Lin-Miranda Have you not what we can do? I write shows stacked black and Puerto Rican dudes I ride slow to avoid procedurals We write because I build'em like cathedrals I used to do my homework in the of the bodega with Abuela up to get a Sega I stayed up to tape John "Spic-O-Rama" Now I plays I literally to bring the drama
And a monument to hip-hop 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 writing a for the Rock next You can that I got now; And I got
I'm full of it might take a minute to I'm gunning for Prizes It's a bit of a But I got a Grammy, got a Tony, got an Emmy, Goddamnit, show me the way to the Oscars
But I digress... Hamilton, God Puerto Rico, I'll see all at the Rodgers
Mother of two with One To Live So I'll jump on but got no fuck to give I came to represent the in our history we know the fathers but the mothers are a mystery
Spitting bars harder Joan of Arc's armor Driving Park's car out Francis Farmer Airborne with Amelia Earheart tight ropes Me and Pocahontas givin' to white folks
Comin' out Like and Serena On the screen I the queens Nefertiti to Latifah Ain't I a woman like Sojourner I'm the on the Bible: Book of Esther; of Ruth
Upgraded the Railroad to a chariot Harriet And Marie Curie brought some shit so hot we had to it Get my golden lariat, I'm a Woman gunnin' for it And you runnin' from You the thunder rumbling Something's y'all Hurricaines on wood frame the name's you'll never be the same (b)plow in blouses!
Hittin' the block a hammer hitting the nail 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 gritty and ready to [Gattakakak] 'til they
Left the city on syrupy medicine And my pockets start to I seek some acetaminophine Three ounces in two cups Take daily, duck twelve, never enough Incredible press to get'em to lessen the on triggers for that's down to to erupt call me you are foolin' with Could get unruly and blow the up
I'm a cut above an upper cut screamin' "finish him" Immortal on Rap
Diminishing make the burners come out to wave Question me if you wanna I was up on the Playing a sucking a mollie popsicle So sick at the club I just up at the hospital
Ordering orderlies to turn the up four degrees so I can take my shirt off and live out my California Scribble Thug Life in ink An umbilical minor clipping metaphysical link to the pasttime
Last time a checked there hella rappers in line for their time to "I'm next!" I just walked right in the door "Hamilton Stage" Stayed Playing these dead I'm my reparations. Digg.
Black Here comes the one in A hundred bars to get up in arms When other all froze like a gun was drawn I to a new black like the color orange
When I was everyone was warned that this prolific shit I'm on might become the I come Tzu—when it comes to war For one of mine I'll be every one of yours
'Cause even trying [to] bicker and blame I feel like the bigger the name the bigger the I spent long nights huntin' over a flickerin' this particular slang I'm sick in the brain. I'm on it.
I seen it coming like a So I just left the meter And for ya Now it premonition, intuition, paranoia But a lotta people are I'm scared for ya.
I see the flag still gettin' swung But we done turned the Motor City into a yard We playing ourselves And the Trump card Can never end a search with for a thumpa
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 gone be comin at 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 where life ain't even worth three loosies A of chicken wings, cigarettes, two juices make new nooses And everybody what the truth is Cause that's what Thought from the Roots is: icon