Fergie, Black Eyed Peas Pay Tribute To DJ AM
At the [article id="1620371"]Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival[/article] in San Francisco on Saturday night (August 29), [artist id="1234831"]Fergie[/artist] and the [artist id="30064"]Black Eyed Peas[/artist] spoke with MTV News about their shock after hearing the news of DJ AM's [article id="1619854"]sudden death on Friday[/article], and their recollections of hanging out with their friend.
Peas rapper Taboo revealed that the band spent time with AM just days before he passed away. "Oh man, we were shocked [when we heard]," he said. "We couldn't believe it. We were just with him [last] [article id="1619868"]Friday in Las Vegas[/article]. We DJed with him and we took a couple pictures, and to hear it is devastating."
Fergie has recollections of AM that date back more than a decade. "I just have great memories of him DJing at all the clubs I used to go to -- sometimes with a fake ID! -- and when I got old enough to go," Fergie said.
Before she joined the Peas, Fergie recalled, she once practiced her dance moves during a low-key club night with AM behind the turntables. "I remember going to this club called Firehouse back in the day," she said. "It was, like, the summer of '98 and he used to spin there. It's a big dance club and this one night I remember there was basically 10 people in the club, but I really wanted to dance that night. It was the perfect night for me to practice dancing because not a lot of people were there and he was spinning, and they kept the club open and he kept spinning really good music. He was so cool like that."
"He's been a good friend of ours," added Peas member Apl.De.Ap. "Our prayers go out to his family. We're gonna miss him."
While BEP were at Outside Lands to perform an hour-long set on Saturday, DJ AM, who
"He was just so talented and just such a cool, good-spirited person," said Fergie. "There wasn't a mean bone in that guy's body, and it's just really sad after what happened with him and Travis and now this, it's really sad."
