(ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC) - MAN: Louisville slugger. (LAUGHS) - SCRIBE RAPS: # Destiny. Destiny. Destiny. # I got my eyes on my destiny. # Some things in life are just meant to be. # I'm really nervous about tonight. I know I'm not prepared. I know I'm` I've put on a lot of weight since being clean. I do feel pressure. You know, I do feel old. I think this might be my first gig in two years. I weighed myself. I'm 131kgs, which is the heaviest I've been in a long time. I'm putting my balls on the fuckin' line. I'm going to open with a brand new song called Destiny. RAPS: # I've been here for years. I don't get fatigued. # You know when that smoke clears all that's left is me # and my destiny. Uh. # Blood, sweat and tears was the recipe. Uh. # You took more style` # You motherfuck... - (P-MONEY CHUCKLES) - (GROANS) Sorry, G. - You're killing it, bro. - Oh, it's always a pleasure being with Pete. Like, when` when we see each other, we pick it right back up. - I'm a little more hands-off this go around, because I think in the early days, I was probably too heavy-handed and too much trying to control... every piece of his output. And that just can end in` in just disappointment ` for myself. (CHUCKLES) So sometimes it's just like, 'Cool, you're making your thing. I'm here. - # RAPS: Boy, I knew it was coming eventually. # Yeah. Destiny... # Yeah, I think that was good. - Mm. Sounds better. - We are total opposites. He's very sceptical. I'm very trusting. (CHUCKLES) Um... But when we work together, magic happens. Ooh! - MAN: Ooh-hoo! - I think that's it, eh, G? I straight-up think that's it. - (LAUGHS) - Oh! - It was just great. I remember commenting to him, I was like, 'Man, I think you found your voice again.' It just sounded like the Scribe that I remember. Cool. Wanna lay some, um` - Yeah, let's do some BVs real quick and just wrap it up, eh? - Passion meets a planner. That's how I'd put it. Malo's the drive and the passion, and Money is the plan. (RAPS) My earliest memory is this park, and I identified it as the park that was by the jail where my brother and I would play while my mum visited my father. I must have been 4� years old. And then my next memory... is... smoking a joint at 5, with my brother. - It wasn't unusual for our generation, from Malo up, to have experienced drugs and alcohol and those effects. - When I was 13, my mum got committed into a mental institution. And I remember from that point, I made a choice that I was going to do drugs, and I was going to be... I pretty much just gave up. - I think he kind of, uh, put a wall up, cos he was very open with me, but I felt the change. I felt like there was a wee separation in our, um, relationship. - By 16, I was selling marijuana. And at 17, I became an opioid user ` junkie. - Um, I remember him being like, yeah, 15 or 16, it must have been, seeing track marks in his arms. (SNIFFS) - I left home, and me and a group of my friends who were users, you know, we didn't have no jobs, so we were doing crime ` heinous crimes ` GBH, home invasion, um, fraud, even impersonating a police officer. I've done it all. - I was heartbroken and surprised and disappointed to see him taking drugs, you know. I, um... I remember, you know, seeing... Sorry. I'm gonna get emotional. I didn't mean to. I don't think I can talk about this. - It took my mother to break me out of that addiction. Once she found out, she confronted me and disowned me. And from that moment, I... I told her I'd never do it again. - Well, I know what it was like to be a drug addict, and I know what it's like not to be one. So my son, really, you know, didn't have a good start in that area. That addiction was going to be quite a problem for him. - A month later, my group of friends all got done for the crimes we'd been committing, and I met a man named P-Money. (RECORD SCRATCHES) I think it's important to see that there's a really thin line between making it and not making it. That's P-Money. Getting that? - P-Money on the orange juice. Cheers. - So, yeah, really nervous about tonight. I know I'm not prepared. I put my set together last night. I haven't rehearsed. On the flip side of that, even though I know I'm not 100% prepared for this gig, I've been doing this so long that I can still do it. RAPS: # Any time of day I'm focusing... You know, Pete was the first guy that helped me. And, you know, I stayed at his house, out in` when he lived out in Papakura. You know, met his mum and dad and slept in his room, you know, and we were just doing our thing on a very basic level. And when you do that with someone and you start from zero, and