3 Minutes with Lin Manuel Miranda Will Teach You All About Leveling Up
When was the last time you dared yourself to go further?
The first surprise comes within a matter of seconds.
“‘My Shot’ took me a year to write.”
Lin Manuel Miranda is totally engaged, earbuds dangling from the sides of his face. I hesitate to use the word “genius” much. This man may deserve it.
If you somehow don’t know, Miranda is the mastermind behind Hamilton, the Broadway phenomenon that recently released as a film on Disney+. More than just a sizzling pop culture phenomenon, Hamilton is now over a billion dollars in global sales.
The money is less interesting than Miranda himself, though.
A three-minute Rotten Tomatoes interview reveals why Hamilton is the masterpiece that it is. After admitting a single song took him 365 days to write, Miranda explains.
With a straight face, he compares dry, historical characters to key players in hip hop history. John Larens, Hercules Mulligan, and Marquis de Lafayette are all characterized in the play as what Miranda calls “pre-Rakim” rappers in the song before. Hamilton himself changes the game. He is apparently “Big Pun times Eminem times Notorious BIG,”
