Representatives for Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck have said the duo will review allegations they stole lyrics from a poem on their collaborative album ā18ā.
The poem Hobo featured in a 1974 book about toasts, Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me, by Bruce Jackson, reports Rolling Stone.
It revolves around a man named Slim Wilson who also vocalised the poem and featured the following lyrics: āLadies of culture and beauty so refined, is there one among you that would grant me wine?/ Iām raggedy I know, but I have no stink/ And God bless the lady thatāll buy me a drink/ Heavy-hipted Hattie turned to Nadine with a laugh/ And said, āWhat that funky motherfucker really need, child, is a bath.ā
Depp and Beckās collaboration āSad Motherfuckinā Paradeā has allegedly pulled a number of lines from the poem including: āIām raggedy, I know, but I have no stink,ā āGod bless the lady thatāll buy me a drink,ā and āWhat that funky motherfucker really needs, child, is a bath.ā
Jackson claims that he hasnāt been credited by Depp or Beck.
Now, a spokesperson for Depp and Beck said:Ā āWe are reviewing the inquiry relating to the song Sad Motherfuckinā Parade on the 18 album by Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp. If appropriate, additional copyright credits will be added to all forms of the album.ā

Jackson told Rolling Stone:Ā āThe only two lines I could find in the whole piece that [Depp and Beck] contributed are āBig time motherfuckerā and āBust it down to my levelā. Everything else is from Slimās performance in my book.
āIāve never encountered anything like this. Iāve been publishing stuff for 50 years, and this is the first time anybody has just ripped something off and put his own name on it.ā
Jacksonās son, Michael Lee Jackson added that he was looking into possible legal options, but stressed that a lawsuit hadnāt been filed. But he claimed that the current credits on āSad Motherfuckinā Paradeā are incorrect.
āThey do not reflect the actual authorship of those lyrics,ā he said. āItās just not plausible, in my opinion, that Johnny Depp or anybody else could have sat down and crafted those lyrics without almost wholly taking them from some version of my fatherās recording and/or book where they appeared.ā
Depp made headlines on May 29 when he made a surprise appearance at Beckās show in Sheffield. He went on to joinĀ Beck on stage at a handful of other gigs despite awaiting the verdict in his defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard at the time.
The pair then announced their collaborative album which was released on July 15 after three years of recording.
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