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| Group Members: Taboo, will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Fergie
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| Biography: Positive messages and breakdancing are integral parts of hip-hop culture, but by 1990 those elements had been temporarily eclipsed by the tough gangsta image and bleak but compelling lyrics of West Coast groups like N.W.A. However, despite sharing a zip code, Black Eyed Peas' vision goes beyond the cracked-sidewalk ...Read full biography |
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Released: 1998 Label: INTERSCOPE Critics' Rating:  Black Eyed Peas bring some positivity and fun back into hip-hop. Musically there is almost no realm this group does not touch -- right from the jump, the stylistic innocence of "Fallen Up," complete with ...Read full reviewReleased: 2004 Label: A&M Critics' Rating:  Nominally a rap group, in truth Black Eyed Peas call on so many forms of songwriting and production that slotting them into hip-hop is like slotting Prince into R&B -- technically true, but very limiting. ...Read full review
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