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The BET Hip Hop Awards Cyphers are a part of the awards ceremony where BET invites influential and popular artists of the year to perform a freestyle—in the old school sense (no particular subject, focus on lyrics over beat, mostly oriented to repping the rapper her/himself) rather than the newer sense (off-the-dome, purely improvised).

Hamilton is a smash-hit Broadway musical that blends hip hop genres, musical theater tradition, and American history to tell the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton. Lin-Manuel Miranda conceived, composed, and stars in the musical as Alexander Hamilton. Renée Elise Goldsberry plays Angelica Schuyler Church, his sister-in-law and secret flame. Daveed Diggs is double cast as the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson. Goldsberry and Diggs perform the two toughest raps in the show. Black Thought and Questlove of The Roots helped produce the cast album.

The sample underlying the track is a repeated fragment from “Stiletto” by Billy Joel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmUrJ_el-SM