Original Black Eyed Peas Member Kim Hill Responds to https://t.co/T6vwC4IFCb https://t.co/eBhSK7v01A
— The Source Magazine (@TheSource) January 5, 2021
Will.i.am thinks their success is the reason they aren’t considered a “black” group.
“In 2004, Black Eyed Peas, we were just trying to get on. I’m a Black dude, but when you think of Black Eyed Peas, we go so big that…and it hurts, it still hurts a little bit that we’re not considered a Black group because we got that big. When you think of Black Eyed Peas…it’s no longer urban or Black culture, which is…it’s not good for the black community that Black Eyed Peas is not looked at as a Black group because we had international success."
The music group Black Eyed Peas was formed in 1995. Kim Hill was replaced with Fergie after the group drifted from their roots and aimed for a more pop sound and aesthetic. Hill responds to Will.I.Am.
“You’re not in those Black roots anymore. So, I don’t understand how you’re not even going to talk about the Black girl that you had in your group and you’re going to skip to 2004 and you say, ‘I don’t understand how the Black community isn’t embracing us,’ For you to make that statement as if the onus is on the Black community to celebrate you and the band when you didn’t celebrate us. It’s almost like there’s this cultural smudging.”
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