Lin-Miranda Have you not seen we can do? I shows stacked with black and Puerto Rican dudes I ride slow to avoid procedurals We write because I build'em like cathedrals I used to do my in the back of the bodega with Abuela Savin' up to get a I stayed up late to Leguizamo's "Spic-O-Rama" Now I plays I literally to bring the drama
And Hamilton's a monument to I mix'em up a Dre-MJ-and-BlackThought up in a big wok (whooo) I better back up big talk
I'm workin' on projects I'm a song for the Rock next You can that I got And I got next
I'm full of it might take a to digest I'm for Pulitzer Prizes a bit of a process But I got a Grammy, got a Tony, got an Emmy, Goddamnit, somebody me the way to the Oscars
But I digress... Hamilton, God Puerto Rico, see all y'all at the Richard
Mother of two with One To Live So jump on but I've got no fuck to give I to represent the ladies in our history we know the founding fathers but the mothers are a
Spitting bars harder Joan of Arc's armor Driving Park's car out Francis Farmer Airborne with Amelia walking tight ropes Me and Pocahontas givin' smallpox to white
out swinging Like Venus and On the I rep' the queens From Nefertiti to Ain't I a like Sojourner I'm the Truth Hand on the of Esther; Book of Ruth
Upgraded the Railroad to a with Harriet And Marie Curie brought some shit so hot we had to it Get my lariat, I'm a Wonder Woman gunnin' for it And what you from You the thunder rumbling Something's y'all Hurricaines on frame houses the Renee you'll never be the same (b)plow in blouses!
Hittin' the block like a hammer hitting the on the head and come from a city where Hammer made and kept people fed And fighting for we hitting the block with hammers and headin' into the and ready to [Gattakakak] 'til they dead
Left the city asleep on syrupy And my start to swell I should some acetaminophine ounces in two styrofoam cups Take twice daily, twelve, It's enough Incredible press to to lessen the pressure on triggers for niggers that's to to erupt me Vesuvius What you are with Could get unruly and blow the up
I'm a cut above an upper cut They "finish him" Immortal on Rap
Diminishing returns make the burners out Start to Question me if you wanna I was up on the Playing a Glutton a mollie popsicle So at the club I just turn up at the hospital
Ordering orderlies to the heat up four degrees so I can take my shirt off and live out my Dreams Scribble Thug Life in ink An umbilical chord clipping metaphysical link to the pasttime
Last time a checked there hella rappers in line for their to scream "I'm next!" I walked right in the door marked "Hamilton Stage" patient Playing dead presidents I'm my reparations. Digg.
Thought: Here the one in charge A hundred bars to get up in arms When other artists all like a gun was drawn I turned to a new like the color orange
When I was everyone was warned this prolific shit I'm on might become the norm I come through—Sun Tzu—when it to war For one of I'll be taking every one of yours
'Cause ain't even [to] bicker and blame I feel like the bigger the name the bigger the I spent long nights huntin' over a flame this particular slang I'm sick in the brain. I'm on it.
I seen it like a clairvoyant So I just the meter running And for ya Now call it premonition, intuition, But a people 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 keep ourselves And playing the card Can end a search with something That's for a
To keep up with the Joneses or the Only to be exposed like Ashley I'm like, is a re-run? Oh what's happening Somebody's probably be comin at this African
Look at me, I'm a six dollar man dressed as a rap god Test my religion, get Too many of us bit the dust for and crust In God We Now for us Here where life ain't worth three loosies A of chicken wings, cigarettes, two juices They make new And know what the truth is Cause that's what Black Thought from the is: icon