor! I’m on this TV show!  Come! Come see my band play! or Come see me play!’ I couldn’t 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 don’t think I’ll ever call myself an artist. I don’t believe that’s my place. I don’t… I can certainly, and I do approach my work, my music, my whatever, as an artist but that’s when you’re commencing on a blank page. Even if you’re an artist, at that moment, you’re an aspiring artist because you don’t know what comes next. So I can’t 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 I’m painting a bunch and it feels good. I’m writing and recording music. There’s stuff with the Vampires that’s already sort of ready-to-go. There’s writing, you know, as you say, am I writing? I find I am constantly writing. I have always a notebook at my side and I’m constantly writing. And whatever I’m writing at the time that depends on whatever I’ve just laid down, you know, whatever I’ve just witnessed. I write all the time sometimes they’re songs and sometimes they’re slivers of a memory that will end up in this, what right now feels like a huge tome, which is a book I’ve 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, you’ll get through it.

So yes, I’m doing a whole bunch of stuff. Probably a bunch of stuff I shouldn’t be doing, but them’s the brakes*.

> Johnny Depp’s AMA Audios:

- Question #1  - Question #2  - Question #3 - Question #4

> Curiosities:

* Following the audio, a message was also written on the post saying:

“Who's excited for how we can collab with Johnny's # 🎵｜music this year?” 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 Johnny’s audio voice answer for the 8° question of the second AMA session.

 * The audio’s achieve is titled “WhatsApp_Audio_2022-02-13_at_18.53.03.mpeg”, but was originally saved simply as “JD AMA Questions”

* When Johnny said “I have always a notebook at my side and I’m constantly writing” 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.

*  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. [Let’s talk about this on the next post]

* Johnny finished the message with the expression “Them’s the brakes” which also means “that is the way things happen” or “that’s how it works”

* 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 we’d 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 someone’s) Apple MacBook computer before being posted on Discord, on mpeg format before being changed for mp3 formats after dozens of complains many couldn’t listen.

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[AUDIO] Johnny Depp’s AMA Session – Question #10

On February 22, 2022, Johnny returned for a second session for his first “Ask Me Anything” 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]

“What is your marker of success for “Never fear Truth”?

[Johnny Depp’s Answer]

“ 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 ‘a cauldron’ in there and ‘a think tank’ 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 Depp’s AMA Audios:

~ [SESSION 1] ~ /// ~[SESSION 2]~ /// - Question #1             - Question #8 - Question #2             - 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:  “A cauldron and a think tank”  

“A cauldron and a think tank” is originally the # 🏭 | holder-collabs channel on the Never Fear Truth Discord, which planned to be “A place where one person creates one element, and passes it on for another person to work on.” 

* Throughout the second session, all the audios were released in MP3 formats after dozens of complains once many couldn’t listen. Due to that the titles changed a bit: This one was posted as “Community_Success.mp3”, but the whatsapp file was titled “WhatsApp Audio 2022-02-22 at 15.37.56.mp4”, then the achieve was titled “JD Collaborating With Community”, but was originally saved as “Success Community”

* Interestingly this and the 8° question were weirdly tagged in “Northumberland St”, known as the major shopping street in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the North East of England.

*  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 someone’s) Apple MacBook computer before being posted on Discord as MP3.

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 [AUDIO] Johnny Depp’s AMA Session – Question #12 (Finale)

On February 22, 2022, Johnny returned for a second session for his first “Ask Me Anything” 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.  🍳

 [Question]

“ - How do you like your eggs?”

 [Johnny Depp’s answer]

 “ - 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 I’m looking to… to clobber. Thank you very much for the question.”

> Johnny Depp’s AMA Audios:

~ [SESSION 1] ~ /// ~[SESSION 2]~ /// - Question #1             - Question #8 - Question #2             - Question #9 - Question #3             - Question #10 - Question #4         - Question #11 (Pt. 1) - Question #5         - Question #11 (Pt. 2) - Question #6  - Question #7

> Curiosities:

* Following the audio, a message was also written on the post saying: “Be a good egg” ❤️ This expression is known for being used to refer to a kind, nice person.

* It seems that Johnny still hasn’t conquered his culinary skills, but is aiming for. For those having trouble with Johnny’s formal speech, “to clobber” means “to defeat completely”. 

* Throughout the second session, all the audios were released in MP3 formats after dozens of complains once many couldn’t listen. Due to that the titles changed a bit: This one was posted as “Eggs.mp3”, but the achieve was an audio (not from WhatsApp) titled “AUDIO-2022-02-13-09-50-52.m4a”which was originally saved as “JD AMA Questions 2” 

* 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 someone’s) Apple MacBook computer before being posted on Discord as MP3.

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[AUDIO] Johnny Depp’s AMA Session – Question #11 (Part. 2)

On February 22, 2022, Johnny returned for a second session for his first “Ask Me Anything” 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 Johnny’s responses was shared. This is the SECOND answer and it’s unknown if it was submitted by a user or if was taken form Johnny’s 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 Depp’s answer]

“Tim 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: ‘Man, this is…  This is one of the most creative, most visionary auteurs…’ 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.”

