Monkey Business
by The Black Eyed Peas
  • Record Label: A&M
  • Release Date: Jun 7, 2005
User Score
6.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 165 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 97 out of 165
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 165
  3. Negative: 47 out of 165

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  1. BSixsmith
    Nov 20, 2005
    0
    Oh dear lord, their one hype raised by starry eyed anthem 'where is the love' should surely have worn off by now. Lets consider the albums 'best' moments, 'dont phunk wid my heart' is an irritating shocker with trademark poor rhymes and a dull poppiness. 'Dont lie' is slightly better while still retaining its irritating wailing and lack of anything Oh dear lord, their one hype raised by starry eyed anthem 'where is the love' should surely have worn off by now. Lets consider the albums 'best' moments, 'dont phunk wid my heart' is an irritating shocker with trademark poor rhymes and a dull poppiness. 'Dont lie' is slightly better while still retaining its irritating wailing and lack of anything happening. 'My humps' oh god, this really does show the decline, this shoud drop even their young fans brought on by their almost naive innocence, it is appalling. And thier the albums best parts, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggghhhhhhh. The BEP are really, really lovely people but their music, aggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh… Expand
  2. larrycigar
    Oct 8, 2005
    3
    1). Pump it (2) - not very danceable and utterly onnoying beat 2). Don't Phunk with My Heart (6) - beat is a little overdone, and, like all other songs on this album, the lyrics are just searching for cheap rhymes 3). My Style (3) - Where is Justin? Pretty stupid song 4). Don't Lie (5) - It sucks, but still it is one of the better songs 5). My Humps (9) - The best song off the 1). Pump it (2) - not very danceable and utterly onnoying beat 2). Don't Phunk with My Heart (6) - beat is a little overdone, and, like all other songs on this album, the lyrics are just searching for cheap rhymes 3). My Style (3) - Where is Justin? Pretty stupid song 4). Don't Lie (5) - It sucks, but still it is one of the better songs 5). My Humps (9) - The best song off the album. It refers to a womans a** and br**sts, but the beat and lyrics are so catchy its hard not to like this song 6). Like that (6) - Cool beat, dumb lyrics 7). Dum Diddly (3) - fun the first few times you hear it, but gets to be the most onnoying song after 2 times 8). Feel It (2) - as the ying-yang twins say "badd" 9). Gone Going (3) - "don't you love us now that we use guitar in a song?" "no" 10). They dont want music (5) - "eh" 11). Disco Club (0) - Beats go only so far. I feel like bashing fergies face with a bat in her solo "la la la" parts. 12). Bebot (3) - Im sure id like it more if i understood it, oh yeah and the beat sucks a**. 13). Ba Bump (2) - the black eyed peas really know their different ways of saying butt. and what a coincidence, "rump" rhymes with "bump" 14). Audio Delit... (5) - starts of great, ends off no great. 15). Union (6) - after Where Is The Love, this song is so damn unoriginal Overview "do not but this album"… Expand
  3. CosmoP
    Jun 6, 2005
    0
    The most groundbreaking R&B recording since "You Gotta Believe" by Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch
  4. pzziap
    Jun 6, 2005
    0
    crap!
  5. KellyW
    Jun 6, 2005
    0
    Got an advanced copy of this and I was extremely disappointed. An absolutely terrible record on all accounts.
  6. RyanC
    Jun 6, 2005
    1
    ouch. all been down hill since that first gem of an album, 'behind the front'.
  7. mt
    Jun 7, 2005
    0
    wow, pathetic in the extreme. commendable i suppose..also i cant stand jack johnson
  8. Matt
    Jun 9, 2005
    2
    Most of this CD didn't even make me want to get out of my seat, much less groove to the music.
  9. fishmongerfunk
    Aug 10, 2005
    0
    wow, this group is so godawful its hard to find the right words to describe their pandering, sanitized rap and their ubiquitous endorsement deals. that chick fergie is a billboard for eating disorders. everytime they show her its all about her abs. in fact, this whole album is regurgitated. there has always been crap in the mainstream but somehow at least the shallowness, violence, and wow, this group is so godawful its hard to find the right words to describe their pandering, sanitized rap and their ubiquitous endorsement deals. that chick fergie is a billboard for eating disorders. everytime they show her its all about her abs. in fact, this whole album is regurgitated. there has always been crap in the mainstream but somehow at least the shallowness, violence, and consumerism of 50-cent and jay-z, etc. is sincere.… Expand
  10. zippyzee
    Aug 25, 2005
    0
    Structured, formula pop music. Nothing stands out as being original. Don't waste your money on this, don't even download it. Show them you're smarter than they think you are by not buying into this generic, uninspired crap.
  11. PeteR
    Aug 28, 2005
    0
    Boring and uninspired. They're trying to be bigger than their music affords.
  12. DaneC
    Sep 3, 2005
    2
    Black Eyed Peas can make good rap music. Fergie can sing beautifully. But they choose not to and go against any message they created in there first two albums, both created with out the help of pop singer Fergie, and now make basic poprap music with basic videos and lyrics that are laughable. Listening to My Humps make me cringe, as its coming from a group that once created Joints + Jams, Black Eyed Peas can make good rap music. Fergie can sing beautifully. But they choose not to and go against any message they created in there first two albums, both created with out the help of pop singer Fergie, and now make basic poprap music with basic videos and lyrics that are laughable. Listening to My Humps make me cringe, as its coming from a group that once created Joints + Jams, What It Is and excellent callabos with De La Soul and Charli 2na from Jurassic 5. What saves this album from gettin 0 is the track Like That, which i believe is one of the best rap songs to come out this year, which features rap legends such as Q Tip, formally of A Tribe Called Quest and fellow native tounge Tablib Qweli. To sum up, even Elephunk had more street credability than this. And Elephunk has terrible once past track 5.… Expand
