[3] After performing at the annual rap festival of Alamar, a Havana district known for its importance in the Cuban hip-hop movement, Odaymar, Oli and Odalys decided to shift gear in their art activism.
[3] Krudas Cubensi emerged in 1999 as a response to what the group considered a huge lack of representation of women in the movement: The three artists wished to “incorporate a feminist discourse to the unrestrained posture of the masculine majority.”[4][2] Their first non-Tropazancos performance took place in 2000 at a Havana hip-hop festival.
[2] In 2005, Krudas Cubensi participated in the birth of the female rap collective Omega Kilay with artists such as Danay Suarez, wishing again to circumvent the lack of representation of women inside Havana's music scene.
[3] In 2021 they began working with Grammy nominated producer, Greg Landau on a new project that combines their Hip Hop roots with Afro-Cuban rhythms and an all star crew of San Francisco Bay rea musicians, including Karl Perrazp, Santana timbalero and Cuban pianist Omar Sosa.
[1][3] First in Cuba and now as part of the Cuban diaspora in the United States, the group puts social issues at the heart of all lyrics and performances, speaking of feminism, patriarchy and machismo, racism, homophobia and lesbophobia, classism, veganism, agism, etc.