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[cahn]

You guys, I've been listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton cast recording basically nonstop today and it is AMAZING. I don't even understand how a hip-hop rap musical about Alexander Hamilton even got MADE, but it DID and I don't even known anything about either hip-hop or Hamilton and it is completely awesome and I have been tearing up a little over it (though maybe that is breastfeeding hormones), and I just went and reserved the Chernow biography from the library. (Miranda apparently read the Chernow biography on vacation and thought, wow, that would make a great hip-hop musical! AND THEN HE WROTE IT. How cool is that?!)

Link here, I suspect it's only good until Sept 25, when the recording becomes available. ETA: Link is still good. Also, Amazon Prime is streaming it free for Prime members.

I want to see this so badly!

ETA: CABINET DEBATES AS RAP BATTLES. GREATEST THING EVER.

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[cahn]

Ha, I am having trouble letting go of this. On yet another re-listen I am just so puzzled by how B can think that it doesn't have speed and wit and complexity. I mean -- has B listened to "Guns and Ships"? Because I just don't see how you could get more speed and wit and complexity than that. (I also can't understand practically anything Lafayette says -- heck, I dont' think I can even *talk* that fast -- but it doesn't matter so much because he's such a great character, he's got few enough lines that I can infer from what's surrounding it, and the things I can understand are so awesome. ("No one else has my resilience/or matches my practical tactical brilliance!")

And that's laying aside the genius of the genre mixing as characterization (like the hip-hop styles of the Americans as a disruptive counterpoint to the slower pop/musical British styles -- literally disruptive in "Farmer Refuted" -- and the older jazzy styles of Jefferson, who was older than Hamilton) which is amazing, I've never heard anything else quite like it.

But again, if B has examples of hip-hop that even match Hamilton in wit, much less are better, I would love to know because clearly I should be listening to it! :)