Spillage Village

The group was originally founded by Olu (aka Johnny Venus) and WowGr8 (aka Doctur Dot) of EarthGang, who recruited rapper JID to the group during their time at Hampton University. Brothers Hollywood JB and Jurdan Bryant joined the Spillage Village soon after. Doctur Dot and Johnny Venus approached JID after hearing his first mixtape around campus in 2010. The rest of the group also came into Spillage Village through connections including producer Hollywood JB, who met Doctur Dot at a block party and joined soon afterward.[1][2] Their first compilation as a collective, Bears Like This, was released independently on February 2, 2014. The album was an exclusive project between the initial five members of Spillage Village, with no features by outside artists. Later in 2014, they announced that singer Mereba had joined the collective, along with 6LACK who used to live at EarthGang’s house.[3][4] A year later, Spillage Village followed up with their second compilation, Bears Like This Too on July 6, 2015, including 6LACK and OG Maco.[5]

On July 29, 2016, DJ Khaled’s ninth studio album, Major Key, included a track produced by Hollywood JB titled ”Jermaine's Interlude" featuring J. Cole and EarthGang. The track originally came into fruition after Cole invited EarthGang and JID to his studio, and Hollywood JB played him the beat.[2] The song was later released in full as a Spillage Village single called “Can’t Call It” on November 8, 2016.[6] Spillage Village released their third compilation Bears Like This Too Much on December 2, 2016. It soon proved to be their breakout project as a collective. Outside of the Spillage Village initial five, the album featured only three outside artists: J. Cole, Bas, and Quentin Miller. Production was from a variety of contributors, including Mac Miller, Childish Major, J. Cole, and Hollywood JB.[1] When describing the collective albums, EarthGang said: "It's the third part to the saga. We use these "Bears" projects like checkpoints, markers in time. The first one came out when we first started fucking around with these sounds. The second one came as niggas had toured a little bit, learned a little bit. At this point now, we've been on tours, we've got a lot of other things we've been working on."[7]

In 2017, it was announced that JID and EarthGang signed to Dreamville Records.[8][9] JID, EarthGang, Mereba, 6lack and Hollywood JB all made an appearance on the Dreamville compilation album Revenge of the Dreamers III.[10]

In 2020, Spillage Village announced their fourth collective album Spilligion.[11] On June 11, they released the single "End of Daze".[12] The group expanded with the additions of Atlanta rapper Deante' Hitchcock and Pittsburgh rapper Benji.[13]