Upheld as one who pays heed to every detail in his performance, Ranveer Singh, one would assume, would have picked the brains of Divine to nail his act of a street rapper in Gully Boy. This fact, however, Divine tells mid-day, holds little merit. "I would just hang around in the studio, while he would do his [own] thing. I didn't train him," he says, a day after Singh left netizens in awe of his rapping skills with a 90-second long teaser of the film.

Seen rendering the track, Asli Hip Hop, for Zoya Akhtar's directorial venture, Singh seamlessly slips into character, one that is loosely based on Divine. "[He] looks so real," the musician gives his validation, adding, "Of whatever I have seen so far, it seems Ranveer has given his all to this role. This is so encouraging!"