09 May 2012 - 0 Comments

Home Brew Crew’s highly anticipated self-titled album has made its debut at #1 in the NZ Top 40 album chart this week. Home Brew is the first local #1 hip-hop debut album since Scribe's The Crusader in November 2003.

With little commercial radio and TV support due to the explicit nature of the majority of their songs, Home Brew’s recent win has come off the back of strong digital album pre-orders and the now infamous 48-Hour Speakeasy album release party in Auckland over the weekend (where party-goers received a copy of the album with their ticket purchase), proving there can be commercial success by doing things a littledifferently.

“I’ve always tried so hard to make the industry hate us and now we’re number one - I guess I even failed at that,” says Home Brew’s Tom Scott. “It's def an honour, but I don't really care too much about the number considering last month One Direction were top of the charts. I just hope we've made something that resonates with people. Nothing's changed. Wake up. Make music. Back to life.”

Home Brew’s hard work has paid off though. “I worked my ass off to get this album finished - now that it's number one I feel like we definitely deserved that spot,” says Home Brew’s beat maker, Haz Beats. “I don’t know how to explain it but it's the best feeling in the world.”

Hype man, Lui Silk agrees: “We've come a long way and I’m happy to be a part of something special. A lot of hard work from the crew finally paying off is a great feeling!”

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“Three years in the making…it strikes me as the most sophisticated and insightful hip-hop album made in this country todate.” - Grant Smithies, Sunday Star Times

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