  13. TheHams
    Feb 14, 2006
    0
    Abysmal. Hideous., Just unlisten-able. I bought this liking their biggest hit single, "Let's Get this Party Started" (I think) and sorta feelin' their new single, Don't Phunk With My Heart, and I thought I'd have a good time. The album started great. Pump It is definitely the best track on there. Then it went south. It's quite obvious no one in the whole BEP crew Abysmal. Hideous., Just unlisten-able. I bought this liking their biggest hit single, "Let's Get this Party Started" (I think) and sorta feelin' their new single, Don't Phunk With My Heart, and I thought I'd have a good time. The album started great. Pump It is definitely the best track on there. Then it went south. It's quite obvious no one in the whole BEP crew can rap at all. It's ameteur at very best. "Like That" was a pleasant surprise, featuring talented MCs Talib Kweli and Q-Tip, but besides those two tracks, I would not waste my money.… Expand
  14. DarylL
    Jun 30, 2006
    1
    Goodness, the stupidity of this album cannot be underestimated. It has the ability to make you feel as if you've just been dumbed down several hundred IQ points. Really, just pathetic, horrific and unlistenable.
  15. RubenM
    Jun 8, 2006
    0
    Music for the ring tone generation, no wonder kids as young as 8 are being given Prozac. Total sell-outs, on their knees saying ah and bending over in the pursuit of fame and greed. These people aren
  16. BlakeE
    Jul 18, 2006
    0
    Vacuous cretins.
  17. CaseyRDubya
    May 10, 2007
    1
    they say the Smiths and Marlyn Manson are know for causing suicides. Try listening to My Humps all the way through. Is Fergie a camel or a whale? You have humps you better go to a doctor. And stay there. And please never make music again. This album is a masterpiece compared to Fergie's record.
  18. chadwik
    Nov 7, 2005
    0
    each of their songs is just one of their other songs chewed up and spat out as somthing equally rubbish. all sounds the same. and that woman loves herself too much
  19. BrianaB
    Dec 4, 2005
    0
    I did not like it, what a waste of money. my humps is inappropriate. if u want to talk about your sex life in a song, yuck that is so gross. it is not the type of CD i aprove of cuz of that single, it is just gross and i just hate the CD, they should have made a edited CD for kids and adults who don't like that type of stuff in a CD on a song, without the song my humps, that is just I did not like it, what a waste of money. my humps is inappropriate. if u want to talk about your sex life in a song, yuck that is so gross. it is not the type of CD i aprove of cuz of that single, it is just gross and i just hate the CD, they should have made a edited CD for kids and adults who don't like that type of stuff in a CD on a song, without the song my humps, that is just gross, talk about sex alone, not on a song!… Expand
  20. Craig
    Jun 13, 2005
    0
    wow, never did i think i would see a group this bad. This is pathetic. How could people ever listen to this rubbish. Plus, it's a candidate for stupidest, most ridiculous, cheesiest album sleeve of all time. Don't contribute to this nonsense.
  21. AlanR
    Jun 17, 2005
    0
    You have to have something seriously emotionally wrong with you to listen to this bollocks.
  22. matta
    Jun 6, 2005
    2
    Totally uninteresting crap. Even taking this album for what it is(dance and party music), it is pure shite.
  23. GabrielL.
    Jun 6, 2005
    0
    Almost no band deserves a solid 0 for an album, but this deserves negative points. There is nothing good here. Anything that might be considered a pleasent sound is rendered ugly by their soulless and obnoxious pilfering of the past in an obvious attemt to create music so perfectly unobjectable that Best Buy signs them on to a lifetime promotional contract. Don't worry guys, pretty Almost no band deserves a solid 0 for an album, but this deserves negative points. There is nothing good here. Anything that might be considered a pleasent sound is rendered ugly by their soulless and obnoxious pilfering of the past in an obvious attemt to create music so perfectly unobjectable that Best Buy signs them on to a lifetime promotional contract. Don't worry guys, pretty soon you'll only be getting gigs to play in the parking lots of new stores.… Expand
  24. TyroneB
    May 23, 2006
    0
    An abomination, I don
  25. Joe
    Aug 1, 2006
    3
    Two words: "My Humps." That song alone is reason enough to avoid this album as if 'twere the plague.
  26. SonGoKu619
    Jan 28, 2007
    0
    JeeeeZ the two most IRRITATING and ANNOYING TRACKS ON THE ALBUM = Pump it and My Humps. Makes me wanna crack my speakerS!
  27. ValD.
    Dec 21, 2005
    0
    This is absolutely terrible, especially "My Humps." What person in their right mind wants to hear how guys buy stuff for a girl because she has some nice "humps"? What self-respecting teenage girl can listen to that? Certainly not me.
  28. ALANR
    Jul 24, 2005
    0
    This is pop. MTV fans are all over this. People who actually like music can hear it for what it is, CHA-CHING. Money makin', money money makin'...and that's it.
  29. StormieH
    Sep 13, 2005
    0
    Pitiful. What was once a ok rap group has become a hopeless main stream band. The songs are boring and they don't make me want to dance, they make me want to puke.
  30. CharysseB
    Dec 13, 2006
    0
    "These people aren
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#32 Most Discussed Album of 2005
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#63 Most Shared Album of 2005

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Metascore
48

Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 20
  3. Negative: 3 out of 20
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    50
    A bland meringue. [3 Jun 2005, p.81]
  2. The Guardian
    40
    The lyrical inspiration has evaporated.
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  3. Rolling Stone
    60
    Monkey Business is just as bright if not quite as fun as Elephunk.
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