Moses Pelham defends his friend Xavier Naidoo, whose conspiracy stories he doesn’t really want to know. He also protects the Böhse Onkelz.
On Friday (January 24, 2025) the last – at least according to announcement – album by Moses Pelham will be released. Gastars also take part in “Last Words”. Regional buddies receive special attention. On the one hand, the “brutal rockers” Böhse Onkelz, a former right-wing extremist band that wants to distance themselves from their past and now continues to make bad music even without a right-wing extremist stance.
On the other hand, there is Xavier Naidoo. The “son of Mannheim” is a pupil of the Rödelheim-Hartreim rapper. Naidoo, a conspiracy teller with partly anti-Semitic attitudes and an avowed racist, who has been controversial since 2020, recently asked for forgiveness for his actions and views. He was able to soften the heart of his friend Olli Pocher. However, he failed to make a comeback. So now three songs on the Moses Pelham album “Last Words”. New attempt.
“Terrible nonsense”
In an interview, Pelham was asked whether he was afraid of shitstorms because he hired Böhse Onkelz and Xavier Naidoo. Pelham’s answer: “I don’t know what they’re accused of.” When the “FAZ” journalist brings up the Onkelz’s right-wing extremist past, the Hessian rap godfather really gets into it: “That’s such terrible nonsense. That this crap is constantly being parroted. They have spoken out again and again against right-wing extremism (…) This sends the message as a society: You can do whatever you want, we won’t take you back anyway. That’s incredibly unfair and stupid.”
Moses Pelham, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to want to listen to Xavier Naidoo. When asked that Buddy had already recorded a song with hardcore right-wing extremists, Pelham happily replied: I couldn’t listen to that for more than a minute. For me, the pieces we made together are a thousand times more important. And that’s true for most people.”
“Brother, sit down.”
Nevertheless, Pelham admits that there may well be a need for discussion with Naidoo. When he finds the peace to find out about his “brother”: “And when I make my last album, I want him to be there: I don’t care what you did, brother, sit down. Do you want something to drink? There are allegations that I only recently heard about and I still have to deal with them. But I want to do that with him and not in public.”
Talk about the past with Xavier Naidoo BEFORE recording the album? Moses Pelham probably didn’t have time for that…