Will-I-Am doesn’t get it. He doesn’t understand why the black community doesn’t support the black Eyed Peas. He tells the New York Daily News,
"Here we are, one of the biggest groups in the world. [The Peas] go to Moscow and play for 50-thousand people. We go to China and play for 30-thousand people. We go to Brazil and play for a million people on the beach. We're this huge group, produced by a black dude and started by a black dude. So why don't the black community want to own that? It's a touchy thing with me." He was able to vent through his solo debut, Songs About Girls, which came out yesterday. Will says the disc "allowed me...to just make the record I wanted to make. [I didn't] worry about formats and who's going to play it."