Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business
A&M/ Interscope Records(2005)
By: Keith Thompson
The pea's are back with their fourth and first collective albumn: Monkey Business. Bringing with this time, an all star cast of familiar sounds and voices. Promising to give you more boom for your buck, The pea's get it started with the Dick Dale driven "pump it". The B.E.P crew lace the track with their infectious hip hop style, to deliver a soon to be club favorite. Elephunk guest artist Justin Timberlake returns on the Timbaland produced track "My Style", which I'm sure you wont be able to escape once the video drops on any music video station. Lead front man and producer Will.i.am expands the groups horizons by re mixing the Jack Johnson track "Gone Going". The biggest highlight on this albumn is when a opportunity of a lifetime takes place, when the pea's get to mix it up with the godfather of soul James Brown on the funktified track "They don't want music" Even former Police front man Sting participates on a remix of his song "Englishman in New York" into the B.E.P's version "Unity". The future hit " Don't lie" and the laid back hypnotic "Audio Delite at low fidelity" are tracks that increase the demand for this albumn. The Black Eyed Peas;Will.i.am,Apl.de.ap,taboo and vocalist Fergie divide their talents on a great hip hop/pop albumn, and show the world that their more than just Monkey Business.