{"id":21078,"date":"2016-10-19T21:24:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/meet-swet-shop-boys-desi-hip-hop-group-powering-through-racial-profiling\/"},"modified":"2016-10-19T21:24:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:24:21","slug":"meet-swet-shop-boys-desi-hip-hop-group-powering-through-racial-profiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/meet-swet-shop-boys-desi-hip-hop-group-powering-through-racial-profiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Swet Shop Boys, the Desi Hip-Hop Group Powering Through Racial Profiling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meet Swet Shop Boys, the Desi Hip-Hop Group Powering Through Racial Profiling<\/h3>\n

\n By Sameer Rao<\/span> Oct 19, 2016<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Of all the moods expressed throughout \u201cCashmere,\u201d the expansive debut <\/strong>album by hip-hop trio Swet Shop Boys<\/a>, the most palpable is anxiety. This thread unifies the record\u2019s <\/strong>quick tonal shifts between irreverence and damning social commentary. When Himanshu \u201cHeems\u201d Suri and Riz \u201cRiz MC\u201d Ahmed, two of the world’s most prominent Desi<\/a> MCs, spit their Gatling-gun rhymes over frantic Bollywood and qawwali<\/a> samples, these shifts channel the existential struggles of South Asian and other Brown people more clearly than any rap record to date. <\/p>\n