Line #4 Trivia/TheBlackEyedPeas


1	* BannedInChina: In 2009, the Malaysian government declared that Muslim citizens would be prohibited from attending the Black Eyed Peas' concert there on the grounds that it was being sponsored by Guinness, a beer company (Islam prohibits alcohol in any form). The government later rescinded the ban and allowed Muslims to buy tickets.
2	* BreakthroughHit: "Where is the Love?" was their claim to fame and was their first song to chart in almost every country.
3	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: The music video for “Where Is The Love?” briefly shows some kids playing ''VideoGame/Postal2'' on a console. ''Postal 2'' was only released for Windows, macOS, and Linux computers.
4	* CreatorKiller: The critical mauling of their 2010 album ''The Beginning'', along with their poorly-received UsefulNotes/SuperBowl halftime performance and the failure of their video game ''The Black Eyed Peas Experience'', badly damaged their career and led to them going on hiatus in 2011. Since then, will.i.am has had success and failure as a solo artist, falling into obscurity in his native US but remaining popular outside it due to his involvement as one of the four coaches in the UK and Australian versions of ''Series/TheVoice''. There were two songs featuring everyone but Fergie in 2015 and "[=#WheresTheLove=]", a reworked version of "Where is the Love?" (which did have Fergie back and had several featured artists), but a follow-up album wouldn't be released until 2018, to very little fanfare, though it was well-received by critics for its RevisitingTheRoots sound for the group.
5	* CreatorBacklash: Will.i.am and the group as a whole avoid talking about "My Humps", and they don't play it live anymore.
6	* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: The Middle East reference in "Hey Mama" was replaced with a (somewhat) more innocuous line in the radio version likely as the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Iraq War]] was going on at the time.
7	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: "Let's Get Retarded" from ''Elephunk'' was replaced with the radio edit "Let's Get It Started" on streaming services, much to the chagrin of those who saw a DoubleStandard in [[ExecutiveMeddling censoring]] an ableist slur while letting violent references, sex, materialism, colorful language, and other slurs slip through.
8	* OldShame: "My Humps". The band retired the song and don't play it live anymore and even Will.i.am isn't very confident on talking about it either. Music/WillIAm said that "it got to the point where we didn't want to play "My Humps" no more. You know, 'cause, "I met a girl down at the disco", I just didn't want to say that no more, lyrically..."
9	* ThePeteBest: Kim Hill was the female vocalist when they released their debut album in 1998. By 2000, however, she left and in 2001 she was replaced by Music/{{Fergie}}, and their image changed. Only the more dedicated fans remember Kim Hill, especially seeing as she wasn't on any of the album covers.
10	* SimilarlyNamedWorks: "Just Can't Get Enough" is ''not'' a cover of the Music/DepecheMode song of the same name and was confused as such by some fans.
11	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to Music/WillIAm on an episode of ''Series/BehindTheMusic'', when they first decided to go into a more pop-oriented sound (i.e. when they brought in Music/{{Fergie}}), they originally offered the lead singer position to Nicole Scherzinger (later of the Music/PussycatDolls.) Her boyfriend (Nick Hexum of Music/ThreeEleven) advised her against it, since she wanted to be a solo artist.
12	* WriteWhatYouKnow: "The APL Song" is a brief autobiographical tale of apl.de.ap's early life in the Philippines prior to co-founding the Peas with will.i.am, and return to his home country after a decade, culminating in a line referring to his younger brother Arnel who [[DrivenToSuicide died from suicide]], where he lamented how he "wish he could have helped him out".

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