The Decemberists
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Black Thought & Joyner Lucas & Royce da 5'9"
“Weird Al” Yankovic
Ben Platt & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Arianna Afsar & Julia Harriman & Lexi Lawson & Rachelle Ann Go & Shoba Narayan
The Regrettes
Mobb Deep
Andra Day
Ibeyi
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Zion & Lennox, De La Ghetto, Ivy Queen, Pj Sin Suela & Lucecita Benitez
Sara Bareilles
John Kander & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Christopher Jackson & Barack Obama & BeBe Winans
The Hamildrop for the month of June, “Boom Goes The Cannon…” takes inspiration from “Right Hand Man” from Hamilton. The song features the ‘90s rap duo Mobb Deep after the one year anniversary of the death of one half of the group and their most famous member, Prodigy.
[Intro: Havoc, Prodigy]
Uh
Yeah
[Chorus: Prodigy]
Boom! goes the cannon, watch the blood and the shit spray
How can we keep leading if the people keep retreating?
Nah, boom! goes the cannon, push forward, no fear
We gon' win this war and run them clowns outta here
Boom! goes the cannon, watch they bodies and guns drop
Now we the real leaders, opposition retreats when
Boom! goes the cannon, push forward, no fear
We gon' take the war and run them outta here
[Verse 1: Havoc]
Check it out
That's my right hand man, we like the Bobbsey Twins
You got my back, I got your back when the sass begins
We grew up in the slums, broke bread together
When worse came to worse, rolled out the weather
Had faith, knew it couldn't be this bad forever
And once the sun shined, it could only get better
Birds of a feather, we on the same page
Since high school [?] whatever came our way
Your kids is my kids, vice-versa
You ain't ask who the beef with, only where the burner
Never blink a eye, you'll back down just to hold the fort down
From Q.B. to Strong Isle, my soldiers running wild, we wildin'
Courtesy of projects houses
And though you not here, you lookin' down on me smiling
We took a oath to keep the name afloat
We Infamous forever, homie, the ultimate G.O.A.T.s
[Chorus: Prodigy]
Boom! goes the cannon, watch the blood and the shit spray
How can we keep leading if the people keep retreating?
Nah, boom! goes the cannon, push forward, no fear
We gon' win this war and run them clowns outta here
Boom! goes the cannon, watch they bodies and guns drop
Now we the real leaders, opposition retreats when
Boom! goes the cannon, push forward, no fear
We gon' take the war and run them outta here
[Verse 2: Prodigy]
Yeah, yeah
We are at war, no man is safe, you can't hide forever
Die on the battlefield to rise up and take power
It's 32,000 troops in New York harbor
We outgunned, outmanned, and outnumbered
It's 32,000 troops in New York harbor
We outplanned, out our mind pushing forward
We a powder keg about to explode
Wish we had a man like Hamilton to lighten the load
Send the word, get 'em
He want to fight, he got the hunger
Yeah, I was just like him when I was younger, uh
Head full of fantasies of dying like a martyr, but look
Dying is easy, young man, livin' is harder
It's gon' be pools of blood in New York Harbor
Rah! Gunfire and cannonballs, it's on, son
Pools of blood in New York Harbor
Rah! Willin' to die in Revolutionary War, dunn
[Chorus: Prodigy]
Boom! goes the cannon, watch the blood and the shit spray
How can we keep leading if the people keep retreating?
Nah, boom! goes the cannon, push forward, no fear
We gon' win this war and run them clowns outta here
Boom! goes the cannon, watch they bodies and guns drop
Now we the real leaders, opposition retreats when
Boom! goes the cannon, push forward, no fear
We gon' take the war and run them outta here
Boom Goes the Cannon... was written by Prodigy of Mobb Deep & Havoc.
Mobb Deep released Boom Goes the Cannon... on Mon Jun 18 2018.