The Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt ("Rödelheim Hard-Rhyme Project"), for short RHP, was a mid-1990s German rap group from

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, a part of

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. The group comprised two members, Moses P. (

Moses Pelham 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. Wor ...

) and Thomas H. (Thomas Hofmann). They were among the first groups to garner commercial success by rapping in

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, while stylistically leaning more towards American

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Band history

Moses Pelham had already had moderate success as a

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with his first

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single ''Twilight Zone'' in 1989, before hitting a brick wall in his attempts to market his self-produced second album. In 1993 he teamed up with his old friend Thomas Hofmann, whom he had met on a

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court, to form the Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt. They recorded their album that year with producers Martin Haas, who had worked on Moses's unreleased second album, and Robert Sattler and supported by future stars

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and

Sabrina Setlur Sabrina Setlur (born 10 January 1974), formerly known as Schwester S., is a German rapper. Her debut was in 1995 under the guidance of 3p Records executive and mentor Glashaus, Moses Pelham, producer of her breakthrough single "Ja Klar". Followin ...

. The album, entitled ''Direkt aus Rödelheim'' ("Straight out of Rödelheim", an allusion to

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's ''

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''), surprisingly sold an impressive 160,000 copies in 1994. In 1995, when Schwester S. (a.k.a. Sabrina Setlur) released her debut album, RHP collaborated with her on the single ''Ja Klar'' ("Yeah, right") which entered the Top 10 of the

Media Control charts. In 1996 the group released their second and last album, ''Zurück nach Rödelheim'' ("Back to Rödelheim"), which entered the charts at 3rd position and sold 180,000 copies. The first single extracted from the album, ''Höha, Schnella, Weita'' ("Higha, Fasta, Furtha") received a lot of airplay and was also fairly successful. It was this year that Moses split with the group's former label,

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, for his own new label,

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(3p). From around then on, RHP factually ceased to exist, while Moses Pelham now concentrated on marketing his label's artists and on his own solo career.

Discography

* ''Direkt aus Rödelheim'' (1994) * ''Live aus Rödelheim'' (1995) * ''Zurück nach Rödelheim'' (1996)

References

External links

The 3p label page (German)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rodelheim Hartreim Projekt German hip-hop groups Musical groups from Frankfurt