{"id":221510,"date":"2022-10-16T13:36:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=221510"},"modified":"2022-10-16T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T14:01:29","slug":"black-eyed-peas-will-i-am-to-up-the-awesomeness-in-east-l-a-classic-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/black-eyed-peas-will-i-am-to-up-the-awesomeness-in-east-l-a-classic-performance","title":{"rendered":"Black Eyed Peas&#8217; will.i.am to &#8216;up the awesomeness&#8217; in East L.A. Classic performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The voice heard around the world trembles with pride, remembering home. &#8220;You want to know what L.A. is?&#8221; Black Eyed Peas frontman William Adams asks. It&#8217;s not Hollywood, he explains. It&#8217;s not the Lakers. Nor the Rams. The heart of L.A., he proclaims, is east of Interstate 5. &#8220;That&#8217;s the real Angelenos,&#8221; Adams says. He grew up there, in a housing project in Boyle Heights. In that community, one day in the year meant everything: the longtime East L.A. Classic rivalry game between Roosevelt and Garfield high schools, the football game that exploded with East Los Angeles culture. Adams &#8212; better known as will.i.am &#8212; has graced stages from the Super Bowl to the Grammys, and now he is coming back to his beginnings with a halftime performance at this year&#8217;s East L.A. Classic on Friday at the Coliseum. With the Black Eyed Peas&#8217; high-energy hip-hop show, which he&#8217;s producing, he promises to &#8220;up the awesomeness&#8221; of the Classic &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am., who grew up in Boyle Heights, hopes his halftime show at East L.A. Classic on Friday will be a celebration for his beloved community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1],"tags":[19,12,11,58],"class_list":["post-221510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}