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
The Black Eyed Peas albums
Hip hop albums
Funk albums
R&B albums