 The writers of these two songs, Dania Maria Birks, Juana Michelle Burns, Juanita A. Lee, Kim Nazel, Fatima Shaheed, and Derrick Rahming, receive songwriting credits for "Fergalicious" as a result.The song was recorded while on the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus.will.i.am stated that the song was about Fergie "just being sassy and flaunting her stuff from a strong female perspective, paying homage to Salt-N-Pepa."