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Obama and the genius behind 'Hamilton' dropped an awesome freestyle rap at the White House

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President Obama held the "POTUS" cue card while Miranda rapped.
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On Monday, Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Broadway's "Hamilton" took their show on the road and performed at the White House.

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During the visit, Miranda broke away from the rest of the cast to join President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden outside the Oval Office for a freestyle rap session. Obama held up cue cards with words like "POTUS" and "carbon footprint," and Miranda had to work them all into a rap.

Which he did. Seamlessly.

"You think that's going viral?" Obama asked after Miranda dropped the mic at the end of his raps. We certainly think so.

You can watch the entire thing here.

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