Henry Olatunde Fasheun (Kyle Richh) and Jennifer Oghenekevwe Akpofure (Jenn Carter) grew up together in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, where they were introduced to one another through their parents and attended middle school together.

Richh first started rapping at age seven, and [2] Carter used to play the piano in middle school and was in a band called “The Dirty Spoons”.

[6] It went viral on TikTok and on YouTube, where it was the top trending video on the site before being removed after Sony Music copyright struck it for its uncleared sample of "Castaways".

[9] 41 soon transitioned to more party-oriented music, such as their Jersey club-influenced 2023 single "Bent", which peaked at number 18 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart and received over 100 million streams on Spotify by 2025.

[11][5] They were featured on Fivio Foreign single "Get Deady", released in late 2023, and on the French Montana song "Too Fun" from his February 2024 mixtape Mac & Cheese 5.