Crushable Books: Taboo's 'Fallin' Up: Keep It On the Positive'

Taboo (real name: Jaime Gomez) is best known as "the guy in the Black Eyed Peas who isn't Will.I.Am and kind of dresses like Neo from The Matrix." So when a copy of his memoir, Fallin' Up, landed on my desk, my immediate reaction was "Why?" But reading the book has given me some insight into who Taboo is and actually made me respect him. While his own story is interesting - he grew up Latino in East L.A., had a kid young, and met his future BEP bandmates when they were doing rap and B-boy battle...

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