DIVINE catapulted to stardom with track “Mere Gully Mein” (2015), rapping loud and proud from Mumbai’s slums. Turning raw urban tales into empowering rhymes, the MC became a vital force behind the city's burgeoning gully rap. For his debut album Kohinoor (2019), he rotated East Coast hip-hop, reggaetón and R&B with the likes of producer Phenom, New York rapper Dave East and rising Mumbai MCs. But DIVINE also branched out into Bollywood, joining EDM producer Nucleya in banger “Paintra”, and featuring on the soundtrack of Gully Boy—a blockbuster inspired by the rapper’s vertiginous rise to fame.