Monkey Business is the fourth studio album by American hip hop group, the Black Eyed Peas. It was released on May 25, 2005, by the will.i.am Music Group and A&M Records. It was the groups second album to feature R&B singer Fergie as a member.
Track listings
Personnel
Credits adapted from Monkey Business liner notes:
William Adams – conceptual design, producer (tracks 1-2, 4-10, 12-15) (also executive), audio mixing (track 14), rap vocals, vocals sung by (All tracks), bass (tracks 1, 4-5, 7, 9-10, 12, 14), drum machine (1, 4-5, 7, 9, 12, 15), drums (15), synthesizer (1, 7, 12, 14), clavinet keyboard (5, 11), organ (5, 9), rhodes piano (8, 11), additional instruments (6) Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson - rap vocals, vocals sung by (tracks 1-8, 10-11, 13, 15) Allen "apl.de.ap" Pineda - rap vocals, vocals sung by (tracks 1-4, 6-8, 10-12, 14-15), Clavinet keyboard (8), drum machine (8), strings played by (8), producer (8) Jaime "Taboo" Gomez - rap vocals, vocals sung by (tracks 1-2, 4, 6-8, 11, 13, 15) Marcella Araica - assistant recording engineer, Pro-Tools music editing (track 3) Charlie Baccarat - electric violin (track 2) Printz Board - Mellotron strings (tracks 2, 7-8), Mellotron keyboards (13), Moog synthesizer (7, 10), synthesizer (8, 13), bass (8, 10), drums (8), drum machine (13), trumpet (9-11, 13), keyboards (10), Rhodes piano (10), producer (8, 13) Ray Brady - guitar (tracks 4, 7) James Brown - additional lead vocals sung by (track 10) Venus Brown – DJ scratching (track 3), background vocals (10), A&R management Demo Castelleon - recording engineer (track 3) Mino Cinelu - sampled percussion (track 15) Fred Davis – legal representation Dylan "3-D" Dresdow - vocal recording engineer (track 8) Ron Fair – executive producer, additional music producer (track 4), string arrangements (2, 9), strings conducted by (9), harmonica (4) Shepard Fairey – album cover and logo designer Mike Fratantuono - bass (track 13) Seth Friedman – A&R management, cover art director, manager Brian Gardner – mastering Serban Ghenea – audio mixing (tracks 5, 10-12, 15) Dennis Gomez – booklet design Cee-Lo Green - additional rap vocals (track 6) Keith Harris - live drums (track 7), drums (2, 7, 13-14), keyboards (7), Mellotron strings (7), percussion (8) Tal Herzberg - recording engineer (tracks 1-2, 4, 9), Pro-Tools music programming (2, 4) Julie Hovsepian – product manager Ted Howard - recording engineer (track 6) Tippa Irie - background vocals (track 7) Jack Johnson - guitar played by, additional vocals sung by (track 9) Mike Jurkovac – cover art director Manu Katche - sampled drums (track 15) Kenny Kirkland - sampled keyboards (track 15) Talib Kweli - additional rap vocals (track 6) Sarah Larkin – business manager John Legend - additional vocals sung by (track 6) Melvin "Chaos" Lewis - recording engineer (track 11), bass, drum machine (11) Jimmy Limon - bass, Clavinet keyboard, organ, drum machine, percussion, guitar (track 12) Lor-e – stylist Branford Marsalis - sampled soprano saxophone (track 15) Edward Martinez – booklet art director and photographer Tony Maserati - audio mixing (tracks 3, 7-8, 13) Michael Matthews - guitar (track 11) Polo Molina – manager Osinachi Nwaneri - recording engineer (track 6) Tim "Izo" Orindgreff - saxophone (tracks 9-11, 13), flute (13) George Pajon Jr. - guitar (tracks 1-4, 8, 10, 13) Jack Joseph Puig - audio mixing (track 9) Q-Tip - rap vocals (track 6) Kevin Rudolf - guitar (track 3) Dante Santiago – background vocals (tracks 8, 10-11, 13), additional lead vocals (7), A&R management coordination Justin Siegel – A&R management coordination Madeleine Smith – music clearance David Sonenberg – manager Mike "Spike" Stent - audio mixing (tracks 1-2, 4) Sting - additional vocals sung by (track 15), sampled bass (15) Robert "Mousey" Thompson - bass, Clavinet keyboard, drums, drum machine, organ (track 10) Justin Timberlake - additional vocals sung by (track 3) Timbaland - additional rap vocals (track 3), all other instruments (3) Neil Tucker - recording engineer (tracks 2, 8, 10-11, 13) Andrew Van Meter – production manager Jason Villaroman - recording engineer (tracks 1, 3-5, 7, 12, 14-15) Jeff Watkins - saxophone (track 10) Albert Watson – photographer Ethan Willoughby - recording engineer, audio mixing (track 6) Damon Woods - guitar (track 10) Florencio Zavala – album cover and logo designer Mike Rotch – Fergie's graphic layout – director
Charts, certifications and sales
Release history
References
2005 albums
Black Eyed Peas albums
Hip hop albums
Funk albums
R&B albums
