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.
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