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03 Mar, 2017

The Swet Shop Boys just released a music video for their song 'Aaja' featuring Ali Sethi and social media is going gaga over it.

In the music video, Riz Ahmed and fellow rapper Heems tip their topis to Qawwali music and also pay tribute to slain social media sensation, Qandeel Baloch.

Watch it here:

The video features the Swet Shop Boys dress and perform in signature qawwali style, though they stick to rapping. Ali Sethi, who has contributed a truly infectious hook to the track, makes appearances intermittently on a TV screen.

Ali Sethi's hook won this whole song
Ali Sethi's hook won this whole song

Towards the video's end, there's a tribute to Qandeel with a soundbyte from one of her videos and a dedication to her so as to honour those who attempt to live and love freely despite getting hate.

The video also hopes to bring the Pakistani and Indian communities. According to the rapping duo, the video has been purposefully shot in Flushing, Queens and Coney Island, Brooklyn, bridging gaps between the Indian and Pakistani communities, the way Qawwali does.

Qandeel, Pak-India and the increasingly popular Ali Sethi... no wonder the track's got so much attention:

Not everyone's in love, though.

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Princess_of_DHUMP Mar 03, 2017 03:52pm
Cool lyrics!
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jawed mirza Mar 03, 2017 04:17pm
excellent well done
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irfan shamim farooqui Mar 03, 2017 05:22pm
In spite of praying for her better life hereafter these people making tribute song for her. She needs our prayers not songs.
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