Also out now: Usher’s powerful cover of ‘Wait For It’
Wait for it no longer: Ushers version of Wait For It from theHamilton Mixtapeis now available via streaming services and iTunes.
Nas contribution to the forthcoming album, Wrote My Way Out featuring Dave East, Aloe Blacc, andHamiltoncreator Lin-Manuel Miranda, is also out.
Wait For It, memorably performed on the cast album by original Aaron Burr star Leslie Odom Jr., is given a fairly straightforward but powerful cover by Usher, who tweaks some lyrics to make the song more universal (Hamilton faces an endless uphill climb is turned into Everyone faces an endless uphill climb).
Wrote My Way Out takes theHamiltonsong Hurricane, performed in the show by Miranda, and gives it a full makeover, with Nas, Dave East, and Miranda trading off on the tracks three verses.
Mirandas verse is a new rap written specifically for the song, and includes references toRentandWhere the Wild Things Areauthor Maurice Sendak.
Read the full verse here (lyrics via Genius):
High speed, dubbing these rhymes in dual cassette deck
Running out of time like Im Jonathan Larsons Rent check
My mind is where the wild things are, Maurice Sendak
In withdrawal, I want it all, yo give me that pen back
Yall, I got my first beating from the other kids when I was caught reading
Oh, you think you smart?
Blah!
Start bleeding
My pops tried in vain to get me to fight back
Sister tapped my brains, said, pssh, youll get em right back
Oversensitive, defenseless, I made sense of it, I pencil in
The lengths to which Id go to learn my strengths and knock em senseless
These sentences are endless, so what if they leave me friendless?
Damn, you got no chill, fing right Im relentless
I know Abuelas never really gonna win the lottery
So its up to me to draw blood with this pen, hit an artery
This Puerto Ricans brains are leakin through the speakers
And if he can be the shining beacon this side of the G.W.B and
Shine a light when its gray out
Listen to both tracks below.
