After Eazy’s death in 1995 derailed the group’s momentum, the duo teamed up with MC Taboo (Jaime Luis Gomez) and supporting vocalist Kim Hill to form Black Eyed Peas, whose 1998 debut, Behind the Front, offered a progressive, neo-soul-infused antidote to West Coast gangsta rap. The union of rappers will.i.am (William Adams) and apl.de.ap (Allan Pineda Lindo) dates back to hip-hop’s early-’90s golden age, when their L.A.-bred jazz-rap crew A.T.B.A.N Klann signed with N.W.A. If it’s possible to condense the evolution of hip-hop into a single entity-embodying its street perspectives, pop dominance, and global multicultural appeal-it’d be the Black Eyed Peas.
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