music, and the group received accusations of selling out. Writing for Slant Magazine, Sal Cinquemani stated: "The Black Eyed Peas's 2003 breakthrough album, Elephunk, was a slow-building success story. Filling the album with irritatingly catchy songs was a bold, ballsy move you couldn’t help but admire, and it transitioned the Peas, with the aide of new member Stacy Ferguson, from the Fugees-lite to omnipresent pop supergroup." During the Elephunk Tour (2004), which supported Elephunk worldwide, the Black Eyed Peas commenced production of their fourth studio album Monkey Business. It was released on May 25, 2005, and became the group's first US Billboard 200 top-ten album, debuting at number two, and produced their first two US Billboard Hot 100 top-three singles–"Don't Phunk with My Heart" and "My Humps". 10 years after the release of Elephunk, will.i.am revealed that representatives from the Black Eyed Peas' then-label A&M Records did not like the songs produced for the album, namely "Where Is the Love?", "Shut Up" and "Let's Get Retarded", as they didn't consider them "hits". He added: "Me and apl.de.ap were like, 'Look, dude. If this is going to be our last record, a lot of groups like us are getting dropped. Let's just make the kind of record we want to make; our record.' And so 'Elephunk' was our record." Despite A&M's initial reaction, aforementioned three songs were all released as singles and became award-winning international hits. Track listing All tracks are produced by will.i.am. "The Apl Song" was co-produced by apl.de.ap, "Where Is the Love?" by Ron Fair, and "Rock My Shit" by Poet Named Life. Personnel Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Elephunk. apl.de.ap – vocals (tracks 1–3, 6, 7, 11–13), drum programming (track 11), production (track 11) Travis Barker – drums (track 15) Printz Board – horns (track 2), trumpet (track 7), clavinet (track 13), Moog synthesizer (track 13) Ray Brady – guitar (tracks 5 and 9) David Buckner – drums (track 12) Davey Chegwidden – percussion (track 7) J. Curtis – guitar (tracks 5, 7, 11 and 13) Terry Dexter – backing vocals (track 6) Dylan Dresdow – engineering (tracks 1, 2, 4–9, 13 and 15), additional vocal engineering (track 3) Tobin Esperance – bass guitar (track 12) Ron Fair – executive production, production (track 13), additional vocal production (track 5), piano (track 7) Fergie – vocals (tracks 1–5, 8–11, 13 and 14) Mike Fratantuno –