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Black Eyed Peas, after years of pop dominance, talk about the radical turn of 'Street Livin”

LOS ANGELES - In a backstage trailer behind the politically charged Into Action gallery show in Chinatown on Friday, three members of the Black Eyed Peas prepared to walk onstage with new music for the first time in seven years.

The gallery was packed with young left-leaning activists, radical-chic paintings and mixed-media installations, and speakers like the former Obama environmental advisor Van Jones.

For fans who only got to know the Peas as one of the biggest-selling pop acts of the

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