2018: Formation and pre-debut In April 2018,
Exile Hiro and
Doberman Infinity decided to produce a new group by choosing 4 finalists from "
Vocal Battle Audition 5", Ryusei Kainuma and Riki Matsui from the rap division and Ryuta Hidaka and Yoshiyuki Kanou from the vocal division, plus three members of
Project TARO who were the winners of 2014's "
Global Japan Challenge", Miku Fukahori, Rikiya Okuda, and
Masahiro Sunada. On May 1, 2018, the group's formation was announced on
TBS TV show . Starting May 12, the group participated as the opening act of
Fantastics nation-wide small-scale tour, the so called,
Musha shugyō,"
FANTASTICS yume-sha shugyō FANTASTIC 9". They were also performing as opening act of
Dance Earth Party's 3-day festival
Dance Earth Festival 2018 ~Splash Summer~ on July 14, 15 and 16, 2018.
2019: Major debut and Battle of Tokyo From March 2 to 31, 2019, Ballistik Boyz launched their own nation-wide small-scale
Musha shugyō tour
. On March 31, it was announced that the group would make their major-label debut on May 22 with a self-titled album. On the same day, the group released their first official
music video for the song "Tenhane 1000%", which was filmed in
Los Angeles. In June 2019, LDH's multimedia project "Battle of Tokyo", which includes all
Jr.Exile groups, started. During this month those 4 groups released collaboration singles every week, until they released a full album titled
Battle of Tokyo: Enter the Jr. Exile on July 3, 2019. Accompanying the album release, the groups held a row of live performances from July 4 to 7 with the same name. On August 28 it was announced that Ballistik Boyz would release their first single "44Raiders" on October 23 accompanied by a row of release-events. In September, the group held performances in
Malaysia and
Taiwan and announced they would also perform in
Indonesia,
Thailand and
Vietnam in near future. On October 1, they released the music video for the title track of their new single and launched their own
YouTube channel at the same time.
2020: Additional singles and Live×Online After performing in different countries across Asia, it was announced that the group would release their second single "Anti-Hero's" on February 12, 2020, as the kickoff single for their first national tour
Ballistik Boyz Live Tour 2020 "BBZ" , which would take place from February 14 to April 25, 2020. The lead song “Anti-Hero's” of the second single includes a message from the life of Ballistik Boyz about pursuing what you truly believe: 'If you believe in yourself and fight without fear, you will truly shine.' Furthermore, all songs from the single were pre-delivered for digital streaming in a weekly manner starting with "Anti-Hero's" on January 22, followed by "Front Burner" on January 29, "Bang Out" on February 5 and "Strangers" on February 12. On June 10, it was announced that due to
COVID-19 pandemic, all remaining concerts were cancelled, therefore the tour finishing on February 22. On August 3, the group revealed their new digital single "Summer Hype" to be released on August 10. In compensation of the suspension of their tour, the group held a series of
livestreamed concerts on the Japanese streaming platform
AbemaTV from September to December. Their first
livestreamed concert
LIVE×ONLINE IMAGINATION Ballistik Boyz was held on September 20, and on October 30, they took part in
livestreamed joint concert
Live×Online Iinfinity "Halloween" Trick or Treat!! R.F.B.Halloween Party!!. On December 23, they held another
livestreamed concert
LIVE×ONLINE BEYOND THE BORDER BALLISTIK BOYZ. On December 31, the group took part in the
livestreamed concert of LDH artists,
Live×Online Countdown 2020▶2021"Rising Sun to the World".
2021: Pass the Mic On January 1, 2021, the group released their new single "Animal" on February 3. On February 17, it was announced that they would hold their second national tour, Ballistik Boyz Prologue Live Tour 2021 "Pass the Mic": Way to the Glory in March and April. On April 18, a new album by Jr.Exile for the Battle of Tokyo project titled
Battle of Tokyo Time 4 Jr.Exile was announced to be released on June 23, the songs by the individual groups and the collaboration song of
Generations & The Rampage were pre-released digitally from April 19 to June 21, the music videos were released in a hybrid live-action/animated form, with this latter featuring the four groups' avatars. Moreover, the DVD version included the concert video of Battle of Tokyo: Enter the Jr.Exile held in Makuhari Messe in July 2019. On August 4, they released their fourth single "Sum Baby". On November 24, Ballistik Boyz released their second album
Pass the Mic, it includes all their singles since their debut plus the album's promotional track "All Around the World" with a total of 18 songs. On December 8, the group released the tribute single "Ballistik Boyz from Exile" as a part of Exile's 20th anniversary celebration project "Exile Tribute", the single is the second of the four consecutive tribute singles releases by Jr.Exile groups. == Members ==