When William was sixteen years old, he started rapping in late 1991 under the name "Will-1X" after being discovered by Compton rapper and former N.W.A. leader Eazy-E and signed a deal to Eazy's Ruthless Records. will.i.am's first rap song was "Merry Muthafuckin' Xmas" from Eazy-E's 1992 EP 5150: Home 4 tha Sick. Shortly after Eazy-E's death in 1995, Will left Ruthless to start a group that would later be called the Black Eyed Peas with fellow rappers Taboo and apl.de.ap.
After the addition of singer-songwriter Fergie, the group shot into mainstream pop consciousness with a set of hit singles in the mid-00s, popularity that continues to this day. The Black Eyed Peas' producer is Sergio Mendes, an internationally successful Brazilian musician and jazz aficionado. In September 2007, will.i.am took a major step into a solo career identity by joining with his record label, Universal Music Group (UMG), on a pilot scheme to reward certain file-sharing with cash incentives, including will.i.am tracks from his then upcoming release Songs About Girls.
In total, he has released four solo albums: Lost Change (2001), Must B 21 (2003), Songs About Girls (2007), and #willpower (2013). Although often facing mixed critical reviews, he's experienced significant commercial success, including a set of popular singles. His solo performances, featuring collaborations with a wide group of artists including Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Phife Dawg, Snoop Dogg, and Nicole Scherzinger, are perhaps best summed up in the international top 20 mega-hit "Scream & Shout".
Will.i.am was also recently cast as John Wraith in the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a prequel to the X-Men movie series. And if one enjoyed Madagascar 2's chunky hippo, Moto Moto, then one should know that the deep voice belonged will.i.am., who came in after he was ''pimped'' out to the directors by his friend and sometimes collaborator Justin Timberlake.
Before joining the Black Eyed Peas, Will.i.am attended the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles. In 2001, he began designing his own signature clothing line, i.am, which made its official debut in 2005 at the Magic apparel trade show in Las Vegas. In 2007, Will.i.am teamed up with Blue Holdings to design a premium denim collection, i.am Antik, that had its debut on the Project Show in Las Vegas. He has also designed clothing for the Black Eyed Peas.
In January 2008, will.i.am helped write a song, "Yes We Can", in support of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign of Barack Obama, which in turn became a music video directed by Jesse Dylan. The lyrics of the song are composed almost entirely of excerpts from Obama's speech on January 8, 2008, following the New Hampshire presidential primary election. The video features appearances from numerous celebrities like Scarlett Johansson, Tatyana Ali, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Kate Walsh, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Adam Rodriguez, Kelly Hu, Hill Harper, Amber Valletta, Eric Balfour, Aisha Tyler, Nicole Scherzinger, Nick Cannon, Bryan Greenberg, Common and first appeared on the website for Dipdive, and within a week of its appearance racked up three million views, and over four million views on Youtube.
On February 29, 2008, a second video titled "We Are The Ones" was released on Dipdive and YouTube. It included cameo appearances from Jessica Alba, Ryan Phillippe, Kerry Washington, John Leguizamo, Regina King, Tyrese Gibson, Eric Mabius, Tichina Arnold, Adrienne Palicki, comedian George Lopez, and singers Macy Gray, Zoe Kravitz and Black Eyed Peas’ Taboo. The video features everyone chanting "O-BA-MA" as a portrayal as their hopes and wishes for Obama and his presidential campaign.
In 2013, will.i.am released his album "#thatpower".
