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''You're so two-thousand-and-late''|"Boom Boom Pow"}}
The Black Eyed Peas are a Los Angeles-based rap group, initially comprised of members will.i.am, Taboo, and apl.de.ap. Formed in 1995, they began as a [[The Moral Substitute|less violent]], [[Alternative Hip Hop|socially conscious alternative]] to the gangsta rap acts of the time, though ironically signed by [[
In 2002, they were joined by a fourth member, Fergie. By the time ''Elephunk'' and ''[[New Sound Album|Monkey Business]]'' were released in 2003 and 2005, the group had changed entirely, moving towards a pop sound with Fergie placed front and center, and much simpler lyrical content. Their new style earned them numerous #1 hit singles and multi-platinum sales, to the point where some people didn't know they did anything pre-''Elephunk''.
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* [[Bowdlerise]]: "Let's Get Retarded" was changed to "Let's Get It Started" on the radio. This became so ubiquitous that quite few people don't know the original name of the song.
* [[Broken Record]]: [[Todd in
** Really, most choruses from ''The E.N.D.'' are this.
{{quote| I gotta feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night, that tonight's gonna be a good night, that tonight's gonna be a good night... (repeat 12 times)}}
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* [[Garfunkel]]: Taboo and apl.de.ap, at least now - in their pre-Fergie days, they did just as much as will.i.am.
** Mostly Taboo, both have been reduced to a rap part in the songs (his ostensibly small role is spoofed by the [[Key of Awesome]]), but Apl has more of them, and has even made a couple songs that feature only him with will doing the music.
** [[Todd in
* [[Genre Shift]]: Compare "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqoKEyvdjv8 BEP Empire]", released in 2000, to "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEe_eraFWWs My Humps]", released in 2004. Yikes.
** See also: "Beautiful Dangerous," Fergie's collaboration with [[Guns N' Roses
* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wESgcExetso Bebot] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3wUZw9S2PM The APL Song] have lyrics in a Filipino language (Tagalog), which also makes them [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|understandably popular in the Philippines]].
** And it's not really gratuitous, considering that apl.de.ap actually grew up in the Phillipines and is currently working on charitable efforts there.
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* [[Parody Failure]]/[[Stealth Parody]]: "My Humps".
* [[Protest Song]]: "Where Is the Love?"
* [[Rhyming
** I Gotta Feeling rhymes up with up! They seem to do this trope frequently.
* [[Scatting]]: "Ga Ra Ta Da" and "Friddy Dope", both for ''Urbz: [[The Sims|Sims]] In The City''.
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