Black Eyed Peas

Does anyone remember when “Black Eyed Peas” were a credible post-daisy age Hip-Hop band? Since then, they have turned into a female-fronted, genre-melting, hit-making machine. “Pump it” has the right elements in the right places: A Bombastic production; a catchy chorus and an even catchier sample (as heard in the Pulp Fiction soundtrack) but something’s missing there. Where is the Soul?  shazam