‘Hamilton”s Lin-Manuel Miranda Namechecks Drake In ‘Tonight Show’ Freestyle: Watch

Christina Lee | November 7, 2015 11:45 am
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Lin-Manuel Miranda cannot be stopped. His Tony-winning musical Hamilton is Broadway’s hottest ticket because of how it retells the story of America’s founding fathers from a hip hop-informed perspective. That conceit is what earned him a 2015 MacArthur Genius grant, while one Hamilton character’s swagger even has Beyonce reevaluating her own dance moves.

Last night (November 6), considering that Lin-Manuel even wrote Hamilton‘s raps, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon had him face off against Black Thought of house band the Roots in a “Wheel of Freestyle.” Lin-Manuel had to incorporate the words “rainbow,” “pancake” and “slam dunk” into the first round’s rap, which he did without a hitch — and with a Drake reference at that: “‘Started from the Bottom’ like my man Drake / I fly in it, flour, eggs like a pancake / Aw yeah, I bring any style you brung out / I slam dunk like Michael Jordan with his tongue out.”

Better yet, to celebrate his performance, Lin-Manuel’s wife Vanessa Nadal cooked him a winning breakfast that paid tribute to his first-round freestyle. See the Tonight Show “Wheel of Freestyle” go down up top, then the breakfast of champs below.

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