After '' The Love Movement '' , A Tribe Called Quest split up due to relationship issues between group members , effectively rendering '' The Love Movement '' as the supposed final album . For years , Tribe denied that any new material was recorded , or even planned , although they reunited briefly to play several shows during Kanye West 's Yeezus Tour in 2013 . On November 13 , 2015 , the group performed on '' The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon '' , the same night of the Paris attacks . Feeling " charged " , the group put aside their differences , and decided to record the album in secrecy . Group member Q-Tip said that because of '' The Tonight Show '' appearance , " I knew if we were connecting with that kind of energy in a performance , it would be easy to go back to the studio . " Phife Dawg 's mother said her son " thought they might be able to make a five-song EP and that would be it . He never thought they ’d have enough for a whole album . " The album was recorded for nearly a year at Q-Tip 's home studio , the AbLab in New Jersey ; the name was derived from " Abstract " , one of the rapper 's monikers . The studio had been designed with his longtime engineer Blair Wells as a " dream project " that " took years to complete " , according to Consequence , the rapper 's cousin . The studio was stored with analog recording equipment , including preamplifiers used on recordings done by Jimi Hendrix , Blondie , and the Ramones , as well as a tape recorder that once belonged to Frank Zappa
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