The Black Eyed Peas - Behind the Front
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Artist: The Black Eyed PeasEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 1998-06-30
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- Fallin' Up
- Clap Your Hands
- Joints & Jam
- The Way You Make Me Feel
- Movement
- Karma
- Be Free
- Say Goodbye
- Duet
- Communication
- What Is It
- Que Dices?
- A8
- Love Won't Wait
- Head Bobs
- Positivity
Music reviews of Behind the Front
Music Review: Don't Pass Up These Peas Ever!
Rating: 5 Stars
The year is 1998 and the music scene is desperate for some new faces, especially hip-hop. There were a bunch of good albums as well as bad albums that year. There were certified classics like Lauryn Hill's Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Jay-Z's Hard Knock Life Vol 2, Outkast's Aquemini, Big Pun's Capital Punishment, and both It's Dark And Hell Is Hot and Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood by DMX. But then there were crappy albums like Jermaine Dupri's Life In 1472, Pras' Ghetto Superstar, ATCQ's Love Movement, and Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz's Make It Reign. Besides all the above, there was one album that deserved everybody's attention. They were the new faces on the rap scene, they had some of the most innovative lyrics out there, and they didn't have to conform to what was hot at the time to be good. The group is the Black Eyed Peas, and their album Behind The Front was one of the most overlooked albums of that year.
Everybody that has jumped on the BEP bandwagon nowadays wasn't giving them the time of day when they were pushing positivity on top of the creative rhymes and humorous elements they incorporated here and there on the album. Even a fun song like "Joints and Jams" got your body moving, but they also incorporated rhymes like Taboo's "I don't need no steel to make my point" or Apl De Ap's "Maybe in time you can stop this crime," or WILL.I.AM's "We about mass appeal, no segregation." Subtle remarks like that are all over Behind The Front, a method that other enlightened rappers utilize in their own songs. Songs like the self-explanatory "Karma" and "Positivity," or the thought-provoking "Say Goodbye" are sentiments that have been said for years in all kinds of music, whether it be the folk music of the 1970s or the Self Destruction Movement of the late 1980s.
There are a bunch of songs that are just meant for everybody to have fun with, like "Be Free," "What It Is," and "Head Bobs." And even though "Joints and Jams" is laced with a message here and there, it is still one of the better party cuts on the album. Fans of Elephunk and Monkey Business will connect more to this style of music than the other stuff. And even though their second album Bridging The Gap wasn't as great, it still continued most of the same elements of Behind The Front. But people like me who were die-hard fans and pushed their album on anybody that would listen ultimately weren't enough to please the label heads or line the members own pocketbooks. You really can't be too mad at them for trying to get paid, but I knew the dynamic of the group was going to change as soon as Fergie became a member. They started selling millions, getting a bunch of endorsements, selling out concerts, and gaining a fan base any artist would kill to have. That new fan base includes a very small amount (if any) of the people who stood behind them when they actually had a meaning and a purpose. However, they won't be able to go back to their original fan base if this money train they've been riding loses it's steam. Don't believe me? Then just ask Ja Rule.
Description of Behind the Front
Japanese only SHM pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC & Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players.The Black Eyed Peas' debut, Behind the Front, may sound thoroughly familiar: like A Tribe Called Quest, they sprout positive, deftly delivered lyrics out of their light jazz, R&B, and funk tracks; like the Roots, this multi-ethnic outfit's three MCs drop science in front of a live band that builds its grooves organically; and at their best, such as on the pop and reggae-flavored "Karma," the group can out-Fugee the Fugees. For some reason, though, the mostly mild, largely scratchless and sample-free record can--at times--be downright tepid. But for the most part, it works--sometimes brilliantly--and as a break from the mostly belligerent voices in hip-hop's mainstream, we can definitely use more of what the Peas have to offer. --Roni Sarig
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