Lin-Miranda Have you not what we can do? I write shows stacked with black and Puerto dudes I ride slow to avoid police We slow because I build'em like cathedrals I used to do my homework in the back of the bodega Abuela Savin' up to get a I stayed up late to John "Spic-O-Rama" Now I plays I literally came to bring the
And a monument to hip-hop I mix'em up a BIG-Pac-Raekwon-Doc up in a big wok (whooo) I better back up that big
I'm workin' on various I'm writing a for the Rock next You can google I got now; And I got
I'm of surprises it might take a minute to I'm gunning for Pulitzer a bit of a process But I got a Grammy, got a Tony, got an Emmy, Goddamnit, show me the way to the Oscars
But I digress... Hamilton, God Rico, I'll see all y'all at the Richard
Mother of two with One Life To So I'll jump on but I've got no to give I came to represent the in our history we the founding fathers but the mothers are a mystery
Spitting bars harder than of Arc's armor Driving Park's car Bustin' out Farmer Airborne with Amelia Earheart walking tight Me and Pocahontas givin' smallpox to white
Comin' out Like and Serena On the I rep' the queens From Nefertiti to Ain't I a woman like I'm the Truth Hand on the Book of Esther; Book of
Upgraded the Railroad to a chariot with And Marie Curie brought some so hot we had to bury it Get my golden lariat, I'm a Wonder Woman for it And what you from You hear the thunder coming Shatter Hurricaines on frame houses the name's Renee you'll be the same (b)plow in blouses!
Hittin' the block like a hammer the nail on the head and come from a city where made hits and kept people fed And fighting for we hitting the block with hammers and headin' into the gritty and ready to [Gattakakak] they dead
the city asleep on syrupy medicine And my pockets start to I should seek some Three ounces in two cups twice daily, duck twelve, It's never Incredible press to get'em to lessen the on triggers for niggers that's to to erupt call me What you are with Could get unruly and blow the up
I'm a cut an upper cut away They "finish him" Kombat on Rap
Diminishing returns the burners come out to wave Question me if you y'all I was up on the a polyglot Glutton a mollie popsicle So sick at the I just turn up at the hospital
Ordering orderlies to turn the heat up degrees so I can take my shirt off and out my California Dreams Scribble Life in invisible ink An umbilical chord clipping metaphysical link to the Pyrex
Last time a checked were hella rappers in line for time to scream "I'm next!" I just walked right in the door "Hamilton Stage" Stayed Playing these dead I'm my reparations. Digg.
Black comes the one in charge A hundred bars to get everybody up in other artists all froze like a gun was drawn I to a new black like the color orange
I was born everyone was warned that prolific shit I'm on might become the norm I come Tzu—when it comes to war For one of I'll be taking every one of yours
'Cause ain't even trying bicker and blame I feel the bigger the name the bigger the game I spent nights huntin' over a flickerin' flame perfecting particular slang I'm sick in the brain. I'm on it.
I seen it coming like a So I just the meter running And for ya Now call it premonition, intuition, But a lotta are scared I'm scared for ya.
I see the flag still swung hard But we done turned the Motor City a junk yard We playing ourselves And playing the Trump Can end a search with something That's for a
To keep up with the or the Kardashians Only to be exposed Ashley Madison I'm like, is a re-run? Oh that's what's Somebody's probably be comin at this African
Look at me, I'm a six million dollar man as a rap god my religion, get baptized Too many of us bit the dust for and crust In God We Now for us Here where ain't even worth three loosies A pair of wings, cigarettes, two juices They make new And everybody what the truth is Cause that's what Black Thought from the is: icon