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The Black Eyed Peas-an American hip-hop(http://www.ticketnest.com/Rap-Hip-Hop.php ) group from Los Angeles, California, who had and still enjoying international pop success. At present the group composed of will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo and Fergie. Their music styles are pop-rap and alternative hip hop. The Black Eyed Peas emerged back in 1989 when will.i.am real name William Adams and Apl.de.ap real name Allan Pineda met and started rapping plus performing together around Los Angeles. They signed to Ruthless Records that is run by Eazy-E, after inviting the attention of the nephew of Jerry Heller who is Eazy-E's manager. Having another friend in their group, Dante Santiago, they named their trio Atban Klann.

Their first album, “Grass Roots”, was never released as Ruthless did not consider the social themes mirrored in the group's music to be marketable to their listeners. Atban Klann renamed the group as Black Eyed Pods. Then, finally they named the group the Black Eyed Peas, because - as will.i.am stated on the front cover of the Monkey Business album, “Black Eyed Peas are food for the soul”. The band replaced their original third member with Taboo real name Jaime Gomez, plus had Kim Hill as a steady background singer. Dissimilar to many hip-hop acts, they opt to perform with a live band and chose a musical and clothing style that wildly different from the "Gangsta Rap" sounds of other Los Angeles-based hip-hop acts at the time.

Since the mid-'90s, the band performed in the local club circuit beside fellow acts like Ozomatli and Jurassic 5. The second album came out in 2000's Bridging the Gap which contained the hit "Request + Line" featuring Macy Gray. Their super hit album, Elephunk, was released in 2003. It was the first time the group featured the vocals of Stacy "Fergie". From this very album the anti-war anthem "Where is the Love?" came. (possible protest against the Iraq war which began the same year the song was released. in 2003) featuring an unaccredited Justin Timberlake that proved the band’s first major hit, mounting at #8 on the US Hot 100, in addition topping the charts almost everywhere else, counting six weeks at #1 in the UK where it was the biggest-selling single of 2003.

“Elephunk” consequently produced "Shut Up" that accelerated at #2 in the UK, though one of the reviewer recommended about this song as "the single most vacuous, pointless, vile and generally loathsome song in a generation") and topped the charts in many other European countries including France and Germany. Elephunk won worldwide success and went gold and platinum in the US, UK, Germany and other European markets. The third single from the album, although significantly restyled from the original Elephunk version, "Hey Mama" hit the Top 10 in the UK, Germany and other European countries and reached #23 in the US.

Next album, Monkey Business, was released on June 7, 2005. The first single of the album, "Don't Phunk with My Heart", was an instant hit in the U.S., going to number three on the Billboard Hot 100. This song rested on the highest pinnacle yet of their career and they brought home another Grammy for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group. The song also became three in the UK, and five in Canada, and number one in Australia. Though it also earned some criticism due to its obscenity. Another song form the same album "My Humps", instantly achieved commercial success in the U.S. and reasonable substantial radio play regardless of the sexually suggestive lyrics; also reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100. Black Eyed Peas released an iTunes Originals play list of their greatest hits in Sept 2005, as well as some that were re-recorded especially for purchase through iTunes. The play list involved popular songs like "Don't Lie", "Shut Up" plus a new version of “Where Is the Love?”

Moreover, Black Eyed Peas established the Pea Pod Foundation to help suffering children globally. The foundation is administered by the Entertainment Industry Foundation. On February 6, 2006, At a concert in Hollywood, California the band was joined by Sergio Mendes, Jessica Simpson, and other stars to benefit the foundation.

Black Eyed Peas produced a remix album, named "Renegotiations” on March 21, 2006. It is actually the Remixes" to iTunes. It includes remixed versions of Ba Bump, My Style, Feel It, Disco Club, They Don't Want Music, Audio Delite at Low Fidelity, plus also the standard version and video of “Like That”. And the next week it was released on CD without the music video. Others who took part in it were on the EP included DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Erick Sermon, DJ Jazzy Jeff, and Large Professor.
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Sara grew up in Kansas and after moving to Carlsbad, CA, relates to Dorothy of the "Wizard of Oz" fame. No surprise that she loves theater including "Wicked". Sara is a staff writer for Ticket Nest ( www.ticketnest.com ) and enjoys writing about her travel, theater and concert experiences. She can be reached at sara@ticketnest.com


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