Members of the Soulquarians, an alternative-minded black music collective active from the late 1990s to early 2000s, held jam sessions while recording their respective albums at Electric Lady Studios. This began in 1997 when the singer D'Angelo and drummer-producer Questlove (of The Roots) prepared to record the former's "Voodoo" (2000) album at the studio. Their sessions there over the next five years resulted in the Roots' albums "Things Fall Apart" (1999) and "Phrenology" (2002), singer Erykah Badu's second album "Mama's Gun" (2000), rapper Common's "Like Water for Chocolate" (2000) and "Electric Circus" (2002), and singer Bilal's debut album "1st Born Second". Badu has said that "just about everything from ["Mama's Gun"] was a jam".