Lin-Manuel Miranda Explains How 'Hamilton' Serves as a 'Love Letter to Hip-Hop' That He Grew Up On
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billboard.comLin-Manuel Miranda chatted with Apple Music's Zane Lowe Tuesday (July 7) to talk about Hamilton, his Broadway musical-turned-Disney+ movie, and its affectionate connection to hip-hop.Telling the story of one of America's Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton meant encapsulating how Hamilton wrote as a form of resistance and proved the pen was mightier than the sword during the fight for people's liberation during a historical large-scale revolution, similar to the work of rappers in Miranda's mind. "I mean, hip-hop's the language of revolution and it's our greatest American art form," he told Lowe during the FaceTime interview. "It was the fact that Hamilton got everywhere on the strength of his writing.
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