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Brock Hampton's original members formed after posting on a Kanye West fan message board.

And started making music in the woodlands, Texas, a pretty unassuming suburb of Houston.

Since that time, they've turned the idea of a boy band on its head.

With as many as 14 members at times, Brock Hampton's deconstructed, the traditional pop star rap ethos,

by being unapologetically inclusive of racial and sexual identities, and not letting anyone sound to find them.

Today Brock Hampton's frontman Kevin Abstract talks through the group's sixth and latest album,

Roadrunner New Light New Machine with Rick Rubin.

In an effort to recapture the spontaneity of their early career, the group all crashed together Kevin's house while recording their new album.

While here Kevin talked about how the project slowly evolved from my pop album to something darker and more raptured.

Kevin also explains how supporting one of the group's members through losing their dad became the album's creative thrust.

And talks about why their next album will probably be their last.

This is Broken Record, line of notes for the digital age. I'm Justin Richmond.

Here's Rick Rubin with Brock Hampton's Kevin Abstract.

What's been going on since the start of your last album?

The last time I saw you had a super early version of the album, and then we just started working super hard on it right after.

Even then I remember you had already been working on it for the longest ever.

Yeah, like two years, which is a very long time for us.

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