Lin-Manuel Miranda Explains How `Hamilton` Serves as a `Love Letter to Hip-Hop` That He Grew Up On
(WorldNews Music)

article-overlay-handle js-fitvids-content`> Lin-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...