. >> tell us, did he inspire in my name by you and fergie? wasn't on in my fame but it was me and apple and nelson mandela inspired it and mary ma keechlt iba, both in south africa and he's inspired a lot of our songs, union we did with sting was inspired by nelson mandela. filmed it in south africa and the new song on the end, called one tribe was inspired by nelson pan della, as well. >> i like that song. tell me about the pea pod foundation which again i'm sure was inspired in part by nelson mandela, as well. >> the pea pod foundation was started by the black-eyed peas back in 1998. one of our members, apple, was born and raised in the philippines and he was adopted and brought to america at 14. he met me and we started the black-eyed peas. when we became successful, we felt the strong urge to give back to kids orphans and foster kids and kids in inner cities and provide them the same tools that excelled our dreams, music, journalism, acting, dancing, editing, producing, directing and writing. so we built our first peapod academy in watts