People don't often remember, but the first couple of Black Eyed Peas albums were actually pretty good Tribe Called Quest worship.

I say that like I'm some great luminary. I'm not—like many people, I assumed 2003's Elephunk was their debut album, but it was actually their third. I just got curious after a clip of Will.i.am talking about his early life washed up on the tides of my algorithms and decided to check out the group's debut.

Genuinely an underappreciated masterpiece in my opinion. Strange to call anything from one of the most successful music acts this century "underappreciated", but here we are.