Reykjavik´s Daughters are ready for their first trip to Norway! They hail from Iceland´s no-holds-barred hip-hop scene. You can bet that northerners will let their hair down when Reykjavikurdætur let rip with a sassy rap inferno sizzling with political edge.
The female rap clan Reykjavikurdætur have shot straight to stardom in their homeland. The band is celebrated for its political comment on Icelandic affairs and campaigns for equal rights. These girls stand behind the barricades fighting for women´s rights, environmental issues and against gun crime.
This relatively new rap constellation brings together 16 rappers, all working within the downtown Reykjavik arts scene. Despite their contrasting backgrounds they share a common goal of expressing themselves through the genre of hip-hop. The message of their music is loud and clear and it has landed them a place on the centre stage of Iceland´s music world.
This is art, even if it embraces controversy (or perhaps it’s the controversy itself that fuels the art), muses critic Rebecca Conway in The Reykjavik Grapevine after performances at Iceland Airwaves in November 2015. Conway has heard Reykjavikurdætur several times and is convinced that the band´s work is important, even if it´s controversial edge is uncompromising.
- The vocal choreography is impressive, there was method and practice in the sorority, writes the magazine Rolling Stone about Reykjavikurdætur.
Reykjavikurdætur was formed in the cellar of a flat in Reykjavik in 2013.
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