How the group’s 10 members live today.

An interview gone awry.

“On paper, [DJ Khaled] doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. He’s released eight full-length albums but doesn’t actually rap on any of them. He’s perhaps the most quoted figure in hip-hop, able to create viral catch phrases with an ease that marketing executives dream about. He’s played a serious role in the hip-hop industry throughout his career, yet he’s perceived almost exclusively as a meme by fans across the nation.”

Outkast’s Andre Benjamin at 42.

You gotta understand, I’ve only written one check in my life. When I was 17, they still had checkbooks, and my mom taught me how to write a check and do my balance. So I had one check on my balance, and then OutKast took off. I have not paid a bill since. People ask, What does it feel like? As humans, we want attention. We want to be validated. At the same time, it’s strange attention, and a lot of it. If you have an excess of anything, it becomes strange.

Linguistics and a Blink-182 song.

An interview with Joanna Newsom.

When the Rolling Stones played Altamont.

On Azealia Banks.

A conversation with Prince.

Being off the grid suits Kurt Vile just fine. Sitting on the wraparound porch in jeans and a green T-shirt he got at the Ramones Museum in Berlin, unruly curls falling well below his shoulders, the 38-year-old Philadelphia singer-guitarist squirts several drops of a tincture labeled “Calm Mind” into a plastic water bottle and gives it a thorough swish. “Ayurvedic herbs,” he explains after gulping down his concoction. “It’s like nature’s Xanax.” He doesn’t sound entirely convinced.

With flash, hip-hop echoes rock’s golden age.

When rock was at its peak in 1972, Americans earning the equivalent of $1m a year took just over 1 per cent of national income. In 2010, this group’s share of national income had grown to almost 10 per cent. At the same time, the average tax paid by these top earners almost halved. The rise of Jay-Z’s “new black elite” reflects the growth in numbers of the super-wealthy. But the opulence that he and West flaunt also reflects the growing estrangement of those at the top from the rest.

The people at Apple, Spotify, and Google who decide what you listen to.

The 32-year-old Atlanta rapper released three No. 1 albums in seven months.

On China’s pop music charm offensive.

On Bruce Springsteen’s song, and growing up in a factory town.

Making vision boards with rap’s strangest fallen star.

An interview with Curtis Mayfield.

Life as the most famous children’s musician on earth.

A sit-down with Ms. Franklin.

The singer-songwriter has a calico cat named Nietzsche.

On trying out for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The reclusive Swedish songwriting guru gives his first interview in 20 years.

On the 13-member rap collective Brockhampton.