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By: Ed Power
JUNE 25TH: The Black Eyed Peas' Apl.de.ap laughs dryly. "We were just paying homage to a woman's body you know," he says. "Come on . . . everybody's got humps. It's nothing negative." In his mansion high in Beverly Hills, the mohawked rapper (real name Allan Lindo) is discussing The Black Eyed Peas' break-out smash, My Humps, the chorus of which ("My hump, my hump, my lovely lady lumps") has gone down as one of the most notorious in recent pop history. "All we were doing," he repeats, "was paying homage to a woman's anatomy."
The days when The Black Eyed Peas were the scourge of the moral majority are, it's fair to say, long over. Nowadays, the California quartet are everyone's favourite feel-good pop act. On first-name terms with Barack Obama, Bono and Nelson Mandela, their latest album The E.N.D. (an acronym for the Energy Never Dies) has shifted some three million copies in the US alone, an extraordinary feat at a time of tanking record sales. They've also claimed a unique spot in the record books -- single I Gotta Feeling is the first download to achieve in excess of 10 million sales worldwide.
"You know what, it's pretty amazing," says the sweetly spoken, rather shy Apl (pronounced Apple), his accent still bearing the imprint of his impoverished Filipino childhood. "When we made that song we didn't know it would have the success it had. We wanted to write a college party song. It blew up all over the place. It's astonishing how people gravitated to it."
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