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Black Eyed Peas is me, Will and apl.de.ap. That is who Black Eyed Peas is. We are the sole members.
We just love international music. We love the climate of that sound, it's that pulse that we just have to appreciate.
I am glad to see K-pop really pop off and it's cool to see how it's become an international craze.
Even if we are 50 or 60 years old, if we can do it we will continue to create content that pushes the envelope.
I grew up in a predominantly Asian and Mexican community, and because I did breakdance and poplock and all that, I did get a lot of criticism: 'You're Mexican, why are you doing that?'
Every time we come out, there's a hunger for creative expression or creative ways to put out content that isn't duplicated from our last run. Whether it's technology, messaging, visual… we're always pushing the envelope.
Brazilian music has always been a part of us, but it's even more valuable now because of the sentiment or the theme of the actual song. So I feel like 'Street Livin'' is paying homage to what we started and it's touching on a lot of serious themes to DACA, immigration reform, prison control... all the things we address in the video.
We don't get concerned with stuff like pressure. We just do what makes us feel good.
We don't want to live in the past; we want to go into the future.
Apl introduced me to all the Pinays he knew, and so I married one.
In Vietnam, we can go and get big audiences, and we've been going there for so long. A lot of other hip-hop groups don't even go.
We have a global audience… we travel, and our name travels.
They didn't tell me what type of cancer I had. They didn't tell me what stage I was in. They just told me, 'Mr Gomez, you have cancer.' My life flashed before my eyes. I thought about my kids, I thought about my wife. Nothing prepares you for the shock of someone telling you you have that horrible disease.
The thing about Black Eyed Peas is we're very humorous. All we do is laugh all day.
Life is too short to be serious.
We're best friends that get to travel the world and create a movement. That's what's special about Black Eyed Peas.
If we're going to be on this futuristic 3008 vibe, we need to step up our performance.
Zumbao' is a word that is not commonly used in mainstream America or even mainstream Latino America. For me, I needed a word that describes me as a performer, as an artist and that is just me wilding out and being crazy. I'm Zumbao.
When it comes to being on stage, I might be on stage one minute and the next minute I might be in the audience, dancing and lifting people's spirits.
My name is Gomez, that's my last name.
As long as you're having fun and being positive and progressive, I'm going to say you're living a Zumbao lifestyle.
Our first major hit was 'Where Is the Love.' That was what best represented us bringing people together, no matter what walk of life, and no matter what culture or creed.
When I went to Standing Rock, it opened my mind, as did going to Indian reservations and speaking to kids about music and arts.
It's powerful when you're able to celebrate your culture, but also bring the arts and music to the masses.
Apl, my bandmate, is from the Philippines. He came to America in 1989, and the first person he met was Will.i.am. And then, I met them when we were 17. Our common ground was music.
At home, I'm daddy and a husband. There's no Superman's cape. I'm changing diapers, giving my kids baths, and coloring 'Angry Birds' and playing games with them.
I did something that's a no-no in the music industry. I cut my hair. For years, my hair was my stamp. 'Oh, that's the long-haired guy from the Black Eyed Peas.' But when I did it, it was like a breath of fresh air.
Most of my career, people have the misconception about me as being threatening and scary, and having an intense look, but that's not the real me.
My wife and I sometimes read books together. It's kind of like bed talk.
The Black Eyed Peas as a whole is something I always look forward to.
Apl has a lot of songs that are paying homage to his native tongue. He's from the Philippines. He has songs inspired by his culture.
We have songs that are inspired by the Latin side. We have songs that are inspired by rock, African rhythms. Whatever country we go to usually inspires us.
I know that being in the entertainment business… my first son, I had to sacrifice being away, being on tour a lot and I wasn't really present.
I was the first Pea to have kids - you know how it is - I have three wonderful children, and when we talked about that time, and Fergie would say 'Tab, what is it like?' I always told her when the time is right, it's gonna happen for you, and God bless her, and I can't wait to see baby Ferg.
When I was touring with Peas, I was able to make the crowd feel the energy. When I said: ‘put your hands up or make some noise,' they just did it.
I want to really brand myself as an individual.
When I see children in New Delhi, babies walking around in no diapers and their mother is in a corner putting up bricks, it gives you a sense of being grounded.
The Peas is the mothership you always go to. But when you able to bring something new to the table, it makes you stand out as an artist. I am not chasing the same things as Fergie or Will.i.am.
A lot of people have a misconception about artists, that they're invincible, you know, they're on a different plateau. But I'm just a human being.
