Album: PTSD 2 by D‐Block Europe (2025)
Format: Album

Tags: 2020s, Album


Album: Home Alone 2 by D-Block Europe (2021)
Format: Album

Artist Background: D-Block Europe, often abbreviated to DBE, are a British hip hop collective, consisting of Young Adz, Dirtbike LB and Lil Pino from Lewisham, London. Their name is a reference to The Lox (also known as D-Block). Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Trap movement.

Related Artists: M Huncho, Clavish, Nines

Music Scene: Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Trap movement.

Tags: 2020s, Album


“We’re not new anymore,” Young Adz tells Apple Music. “We’ve dropped countless great bodies of work, and picked up platinum and gold singles—all independently. And I understand that when you first start popping, everything’s fresh, and it’s easy to get lost in the sauce for a minute. But this lifestyle: Cars, jewels and trips is also not new to us, so it’s time that we get back to the music.” On their sixth full-length, the prolific South London collective (comprising Young Adz and Dirtbike LB) settle in with their status as kings of expansive, melodic UK rap. Originally formed in 2017 as a vehicle to draw the talented Adz back into the underground rap fold, DBE have built a hazy wonderland of Auto-Tune-layered confessionals, coupled with chilling lyricism and sordid imagery acquainted with the fast life. “We didn’t get our confidence from rap,” Young Adz says. “These personas come directly from the life we were living before we got into this.” 
Alongside recently freed affiliate Lil Pino, features for M Huncho, Tion Wayne, Central Cee, and Migos member Offset ensure the 23-track tape is a starry affair. “This is the same vibe and feel [of the first instalment],” Young Adz says. “But we’re giving it to you times ten.” There’s some diverse subject matter here, though. The pair open up on getting clean from their vices and reiterate their faith in Islam (“Black Sheep”), and newlywed Adz revels in his loved-up status (“Don’t Go”). 
But at its core Home Alone 2 reaffirms the group’s dominant, radio-owning sound and unrelenting drive, with wintry rap on their rising status (“No Competition”) and incomings (“UK Duty Paid”) while confronting their suffering and repression (“Money Can’t Buy”, “Patek Pain”). “The focus is on growth,” LB says of his expanding role within the group dynamic. “If we stay in the line that we’re in, then there will be none, so, wherever we are, we’re only trying to elevate.”

Album: PTSD by D-Block Europe (2019)
Format: Album

Artist Background: D-Block Europe, often abbreviated to DBE, are a British hip hop collective, consisting of Young Adz, Dirtbike LB and Lil Pino from Lewisham, London. Their name is a reference to The Lox (also known as D-Block). Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Trap movement.

Related Artists: M Huncho, Clavish, Nines

Music Scene: Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Trap movement.

Tags: 2010s, Album


“We destroyed Wireless,” D-Block Europe’s Young Adz tells Apple Music’s Charlie Sloth. “They had to shut down our performance, bro. People getting pulled out of the crowd—big grown men, women, half dead, bro. Crazy.” The chart-scaling numbers put up by their debut mixtape, Home Alone, had already established the South Londoners as one of UK rap’s hottest tickets. The full-capacity chaos of their set at London’s Wireless Festival in July 2019 just confirmed it. D-Block Europe have no intention of resting on their laurels either, delivering a hefty 28 tracks on this tape released seven months after Home Alone. 
Considering its size, PTSD is remarkably absorbing and coherent, reshaping UK trap with sharp wordplay, indelible hooks and plenty of sonic experimentation—the head-snapping rhythms of “Ain’t Chanelle”, the melodic melancholy of “Outside”, the searching self-examination of “Last Night in Barcelona”. “That’s why we withheld from even signing to a label in England, because this sound has never existed before over here in the way we’re doing it,” says Young Adz. “You can tell me the success you’ve had with this Afroswing artist or this club guy…that ain’t our music. We’re not a social experiment, like, ‘Let me just give them a bag and see if we can do it.’ We’ve got to do it, we’ve got to direct the wave.” 
As the collective’s core duo, Young Adz and Dirtbike LB are doing a fine job by themselves. High-wattage features from UK and US artists—including Dave, Lil Baby, AJ Tracey and Krept & Konan—highlight their lofty status in hip-hop, while cutting PTSD’s trap-house tales and bedroom stories with bold glimpses of the paranoia and trauma of road life only makes the music more compelling. “We’re the ones that are pushing this boundary,” says Young Adz. “People who are signing urban music over here, whatever they want to call it…they call it urban, we call it pop in the streets. That ain’t street music. We’re doing street, UK, wavy music, front-lining it. And we’re doing more numbers than these people that are signed with a machine that’s spending £10,000 a week to keep them in the charts.”

Album: Street Trauma by D-Block Europe (2019)
Format: Album

Artist Background: D-Block Europe, often abbreviated to DBE, are a British hip hop collective, consisting of Young Adz, Dirtbike LB and Lil Pino from Lewisham, London. Their name is a reference to The Lox (also known as D-Block). Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Trap movement.

Related Artists: M Huncho, Clavish, Nines

Music Scene: Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Trap movement.

Tags: 2010s, Album


Lewisham duo D-Block Europe show no signs of slowing down on their third mixtape of 2019 Street Trauma. It’s a work rate that’s taken Young Adz and Dirtbike LB up the charts and to The Brits, nominated in the Best Group category alongside Coldplay. This project includes no features, instead putting fans at the centre of their world over hazy, trap beats. Lyrically they cover partying, drug taking, sex and designer clothes in unfiltered detail on “Molly World”, “Bando Boy” and “Creep”, but more surprisingly the pair also get deep about depression and parenthood (on “Prescription Drugs” and “Set In Stone”). It’s that honesty that’s sending the DBE sound way beyond the streets.

Album: Any Minute Now by D-Block Europe (2018)
Format: Album

Artist Background: D-Block Europe, often abbreviated to DBE, are a British hip hop collective, consisting of Young Adz, Dirtbike LB and Lil Pino from Lewisham, London. Their name is a reference to The Lox (also known as D-Block). Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Trap movement.

Related Artists: M Huncho, Clavish, Nines

Music Scene: Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Trap movement.

Tags: 2010s, Album


Album: Home Alone by D-Block Europe (2019)
Format: Album

Artist Background: D-Block Europe, often abbreviated to DBE, are a British hip hop collective, consisting of Young Adz, Dirtbike LB and Lil Pino from Lewisham, London. Their name is a reference to The Lox (also known as D-Block). Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Trap movement.

Related Artists: M Huncho, Clavish, Nines

Music Scene: Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Trap movement.

Tags: 2010s, Album


When New York rap heavyweight Jadakiss lent his patronage—and the name of his D Block label—to D-Block Europe in 2013, it served notice that the South London collective was one of UK rap’s most promising acts. Strikingly cohesive and consistent, this mixtape is the moment that core duo Young Adz and Dirtbike LB finesse immense potential into top-table quality. Setting skilful wordplay and unshakeable melody to gauzy trap textures, “Kettle Pouring” exemplifies their complete-picture approach, which paints riveting scenes from the club, trap house, bedroom and beyond with equal emphasis on pain and profit, celebration and introspection.

Album: The Blue Print – Us Vs. Them by D-Block Europe (2020)
Format: Album

Artist Background: D-Block Europe, often abbreviated to DBE, are a British hip hop collective, consisting of Young Adz, Dirtbike LB and Lil Pino from Lewisham, London. Their name is a reference to The Lox (also known as D-Block). Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Trap movement.

Related Artists: M Huncho, Clavish, Nines

Music Scene: Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the contemporary era. Associated with Trap movement.

Tags: 2020s, Album


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