Excerpt:"Peas & karats
The Black Eyed Peas bring the hip-hop bling
GEOFF BOUCHER
SAN DIEGO -- The man they call Will.I.Am has one of the busiest hard drives in hip-hop these days, and he carries it with him in a case marked "Will's Travel Kit." Earlier this spring, the leader of the Black Eyed Peas slid behind the keyboard of a computer in the mobile music studio that follows him on tour, loaded up the drive and clicked through a directory of his dizzying workload. There were chunks of the new songs he's producing for Nas, Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg, Macy Gray and Diddy, as well as a theme song he's producing for the new film "Poseidon" and recent remixes he's done for the Rolling Stones, Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Busta Rhymes.