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Erykah Badu notes similarities in new Black Eyed Peas video
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 21 July 2015
So The Black Eyed Peas are back, everybody. Yeah, I know, but, hmm, what you going to do about it? Nothing, that’s what.
Because The Black Eyed Peas are back with a hiatus-ending track called ‘Yesterday’ complete with a video in which the group, sans Fergie, browse around a record shop pulling famous album sleeves out of the boxes which are then magically re-enacted by the Peas themselves. Good times.
It’s a marvellous moment of music video art in which the Peas get to give a big up or three to the classic hip hop artists and records of old that inspired them. Oh, and to Erykah Badu, whose video they ripped off, she doing the same thing in the promo for her 2007 track ‘Honey’. Now, it’s not an entirely original concept either way, so it’s not a definite rip off. Though Will.i.am is involved. Which, of course, means nothing whatsoever.
Noting the similarities between the two videos, Badu tweeted this weekend: “I think The Black Eye Peas borrowed my idea a lil lol”. Wanna see for yourself? Here’s the Peas new vid and here’s Badu’s from back in the day.
Black Eyed Peas – Yesterday
Erykah Badu – Honey