Some of the tracks have been released over the last two years and others are yet to be heard by fans.<\/p>\n
Scribe’s latest album has been unveiled.<\/p>\n
Scribe<\/a> posted on Instagram about the new album this morning.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not doing any media or promo. Everything I want to say is in the music,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cThe journey I had to take<\/a> to get to this point … is not for the faint-hearted.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter tomorrow, I will be retired from recording music. God has put a new song in my heart and a new vision of His plan for me.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope you enjoy my last contribution and most personal album to NZ hip-hop \u2013 a community I have always loved being a part of and always supporting in some way.\u201d<\/p>\n He signed the message off \u201cpeace, love and hip-hop\u201d.<\/p>\n Scribe captured the hearts of New Zealanders when his debut album The Crusader was released in 2003, going gold within hours and platinum after just a few days.<\/p>\n His hit Stand Up was awarded Single of the Year at the 2004 New Zealand Music Awards.<\/p>\n He also received two number one singles before releasing Dreaming in 2004, which went straight to number one.<\/p>\n In December 2023, he told Rolling Stone AU\/NZ that the album was his \u201cgoodbye\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI have to go out the way I want to go out. All my songs have a message; everything is just what I want to say,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m just in this phase of putting out this album that I\u2019ve been talking about for like 100 years \u2013 but now I\u2019m in the right frame of mind and spirit to be like, \u2018I\u2019m ready now to let these go\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cI think I figured out that I\u2019m never going to be happy. I\u2019m such a perfectionist and … I\u2019m always unsure. It\u2019s always pressure. But I think I took a lot of the pressure off myself because I think I\u2019m so old now that it\u2019s just about getting the music out.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of my writing is inspired by going through shit, and most of the time that\u2019s how I manage it and deal with it. Obviously, I\u2019ve been through a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n The artist became a popular figure in New Zealand, with many children and aspiring musicians idolising the rapper and the positive messages in his lyrics.<\/p>\n In 2007, Scribe released his second album Rhyme Book, which included collaborations with his cousin Tyra Hammond and New York hip-hop artist Talib Kweli.<\/p>\n Scribe\u2019s success was short-lived after revealing in 2011 he suffered from drug, alcohol and gambling addictions.<\/p>\n In the same year, Scribe revealed he got clean after racking up more than $5000 in debt to a Christchurch pawnbroker who sold several of the rapper\u2019s awards \u2013 taken as security for a personal loan \u2013 on Trade Me.<\/p>\n In November 2011, Scribe was arrested in Wellington for disorder and released after being formally warned.<\/p>\n In March 2017, he posted that he had returned to rehab.<\/p>\n In August the same year, Canterbury police issued an appeal <\/a>for information about the then-38-year-old\u2019s whereabouts.<\/p>\n He faced a raft of charges<\/a>, including possession of an offensive weapon, procuring or possessing methamphetamine, possession or use of methamphetamine utensils and two charges of failing to answer District Court bail.<\/p>\n In 2021, he spoke about all of his trials, tribulations and demons in an eight-part documentary.<\/p>\n Scribe: Return of The Crusader was positioned as a redemption documentary to promote his return to music.<\/p>\n It also included his friends\u2019 and family\u2019s accounts of what he went through<\/a> during his life.<\/p>\n Anna Leask is a senior journalist who covers national crime and justice. She joined the Herald in 2008 and has worked as a journalist for 19 years with a particular focus on family and gender-based violence, child abuse, sexual violence, homicides, mental health and youth crime. 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Scribe pictured at the time of his first album.<\/p>\n
Scribe recounted his fall from stardom during an eight-part TVNZ documentary.<\/p>\n
The Christchurch rapper performed at the Electric Avenue music festival in Christchurch in 2021. Photo \/ George Heard<\/p>\n
The mugshot of Scribe, published by police on Facebook.<\/p>\n