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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: A&M
Salesrank: 28477
Released: June 24, 2003 |
| Our Price: $5.80 |
| Used Price: $0.01 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Elephunk Track Listing:
1. Hands Up
2. Labor Day (It's a Holiday)
3. Let's Get Retarded
4. Hey Mama
5. Shut Up
6. Smells Like Funk
7. Latin Girls
8. Sexy
9. Fly Away
10. Boogie That Be
11. Apl Song
12. Anxiety - Black Eyed Peas, Papa Roach
13. Where Is the Love? - Black Eyed Peas, Justin Timberlake
Editorial Review:
UK edition of 2003 album features 16 tracks including 2 UK bonus tracks, 'Rock My Shit' & 'What's Goin Down'. Universal.
Description of Elephunk:
Black Eyed Peas have at times been accused of sounding too Tribe for their own good, but this time out Will.i.am and crew have consciously expanded their horizons. Problem is, perhaps they've tried too hard. As the title suggests, Elephunk borrows from every single element of funk known to man and (with the exception of the one straight-out rock & roll track, "Anxiety") tries to cram them all into a semi-hip-hop format. While such willingness to experiment is admirable, in this case the attempt comes off as slightly desperate and too diffuse. Elephunk settles itself into a groove when BEP's newest member Fergie’s lush girlie vocals are allowed to dominate, as they do on the discofied "The Boogie That Be." --Rebecca Levine
Elephunk Reviews:
Excellent mix of hip/hop/r&r and dance. 
2009-07-23 - What struck me with this album was the very fact that there are so many different styles of music in it. However, they blend so well together that it sounds unbelievablly good. I love it and it's a strandard staple in my collection. My fav tune has to be Hey, mama. I think I will check out their new one, THE E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies).
It grows on you 
2009-05-05 - After years of hearing hip hop on the radio (and usually turning it off) the sound has finally sunk in and I find myself humming/mumbling the songs under my breath (like Hands Up or The Boogie That Be) and figured I should buy the album so I can listen to it on my iPod. I wasn't disappointed. There's something almost soothing about the beat and the sound quality of this CD is excellent. I listened to it on the surround sound system downstairs with the Velodyne DEQ-10R 10-Inch Powered Subwoofer (Black) pumped up and the sound was amazing.
There's a lot of variety in the different songs and I'm finding myself liking some that I've never heard before, like Let's Get it Started. Maybe I'll try another one of their albums.
After Journey in Land of Hip Hop, BEP Find What They Want To Do and What They Are Good At
2006-09-12 - Elephunk, the third album of the Black Eyed Peas, shows consequential musical differences from their preceding albums. Dominant musical style was shifted from organic hip hop to pop funk; at the same time, range of the styles through the whole album got broadened; and a regular female vocalist officially joined the group.
Most songs from their first and second albums are based on repeated beats, even performed by a live band. On the contrary, many from Elephunk have prototypical pop tune structures: thematic parts and bridges. Now the audience's primary perception of a song is neither its beat nor its lyric, but its thematic melody (Think "Let's Get Retarded," for example). This must be a big turn-off for fans who have supported the BEP as a hip hop group, while making the band more accessible to a huge chunk of pop listeners.
The BEP even clearly declare that they are a funk band ("If it smells like funk then it must be us"--"Smells Like Funk"); meanwhile, they add other elements to the new album. Latin flavor permeates through the album, along with film-score-like melancholy ("Shut Up"), Tagalog song ("The Apl Song"), alternative rock ("Anxiety"), and love and peace anthem ("Where is the Love?").
The new female vocalist, Fergie, appears in most tracks as a background vocal at least, and takes important roles in some, such as "Shut Up," "Fly Away," and "The Boogie That Be." The BEP had frequently featured female vocalists before, but as a fixed member, Fergie tremendously contributes to the band for establishing its own, recognizable sonority.
Most importantly, as a result of the changes, musical quality of the current BEP's pop funk is better than the previous BEP's organic hip hop. Seemingly the BEP have finally found what they want to do, which fortunately matches to what they are good at, after their journey in the land of hip hop.
favorite cd
2006-02-27 - this cd is amazing i don't know one bad song on this cd and anxiety is good some other people are wrong
So-So Album
2006-01-04 - This album could have been a little better than it was but i cant complain about it cuz there were a few good songs on that cd (lets get it started lets get retarted where is the love) but was it really necisarry to swear in almost all of the songs? this cd is really a PARENTAL ADVISORY cd but it doesnt say it!
I heard about that one from the TARGET website from some other dude. Anyway...it could have been better without the swearing. Also i cant listen 2 it on my stereo cuz my parents think there is 2 much swearing in it...it sucks!
