Q-Tip Announces New A Tribe Called Quest Album

Q-Tip has announced a new album from A Tribe Called Quest. While the album does not yet have a name, it will be released November 11 and features Busta Rhymes and Consequence. In a handwritten note posted to Facebook, Q-Tip explains how the group hit the studio following their first televised performance in 18 years. Member Phife Dawg passed away in March before the album’s completion, but Q-Tip says “he left us with the blue print of what we had to do.” Read the full note below.

Earlier this year, Q-Tip was named the Kennedy Center’s first-ever artistic director for hip-hop culture. His collaborative album with Busta Rhymes, The Abstract and the Dragon, arrived in 2014. Phife Dawg recently had a street in Queens named after him in his honor.

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