Riz Ahmed, K'naan and more star in a new music video from 'The Hamilton Mixtape'
 

Riz Ahmed, K'naan and more star in a new music video from 'The Hamilton Mixtape'
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Everyone's favorite standout line in Hamilton was refitted into an entire track for Lin Manuel Miranda's brilliant The Hamilton Mixtape, and **w, 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 S**w 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 xe**phobia 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, S**w 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." Read more...

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