Re: why Black eyed peas "suck"

Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:57:57 -0700

At 10:46 AM 7/23/98 -0400, Nathaniel Rahav wrote:

>I have to say I didnt find it all great. Although the beats were pretty
>tasty for
>many of the songs I think they're lyrics and flow leave much to be desired.
>This is considering the album was very lyric-centric rather than
>beat-centric.

Most of the rec.music.hip-hop critics who dissed the Peas did in mainly on
those grounds.
A lot of those people said the lyrics were "played out" but I know
personally that a lot of those songs have been around for a couple years,
and the major part of the lyrics have been around for at least that long,
it's just now that they've been released to the public.

>I know a lot of people really dig it & I dont want to start a flame war... I
>just wanna make my voice heard as an AJ subscriber who loves hip hop and
jazz but
>wasnt that into the BEP album. But I can see why people would like it. I
>just dont think we should knock hip hop headz as narrow-minded & ignorant
>for not liking it.

It's not the fact that they didn't like it, everyone's entitled to that,
but to make stupid-ass ad-hominem comments towards the Peas themselves...as
someone who knows them personally, that obviously bothers me.

>Also, the little interludes that they have between songs - is that not a
>direct rip off of 3 feet high and rising? I could see how one could make a
>reference to De La but change it around a bit, but this seemed to be almost
>the same as the De La interludes except not as funny.

I found them hilarious. You really have to be from L.A. to really
understand the humor in those skits...

Elson
(not Ill-Sun)

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