Bebot
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| "Bebot" | ||
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| Single by Black Eyed Peas | ||
| from the album Monkey Business | ||
| Released | 2006 | |
| Genre | Hip hop | |
| Length | 3:30 (album version) | |
| Writer(s) | The Black Eyed Peas | |
"Bebot" is a Tagalog song from the Black Eyed Peas' 2005 album Monkey Business. Two music videos for "Bebot" were filmed in early July 2006 and premiered online on August 4, 2006. The videos were directed by Patricio Ginelsa (Kid Heroes Productions) who also directed "The Apl Song" and produced the Filipino-American action comedy movie, Lumpia. One music video was filmed in various locations in Los Angeles, California, one location including Kenneth Hahn Park, where Dr. Dre's "Nothing But A G Thang" video was also filmed and is contemporary. The other video is set in the 1930s and focuses on showing the life the early Filipino immigrants in California's Central Valley as migrant farm workers. The first video is included in the Black Eyed Peas' music DVD, "Live From Sydney to Vegas".
The term "Bebot" is Filipino slang for "pretty woman", "hot chick", "hottie", "baby/babe". The video for Bebot features primarily Filipinos, Filipino-Americans and several other Asian ethnicities from the Los Angeles area (Korean-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Thai-Americans, Indonesian-Americans, Vietnamese-Americans, etc.).[citation needed] The single was not released in the U.S. but in the Philippines and several other Asian countries. The song featured on an episode of Ugly Betty.
In January, BBC Radio featured this song.
