Lin-Manuel Miranda jokes about Jake Gyllenhaal and ‘Taylor’s Version’ in freestyle rap
Miranda went first and had a random assortment of words, which consisted of NFT,and the phrase “build back better.” Stepping up to the mic, he sang, “I’m not nervous, but I took some ecstasy/ Imma sell it one time as an NFT/ Yeah, then I’ll freestyle and kill ’em all/ Just likedid to Jake Gyllenhaal/ Oh, in my real black sweater/ I’ll give you $1,000, you can build back better.”
Trotter was next, and according to Fallon, got an unfair trio of words to work with. Jell-O shots, Spider-Man and Rumpelstiltskin were his words, but he was able to come up with a remarkable set of rhymes. “Should I be mellow or mellow not/ Because Lin, you came out like hello, hot/ I’m tryna understand the energy this fellow’s got/ Must have been the alcohol inside those Jell-O shots/ Look, call your insurance provider, man/ ‘Cause I’m the neighborhood hero, not Spider-Man/ And we still friends, but y’all know who still wins/ This is leader run anew, this is Rumpelstiltskin,” he spit against the band’s live instrumentals.
— and created magic in the final moments of the segment: “This is a collabo, keep creeping/ Every autumn, we got ’em, we leaf peeping/ I keep creeping Tariq, I keep teaching/ So these fools know that I’mma keep reaching/ You keep reaching and you never let him alone/ They’ll never forget you, that s–t like memory foam/ Give me the throne and let me alone/ I remember it all, my mic is memory phone/ When I stepped into the party, I stepped into the room/ Yo, I think I heard something go ‘Tick,...
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