Monkey Business
| The Black Eyed Peas
Monkey Business
Monkey Business is the fourth studio album by American group, the Black Eyed Peas. It was recorded in "two and three-month spurts" throughout 2004 while the group was on tour. The album was certified three times Platinum by the RIAA in the U.S. and has sold over 11 million copies worldwide. Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
If anything, Business is too breezy — but from a group that once burdened us with rhymes about how its “technicalities die hard like battery,” that’s not such a bad thing.
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AV Music Club
Monkey Business' pop pandering may keep the hits coming, but only at a tremendous creative cost.
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Slant
The lyrics are limp, the hooks are hollow, and, aside from “Audio Delite At Low Fidelity” (which comes about eight tracks too late), the album never stops to let you breathe.
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Pop Matters
Monkey Business is a great party record. At the very least, The Black Eyed Peas can be counted on for complex and engaging hip-hop music, a mix of rap, soul, jazz, and funk that will constantly surprise and delight.
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BBC
The Black Eyed Peas have bucked the current trend: this is filled to the brim with catchy hooks, witty lyrics, and pumping hip-pop beats.
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All Music
Monkey Business could easily sell just as well, or better, than Elephunk, but what the group made sound effortless in the past sounds strained and canned here.
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Music OMH
It’s only when The Black Eyed Peas’ eccentricity shines through that the music works.
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Paste
-the Peas are still unclassifiable with even more well-arranged, multi-genre infusion. Catchy is good.
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Rap Reviews
Their production on this album is good throughout, thanks to beats largely by Will.I.Am with a few guest appearances on the boards throughout.
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Common Sense Media
Less original, way more explicit than last CD.
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Entertainment Weekly
Risqué? Hardly. The Black Eyed Peas aren’t out to offend anyone. They just want to dance happily through the metal detectors and party with rock stars.
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Hip Hop DX
Monkey Business leaves you like a hyped party that’s raided by the Po-Po just when the pretty girls arrive…
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