VARIOUS ARTISTS - Hamilton Mixtape (Sealed) (2LP)

On The Hamilton Mixtape, songs from the iconic musical have been reinterpreted by Nas, Jill Scott, Alicia Keys, Chance the Rapper, and others, for some reason. The Hamilton original cast recording recently passed half-a-billion streams on Spotify. That’s billion, with a “B”: Try to think of more influential, beloved, and ubiquitous cast recordings in history—you will probably end up counting on two hands, maybe one. The music of Hamilton now sits directly in the center of American pop culture, and it has smuggled rapping—the unadulterated, information-dense kind that you can hear tripping from the tongues of the best MCs—into the ears of Dick Cheney and Mike Pence with it, for God’s sake