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Track List
01) Pump It
02) Don't Phunk With My Heart
03) My Style
04) Don't Lie
05) My Humps 
06) Like That
07) Dum Diddly
08) Feel It
09) Gone Going
10) They Don't Want Music
11) Disco Club
12) Bebot
13) Ba Bump
14) Audio Delite at Low Fidelity / Change
15) Union
16) Do What You Want
01) Pump It
02) Don't Phunk With My Heart
03) My Style
04) Don't Lie
05) My Humps
06) Like That
07) Dum Diddly
08) Feel It
09) Gone Going
10) They Don't Want Music
11) Disco Club
12) Bebot
13) Ba Bump
14) Audio Delite at Low Fidelity / Change
15) Union
16) Do What You Want
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5:26
4:34
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3:48
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First Released
2005
Hip-Hop
Happy
Urban/R&B
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10,000,000 copies
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Monkey Business is the fourth studio album by hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas, released on May 27, 2005. The album was certified three times Platinum by the RIAA in the U.S. and has sold over 11 million copies worldwide. The Canadian Recording Industry Association (or CRIA) has certified Monkey Business 6x Platinum, with sales of over 600,000 copies. The Australian Recording Industry Association (or ARIA) has also certified Monkey Business 6x Platinum, denoting sales of over 420,000 copies. The album's tracks earned the group four 2006 Grammy Award nominations and they also won the Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Don't Phunk with My Heart". According to IFPI, over 2 million copies have been sold in Europe. In the UK alone, it has sold over 1 million copies, although this is significantly lower than their sales of Elephunk, which stand at over 1.6 million copies and 10 million worldwide.
User Album Review
17 tracks on an album is practically unheard of these days, but with Monkey Business, 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.
Widely misconceived as their 2nd album, in fact it is their 4th. It was only the addition of female vocalist Fergie on their 2003 release Elephunk and the starring role of super hot property Justin Timberlake on "Where is the Love" that propelled them into the multiplatinum, grammy award winning ensemble that they are today.
Monkey Business takes the fun and vibrancy of Elephunk and produces a record made for the dancefloor.Opening with the familiar brass and strings of "Dick Dales Miserloue" (aka the Pulp Fiction theme tune) on first track "Pump It", the trend is set with increasingly agitated vocals overlaying the beats telling us to Pump it, LOUDER.
Mr.Timberlake appears once more on the smooth "My Style" and heralds the first of many collaborations, with Dante Santiago, soul god James Brown, and even Sting appearing later on the album.
The most immediate track is the incredibly silly "My Humps". Sounding like a cross between Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract" and Nenah Cherry's "Buffalo Stance", it wouldn't sound out of place on a Gwen Stefani album. Fergie and Will.I.Am sing playfully at each other, easily creating a vision of a boy/girl break-danceoff.
With its witty rhymes and clean lyrics, this is hip hop for families.The 'Peas sing about love and ladies rather than the gangsta lifestyle of drugs and guns, so commonly found in hip hop records. However it is this flimsiness of lyrics that may let the album down for traditional Black Eyed Peas fans who've been following the group since the days of 1998's "Behind the Front". Where once they sang about socially important issues, Monkey Business is more concerned with Fergie's lovely lady lumps. Those looking for meaningful lyrics would be better turning their ear to the music of OutKast. Yet if you want a record to fill the dancefloor, do as they say "Turn it Up", and blast your stereo louder.
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Monkey Business is the fourth studio album by hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas, released on May 27, 2005. The album was certified three times Platinum by the RIAA in the U.S. and has sold over 11 million copies worldwide. The Canadian Recording Industry Association (or CRIA) has certified Monkey Business 6x Platinum, with sales of over 600,000 copies. The Australian Recording Industry Association (or ARIA) has also certified Monkey Business 6x Platinum, denoting sales of over 420,000 copies. The album's tracks earned the group four 2006 Grammy Award nominations and they also won the Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Don't Phunk with My Heart". According to IFPI, over 2 million copies have been sold in Europe. In the UK alone, it has sold over 1 million copies, although this is significantly lower than their sales of Elephunk, which stand at over 1.6 million copies and 10 million worldwide.
User Album Review
17 tracks on an album is practically unheard of these days, but with Monkey Business, 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.
Widely misconceived as their 2nd album, in fact it is their 4th. It was only the addition of female vocalist Fergie on their 2003 release Elephunk and the starring role of super hot property Justin Timberlake on "Where is the Love" that propelled them into the multiplatinum, grammy award winning ensemble that they are today.
Monkey Business takes the fun and vibrancy of Elephunk and produces a record made for the dancefloor.Opening with the familiar brass and strings of "Dick Dales Miserloue" (aka the Pulp Fiction theme tune) on first track "Pump It", the trend is set with increasingly agitated vocals overlaying the beats telling us to Pump it, LOUDER.
Mr.Timberlake appears once more on the smooth "My Style" and heralds the first of many collaborations, with Dante Santiago, soul god James Brown, and even Sting appearing later on the album.
The most immediate track is the incredibly silly "My Humps". Sounding like a cross between Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract" and Nenah Cherry's "Buffalo Stance", it wouldn't sound out of place on a Gwen Stefani album. Fergie and Will.I.Am sing playfully at each other, easily creating a vision of a boy/girl break-danceoff.
With its witty rhymes and clean lyrics, this is hip hop for families.The 'Peas sing about love and ladies rather than the gangsta lifestyle of drugs and guns, so commonly found in hip hop records. However it is this flimsiness of lyrics that may let the album down for traditional Black Eyed Peas fans who've been following the group since the days of 1998's "Behind the Front". Where once they sang about socially important issues, Monkey Business is more concerned with Fergie's lovely lady lumps. Those looking for meaningful lyrics would be better turning their ear to the music of OutKast. Yet if you want a record to fill the dancefloor, do as they say "Turn it Up", and blast your stereo louder.
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