I'm a normal person just like everybody else. I just may have a different job. But I have kids, wife. I bleed, I went through cancer.
Cancer - there's no prejudice. There's no age limit. It can happen to anybody.
When you're getting chemotherapy, you feel so alone, even when your family is there, or your friends are there with you. Sometimes it's just you, feeling like you're in a fight against something that you can't control.
I'm half Native American and half Mexican and I support all native peoples around the world.
I'm connected with my indigenous roots.
When they told me I had cancer, I thought I was going to die.
I actually went to the frontline to be with my brothers at Standing Rock.
I'm building my own brand outside of the Peas. It's not Black Eyed Peas, it's Zumbao. Zumbao is different from the Peas because it's all on me and I can't feed off of anybody other than me.
I'm a b-boy for life. I'm a dancer, I started with free style dancing and b-boying during the ‘80s and I always said to myself that when I get the chance to do my own thing, I will always have the b-boy element and the dance element because that's where I come from.
Before we had Fergie, it was me, will.i.am, and apl, and we were showcasing our dance moves in our videos.
Black Eyed Peas music appealed to everybody and that's why we incorporated EDM influences, dance influences, house influences, and we mashed it up with the Black Eyed Pea melodic pop sensibility that still has bounce to it.
Now that I'm older, I appreciate my culture and I appreciate Spanish. I feel bad I didn't pick up on it earlier.
I grew up listening to a lot of hiphop music and R'n'B. Bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Big Daddy Kane, Boogie Down Productions, Cypress Hill, New Edition, Bob Marley, Prince, Stevie Wonder, and a lot of Spanish music.
I was in a group called Pablo, while Will.i.am and apl.de.ap were a part of the Atban Klann. They signed to Ruthless Records with Easy-E. When Easy-E passed away in 1995 they changed their name to the Black Eyed Peas and asked me if I wanted to be a part of it. The rest is history.
My personal music style is very Latin and very soulful. It's dance meets hip-hop.
I'm happily married; I love to spend time with my wife going to movies, restaurants and travelling.
I'm also a martial-arts practitioner, so it was an easy transition to go do 'Street Fighter,' which is action-packed and let me showcase my acting and martial-arts capabilities.
If I was going to play any video game, it'd be things like 'Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!,' 'Street Fighter' and 'Mortal Kombat.'
I'm not into fame and ego.
I emptied the trash and wiped down tables. But my job that I remember the most was picking up horse manure for the Electrical Parade.
I didn't want to be a deadbeat dad, so I said, ‘OK, my mission is to provide for my son in the future,'
Just being in the industry that I'm in, you get people building up your ego - 'Oh, you guys are the best, you guys are gods.' So I started believing the hype - 'Yes, I am a god!'
You really need to stop and appreciate what you have, the love you have from your family, your friends, the love that you have for yourself.
I'm not the greatest writer or the great rapper.
Apl is very humble, but he's humongous in the Philippines.
Will.i.am is the genius of the group. He's the one that keeps everything together creatively.
I'm the performer of the group. My thing is like, every time I come on stage, I always bring it 120 percent, 150 percent.
We were just going for growth, bigger sound, just a spectrum of people. More global. That's how we decided to do a song like 'Where is the Love' - it allowed us to tap into a broader audience, because the message means a lot to us.
We're a positive type group, not a preachy group, but we want to be able to let the people know that we are conscious about what's going on in the world.
We're able to blend and rock any crowd. If you put us on a tour with Garth Brooks, we'll take his crowd too.
That's the beauty of Black Eyed Peas, we don't pigeonhole ourselves into just one category. We're the chameleons of hip-hop.
In order to maintain your longevity, you have to know the business. It's not about just rapping and performing.
It was great to have my son see if you chase your dreams sometimes they become reality.
We're a direct mirror of the audience, and that shows how hip-hop has expanded. It's no longer just an urban thing, and it's no longer just an American thing, either. It's a universal thing.
Let's face it - negativity sells records.
Hip-hop is huge in Canada, in Australia - everywhere.
From alternative to Brazilian to hip-hop to old R&B, that's what we listen to. And we don't just listen to it only if somebody plays it. We actually go out and buy these types of things and support different forms of music because we love them.
We grew up with break-dancing and MCing, the old school, that whole era of just having a good time and knowing that the music was good.
I wake up every day with a smile - I'm a blessed man, and every day is special.
We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'
I was almost giving up because the chemo was so intense and aggressive that there were moments I had to find the inner strength within myself.
It's a natural thing for us to be working on content and finding ways to implement, whether it's visuals or the partnerships to go along with the audio.
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