Musical Analysis On The Black Eyed Peas Essay

Later that year, they released an album called Behind the Front with a new vocalist Kim Hill with guest appearances from the hip-hop band, Jurassic 5’s, Chali 2na, De La Soul, and Macy Gray (Kergan n. pag. ). They began to define their own style of music and the public seemed to recognize the value of their unique approach of music. Then in the year of 2000, they released yet another album called Bridging the Gap. Their success was mounting higher then ever before. Then in 2003, the group made another album, Elephunk, which featured a new member to the group, Fergie, who replaced their vocalist Kim Hill.This album became their biggest one yet, storming the Top 40 with three singles (“Where Is the Love? ,” “Hey Mama,” and “Let’s Get It Started”).

Two years later, the band had their latest album released, Monkey Business which is on the Top 40 today (Kergan n. pag. ). The Black Eyed Peas seemed to have one thing that seemed to be obscure about their genre of music though. Since they changed from their hip-hop, break dancing style, they have been classified as an Alternative, an Alternative Rap, a Club/Dance, a Hip-Hop, a Pop, a Pop-Rap, an R&B and a Rock band (Bush n. ag. ).This is because of the group’s varied music and vocals in every song, which makes it confusing to determine what type of music they are.

Filmore Holmes of tinymixtapes. com argued, “..

there was a time when the West Coast collective known as the Black Eyed Peas made actual hip-hop music. Yes, way back in 1998, they released Behind The Front.. ” (Holmes n. pag. ). But I believe the band still has their hip-hop roots but with a little change.