a recording studio outside dublin, he held a session with will.i.am of the black-eyed peas accent hollywood captured it on tape as the hip-hop star played some tapes he had composed for jackson. >> very nice. i like the chords. >> narrator: as it turned out, this was also one with of michael jackson's last recorded interviews. >> music is very much like tapestry, you know. it's just layers, but it's -- sometimes you can put too much. >> narrator: he said little in the interview itself, but, in these outtakes, as he talks to the cameraman about his lighting, jackson hints at that insomnia that plagued him. >> shadow. yeah. >> more a frontal. >> yeah, yeah. >> do you like that? >> i like that, but can you pump the -- like go hotter. >> you mean warmer? >> no. >> brighter? >> brighter. take away the shadows.