Hooking up with The Rock to produce a mock mini-musical about millennials isn’t the only thing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s been up to on YouTube. The creator of the mega-hit Broadway musical Hamilton will be live streaming a live performance of The Hamilton Mixtape on the world’s largest video sharing site, too.
The hip hop musical centered around Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Fathers of the United States immediately pre and post-Revolutionary War has seen unprecedented acclaim and sustained success since its Broadway debut at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in August 2015. (Just last week for instance, the show had its highest-grossing seven-day stretch yet, tallying up over $3.2 million in ticket sales.) And because of that white hot reception, Miranda decided to remix the musical’s soundtrack with several of the rap, hip hop, pop, and indie music scenes biggest stars.
The Hamilton Mixtape is composed of 16 tracks and features The Roots, Busta Rhymes, Nas, Usher, George Watsky (who’s book Miranda heavily endorsed), Regina Spektor, Common, Sia, Chance the Rapper, Ben Folds, Kelly Clarkson, Alicia Keys, K’naan, Ashanti, Queen Latifah, Ja Rule, Illmind, Jill Scott, Dessa, and more. And many of those names will be be performing their songs live from the Hamilton stage to YouTube at 1PM ET on December 1, 2016 in a special presentation from Atlantic Records and YouTube. Check it out:
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The event is meant to publicize the upcoming worldwide release of The Hamilton Mixtape this Friday, December 2. No doubt it will see some solid sales, as the original Hamilton: An American Musical soundtrack has been on the Billboard charts for 61 weeks and counting.
