D-block Europe returns with new single ‘Kevin McCalister’ featuring DBE affiliate Lil Pino.
D- Block Europe is a duo formed by Young Adz and Dirtbike LB. The pair from Lewisham, South London are childhood friends who were announced as D-block Europe by Jadakiss in 2013 when the pair were only 16 and 17 years of age.
The single is their first in 2021 having made three features on songs with Yxng bane, Ghost Killer track and Franglish.
The new single announcement was posted on Young adz Instagram with the caption “DBE szn new music out now”.
Since the release of their debut album ‘The blueprint – Us vs them’ in 2020 the duo have gone very quiet with their only appearances being on features and on a daily duppy that Young adz did for GRM daily, taking it back to his old rapping style without autotune.
DBE are the biggest UK act for the trap/ wave sound and had adopted the US trap model with their output prior to their hiatus, US trap acts tend to release a high quantity of projects and singles. Some of the biggest artists such as Gucci mane who has released 100 projects in his career, and Lil Wayne who has released over 30 projects are examples of this model of output in the trap music scene.
The south London duo released 5 projects in the space of 2 years which contained over 100 songs, including their debut album ‘The blueprint – us vs them’, which charted 2nd on the official charts behind Headie one’s chart-topping project ‘Edna’, and featured 29 songs.
Lil Pino features on the song, having always been the unofficial third member of DBE the 19-year-old can always be spotted in the background of freestyles or music videos that D-block Europe release. In Febuary 2020 he kick-started his own career releasing ‘Mya Mills’ which currently sits on just under 10 million Spotify streams. The young rapper is believed to have recently been released from prison as in June 2020 the duo Dirtbike LB and Young Adz released a track titled ‘Free 22’ a name the rapper better known as Lil Pino also goes by.
The video for ‘Kevin Mcallister’ is out and available to watch here :
