The Black Eyed Peas Used to Be Legit?

I discovered this in the fall while I was perusing Wikipedia, and it sort of made me feel slightly surprised in my head. This is a song off of the BEPs second album, entitled "Bridging the Gap," which they released in 2000. They weren't really famous until Fergie joined the group in 2003, because we all know that adding a butter face with a questionable singing voice is the best move that an underground alternative rap group could make.

It's pretty crazy that they've gone from rapping well over Preemo beats and advocating the spread of hip-hop to unadulterated Euro-pop garbage like this, but that's the nature of the beast, as they say.