Lin-Miranda Have you not seen we can do? I write stacked with black and Puerto Rican dudes I ride to avoid police procedurals We write slow because I build'em like I to do my homework in the back of the bodega with Abuela Savin' up to get a I stayed up to tape Leguizamo's "Spic-O-Rama" Now I write I literally came to bring the
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 various I'm a song for the Rock next You can google I got now; And I got
I'm of surprises it might a minute 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 show me the way to the
But I digress... Hamilton, God Puerto Rico, I'll see all at the Richard
Mother of two with One Life To So I'll jump on but I've got no fuck to I to represent the ladies in our history we know the founding fathers but the mothers are a
Spitting bars harder than Joan of Arc's Driving Park's car Bustin' out Farmer Airborne with Amelia Earheart tight ropes Me and Pocahontas givin' smallpox to white
Comin' out Venus and Serena On the I rep' the queens Nefertiti to Latifah Ain't I a woman like I'm the Truth Hand on the Book of Esther; Book of
the Railroad to a chariot with Harriet And Curie brought some shit so hot we had to bury it Get my golden lariat, I'm a Wonder gunnin' for it And you runnin' from You hear the rumbling coming Shatter Hurricaines on wood houses the name's Renee you'll be the same (b)plow in blouses!
Hittin' the like a hammer hitting the nail on the head and come from a city where Hammer hits and kept people fed And fighting for we hitting the block with hammers and into the gritty and ready to [Gattakakak] 'til they dead
Left the city on syrupy medicine And my pockets to swell I should some acetaminophine Three ounces in two styrofoam twice daily, duck twelve, It's enough Incredible press to get'em to the pressure on triggers for niggers that's down to to call me you are foolin' with Could get unruly and blow the up
I'm a cut above an upper cut They "finish him" Kombat on Rap
Diminishing returns make the come out Start to Question me if you y'all I was up on the a polyglot Glutton sucking a mollie 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 live out my Dreams Scribble Life in invisible ink An umbilical minor chord clipping link to the Pyrex
Last time a checked there were hella in line for time to scream "I'm next!" I just right in the door marked "Hamilton Stage" patient Playing these presidents I'm my reparations. Digg.
Thought: Here comes the one in A hundred bars to get up in arms When other all froze like a gun was drawn I turned to a new black the color orange
I was born everyone was warned that this prolific shit I'm on 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 [to] bicker and blame I feel like the bigger the name the bigger the I spent nights huntin' over a flickerin' flame this particular slang I'm sick in the brain. I'm on it.
I seen it coming a clairvoyant So I just left the meter And for ya Now call it premonition, intuition, But a people are scared Shit; I'm for ya.
I see the flag gettin' swung hard But we done turned the City into a junk yard We playing ourselves And playing the Trump Can never end a search something That's for a
To keep up the Joneses or the Kardashians Only to be exposed Ashley Madison I'm like, is this a Oh that's happening Somebody's probably gone be comin at 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 worth loosies A pair of wings, cigarettes, two juices make new nooses And everybody know what the is Cause what Black Thought from the Roots is: icon