Quarashi: An Intimate Portrait

A hilarious video made by Quarashi for their press kit:
'Quarashi are four skinny white boys, making rap music that could be described as an open love letter to the days of Public Enemy, Run DMC, and the Beastie Boys. An electronic press kit offers an "intimate portrait" of Quarashi and gives foreigners some idea of what life in Iceland is like. Sölvi ( "drummer slash producer") would have turned to "snow crimes" long ago, if not for his love of skating - ice skating. Omar, a vocalist who sounds like Chuck D, indicates a small sheep cowering by the window and tells us that it is a "typical Icelandic central heating system". Hössi, Quarashi's on-stage frontman, is fishing. "I love fishing," he enthuses, "and once I found out you could be drunk all day... there was no turning back!" Stoney, another vocalist, sits at his desk, monitoring cleanliness at some mineral springs, addressing bathers through a loudhaler.

"We watched a couple of EPKs from other artists and they were the most boring thing I've ever seen," Hössi explains. "They were just talking about themselves and the songs that they make. We decided to portray a foreigner's ideas of Iceland, which are usually wrong. It's just a big lie but people would come up to me, in America, and say how amazing they thought it was that I was also a fisherman. That's the power of TV, I guess."'

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Music

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• Quarashi
• Jinx
• Iceland
• Press
• Kit
• Sheep

[hockeypro0004]

wats the song playing in between ommars and hosssi wher omar scratches it

[Concretepiggy]

Xeneizes

[SpyRimar]

lol ohh man that translation is so bad xD

at 6:03 Real translation is:

Now it's time for you to get down here and... and wash your fucking balls you sweaty motherfucker (or sweaty motherfucking jerk)

and at 6:31 :

Times up, get the fuck out (of the water (not in the video, but it's more accurate to say that in english))....

wha'you think this is some kind of community center!

yes I'm from Iceland and that is a right translation

Peace out

[kchs]

yeah man :D ..cuz that's totally how it is in real life:p

[DrMotorDude]

When I found out you could be drunk the whole day, there was no turning back....

[hydrostream72]

you guys still playing????

[icepippz]

Is it just me or does Hössi kind of resemble Charlie Sheen?

[dumbali]

@jointstockfiveoh haha u are right XD

[helenthebum]

quarashi... the only fun thing to come out of iceland :P

[jointstockfiveoh]

Is it just me, or does Omar sound like Dolph Lundgren?

[IcelandicOption]

@iceolator666 hössi og tiny er ekki sami maðurinn

[Duketube0]

"once I found out you could be drunk all day... there was no turning back"

[DavySigfusson]

The wether has been getting a bit colder recently... better turn up my sheep.

[taranmvic]

i remember getting this when I was doing street promo back in Australia ages ago. Their show in Melbourne is still number 2 only behind seeing Dj Ztrip awesome to see this video again