Lin-Miranda Have you not what we can do? I write shows stacked with black and Rican dudes I ride slow to avoid procedurals We write slow I build'em like cathedrals I used to do my in the back of the bodega with Abuela up to get a Sega I stayed up to tape Leguizamo's "Spic-O-Rama" Now I write I literally came to bring the
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 writing a for the Rock next You can that I got now; And I got
I'm of surprises it might a minute to digest I'm gunning for Pulitzer It's a bit of a But I got a Grammy, got a Tony, got an Emmy, Goddamnit, somebody show me the way to the
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 I've got no fuck to I came to represent the in our history we know the founding fathers but the mothers are a
Spitting bars harder than Joan of armor Rosa Park's car Bustin' out Farmer Airborne Amelia Earheart walking tight ropes Me and Pocahontas smallpox to white folks
Comin' out Venus and Serena On the screen I the queens From 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 with And Marie Curie brought shit so hot we had to bury it Get my lariat, I'm a Wonder Woman gunnin' for it And you runnin' from You hear the rumbling coming Shatter Hurricaines on frame houses the name's you'll never be the same (b)plow in blouses!
Hittin' the block like a hammer the nail on the head and from a city where Hammer made hits and kept people fed And fighting for fetti we hitting the block with and headin' into the gritty and ready to [Gattakakak] they dead
Left the asleep on syrupy medicine And my start to swell I should seek some Three ounces in two cups Take daily, duck twelve, never enough Incredible press to get'em to the pressure on triggers for that's down to to erupt call me What you are foolin' Could get unruly and the fuck 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 up four degrees so I can take my shirt off and out my California Dreams Scribble Life in invisible ink An umbilical minor chord clipping metaphysical to the Pyrex
Last time a checked there were rappers in line for time to scream "I'm next!" I walked right in the door marked "Hamilton Stage" Stayed Playing these presidents I'm my reparations. Digg.
Black Here comes the one in A hundred bars to get everybody up in When other artists all froze a gun was drawn I turned to a new like the color orange
When I was born was warned that this shit I'm on might become the norm I come through—Sun Tzu—when it to war For one of mine I'll be taking one of yours
'Cause ain't even [to] bicker and blame I feel like the the name the bigger the game I spent long 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 left the running And for ya Now it premonition, intuition, paranoia But a lotta people are Shit; I'm for ya.
I see the flag still gettin' swung But we done turned the Motor into a junk yard We keep ourselves And playing the card Can never end a with something That's for a
To keep up with the or the Kardashians Only to be exposed like Ashley I'm like, is this a Oh that's happening Somebody's probably be comin at this African
Look at me, I'm a six million dollar man as a rap god Test my religion, get Too many of us bit the for crumbs and crust In God We Now for us Here where life ain't even three loosies A pair of wings, cigarettes, two juices They make new And everybody know what the is that's what Black Thought from the Roots is: icon