Nitin Mishra, a.k.a Spitfire, is the young rapper from Chhatarpur (Madhya Pradesh) whose verses have set the Ranveer Singh-starrer ‘Gully Boy’ aflame. He is known to write the hook for the Gully Boy track Asli Hip-Hop. He was 15 when he was bit by the hip hop bug. A sense of unease, restlessness, and angst, had begun to set in, but back then he was not aware that the “azaadi” he sought will eventually come from his own words. All he knew was that he had things to say. “I didn’t even have a phone back then but I became friends with someone at school who had deep knowledge about the Hip Hop culture.” Ayush Khare, who goes by the street name, “Wordsmth” was that ‘Hip Hop Head’ cool kid in middle school. “He had studied the global hip hop movement, and literally schooled me on how to write. We were a group of eight boys, six of whom would give us a topic, hook or idea, and the two of us had to produce a rap around that in 30 minutes,” or about as long their class periods. Mishra’s verses describe his intense desire to break out, and speak out against everything that held him back. Mishra and Khare, perform as a duo, and post their songs under the YouTube handle, RAPresent.