Black Eyes Peas: The Beginning – review

(Interscope)What is The Beginning "about"? Let will.i.am explain: "It's about being experimental and playing around with sick, crazy beats. What he means is that the Black Eyed Peas have created an album similar to 2009's enormously successful The END, but with more Auto-Tune and less input from the wonderful Fergie. It's a densely packed, busy record – getting to grips with all the samples and clubby beats takes dedicated listening. As examples of upscale hip-pop you won't mind hearing endles...

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