Songoftheday 3/28/24 - What's wrong with the world, Mama? People livin' like they ain't got no mamas'...
" Where Is The Love? " - Black Eyed Peas with Justin Timberlake from the album Elephunk (2003) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8 (three weeks) Weeks in the Top-40: 22 Today's song comes from the Black Eyed Peas , who started out in the late 1980s as a dance/music group with friends Will "will.i.am" Adams and Allen "apl.de.ap" Pineda Lindo and a couple others originally under a couple different monikers. The act was originally signed by gangsta rapper Eazy-E formerly of N.W.A. to his Ruthless label, but after a debut album got put aside and Eazy died from AIDS in 1995, Adams and Pineda Lindo reinvented themselves as the Black Eyed Peas, adding a third rapper Jaime "Taboo" Gomez and singer Kim Hill. They gathered a local following with their west coast jazzy hip-hop style like the counterpart to the Roots, and were signed by Interscope Records, where they released their debut album Behind The Front in 1998. The record went to #129 on the Bill