Quotes by Taboo - Page 2

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.
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Intense
Misconception
Threatening
Look Me People
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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.
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Invincible
Misconception
People Know Human
Plateau
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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.
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Noise
Peas
Touring
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We just decided to make our dancing as important as our MCing and our production. It's an element in hip-hop that a lot of people are afraid to use.
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Element
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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.
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Lifting
One Minute
Spirits
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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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Audio
Natural
Visuals
Content
Finding
Implement
Natural Thing
Partnerships
Ways
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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.
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Inspired
Latin
African
Inspires
Rhythms
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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.
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Bricks
Delhi
Diapers
Grounded
Walking
Babies
Corner
Putting
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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.
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Home
Angry
Baths
Daddy
Diapers
Games
Giving
Husband
Playing Games
Birds
Cape
Changing
Coloring
Playing
Superman
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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.
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Life Love Best
Hit
Bringing
Creed
Walk
Major
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In L.A., we played rock venues because we had a band, which hip-hop venues couldn't accommodate. And within that, we created a show which we could put on in front of anybody.
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Accommodate
Venues
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All I've got to say is if I'm a sellout, I'm selling out arenas all over the world, and I'd rather be selling out arenas than selling out of my trunk on the corner of my block.
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Block
Selling
Arenas
Corner
Trunk
Rather
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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.
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Showcase
Capabilities
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It's more about the music and doing good shows than it is about our ethnicities. We're not trying to label ourselves as the all-around universal ethnic group. It's not a gimmick.
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Doing Good
Good Music Doing
All-Around
Ethnic
Gimmick
Label
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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!'
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Hype
God Best I Am
Believing
You Guys
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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.
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Common
Common Ground
Philippines
Met
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You gotta understand a lot of hip-hop kids are going to have the hip-hop mentality. And it's sad because they're not educated enough to understand what hip-hop culture is really about.
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Mentality
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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?'
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Asian
Community
Criticism
Grew
Mexican
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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.
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My Own
Peas
Anybody
Feed
Outside
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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.
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Urban
Mirror
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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.
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Artist
Chasing
Peas
Something New
Stand
Always I Am New
Bring
I Am New Always
Same Things
Table
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We all had to dodge the idea we were spokespeople for our races. Like, 'Hey, it's the Mexican Guy! The Filipino! The Chick!' We've always stood up to it and said, 'Fine, bring it on and we'll show you how we rock.'
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Dodge
Filipino
Mexican
Chick
Races
Stood
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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.
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Fresh Air
Music Industry
Peas
Stamp
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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.
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Chemotherapy
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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.
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Creative Expression
Hunger
Pushing
Time Technology Always
Visual
Duplicated
Envelope
Messaging
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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.
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Dance
Music
Black
Bounce
House
Peas
Sensibility
Why
Appealed
Incorporated
Influences
Melodic
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We want to be able to make our own songs and write our own arrangements. We want to incorporate the live sound so we can be free onstage and in the studio recording. That way we can come up with original and creative stuff.
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Arrangements
Incorporate
Onstage
Recording
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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.
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Bigger
Decided
Growth
Spectrum
Allowed
Broader
Tap
Love Song People
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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.
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Bob
Boogie
Daddy
Grew
Marley
Productions
Tribe Called Quest
Wonder
Music Soul New
Bands
Stevie
Edition
Hill
Hiphop
La
Quest
Spanish
Stevie Wonder
Tribe
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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.
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Latino
Mainstream
Commonly
Performer
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Our show is all about energy and all about the skill, so we never have to alter it for different audiences, although maybe we might get crazier at a punk-rock show. With kids moshing and crowd-surfing, we might have to get crazy as well.
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Alter
Crazier
Skill
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Before the music and before the fame, I loved Apl for Allan Pineda, for being a brother that he is and for the inspiration - for him to actually come to the States from the Philippines and make something of his life. That's inspirational.
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Inspirational
Brother
Fame
Inspiration
Philippines
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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.
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Alternative
Love Music Support
Brazilian
Types
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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.
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Dance
Life Chance Myself
Element
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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.
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Changed
Peas
Records
Ruthless
Asked
Rest
History Black Me
Group
Passed
Signed
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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.
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Bless
God Bless
Time God Always
Wait
Tab
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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.
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Cancer
Disease
Horrible
Shock
Type
Life Eyes Me
Mr
Prepares
Telling
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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.
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Brazilian Music
Homage
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Prison
Reform
Theme
Touching
Valuable
Address
Brazilian
Sentiment
Themes
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