S.O.S.
will.i.am Lyrics
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Send us an angel, help us out
SOS, help us out
Looking all around and I'm watching the world
People killing, people dying, people lying, people blind
People don't see the sign, watching money all the time
Get the pennies, get the dimes, get the dollars is the mindstate
The environment is fragile, and we been on the gradual
Declining in a lifetime or lose the battle
Get burned by volcanoes, get blown by tornadoes
Cause mother nature signals, is trying to warn NATO
We got a new terror threat, it's called the weather
More deadlier than chemical and nuclear together
It's hotter in the winter, even hotter in the summer
Jesus, or Buddha, somebody come and help us out
Lord come down and help us out
Send us an angel, help us out
SOS, help us out
Looking all around and I'm watching the world, changing
Open up your eyes, you can see things rearranging
The world is dying
And if they say it's gonna be alright, them people are lying
People trapped behind the gates, ignorance in their state of mind
Cause they formulate a plan just to penetrate us
You see they stimulate us with fear, manipulate us
Each year, they dominate dividing us like calculators
And we can't add it up cause calculators do the math for us
And here they come choppering down, chopping down our rainforest
F**king up our air for us, they don't really care for us
But we can't complain, because the only one to blame is us
The gas is rising up but we keep on filling up
CO2 levels got the whole planet heated up
It's blazing in the winter, even hotter in the summer
Mohammed, Jehovah, somebody come and help us out
Lord come down and help us out
Send us an angel, help us out
SOS, help us out
Looks like we ain't gon' figure it out
Lord come down and help us out
Send us an angel, help us out
SOS, help us out
Looking all around and I'm watching the world, changing
Open up your eyes, you can see things rearranging
The world is ending
And if they say it's gonna be okay, they just pretending
When the eskimo gets bit by a mosquito
Somebody in Miami will get swept by a tsunami
Rastas in Jamaica will get hit by a quake that
Registers something like 8.8
You see it's situations happening with our planet
Cause, 50 years ago we took it for granted
We should have took advantage, and reversed the damage
Instead of just pumping and selling and slanging the gas
And while we purchased the gas
We was watching soap operas while they steady brainwashed the masses
Cause we could make a vehicle that runs off ashes
But they own a patent for that, and that's exactly what's happening
Corruption and bullshit politics
The planet's gonna die cause of bullshit politics
It's hotter in the winter, even hotter in the summer
And ain't nobody coming to the rescue to help the
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The song "SOS Mother Nature" by will.i.am is a plea to the Lord, Jesus, Buddha or anybody to come and help humanity as the world is dying. The lyrics are full of vivid imagery that paints the picture of the current state of the world. The opening lines, "Lord come down and help us out, Send us an angel, help us out, SOS, help us out, Looking all around and I'm watching the world" are a call for divine intervention in the wake of human negligence towards the environment. The world is facing different environmental disasters such as global warming, pollution, natural disasters, the depletion of natural resources, among many others.
The lyrics then shift to the problems that are causing this environmental devastation, with will.i.am mentioning "People killing, people dying, people lying, people blind, People don't see the sign, watching money all the time, Get the pennies, get the dimes, get the dollars is the mindset." The lines mean that the greed for money and power is blinding people, making them insensitive to the problems of the world. The song also mentions the dangers of climate change, "It's hotter in the winter, even hotter in the summer, Jesus, or Buddha, somebody come and help us out." The tone of the song is serious, and the lyrics draw attention to the consequences of humanity's unsustainable practices.