you go all the way to the bloody top, you know, those experiences that we have are for life. To me, he is my brother. - P-MONEY: Done. That's it. - You reckon? - Yeah. It's awesome. - Yeah? - (CHUCKLES) It was wicked. I mean, it's up to you, because` Listen back and see if it's capturing what you... - OK. - ....think it needs. But honestly, the performance was on. Sounds great. Back then, some days he might` he might smoke some weed before coming to the studio, or even at the studio, and those days would be really slow. - Here we are. Today's another brand-new day. It's Wednesday. We're going to go hit the studio today at Dirty. We're going to have some fuckin' breakfast. Toast. And of course some fuckin' weed. That's how we start our day. - He didn't seem aware of it, but I'd be like, 'Bro, if you come to the studio sober, you are better. - (PUFFS) - Like, your performances are better. You don't forget the lyrics. Timing is on. It's going to be better. Yeah. - What's up, yo? Welcome to Australia. We're at Coogee. We're about to go on MTV. Peter! - No, I've got my own one over here. I'm doing my own one! - When he kind of hit fame, and the album came out, he was doing a lot of travelling. (P-MONEY SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY OVER SPEAKER) - Scribe! (CROWD CHEERS) - I was working every day... and smoking meth,... (SCRIBE YELLS OUT, CROWD CHEERS) ...doing tours, you know, not sleeping. - You gotta be happy. They had to close the doors. They had to stop people coming in. - MAN: They reckon there was 20,000 in there. - I was burning, you know, the wick at both ends. - I know that there was a lot of drugs being given to him. He would finish the gig and his pockets would just be full. He was just travelling all the time. You know, sometimes months away on the road. And then he would come back, and he would be in, like, recovery. - You just didn't know what character you were going to get, you know? Sometimes he would wake up happy, and sometimes... you'd just wish (CHUCKLES) he was still asleep. - Yeah, I reckon one more. One more! - One more, man! Come on, man. (OVERLAPPING CONVERSATION) - One more! - You can do it. Just get out there. - P-MONEY: Scribe would do this thing. He's got a song about it ` it's called AWOL. And he would just disappear. There was one, actually, in Australia. Went all the way to Australia to do the show, and he didn't make it. So I'm at this gig, and there's a room full of people, and we're getting paid a lot of money, and it's just me. There's not a Scribe show. So I do a DJ set, and I apologise as much as I can, but I can't reach him. I don't know what's happened. I don't know why he wasn't able to travel or why he missed the flight. And I'm left there just holding` And people are looking at me like, 'Well, you must be responsible for him.' And I'm like... - I'm sure Malo being, like, AWOL and taking off and disappearing wherever he goes to get out of it, or to hide or whatever it is, you know, I'm 100% positive that that's like a coping mechanism to just get away... for a bit. (CROWD CHEERS) - I need to know if y'all ready right now! (CROWD CHEERS) My name's MC Scribe, and I'm fuckin' old, G. (CROWD CHEERS) But I appreciate your love right now. Can I play a new song? (CROWD CHEERS) This is off my new album, coming out next year. (INTRO PLAYS) RAPS: # Destiny, destiny, destiny. # I got my eyes on my destiny. # Some things in life are just meant to be. # I knew it was coming eventually. # Ay, destiny... # I felt a lot of pressure. It was hard for a 23-year-old to deal with. I was never feeling good, so P was my go-to. # I knew it was coming eventually. # I got no time, no place. Shit just got me like I'm no type of fake. # Sick of these snakes. Ah! # - Just all these problems came about from him disappearing, and, like, just getting deeper into his addiction. Man! Yeah. There was a lot of` a lot of stuff that we had to patch up and cover off to get back, to even be in a room together to feel, like, positive and create. - # It's my destiny, G. My destiny, G. # It's a waste of time flexin' on me. Bitches throw hexes on me. # I will not stop till the day that I'm resting in peace. Destiny. # Destiny. Destiny. Destiny. # I knew it was coming eventually. # (CROWD CHEERS) That's just a little sample of my new shit. It was a struggle ` physically. I know I'm not fit. But the energy of the crowd carried me through. They were so excited. Inside, I know that I can do better, so I feel let down` like I let myself down. This was a good warm-up for me to be like, OK, now I know where I'm at and where I need to get to to be match fit. (CHEERING)