Lin-Miranda you not seen what we can do? I shows stacked with black and Puerto Rican dudes I ride to avoid police procedurals We write because I build'em like cathedrals I used to do my homework in the of the bodega with Abuela Savin' up to get a I stayed up late to Leguizamo's "Spic-O-Rama" Now I write I came to bring the drama
And Hamilton's a monument to I up a BIG-Pac-Raekwon-Doc Dre-MJ-and-BlackThought up in a big wok (whooo) I better back up that big
I'm workin' on projects I'm writing a song for the next You can that I got now; And I got
I'm of surprises it might take a minute to I'm gunning for Pulitzer It's a bit of a 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 Rodgers
Mother of two One Life To Live So I'll jump on but I've got no fuck to I came to the ladies in our history we know the founding but the mothers are a mystery
Spitting harder than Joan of Arc's armor Rosa Park's car Bustin' out Francis Airborne with Amelia walking tight ropes Me and Pocahontas givin' to white folks
Comin' out Like Venus and On the screen I the queens Nefertiti to Latifah Ain't I a woman like I'm the Truth Hand on the Book of Esther; Book of
Upgraded the Railroad to a with Harriet And Marie Curie brought some so hot we had to bury it Get my lariat, I'm a Wonder Woman gunnin' for it And you runnin' from You the thunder rumbling coming Shatter Hurricaines on wood frame the name's Renee you'll be the same (b)plow in blouses!
Hittin' the block like a hitting the nail on the head and come 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] 'til they
Left the city asleep on medicine And my start to swell I should seek some Three ounces in two cups Take twice daily, twelve, It's never Incredible press to to lessen the pressure on triggers for that's down to to erupt call me What you are with get unruly and blow the fuck up
I'm a cut above an upper cut screamin' "finish him" Immortal on Rap
Diminishing returns the burners come out Start to Question me if you y'all I was up on the Playing a Glutton sucking a popsicle So at the club I just turn up at the hospital
Ordering to turn the heat up four degrees so I can take my off and live out my California Dreams Thug Life in invisible ink An umbilical minor clipping metaphysical link to the pasttime
Last time a checked there were hella in line for their to scream "I'm next!" I just right in the door marked "Hamilton Stage" patient Playing these dead I'm my reparations. Digg.
Thought: Here comes the one in A hundred bars to get up in arms When other artists all froze a gun was drawn I turned to a new black the color orange
When I was born everyone was that this prolific I'm on might become the norm I through—Sun Tzu—when it comes to war For one of I'll be taking every one of yours
'Cause ain't even trying bicker and blame I like the bigger the name the bigger the game I spent long nights over a flickerin' flame perfecting this particular I'm sick in the brain. I'm on it.
I seen it coming a clairvoyant So I just the meter running And for ya Now it premonition, intuition, paranoia But a people are scared I'm scared for ya.
I see the still gettin' swung hard But we done turned the Motor City into a yard We keep ourselves And the Trump card Can never end a search with That's for a
To keep up the Joneses or the Kardashians Only to be exposed Ashley Madison I'm like, is a re-run? Oh that's happening Somebody's probably gone be at this African
Look at me, I'm a six million dollar man 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 ain't even worth three 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