Moses Pelham (original) (raw)
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German rapper (b. 1971)
Pelham in 2019
Moses Pelham (born 24 February 1971 in Frankfurt) is a German rapper, singer and producer.
In 1993, together with Thomas Hofmann in Frankfurt, he started the Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt. Pelham is a member of the German band Glashaus.
- 1989: Raining Rhymes
- 1992: The Bastard Lookin' 4 the Light (1992 produced, but first published in 2000)
- 1994: Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt – Direkt aus Rödelheim (with Thomas Hofmann)
- 1995: Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt – Live aus Rödelheim (with Thomas Hofmann)
- 1996: Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt – Zurück nach Rödelheim (with Thomas Hofmann)
- 1998: Geteiltes Leid I
- 2004: Geteiltes Leid II
- 2012: Geteiltes Leid III
- 2017: Herz
- 2020: Emuna
- 2021: Nostalgie Tape
- 1988: Ay-Ay-Ay (What We Do for Love) (with Rico Sparx)
- 1988: Twilight Zone
- 1989: Can This Be Love
- 1989: Raining Rhymes
- 1990: Muscles (with Harold Faltermeyer)
- 1998: Hartreim Saga
- 1998: Schnaps für alle
- 1999: Skillz (with Illmat!c & Xavier Naidoo)
- 1999: Mein Glück
- 2000: Bonnie & Clyde 2000 (with Cora E.)
- 2004: Ein schöner Tag
- 2004: 77 Minutes of Strugglin (with Illmat!c & Kool Savas)
- 2006: Gott liebt mich
- 2009: Strugglin' (2009 ISAS Remix) (with Illmat!c, Kool Savas & Cassandra Steen)
- 2012: Für die Ewigkeit
- 2019: Notaufnahme
- 2020: Weiße Fahne
- 2020: Wunder (with Faiz Mangat)
- 2020: Juli
- 2020: Emuna (acoustic) (with Stefanie Kloß)
- 2020: Backstein
- 2020: Du
- 2021: Lappen wie Du
Lawsuit with Kraftwerk
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Pelham used for his 1997 song "Nur mir" a two-second sample of Kraftwerk's "Metall auf Metall" from 1977. As a result, Kraftwerk sued Pelham for copyright infringement. The case continued for over 20 years, with Pelham ultimately losing in 2020.[1] However, as copyright law changed shortly afterwards, the ruling doesn't apply to the current law, and the lawsuits for the use of the sample after June 2021 continue.[2]
- ^ BGH, Judgment of 30.04.2020, I ZR 115/16 (‘Metall auf Metall IV'), DE:BGH:2020:300420UIZR115.16.0
- ^ Legal Tribune Online: Kraftwerk-Fall geht noch mal zum EuGH (in German)