Elephunk
| The Black Eyed Peas
Elephunk
Elephunk is the third studio album by American group The Black Eyed Peas. This is the first album to feature Fergie, as well as their first where they are credited as The Black Eyed Peas. Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
On Elephunk, their third album, Los Angeles alterna-rap group the Black Eyed Peas make another bid to crack the big time.
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AV Club
Elephunk may not blow up, but it does go pop with enough style and verve to make its lack of substance irrelevant.
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Drowed In Sound
Elephunk makes BEP the true heirs to the legendary De La Soul.
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All Music
Although nominally a rap group, Black Eyed Peas call upon so many forms of songwriting and production that slotting them into hip-hop is like slotting Prince into R&B -- technically true, but very limiting.
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HipHopDX
The CD is a collaboration of riffs, funk, rhymes, vocals and beats and looses steam at some points with all the originality that just seems to be all over the place, but it’s still a solid outing none the less.
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Pop Matters
Elephunk successfully incorporates sounds from across the hip-hop spectrum.
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Prefix
The Black Eyed Peas, hard at work on Elephunk since 2001, have gained a female force. Fergie is a welcome addition to the Peas, and she makes her presence known immediately as an integral part of the band’s carefully-placed harmonies.
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JJ's Vinyl (AU)
The enterprising effort incorporates elements of R&B, jazz, funk, dancehall and old-school hip-hop with aplomb and the proceedings are tied together admirably by Will.i.am's ultramodern production.
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Blog Job
After years, Black Eyed Peas finally reached their breakthrough through this album.
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The Guardian (US)
For their third album, 2003's Elephunk, the Peas acquired Fergie, a big-lunged hottie who turned them into a de facto pop band. Tonight, she is a pneumatic cyborg, all triumphal arched eyebrows and windpower.
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Mr. Hipster
There’s no doubt these guys know how to write a catchy tune, but any illusion of depth or meaning is pretty much buried by the hot chick in the clamdiggers and the oddball Black Eyed Peas cast and their breakdancing ways.
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RTE (IR)
'Elephunk' is their most commercial album to date but it's an awkward hotchpotch of styles that tries everything from R'n'B, Latin and ragga spins on hip-hop in an effort to hit the jackpot.
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Rap Reviews
The Black Eyed Peas seem finally to have lived up to their own funky and soulful name and released a CD to nourish your soul at the same time it shakes your hips.
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