Growing up in the ghettos of Mumbai, hip-hop star DIVINE had a close-up view of the city's raw clash of rich and poor. As a kid, he learned to love language via the wordplay of Malgudi Days—though he soon graduated to the rhymes of hip-hop icons like Notorious B.I.G. and Kendrick Lamar. After signing to a major label in the mid-‘10s, the “Mere Gully Mein” rapper started to gain recognition beyond India.