These days, musical crews dissipate as quickly as they form, but Spillage Village, a creative collective—made up of a bunch of eclectic rappers, singers and producers—is on the rise. After dropping three well-received albums, the members, which includes founders Olu, WowGr8 (a.k.a. the duo EarthGang) and J.I.D plus artists 6lack, Jurdan Bryant, Hollywood JB, Mereba and Benji, reached a new career milestone after releasing their major label debut LP, Spilligion, on Interscope Records this past fall. Spillage Village’s latest musical plateau is nearly a decade in the making. The members, five of whom are signed to solo deals with Interscope, have slightly varied accounts of when exactly they came together. According to EarthGang and J.I.D, the story goes something like this: A bunch of early 20-somethings connect during smoking sessions and block parties at Virginia’s Hampton University between 2009 and 2013. After getting bars off on campus, the group of then-five friends evolved into a crew of artists actively trying to succeed in music together. By early 2014, the first five members (minus Mereba, 6lack and Benji, who joined later) now dubbed Spillage Village, headed back to Atlanta and soon dropped the group’s debut LP,