Black Eyed Peas

New lyrics gave the tune a basketball theme, and the spot featured Carlos Santana. The revised song had great success as a single, especially popular on the iTunes music download service. The Breeders are widely expected to release a new album sometime in late 2005 or early 2006. The BEP's song "Let's Get Retarded" was restyled as "Let's Get it Started" for an NBA finals worldwide commerical. In 2004, Warner Music Group announced plans to drop the Breeders from their label following low album sales of "Title TK." The decision came with Warner's plans to drop several other artists as well. The Tagalog lyrics and backing melody were based on the the song Balita, an original composition of the 1970s Filipino folk rock group Asin. The Deal sisters recruited new personnel to play several live shows in 2001, and returned to the studio with guitarist Richard Presley, bass player Mando Lopez and drummer Jose Medeles to record the third Breeders studio album "Title TK" with Steve Albini. The Apl Song, with the chorus written in Tagalog, from their album Elephunk, tells the story of Apl.de.ap. Rumors of Kim Deal reuniting with the original band continued to circulate in the 90s, although the only material to surface was a cover of "Collage", recorded for The Mod Squad soundtrack.

During Black Eyed Peas' concert tour in Asia in 2004, Apl.de.ap's life story was featured in a weekly Filipino TV drama special called Maalaala Mo Kaya (Will You Remember), which explained his childhood with his poor family in Pampanga, Philippines, before sadly parting with them to live a better life in the US at the age of 14. Getting her life back together, Kelley started the Kelley Deal 6000 and also formed the unlikely Last Hard Men with Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach, ex-Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain and Jimmy Flemion of The Frogs. The current line-up of the Black Eyed Peas as of 2004 (not including supporting band members) is: will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo, and newcomer Fergie­. In 1995, Kelley Deal was involved in a drug bust, so sister Kim formed the side project The Amps with MacPherson and two others. The third single from the album, "Hey Mama" hit the Top 10 in the UK, Germany and several other European countries, and reached the Top 30 of the US Hot 100. Controversially, a reference to "dropping bombs like we in the Middle East" was edited out of some versions of "Hey Mama". The album spawned the unexpected hit, "Cannonball". Indeed the band have enjoyed greater mainstream success in Europe than in the US with "Elephunk" going Top 10, gold and (sometimes multi-)platinum in the UK, Germany and many other European markets, yet ultimately failing to break the US Top 10, although it did go platinum there. Donelly exited the band for Belly and drummer Jim MacPherson joined in time for Last Splash.

The album subsequently spawned "Shut Up", which failed in the US but peaked at UK #2 (despite being referred to by one reviewer as "The single most vacuous, pointless, vile and generally loathsome song in a generation") and topped the charts in many other European countries including France and Germany. By the four-song EP Safari, Deal was out of Pixies and had enlisted her twin sister Kelley to play guitar for the Breeders. From "Elephunk" came the anti-war anthem "Where Is The Love?", which became their first major hit, peaking at #8 on the US Hot 100, but topping the charts practically everywhere else, including six weeks at #1 in the UK where it became the biggest-selling single of 2003. Deal's influence is obvious, but bassist Josephine Wiggs and Slint drummer Britt Walford (credited here as Shannon Doughton) add to the ensemble sound. She is the replacement of background singer Kim Hill who departed the band during 2000. Their debut release was Pod in 1989, recorded by Steve Albini. Their breakthrough album Elephunk was released in 2003, featuring a new female vocalist, called Fergie, born as Stacy Ferguson who used to be in a teen pop band named Wild Orchid. After those original bands became more inactive, The Breeders became more important to both artists.

Their other album is 2000's Bridging the Gap (2000 in music). The Breeders are an American rock band, formed in 1988 as a side project between Kim Deal of Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses. After Eazy-E died of AIDS in 1995 (see 1995 in music), Atban Klann reformed as the Black Eyed Peas and released a debut, Behind the Front (1998, 1998 in music) that earned the group (and their accompanying live band) critical acclaim. Jim MacPherson - drums. The group is composed of Will.i.am, Apl.de.ap, Taboo, and Fergie. Kelley Deal - guitar. As Atban Klann, they signed to Ruthless Records (run by Eazy-E), but their album was never released because the positive and peaceful lyrics were too unusual for Ruthless. Tanya Donelly - guitar.

The Black Eyed Peas are an American hip hop crew from Los Angeles, who have lately enjoyed massive international pop success. Josephine Wiggs - bass. 2004 "Let's Get It Started" #21 US, #11 UK. Kim Deal - guitar. 2004 "Hey Mama" #23 US, #6 UK. 2003 "Shut Up" #2 UK.

Justin Timberlake) #8 US, #1 UK. 2003 "Where is the Love" (feat. Macy Gray) #31 UK. 2001 "Request + Line" (feat.

2005 "Monkey Business"; due for release on April 4th. 2003 "Elephunk"; #14 US, #3 UK. 2000 "Bridging the Gap"; #67 US. 1998 "Behind the Front"; #129 US.