Lin-Miranda Have you not what we can do? I write shows with black and Puerto Rican dudes I ride slow to avoid police We write slow I build'em like cathedrals I used to do my homework in the back of the bodega Abuela up to get a Sega I up late to tape John "Spic-O-Rama" Now I plays I literally to bring the drama
And Hamilton's a to hip-hop I mix'em up a BIG-Pac-Raekwon-Doc up in a big wok (whooo) I back up that big talk
I'm workin' on various I'm writing a for the Rock next You can google I got And I got next
I'm full of 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 Rodgers
Mother of two One Life To Live So jump on but I've got no fuck to give I came to represent the ladies in our we know the founding fathers but the are a mystery
bars harder than Joan of Arc's armor Driving Rosa car Bustin' out Francis Airborne with Earheart walking tight ropes Me and Pocahontas givin' smallpox to folks
out swinging Like Venus and On the I rep' the queens From to Latifah Ain't I a woman Sojourner I'm the Truth on the Bible: Book of Esther; of Ruth
the Railroad to a chariot with Harriet And Marie brought some shit so hot we had to bury it Get my golden lariat, I'm a Wonder gunnin' for it And what you runnin' 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 a hammer hitting the nail on the head and come from a city Hammer made hits and kept people fed And fighting for we hitting the block with hammers and headin' the gritty and ready to [Gattakakak] 'til they dead
Left the city asleep on medicine And my start to swell I seek some acetaminophine Three ounces in two styrofoam Take twice daily, twelve, never enough Incredible press to get'em to the pressure on triggers for niggers that's down to to call me What you are with Could get and blow the fuck up
I'm a cut above an upper cut screamin' "finish him" Immortal on Rap
Diminishing returns make the come out to wave Question me if you y'all I was up on the Playing a Glutton a mollie popsicle So sick at the club I just up at the hospital
Ordering orderlies to the heat up four degrees so I can take my shirt off and live out my Dreams Thug Life in invisible ink An umbilical minor clipping metaphysical link to the Pyrex
time a checked there were hella rappers in line for their to scream "I'm next!" I just walked right in the door "Hamilton Stage" Stayed these dead presidents I'm my reparations. Digg.
Black Here the one in charge A hundred to get everybody up in arms When other all froze like a gun was drawn I turned to a new black like the orange
When I was born was warned that prolific shit I'm on might become the norm I come through—Sun Tzu—when it to war For one of mine be taking every one of yours
'Cause ain't even trying [to] bicker and I feel like the bigger the name the bigger the I spent long huntin' over a flickerin' flame perfecting particular slang I'm sick in the brain. I'm on it.
I it coming like a clairvoyant So I just left the meter And for ya Now call it premonition, intuition, But a lotta are scared Shit; I'm for ya.
I see the flag still gettin' swung But we done turned the Motor City into a junk We keep playing And playing the card Can end a search with something That's for a
To up with the Joneses or the Kardashians to be exposed like Ashley Madison I'm like, is a re-run? Oh that's happening Somebody's gone be comin at this African
Look at me, I'm a six dollar man dressed as a rap god my religion, get baptized Too many of us bit the dust for crumbs and In God We Now for us Here where life ain't worth three loosies A pair of chicken wings, cigarettes, two They make new And know what the truth is Cause that's what Black from the Roots is: icon