. >> questlove: yeah, the guy -- >> jimmy: lin miranda. >> questlove: lin, he's amazing. >> jimmy: lin miranda is this guy. he did "in the heights." he wrote all the words, the music. but everybody's great in this play. every single person. the whole cast. i'm in love with the whole cast. >> questlove: yup. >> jimmy: everybody's phenomenal. he's like a rapping, but also it's a musical. it's about -- it's like, alexander hamilton rapping. i don't know how to describe it. >> tariq: it's a musical. it's about alexander hamilton. but all the dialogue is rapped. [ talking over each other ] [ laughter ] >> jimmy: isn't that kind of just what i said? i said that, right? >> questlove: you said it. >> jimmy: i said something like that. >> questlove: something. >> jimmy: yeah, something like that. >> questlove: something like that. >> jimmy: but it's relentless. it's so good. after, like, the third song i'm like, i don't know how they're going to keep up this. but they do. they just keep up. and everyone who's acting is amazing. the choreography is amazing. the music is great. you guys got to go

i was lucky enough to catch it in previews after all lin-manuel miranda and i go way back to our days at hunter college high school. and over the last few weeks a parade of bold-faced names have made the pilgrimage to new york's public theater to see it everyone from bill clinton to paul mccartney. as hamilton lyric will tell you the story of the $10 founding father without a father as chronicled through hip-hop anthems and r&b balance latds and years in the making. ♪ my cousin ♪ >> reporter: fresh off "in the heights" for which he won a tony for best score miranda got his inspirit race from an 800-beige book. >> i picked up ron chernow's biography. he captures the relentless of hamilton and that's whey hooked into too. this is an immigrant who wrote his way into -- to the top of american society. helped create the country and then wrote himself out of it. >> reporter: miranda spent the past seven years working on his latest creation. >> i wrote -- spent 2009 writing my shot and then in 2010 -- >> you spent a year writing that. >> i spent a year writing that. >> what -- this is wh

. ♪ bullets in your gun bullets in your gun when we rule as one ♪ >> my interview with lin-manuel miranda, the genius behind "hamilton." >> the fight between hamilton and jefferson are the fights you're still having on your network. >> "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. a stunning escalation in republicans' attempts to sabotage nuclear diplomacy with iran was on display today. the latest move, an extremely unusual open letter signed by 47 republican senators written to the iranian regime essentially instructing them that any deal they reach with washington won't be worth the paper on which it is printed. quote, it has come to our attention while observing your nuclear negotiations with our government that you may not fully understand our constitutional system. we will consider any agreement regarding your nuclear weapons program that is not approved by the congress as nothing more than an executive agreement between president obama and ayatollah khomeini. the next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future co

. ♪ >> when lin-manuel miranda sings about the drive of the young scrappy and hungry immigrant he's not singing about just any immigrant. ♪ he's singing about the man on the ten dollar bill, alexander hamilton. the revolutionary visionary and youngest of the founding fathers. this is a guy who on the strength of his writing pulled himself from poverty into the revolution that helped create our nation. and caught beef with every other founding father. there's great drama, there's a great love story. there's incredible political in creek. intrigue. ♪ >> in other words, a life made for the stage. hamilton, written by and starring miranda, is a smash off-broadway at new york's public theater and is heading to broadway this summer. >> ♪ smile more don't them know what you're against or what you're for. >> it's hamilton's life and death at the hand of vice president aaron burr put to music that this energetic as the man and the times he lived through. >> we take it as a given that hip hop music is the music of the revolution. ♪ >> hamilton's unlikely journey to the stage began six yea