高校時代にウィルとアップルが「トライバル・ネイション」というダンス+ラップ・チームを結成。後に名前を「ATBAN Klann (A Tribe Beyond A Nation)」と変え、1992年にドクター・ドレ、アイス・キューブが在籍していた伝説のヒップホップ・グループ、N.W.A.のイージー・Eが経営するメジャー・レーベル“ルースレス”と契約。しかしプログラミングと生バンドの混合サウンドでレコーディングされたアルバムは結果的に時期尚早という判断でお蔵入り、イージー・Eの死とともに契約そのものも失ってしまう。しかしウィルとアップルは、タブーをメンバーに迎え、「ブラック・アイド・ピーズ」と名も新たに再起を賭けて再スタート。ロスを中心に生バンドを率いてのライヴ活動を積極的に展開。その強力なダンスと毎回違ったスタイルで行う個性的なパフォーマンスがメジャー・レコード会社間で契約争奪戦が起こるホドの評判を呼び、その結果インタースコープが契約権利を獲得した。
What's wrong with the world mama?
People living like ain’t got no mamas
I think the whole world's addicted to the drama
Only attracted to the things that bring YOU trauma
Overseas yeah we tryin’ to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin’
In the USA the big CIA
The Bloods and the Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And if you hatin’ you're bound to get irate, yeah
Madness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
You gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love y'all
People killing people dying
Children hurtin’ an’ ya’ hear them crying
Can you practice what you preach?
An’ would you turn the other cheek?
Father Father Father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?
Love
Where is the love? (The love)
Where is the love? (The love)
Where is the love, the love, the love.
It just ain't the same
Always have changed
New days are strange is the world the insane?
If love and peace so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don't belong
Nations dropping bombs
Chemical gases filling lungs of little ones
With ongoing suffering as the youth die young
So ask yourself,
Is the loving really Gone?
So I can ask myself,
Really what is going wrong?
With this world that we living in
People keep on giving in
Makin’ wrong decisions only visions of them livin’
And not respecting each other
Denying thy brother
The wars' going on but the reasons' undercover
The truth is kept secret
Swept under the rug
If you never know truth
Then you never know love
Where's the love y'all? C’mon (I don't know)
Where's the truth y'all? C’mon (I don't know)
Where's the love y'all?
People killing people dying
Children hurtin’ an’ ya’ hear them crying
Can YOU practice what you preach?
An’ would you turn the other cheek?
Father Father Father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?
Love
Where is the love? (The love)
Where is the love? (The love)
Where is the love? (The love)
Where is the love?
Love
Where is the love? (The love)
Where is the love? (The love)
Where is the love, the love, the love?
instremental
I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm getting older y'all people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin’
Selfishness got us followin’ the wrong direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting their young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna’ act like what the see in the cinemas y’all
Whatever happened to the values of humanity-ah
Whatever happened to the fairness and equality-ah
Instead of spreading love, we're spreading animosity-ah
Lack of understanding, leading us away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling down
It's no wonder why sometimes I'm feeling under
I gotta keep my faith alive, until love is found
ask yourself
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?
sing with me yo
one world one world
we only got
one world one world
dats all we got
one world one world
and sometihng wrong with
yeah
somethings wrong with
yeah
somethings wrong with the w w world
yeah
we only got
one world one world
dat all we got
one world one world
And the bass keeps runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and
runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and...
In this context, there's no disrespect, so when I bust my ryhme, you break your necks.
We got five minutes for us to disconnect from all intellect and like the ripple effect
Bout' to lose her inhibition. Follow your intuition. Free your inner-soul and break away from tradition.
Cause when we be out,the girl is wanna be down. You won't believe how we wow shout out.
Burn till it's burned out, turn it till it's turned out, act up from north, west, east, south.
[Chorus:]
Everybody (ye-a!), everybody (ye-a!), let's get into it (Yea!).
Get stoopid (come on!).
Get retarded (come on!), get retarded (come on!), get retarded.
Let's get retarded (ha), let's get retarded in here.
Let's get retarded (ha), let's get retarded in here.
Let's get retarded (ha), let's get retarded in here.
Let's get retarded (ha), let's get retarded in here.
Yeah.
Lose control, of body and soul.
Don't move too fast people, just take it slow.
Don't get ahead, just jump into it.
Y'all hear about it, the Peas'll do it.
Get started, get stoopid.
Don't worry 'bout it, people we'll walk you through it
Step by step, like the infant new kid,
Inch by inch with the new solution.
Transmit hits, with no dilution.
The feeling's irresistible and that's how we move it.
[Chorus:]
Everybody (ye-a!), everybody (ye-a!), let's get into it (Yea!).
Get stupid (come on!).
Get retarded (come on!), get retarded (come on!), get retarded.
Let's get retarded (ha), let's get retarded in here.
Let's get retarded (ha), let's get retarded in here.
Let's get retarded (Ha), let's get retarded in here.
Let's get retarded (ha), let's get retarded in here.
Yeah.
Runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin runnin' and...
C'mon y'all, let's get cukoo! (uh huh)
Let's get cukoo! (in here)
Right now get cukoo! (uh huh)
Let's get cukoo! (in here)
Right now get cukoo! (uh huh)
Let's get cukoo! (in here) Ow, ow, ow!
Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya...
Let's get ill, that's the deal.
At the gate, 'n' we'll bring the bud top drill. (Just)
Lose your mind this is the time,
Y'all test this drill, Just and bang your spine. (Just)
Bob your head like epilepsy, up inside your club or in your Bentley.
Get messy, loud and sick.
Yo' mom past slow-mo' in another head trip. (So)
Come then now do not correct it, let's get ig'nant let's get hectic.
[Chorus:]
(yeah)Everybody, (yeah) everybody, (yeah) let's get into it.
(yeah) Get stupid.
(come on) Get retarded,(come on) get retarded (yeah), get retarded.
Let's get retarded (ha), let's get retarded in here.
Let's get retarded (ha), let's get retarded in here.
R-E-T-A-R-D-E-D
Let's get retarded (ha), let's get retarded in here.
Let's get retarded (ha), let's get retarded in here.
Whoaoa
Yeah.
We cukoo! (A-ha!)
We cukoo! (in here)
We cukoo! (A-ha!)
We cukoo! (in here)
We cukoo! (A-ha!)
We cukoo! (in here)
Ow, ow!
Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya...
Runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin', and runnin' runnin'
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