On February 6, 2020, Jay Electronica announced that he had completed his debut studio album "A Written Testimony". He recorded the album in "40 days and 40 nights", beginning on December 26, 2019. The track "The Neverending Story" was produced by American musician the Alchemist three to four years prior to "A Written Testimony", as a result of a trip he took to Argentina with rapper Eminem. Jay Electronica and Jay-Z recorded the final track, "A.P.I.D.T.A.", on the night of January 26, 2020, when former NBA player Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash. The former set an initial release date of March 18, 2020, which was 40 days after recording was completed. In February 2020, radio host Angela Yee, who formerly managed Jay Electronica, confirmed on American radio show "The Breakfast Club" that she had listened to the album and "Jay-Z is on much of the album."