  > Johnny Depp’s AMA Audios:

~ [SESSION 1] ~ /// ~[SESSION 2]~ /// - Question #1             - Question #8 - Question #2             - Question #9 - Question #3             - Question #10 - Question #4         - Question #11 (Pt. 1) - Question #5 - Question #6 -  Question #7

> Curiosities:

* According to the administrator who posted Johnny’s answers, this question ended up leading to a series of answers. But only two was released. According to them “sharing more now isn't possible but we're certainly excited to see where this takes us.” It was also said that this could be something to be posted on the # 📄 | black-canvas Channel, which up until now it’s unknown what’s 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: “...and a note on a dear friend, long time collaborators looking for a new arena?” This is probable a hint of a future collaboration between Johnny and Tim. Maybe Johnny has plans to release some of Tim’s never seen characters as NFT, just like he already did with a drawing of Jack Depp. 

* Throughout the second session, all the audios were released in MP3 formats after dozens of complains once many couldn’t listen. Due to that the titles changed a bit: This one was posted as “A_Dear_Friend_cut.mp3”, but the achieve was a WhatsApp audio titled “WhatsApp Audio 2022-02-22 at 15.37.56.mp4” which was originally saved as “Metaverse 2 Tim Burton V2”

* 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 someone’s) Apple MacBook computer before being posted on Discord as MP3.

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[AUDIO] Johnny Depp’s AMA Session – Question #3

On February 13, 2022, Johnny hosted his first “Ask Me Anything” 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 Johnny’s 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?!” 😊✨👍

[Johnny Depp’s Answer]:

- What I would suggest? Just as... it’s an interesting exercise and of course there are certainly psychological angles to it, but I would suggest - not necessarily in a setting that you’ve seen before, anything like that, just somehow – draw your family, draw your father, your mother, your grandma – whoever was around in your life – 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. It’s your image that exists in your head and it’s 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; ‘why did I have them playing the violin?’, you know, whatever it might be. Because it’s really about observation, it’s really about observation and capturing a moment. It’s not the most luxurious and quick and simple and easy, click-click, way. It’s a sketch from your mind of how you see your family.  I think you’ll find it interesting.

> Johnny Depp’s AMA Audios:

- Question #1 - Question #2 

 > Curiosities:

* Following the audio, a message was also written on the post saying: “Would love to see your guys responses in # 🎨 ｜fan-art this week!”

The “fan-art” channel, is a place on Discord for Johnny’s followers share their arts.

* The audio’s achieve is titled “ WhatsApp_Audio_2022-02-13_at_18.53.04_1.mpeg”, but was originally saved as “JD AMA Questions 5 Caroline Prompt to Create Art ” * 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 someone’s) Apple MacBook computer before being posted on Discord, on mpeg format before being changed for mp3 formats after dozens of complains once many couldn’t listen.

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[AUDIO] Johnny Depp’s AMA Session – Question #9

On February 22, 2022, Johnny returned for a second session for his first “Ask Me Anything” 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 Depp’s Answer]

“They've been out there for years, so, yeah, I wanna - I want desperately to be able to repay them in some way, you know. ‘Thank you’ is fine ‘Thank 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.”

> Johnny Depp’s AMA Audios:

~ [SESSION 1] ~ /// ~[SESSION 2]~ /// - Question #1             - Question #8 - Question #2 - Question #3 - Question #4 - Question #5 - Question #6 - Question #7

> Curiosities: 

* Throughout the second session, all the audios were released in MP3 formats after dozens of complains once many couldn’t listen. Due to that, the titles changed a bit: This one was posted as “Johnnys_NFTs. Mp3”. but the achieve instead of a WhatsApp file was titled “JD Giving back to his warrior fans”, being originally saved as “Give back to fans”

* 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 someone’s) Apple MacBook computer before being posted on Discord as MP3.

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Johnny Depp’s Riddle Challenge on Discord:

Along Johnny’s 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 “Riddles” that over the next three days during, they were going to release 7 riddles made from Johnny himself.

The rules were simple: 

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 couldn’t listen, so on the next day (February 21, 2022), the format was changed and Johnny’s 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. 

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 Johnny’s 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 Johnny’s AMA Sessions.

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Curiosities: Johnny Depp and his love for the Hip-Hop/Rap duo “Run The Jewels”.

On February 13, 2022, during his first “Ask Me Anything” 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 “Run The Jewels” 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 “Run the Jewels” was on 6 years ago, on February 13, 2016 during an interview for the charity network “Chideo”. 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.

“There 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 ‘Run the Jewels’; 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 ‘Hey, it’s just as easy to do something good than it is to do something bad’ 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 ‘Run the Jewels’ 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.”

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: 

“My 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 I’ve 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 they’ve never been in such short supply.

So, for those who think Johnny only listens to rock bands, as he said: “there’s no one particular music that I would say that I am stuck in” 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.