Black Eyed Peas, My Humps | The Flops

In the second edition of The Flops (2026), we examine the questionable “My Humps” recorded by the Grammy-winning pop collective the Black Eyed Peas.

Like damn, bruh! Sis! C’mon! You thought it was bound to hit, but instead it was total shit – nothing but dookie 💩!  The songs that appear in The Flops didn’t hit, or the perception by many is that they underperformed or underwhelmed for a given artist.  Flops are even more detrimental when the artist is considered a superstar and rarely misses the mark. Flops can even be successful, even if the quality sucked. Or maybe they’re not-so-bad, but they bombed on the charts.  Regardless, this is the column to highlight abject failure. In the second edition of The Flops (2026), we examine the questionable “My Humps” recorded by Black Eyed Peas.

Oh, god! Talk about a song going hella stupid! To their credit, Grammy-winning (!) pop collective the Black Eyed Peas scored a big-time hit with “My Humps” 😏. Let that shit set in. Fergie was along for the ride during the Peas’ most successful stint. Commercially, there is no way you can call the annoying song from Monkey Business (2005) a flop.  How successful was the fifth track? It peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100.  It was certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.  The problem is, does anybody consider “My Humps” a legitimately GOOD song? HELL NAW BRUH!

Will.i.am and David Payton sure did compose a… SILLY MESS. Yes, I know, I know, “My Humps” is designed to be D-U-M-B, but still!  The songwriting, or lack thereof, is where this song is, um, something else.  The intro, excerpted earlier, is eye-roll-worthy, and that’s before Fergie-Ferg keeps repeating “my hump” over and over and over.  Damn, girl, we get it about dat a$$!  And of course, she can’t stop there! “I drive these brothers crazy, I do it on the daily / They treat me really nicely, they buy me all these iceys,” she brags as she raps in the first verse.  She adds, confidently and playfully, “They say they love my ass in Seven Jeans, True Religion.” OMG… In the chorus, will.i.am and Fergie tag-team, where we’re informed, “She’s got me spending / Spending all your money on me / On-on me.” And of course, the unforgettable intro returns as the post-chorus, with will.i.am asking Fergie, “What you gonna do with all that ass / All that ass inside ‘em jeans?” to which she responds, “I’ma make-make-make-make you scream / Make you scream, make you scream!” And folks, all of this is one verse, pre-chorus, chorus, and post-chorus.  The second verse involves mixing “Your milk with my Coco Puffs.” Yeah, that’s enough of that! The stupid songwriting is reason enough to proclaim “My Humps” a flop regarding quality. Still, pop music, two decades-plus later, is still filled with songs about breasts and booty.  Still, combined with the weird, minimalist production, “My Humps” is something else – one of one for sure!

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Black Eyed Peas » Monkey Business » Interscope Records » 2005

Black Eyed Peas, My Humps: The Flops No. 2 (2026) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Interscope Records; Will Oliveira from Pexels; Gordon Johnson, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay]

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