Lin-Manuel Miranda is opening up about just how the idea of a hip-hop musical of Hamilton came to him.
In several interviews, the 40-year-old composer revealed that he was about to go on vacation when he randomly picked up a biography on the founding father. “I was just browsing the biography section.
It could have been Truman,” he told 60 Minutes. “I got to the part where a hurricane destroys St. Croix, where Hamilton is living.
And he writes a poem about the carnage and this poem gets him off the island.” “That is part and parcel with the hip-hop narrative: writing your way out of your circumstances, writing the future you want to see for yourself…This is a guy who wrote at 14, ‘I wish there was a war.’ It doesn’t get more hip-hop than
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