Roots of D-Block Europe

Jason Terrance Phillips, better known by his stage name Jadakiss, is an American rapper who began his career in the 1990s and formed the hip hop trio the Lox alongside Styles P and Sheek Louch in 1994. The group signed with Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records, an imprint of Arista Records to release their debut studio album, Money, Power & Respect (1998); their second album, We Are the Streets (2000) was released by Ruff Ryders Entertainment, an imprint of Interscope Records. Both peaked within the top five of the Billboard 200 and yielded critical praise; their two subsequent albums, Filthy America... It's Beautiful (2016) and Living Off Xperience (2020) were both released by Jay-Z's Roc Nation and met with continued praise.

Christopher David Kyei is known professionally as Skrapz, is a British rapper. Skrapz was originally known as UK grime MC called Skrapsta, where "he was part of the collective SLK with human soundboard Flirta D and the likes of Van Damage and Lady Envy. SLK ended in 2007 and so he started the transition into rap."