UPDATE 2: With just a couple days to go until we get the long-awaited album, ATCQ has unleashed the official tracklist for the album. The list doesn’t include the guest features, however. The most notable title has to be the final track, “The Donald”…

Check it out below and be sure to get your copy this Friday.

1. “The Space Program”
2. “We The People….”
3. “Whateva Will Be”
4. “Solid Wall of Sound”
5. “Dis Generation”
6. “Kids…”
7. “Melatonin”
8. “Enough”
9. “Mobius”
10. “Black Spasmodic”
11. “The Killing Season”
12. “Lost Somebody”
13. “Movin Backwards”
14. “Conrad Tokoyo”
15. “Ego”
16. “The Donald”

UPDATE: With their new album coming next week, the Tribe has unleashed the official cover art for We Got It From Here, Thank You For Your Service. Check it out below!

Original Story:

If you weren’t excited before about the idea of a new A Tribe Called Quest album before, now you have all the reason to be.

A newly surfaced article on the New York Times reveals Tribe’s sixth and final album, titled We Got It From Here, Thank You for Your Service, will feature appearances from Andre 3000, Kendrick Lamar, Busta Rhymes and more.

We Got It From Here, Thank You for Your Service drops November 11 via Epic Records. The following day, the Tribe will perform some of the new material on SNL. Here’s some excerpts from the NYT article:

On Phife’s passing:

“I had no idea that his days was numbered,” Q-Tip said. Retelling this story in the same room where he had had so many conversations with Phife, he became too emotional to speak. He buried his face in his hands and sobbed. Finally he said, “I just want to celebrate him, you know?”

On Q-Tip and Phife reuniting:

“I went through a lot of internal and family persecution around the group,” Q-Tip said. “A lot of people faulted me for breaking it up.”

So Phife flew out to Q-Tip’s home, and they sat and talked for hours.

“He came here, and we was bonding,” Q-Tip said. “We went through all of the stuff and apologized, and it was just so good, man. We were so back.” Ms. Taylor said Phife was encouraged by the meeting: “They were developing that chemistry again. He was excited about that.”

On recording the new album:

“If you wrote your rhyme somewhere else, you still had to come back and lay your verse in Q-Tip’s house,” Busta Rhymes said. “So we pretty much did every song together. Everybody wrote his stuff in front of everybody. Everybody spat their rhymes in front of each other. We were throwing ideas around together.”

In the months since Phife died, Q-Tip has worked to finish what he called “the final Tribe album.” Its title is the one Phife wanted. What does it mean? “I don’t know,” Q-Tip said. “We’re just going with it because he liked it.”

Q-Tip said it was tough to finish the album. From April until late October, he recorded and tweaked his way to the end, but one part was never easy. “It’s so hard for me to sit in there and hear his voice,” Q-Tip said. “Sometimes I just have to like take a break and walk away. It gets heavy. It doesn’t necessarily get sad, it just gets heavy. I literally feel the energy from him when I hear his voice.”