The Immigrants #HAMthology + The Hamilton Mixtape and Cast Album
Description
Includes tracks from THE HAMILTON MIXTAPE, available NOW + the 2x Platinum Grammy and Tony award winning Original Cast Recording.
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Playlist Length
0 days, 5 hours, 27 minutes
Playlist Followers
73537
Source
Discovered On, Reddit
Playlist Last Updated
June 28, 2017
Mood
Mixed Mood
Track Popularity Rating
Somewhat Popular
Style
Quiet
Average Release Decade
2010s
Main Genre:
Folk
Reddit Info
Reddit Post
Genius.com is a place where you can look at lyrics and see what the meaning behind them is. [Here](https://i.imgur.com/TblFRWl.png) is a screenshot of that being done on Lin Manuel Miranda's song My Shot. Green highlighting is on lyrics that the creator has annotated themselves. Grey highlighting covers lyrics whose meaning has been crowdsourced by Genius.com's users. There are lots of interesting ideas here, but all the crowdsourced stuff is generally speculative. In the example screenshot, someone (I think MayorBatman?) has pointed out that the repeated use of "my shot" may be a reference to Eminem's Lose Yourself. How much did it affect LMM? Well, he hasn't explicitly confirmed the inspiration, but he included the song in his [playlist of songs that inspired the musical](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Rf5kHoohcqAS5Qc6gglaX). Finding these references is kind of like a treasure hunt, and the community on Genius.com has fun doing it. So basically you have a bunch of people who love speculating about lyrics (and reading other speculations) all collected into a single community. And then Eminem puts out a fantastic song with a ton of references to other rappers, rap history, pop culture. People on Genius.com absolutely love dissecting this song so there are a bazillion annotations in every line of lyrics -- some of them are paragraphs long. The last piece of the puzzle is that the Genius.com search engine keys off of fan annotations and promotes popular songs. If a ton of people are searching for something (like Rap God), then Genius.com's search engine will be more likely to recommend it. If there are a ton of annotations (like on Rap God), Genius.com is more likely to find relevant words to serve up. So if you type a single letter like "n", "m", "e", "b", or "p", Rap God will pop up. If you type generic words like "doo", "pop", "bar", or "song", Genius.com inevitably recommends some random annotation in Rap God that happens to contain the word.
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dataisbeautiful
Reddit Username
andyoulostme
Reddit Timestamp
4/28/19 13:26
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