News on Black Eyed Peas
Lady Jane DJ loves the Black Eyed Peas and would love to have the opportunity to see them in action. If I were to see them in concert I know I would not be disapointed. Here is one persons view on their show...
Excerpt:"Hip-hop's a nonstop party for showboating Peas
By Sean Piccoli
Pop Music Writer
Posted April 15 2006
Hip-hop's multi-tasker and renaissance man-about-town used to be Wyclef Jean of the Fugees. Nowadays it's William Adams, better known as will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas, who writes for himself and others, who can't resist a cameo, who juggles side projects and serves in his own band as ringleader and air traffic controller.
Black Eyed Peas brought their high-flying hip-hop circus to the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise on Thursday night and dazzled a crowd of more than 10,000 almost to the point of overkill. Adams, Jaime "Taboo" Gomez, Alan "apl.de.ap" Pineda and Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson spent almost two hours rapping, singing and dancing with support from a four-piece live band. But the Peas didn't just perform, they showed off -- their talent, their dexterity, their stamina, their wardrobe.
Adams played drums while improvising rhymes. Pineda rapped in English and in Tagalog, the language of his native Philippines. Ferguson turned one-handed cartwheels while singing, without dropping a note. This was hip-hop Vaudeville, a mixture of eagerness to please with a desire to be saluted for having all those entertaining skills. Everyone in the backing band seemed to play at least three instruments. With so much variety bubbling up on stage, Gomez came off as the Peas' specialist: All he did was rap and dance.
The songs themselves were busy, populous things held together -- sometimes barely -- by Adams' beats and hooks, and by the group's energy and charm. Dum Diddly merged hip-hop and Jamaican dancehall-style vocalizing. Don't Lie rolled off the stage like an avalanche of song parts. There was a cheerful confusion to the music, sometimes abetted by a muddy sound mix that didn't offer much in the way of separation or clarity."