Not many, if any in the music business would have picked a hip hop MC from Christchurch to be the first New Zealander to have a No 1 single and No 1 album in the charts simultaneously.
Not many, if any, would have picked Scribe's single Stand Up to spend arecord 12 weeks at number one, breaking the old nine-week record for a New Zealand artist set by All of Us singing the America's Cup-inspired Sailing Away in 1986.
But then, as Scribe repeatedly says in this year's monster hit: "How many dudes you know flow like this?".
Not many. Actually, not any. He's made history and along the way has forced the music industry and record buyers to accept hip hop into the mainstream. His debut album The Crusader has sold more than 45,000 copies, not to mention the thousands of burned copies doing the rounds in the nation's high schools.
Through artists such as King Kapisi, Che Fu and Nesian Mystik, Polynesian hip hop has been building a following for years. But the 24-year-old - real name Malo Luafutu - has taken the genre to a new level of popularity and is giving voice to the stories of New Zealand-born Polynesians. This year, New Zealand hip-hop really did stand up, and Scribe stood out.
