2015 BET Hip Hop Awards - Cypher 4 BET (Ft. Black Thought, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renée Elise Goldsberry & ?uestlove)

[Intro: Black Thought]
Welcome to the 2015 BET Cypher
My name is Black Thought from the legendary Roots crew
And my partner Questlove on the one and two
It’s my pleasure to be presenting a few of the stars
Of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton
So on go, my man Lin, my sister Renée, my man Daveed
We gon’ set it

[Verse 1: Lin-Manuel Miranda]
Lin Miranda here, have you not seen what we can do?
I write shows stacked with black and Puerto Rican dudes
I ride slow to avoid police procedurals
We write slow because I build ‘em like cathedrals
I used to do my homework in the back of the bodega
With abuela, saving up to get a Sega
I stayed up late to tape John Leguizamo’s Spic-O-Rama
Now I write plays, I literally came to bring the drama
And Hamilton’s a monument to hip-hop
I mix 'em up with Big, Pac, Raekwon, Doc, Dre, Em
Jay, Black Thought, mix 'em up in a big wok
Woo! I better back up that big talk
I’m workin' on various projects, I’m writin' a song for the Rock next
You can Google that, I got now and I got next, ah
I’m full of surprises, it might take a minute to digest
I’m gunnin’ for Pulitzer Prizes, ah, it’s a bit of a process
But I got a Grammy, got a Tony, got a Emmy
Goddamn it, homie, somebody show me the way to the Oscars
But I digress; Hamilton, God bless
Puerto Rico, I’ll see y’all at the Richard Rodgers