Black Eyed Peas Were a Politically Conscious Alt-Rap Band with Tiny Business Success
09/03/2010 6:43
on: Entertainment Events
Before frontman Stacy Ferguson joined the Black Eyed Peas, which hits the Palace of Auburn Hills on Tues. on a bill that includes Atlanta rapper Ludacris, the Peas were a politically conscious alt-rap band with tiny business success.
Their new single has no traces left of the rap act they once were. Then in 2003, Fergie came on board, lending her sufficient pipes to the world hit “Where Is the Love?,” which also featured Justin Timberlake, and the Peas right away changed into a chart-topping pop group. “I was a big fan of theirs before ever working with them,” asserts Fergie, 34 and married to actor Josh Duhamel. “I always loved that they used to be a live band with a hip hop flavor.” She is speaking on the telephone from the Jacksonville, Fla, stop on the Peas’ tour for last year’s mega-selling “The E.N.D.” ( which stands for “energy never dies” ). Just as Wild Orchid, the girl group she spent eleven years with without much success, was going to split up in 2003, Fergie met Will.i.am at a radio program in Los Angeles. “I approached him backstage in the hall, as you do when you are making an attempt to get your hustle on,” claims the crooner, a show business lifer of Irish, Scottish, and Mexican heritage who got her start as a kid actor on the show “Kids Incorporated” and voicing characters on Charlie Brown TV toons.
