Alexander Hamilton and Hamilton Mixtape

Ron Chernow: He grabbed a copy of Ron Chernow biography of Alexander Hamilton from an airport bookstore, and by the time he finished the first chapter, he had the idea of Hamilton as a scrappy hip-hop icon in his head, according to Huffington Post Canada. First envisioned as "The Hamilton Mixtape" , the concept eventually became an off-Broadway production at The Public Theatre, before going full Broadway in July 2015, where it been virtually impossible to see since. In a story that been told in interviews so many times it practically a folk legend, Miranda was on a vacation in 2008 and wanted some reading material. The novelty of Black music in a non-Lion King musical wasn't the focal point: It was the story of Lin-Manuel Miranda, son of Puerto Rican immigrants. My Twitter started blowing up with enthusiastic #Hamilton Cast Album tweets last fall, and it was hard to not lump them in with equally passionate screeds about man buns and rainbow bagels: It was just New York shit. But, so what If you're not from New York City , the trends that seem to take hold of the city can start to seem hysterical and ephemeral. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.