Swet Shop Boys

American-Indian rapper Heems and English-Pakistani MC Riz Ahmed joined forces to create the border-defying rap duo Swet Shop Boys. Heems (formerly half of Das Racist) and Riz (an accomplished actor who starred in TV and film, including roles in The Night Of, Nightcrawler, and Star Wars: Rogue One) initially met via Twitter, when Heems complimented a track Riz had shared. Sometime after their online encounter Riz landed a role in The Night Of and needed to research life as a South-Asian American living in New York. Naturally, Heems offered to show him around, even inviting Riz ...