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Hailing from Christchurch New Zealand maitreya is an MC with a mood and a message to renew the faith of Hip Hop heads worldwide. His soulful melodies punctuated by tight, head nodding beats and rhymes made him the first ever hip hop artist to crowd-source US$50,000 to record his debut solo album Close To Home.

The album is a journey through sound into the tragedies and victories of an everyday hero who has taken his craft from Christchurch, New Zealand to stages in New York, Hong Kong, London and Amsterdam.

So dig out your De La Soul, cue up your Lupe Fiasco, slap on some Streets and they will all be in good company... you'll recognize the emotional honesty and depth, but like all great artists... maitreya does it his way.
Sat Aug 22

On Tour & New Dates

Kia Ora!

First leg of the King Kapisi Tour with Tha Feelstyle and Scalper was ill.. played shows right across new zealand, only places we didn’t get to were down the very south of the south island.. but we’re on our way!  We’re headed to CHCH, DUN, QTWN & WAN early September.  If you caught one of the shows, CHCHur for coming out and checking us out!  Here’s the new dates…

Sep 09      Christchurch, Dux de Lux
Sep 10      Dunedin, Refuel Student Bar
Sep 11      Wanaka, The Mint Bar
Sep 12      Queenstown, Revolver

At the Khuja and Dux de Lux shows we unveiled The Babysitters Club, a new band consisting of Jason Kerrison, Tim Skedden and myself.  We’ve been in Tha Lab (aka skiving off to the in-house studio at house parties) and putting down some real fresh tunes… so prepare yo’ self to be Babysat in the coming months!


In other news…


LOTALUV made it to the top 20 of the Silver Scrolls this year.. DOPE!


And WHAKAKOTAHI RANGATAHI has been nominated for the APRA Maioha Award for Maori Song Writing at this years Silver Scrolls! I recorded the song earlier this year with KILOTONE, it translates to YOUTH UNITE… You can check it out here…

www.maitreya.co.nz is coming soon!!!

PEACE!