will.i.am
will.i.am
William Adams, known professionally as will.i.am, is an American hip hop recording artist, entrepreneur, actor, musician, DJ, record producer and philanthropist. He is best known as a founding member of the hip hop and R&B band The Black Eyed Peas, with whom he has received seven Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, a Billboard Music Award, a Teen Choice Award, two MTV Video Music Awards and three World Music Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth15 March 1975
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.
What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.
Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it'll get there, and you know that it'll get there on time.
I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.
Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.
My favorite game is Madden. That's it. I'm a Madden addict. I go at it.
I've got Republican fans. Republicans like the Black Eyed Peas.
I remember when I was 19, it was pretty tough.
I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.
I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.'
Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.
America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.
Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.
It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.