D Block Europe | Before They Were Famous | Young Adz & Dirtbike LB Success Story

Before the hip-hop collective known as D Block Europe would take
over the “UK rap wave” scene with their unfiltered takes on the
streets and some truly explicit sexual lyrics, Adam Nathaniel
“Young Adz” Williams and Ricky Earl “Dirtbike LB” Banton would be
born on July 29th, 1995 and October 30th, 1996 respectively. These
two developed the kind of chemistry you can’t fake by spending a
good portion of their youth together, forging their friendship on
the streets of South London. They first met at Catford’s Sedgehill
Academy and bonded over the fact that their older brothers knew one
another. Neither one of them enjoyed their time in Sedgehill and
both remember it being a rather inadequate educational institution
that failed to prepare them for life in the real world. LB, in
particular, feels like the school set them up for a life on the
streets and that the teachers spent more time fighting with
students than teaching them anything of merit. Of course, it also
didn’t help that their home life didn’t offer much in the form of
rules or structure either.