Black Eyed Peas Announce Vegas Residency, Nobody’s Sure Why

By Scott Roeben, on September 10 2024
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The Black Eyed Peas have announced a 15-date Las Vegas residency, “Black Eyed Peas: 3008 The Las Vegas Residency.”

The residency kicks off Feb. 15, 2025 at PH Live at Planet Hollywood (formerly Bakkt, formerly Zappos). First, it’s way too early to talk about a residency in 2025. Second, Black Eyed Peas is Fergieless.

That said, it’s a slow news day and we have thoughts, so let’s get to the boom-boom and possibly pow.

We need to talk about the “Elephunk” in the room.

The Black Eyed Peas are, or were, awesome.

The group has a bunch of Grammy awards, multi-platinum records and the highest percentage of members with affectatious names in the music industry.

The band line-up is: Will.i.am (sometimes written in the even more pretentious lower case, will.i.am), Apl.de.Ap and Taboo.

Trust us, it’s as painful to type as it is to read.

Here are the show dates for Black Eyed Peas: February 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 2025; March 21, 22, 26, 28, 29, 2025; May 24, 25, 28, 30, 31, 2025.

Black Eyed Peas has a ton of hits (80 million records sold), including “Rock That Body,” “Meet Me Halfway,” “Let’s Get It Started,” “Where Is The Love?,” “I Gotta Feeling,” “Imma Be” and “Boom Boom Pow.”

The “3008” in the residency title is a reference to a line in “Boom Boom Pow” stating “I’m so 3008, you’re so 2000 and late.”

Oh, and we can’t forget “My Humps.” For our fellow youths, “cakes” were once called “humps,” and you could get love drunk off of them.


It’s best to not look too closely at Black Eyed Peas lyrics, as that has been known to kill more brain cells than watching Fox News.

The height of the group’s popularity was the mid-2000s, or a quarter century ago.

The last time the Black Eyed Peas made headlines, it was for their disastrous live performance at the Super Bowl.


The 2011 Super Bowl was a glaring reminder Black Eyed Peas isn’t really populated with talented vocalists or rappers. They’re a studio phenomenon. Their beats are def and all that, but a studio allows for endless sweetening and tweaking and auto-tuning.

Which is why it’s so awkward they’re doing a Las Vegas residency.

Making the situation even worse, or better, is as stated previously, lead “singer” Fergie isn’t in the group anymore.

What does all this mean? It means while the Black Eyed Peas show might be visually stunning, fans are likely to get a “press play” DJ-style show of pre-recorded music and lots of “Las Vegas make some noise!” from the performers.

Do fans care? Probably not. Celine fans loved her lip-synced song at the Paris Olympics. Most performers mouth to backing tracks now.

It remains to be seen if Black Eyed Peas can fill the seats at PH Live at Planet Hollywood.

There’s no denying shows are evolving more into experiences. The recently-opened “DiscoShow” at Linq isn’t even really a show, per se. It’s a disco dance party. No plot, no subtext, no chairs, just the dancing off of asses for 70 minutes.

The Black Eyed Peas certainly have enough bangers to keep audiences dancing through their shows. You may purchase a ticket for a seat, but don’t expect to use it, as everyone in front of you will be standing up the entire time. We’ll opt for their greatest hits at home on our sweet, sweet headphones. We fully own up to being 2000 and late.