![]() ![]() According to Bryant, that isolation forced them to be resourceful, just like old times: “It actually made us have to come together. Suddenly, the seven remaining musicians found themselves alone, more or less the way they began making music as unknowns in the vibrant Atlanta underground scene of the early 2010s. When Georgia issued stay-at-home orders in early April, lockdown became a necessity, and the artists cut off the open-door policy. “We’re not really studio people, we’re house people,” says group manager Barry Johnson. Cole-affiliated collective whose members overlap with Spillage Village’s - worked in their well-documented sessions for last year’s Revenge of the Dreamers III, also held in Atlanta under less frightening circumstances. This approach is similar to how Dreamville - the J. Everyone else stayed for more than two months. ![]() 6lack was stuck in Los Angeles, but participated remotely, eventually flying out towards the end of the sessions Mereba was there at the start, but returned to L.A. Each group member got their own bedroom, and more often than not their own makeshift recording space apart from the big communal ones that were already part of the home’s design. The artists, their teams, and other musicians and friends would come and go. Benji’s brother Christo isn’t technically a member of Spillage Village, but he’s the go-to beatmaker for Earthgang and J.I.D and produced much of Spilligion while living with the group.Īt first, the sessions in the West Atlanta house, which was built by a music producer with just this sort of project in mind, weren’t all that different from how J.I.D had originally envisioned them. The latest addition is Benji, who added an extra musical dimension with his prodigious bass skills. The group began with five members before Mereba and 6lack, a former roommate of Earthgang, joined in 2014. With just a few features from the likes of Ari Lennox, Chance the Rapper, and Big Rube, Spilligion sounds like what you might imagine happens when seven distinct voices share a space and lean on one another to process the events of an uncertain world. ![]() It comes as close as any album made in quarantine to capturing the messiness of this chaotic, bleak year. What they created is Spilligion, an album filled equally with uplifting, soulful melodies and contemplative bars about day-to-day reality in 2020. “In this case, I was like, ‘We might as well do it since nobody’s doing anything.’” Doctur Dot) got close after attending Hampton University, and has since grown considerably. “We always did that communal thing,” he says of Spillage Village, which began when he and the two members of Earthgang (Olu, a.k.a. It’s not for the likes, it’s for the love.'Silence of the Lambs': The Complete Buffalo Bill Storyīlack Sabbath on the Making of 'Vol. So this project is the next chapter of that. ![]() At this point now, we’ve been on tours, we’ve got a lot of other things we’ve been working on. The second one came as niggas had toured a little bit, learned a little bit. The first one came out when we first started fucking around with these sounds. We use these Bears projects like checkpoints, markers in time. #SPILLAGE VILLAGE BEARS LIKE THIS TOO 9CLACKS MAC#Cole, Quentin Miller, Mac Miller, Ducko McFli, Childish Major and more. Weeks after preparing for the release of their new album, Bears Like This Too Much, with such singles as “ Can’t Call It” and “ Laundry Day,” they arrive today to drop off the 12-song project. Spillage Village is a collective of artists and producers that consists of EarthGang, J.I.D, Hollywood JB and Jordxn Bryant. ![]()
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