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SUPERGROUP The Black Eyed Peas have banned their controversial chart hit My Humps.

The hip-hop chart-toppers say they have taken the decision because the song is rubbish.

And frontman Will.i.am confirmed yesterday they will never perform it live again.

Conceding that the song, which was released in 2005, was not among their best work, he said: "It was not lyrical miracles."

My Humps - which reached No3 in the UK - was savaged by the music press at the time.

Us writer John Bush described it as "one of the most embarrassing rap performances of the new millennium."

Another American critic Hua Hsu claimed: "It's not awesomely bad - it's horrifically bad.

"There are bad songs that offend our sensibilities but can still be enjoyed, and then there are the songs that are just really bad - transcendentally bad, objectively bad."

In a poll by Rolling Stone magazine in 2007, the track was ranked first in a list of the 20 most annoying songs, ahead of Macarena by Los Del Rio and Who Let The Dogs Out by Baha Men.

However, it was voted top in the Hip-Hop category at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards.

On the track, band member Fergie sings about her "humps" and her "lovely lady lumps."

One chorus is: "What you gon' do with all that junk? All that junk inside your trunk?

"I'm-a get, get, get, get, you drunk. Get you love drunk off my hump.

"My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump. My hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps (Check it out)."

Other lowlights include the line: "Mix your milk with my cocoa puff, milky, milky riiiiiiight."

In announcing the band's decision, Will.i.am said: "It got to the point where we didn't want to play My Humps no more.

"You know, because I met a girl down at the disco, I just didn't want to say that any more, lyrically.

"It wasn't my best lyrically but it was fun.

"It wasn't lyrical miracles but the beat was rocking, so we throw the beat in there and just let it linger."