14 Things You Never Knew About Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the genius behind the hit musicals Hamilton and In The Heights, told BuzzFeed's Another Round podcast about his childhood, making hip-hop mixtapes for Stephen Sondheim, and the time Kimye showed up to the theater.
Lin-Manuel recently sat down with the hosts of BuzzFeed's Another Round podcast for an in-depth interview about his family, his love for hip-hop, and what President Obama smells like.
6.He found out, in the most hilarious way possible, the song that his parents were listening to when he was...conceived.
7.He's working as fast as he can to get Hamilton available for high school productions.
8.When he saw Kanye and Kim sitting in the second row at Hamilton, he "winked the hell out of [him]."
9.He is open to genderblind casting in future productions of Hamilton.
10.During Hamilton performances, Lin-Manuel and co-star Daveed Diggs freestyle battle each other offstage while they're waiting for their entrances during the song "The Room Where It Happens."
11.Prominent musical theater composers have asked him to make them hip-hop primers. He sent an Aesop Rock track to Stephen Sondheim.
12.He swears that we "are not ready" for the Hamilton mixtape, which will feature Common, Black Thought, Chance the Rapper and more.
13.He knows what President Obama smells like.
14.In high school, he wrote a whole movie just to have a kissing scene with the girl he had a crush on.
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