Everyone's favorite standout line in Hamilton was refitted into an entire track for Lin Manuel Miranda's brilliant The Hamilton Mixtape, and now, it finally gets the music video treatment.
The video for the original track "Immigrants (We Get The Job Done)" features rappers K'naan, Residente, Riz MC and Snow Tha Product—a Somali Canadian, Puerto Rican, British Pakistani, and Mexican-American, respectively. The song, whose title comes from Hamilton's "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)” is a powerful anthem about the impact, and importance, of immigrants.
"This election cycle has brought xenophobia and vilification of immigrants back to the forefront of US politics. This is a musical counterweight," Lin Manuel Miranda wrote about the track on Genius. "On the lineup we have K’naan, Snow Tha Product, Riz MC and Residente: Each MC culturally represents from a different place on the map. These are my favorite MCs from all over the world. They can speak to this theme from their brilliant perspectives."
Oh, and Daveed Diggs is there somewhere, too. Perfect.
Topics Music Immigration
