The Hamilton Mixtape

I know you guys don't know me, but I'm just gonna sing my little song and I'm gonna be out." And I sang Ain't Too Proud to Beg from The Temptations, and the casting director's like, "Okay, great job." And I leave, and I was doing a show at Radio City Music Hall that would eventually get canceled, but, but apparently they just hit me back.

They're like, "We want you to audition for this thing called Hamilton's Mixtape." And Lin and I didn't know each other.

We, we hadn't, hadn't met yet.

And I did four rounds of auditions, and then finally on the last round, I, I left and they said, "Yeah, we'll call you." I go to rehearsal for the other show at Radio City, and, like, they just had, like, a sign basically like, "Everybody, don't sign in, come up to the large rehearsal hall." 77 people laid off.

I was like, dang, I was, like, really relying on that job to, like, pay rent for the next six months.

Yeah, yeah.

And, uh, but I get a call, like, bro, it had to be like three hours later, and, uh, I, I, I go over to the guys' dressing room and I pick up this call, and they're like, "Yo, we heard about the show Heart and Lights," that was the name of the show, "and, uh, we, we wanna cast you in Hamilton's Mixtape." And that's how, that's how me and Lin really got-

That's hot.

Yeah, yeah.

It was still the Hamilton Mixtape.

Yeah.

I was just there.

Here is John Legend.

in the Hamilton mixtape, which was a great cover album of the score to Hamilton, obviously, which drew a lot of really interesting people.

So hopefully it will continue.

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