will.i.am

Will.I.Am: A couple of years ago I was doing a show in Atlanta, just freestyling on the mic, and some of what I was doing was half-rapping, half-singing.India Arie told me, 'you know how to sing' but I didn't really believe her. I thought she was being funny. Then Common told me I had a good ear for tune and tone. And it just gave me the confidence to do a song like this.

Will.I.am:Listening to that song and those kinds of dance beats, you'd never expect Snoop to be on it. I called him up and said that I was all inspired by a lot of what I was hearing on the road in Europe and he felt me on it.

Will.I.am:It's not what I can't do with The Black Eyed Peas, it's what I haven't done with the Peas yet. I've hinted at some of these styles on Peas songs before but this takes it a little farther and opens up the possibilities of what we'll be able to do in the future.