Swet Shop Boys

Swet Shop Boys is an underground hip-hop duo founded in early 2014 by transatlantic South Asian diaspora artists Himanshu Suri better known as Heems from New York City, and Riz Ahmed known as Riz MC from London. Both also have rather relatively little-known heritage connected to the sheer-tragedy of the Partition of British India, with Heems' Indian-immigrant family of Hindu-Punjabi ethnicity tracing their origins to where is now sovereign country of Pakistan, and Riz MC's Pakistani-immigrant family of Muslim ethnicity tracing their origins to where the North zone of now sovereign India is. The conversation for forming a permanent-collaboration started out when both developed friendship after the latter needed a homely-place to stay in NYC, preparing months for his role in then under-preproduction TV miniseries, The Night Of (2016) for HBO®, coincidentally also an adaptation of also British limited-series, Criminal Justice (2008) for BBC® one. Their history dates back to when Heems rea