This story contains spoilers for major plot points in the musical Hamilton! Tread lightly if you don’t want to know what happens.
If you’ve watched Hamilton, either on a stage or on Disney+, then you know there is not a second of the entire musical that could be deemed “easy.” At over three hours long, and packed with dozens of songs that combine history and hip hop in a way that’s as clever as it is emotional, it’s a tour de force. However, according to Lin-Manuel Miranda, there was one song from his Tony-winning epic that was especially hard to write.