Line by Line Meaning
Lord come down and help us out
Asking a higher power to intervene and save us from the world we have created
Send us an angel, help us out
Desperately calling for heavenly beings to deliver us from the destruction of the environment
SOS, help us out
A plea for help and rescue as we face the consequences of our actions
Looking all around and I'm watching the world
Observing the disastrous effects we have caused on the planet
People killing, people dying, people lying, people blind
People causing harm by ignoring the damage they cause to the environment
People don't see the sign, watching money all the time
People are blind to the signs of environmental collapse because they are obsessed with gaining financial wealth
Get the pennies, get the dimes, get the dollars is the mindstate
Money is the primary motivator in the minds of individuals, even at the cost of environmental sustainability
Of the human race, people on the paper chase
All humans are chasing financial wealth without regard for the well-being of the planet
The environment is fragile, and we been on the gradual
The environment is delicate and human actions are gradually destroying it
Declining in a lifetime or lose the battle
If we don't act fast and make changes now, we will reach a point of no return in our environmental degradation
Get burned by volcanoes, get blown by tornadoes
Natural disasters are becoming increasingly violent and frequent due to the damage caused by humans to the environment
Cause mother nature signals, is trying to warn NATO
The changing environment is trying to warn us and NATO of the dangers of climate change
We got a new terror threat, it's called the weather
The weather is becoming a larger threat to humanity than any terrorism
More deadlier than chemical and nuclear together
The destruction caused by the changing weather patterns and the effects of climate change is far worse than any chemical or nuclear disaster
It's hotter in the winter, even hotter in the summer
The change in global temperatures is evident and is causing havoc to the climate and environment
Jesus, or Buddha, somebody come and help us out
A call for any higher power or being to rescue us from the environmental issues we are causing
People trapped behind the gates, ignorance in their state of mind
People are confined by their ignorance and are causing irreparable harm to the environment
Cause they formulate a plan just to penetrate us
A conspiracy theorist approach to the corporate plan to produce and sell products with no regard for the environment
You see they stimulate us with fear, manipulate us
The media and corporations manipulate and create fear so that people continue to buy their products and ignore the environmental damage they cause
Each year, they dominate dividing us like calculators
Corporations use tactics to divide humanity and dominate the economic structure by blindly buying products that are environmentally harmful
And here they come choppering down, chopping down our rainforest
Corporations continue to destroy the environment without regard for the long-term consequences
F**king up our air for us, they don't really care for us
Corporations continue to cause environmental harm without any care for the negative effects it has on people and the planet
But we can't complain, because the only one to blame is us
The cause of the environmental collapse is the fault of our own as individuals for continuing to support products that are harmful to the planet
The gas is rising up but we keep on filling up
Despite the clear effect fossil fuels have on the environment, people continue to consume excessively without considering the long-term consequences
CO2 levels got the whole planet heated up
The overwhelming amount of CO2 being released into our atmosphere is having major consequences on the environment and global temperatures
Mohammed, Jehovah, somebody come and help us out
Another plea to a higher power to save us from the environmental collapse we have caused
Looks like we ain't gon' figure it out
Despite the knowledge of the environmental issues we face, there is no active implementation of measures to solve them
The world is ending
The current trajectory of our environmental impact will lead to the end of the world if we don't take action and change our ways
And if they say it's gonna be okay, they just pretending
Anyone propagating a sense that everything is going to be okay is lying because the damage we have caused is irreversible
When the eskimo gets bit by a mosquito, Somebody in Miami will get swept by a tsunami
The worldwide effects of climate change present themselves in unexpected ways, highlighting how the issue is global and not limited to certain parts of the world
Rastas in Jamaica will get hit by a quake that Registers something like 8.8
Diverse communities face the consequences of environmental degradation in unprecedented ways
You see it's situations happening with our planet, Cause, 50 years ago we took it for granted
The inadvertent damage to the environment caused by human action is a consequence of neglect and failure to address the problems caused
We should have took advantage, and reversed the damage
We should have taken action before we caused irreversible environmental damage
Instead of just pumping and selling and slanging the gas
The overconsumption of finite resources has led the current level of environmental degradation
And while we purchased the gas, We was watching soap operas while they steady brainwashed the masses
The media and corporations kept people complacent and unaware of the environmental damage caused by overconsumption
Cause we could make a vehicle that runs off ashes
Renewable energy alternatives are an option to reduce environmental harm
But they own a patent for that, and that's exactly what's happening
Corporations have monopolies over certain environmentally friendly alternatives, which inhibits the transition to a sustainable world
Corruption and bullshit politics, The planet's gonna die cause of bullshit politics
Politics and corruption inhibit the needed transition to reduce environmental impact
And ain't nobody coming to the rescue to help the (The world)
We need to hold ourselves accountable and take action to solve the environmental issues we face
Looking all around watching the world
The continuing observation of the worsening global situation
(The world)
The current state of the world as a result of human action and overconsumption
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: GINA WILMA KUSCHKE, SKY ADAMS
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Lord come down and help us out
Send us an angel, help us out
SOS, help us out
Looking all around and I'm watching the world
People killing, people dying, people lying, people blind
People don't see the sign, watching money all the time
Get the pennies, get the dimes, get the dollars is the mindstate
Of the human race, people on the paper chase
The environment is fragile, and we been on the gradual
Declining in a lifetime or lose the battle
Get burned by volcanoes, get blown by tornados
Cause Mother Nature signals, is trying to warn NATO
We got a new terror threat, it's called the weather
More deadlier than chemical and nuclear together
It's hotter in the winter, even hotter in the summer
Jesus, or Buddha, somebody come and help us out
Lord come down and help us out
Send us an angel, help us out
SOS, help us out
Looking all around and I'm watching the world
Changing
Open up your eyes, you can see things rearranging
The world is dying
And if they say it's gonna be alright, them people are lying
People trapped behind the gates, ignorance in their state of mind
Cause they formulate a plan just to penetrate us
You see they stimulate us with fear, manipulate us
Each year, they dominate dividing us like calculators
And we can't add it up cause calculators do the math for us
And here they come choppering down, chopping down our rainforest
Fucking up our air for us, they don't really care for us
But we can't complain, because the only one to blame is us
The gas is rising up but we keep on filling up
CO2 levels got the whole planet heated up
It's blazing in the winter, even hotter in the summer
Mohammed, Jehovah, somebody come and help us out
Lord come down and help us out
Send us an angel, help us out
SOS, help us out
Looks like we ain't gon' figure it out
Lord come down and help us out
Send us an angel, help us out
SOS, help us out
Looking all around and I'm watching the world
Changing
Open up your eyes, you can see things rearranging
The world is ending
And if they say it's gonna be okay, they just pretending
When the eskimo gets bit by a mosquito
Somebody in Miami will get swept by a tsunami
Rastas in Jamaica will get hit by a quake that
Registers something like eight point eight
You see it's situations happening with our planet
Cause, twenty years ago we took it for granted
We should have took advantage, and reversed the damage
Instead of just pumping and selling and slanging the gas
And while we purchased the gas
We was watching soap operas while they steady brainwashed the masses
Cause we could make a vehicle that runs off ashes
But they own a patent for that, and that's exactly what's happening
Corruption and bullshit politics
The planet's gonna die cause of bullshit politics
It's hotter in the winter, even hotter in the summer
And ain't nobody coming to the rescue to help the
(The world)
The, the, the, the, the
The, the, the, the, the
(The world)
The, the, the, the, the
The, the, the, hope, the
(The world)
The, the, the, the, the
The, the, the, hope, the
(The world)
The, the, the, the, the
Looking all around watching the world
(The world)
(The world)
Looking all around watching the world
(The world)
Looking all around watching the world
(The world)
Looking all around watching the world
(The world
@stephanbeek
It saddens me this song doesn't have millions of views, the text is so amazingly good and should be heard by everyone around the world.
@iliganviticulturist3056
Yeah really it's underated, everytime I play this song I can't hold back my tears.
@jolk42
They all be here
"Earth Song" - Michael Jackson
@bluebull2006
underrated underated underated underated underrated
@joshsalisbury5536
This never came up with advertising, dope statement my brother , means more then you think . Peace ✌
@RIPierre
First video on youtube i've seen with 0 dislikes. Good song it's the truth =\
@marianagomes842
This is a very beautiful song, I also have a suggestion for music about the environment, Emicida - Passarinhos
@Daughterzion7777
The deadly and catastrophic weather is happening with much intensity. Some people don't believe that the world is truly going through something that is not normal. Sadly, it will take the loss of millions of people before some people realize what's going on. There will still be people that have their eyes closed after the terrible earthquakes and all the other catastrophes. In reality the truth is that we are all in danger and there will not be many survivors due to the weather changes that will happen. There is a polar flip going on with our planet.
@martinnorenz
i just love will.i.am's glasses :D they just look so cool!! :D xxxxx good video :D
@davidmichaud1364
this is epic like btter!!!!!!!!!!!!!