-It's exciting!
It's exciting that this is
happening, this is real.
-Whoo, we're doing this!
-We're doing this right now.
We're all together.
I'm so -- First of all, welcome.
Thank you so much
for being here.
Obviously, we've geeked out
about you on the show before.
Lin and I.
So I'm just gonna gush
for a little bit.
-Okay.
-My first concert,
Dare To Be Stupid Tour.
-Bad Hair Day, The Beacon.
-That was yours?
It's one of the best concerts
I've ever seen
in my entire lifetime,
to this day.
It's the greatest.
-Thank you.
-And you have a --
you have a new tour.
I just want to
get the title right.
The Ridiculously Self-Indulgent
Ill-Advised Vanity Tour.
-That's right, yeah.
-It just rolls off the tongue.
-Yeah.
-But this one is no parodies.
No hits in this one.
-Virtually no parodies.
It's an all-originals tour.
It's all the songs that kind of
slip between the cracks.
It's all the obscure songs
and B-sides.
It's not meant to be appealing
to a big, general,
mainstream audience.
It's really for
all the hardcore fans
that have been hanging around
for 30 years going,
"When's he gonna play
that obscure song
from the third album
that he's never played live?"
-"Attack of
the Radioactive Hamsters
From a Planet Near Mars."
-There you go.
Deep cuts.
-"Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung"
or you're not doing that one?
-No, that's in the rotation.
-It is?
-Yeah.
-That's my jam.
-I wrote that song
when I was 17 years old.
That was my first album.
And that's the only song
that I know of
that's based on the sound of
the accordion air button.
'Cause, you know, you have to
have accordion air button.
Going "kssh, kssh."
And at 17 years old, I thought,
"I don't know
what an iron lung sounds like,
but I'm guessing
it's something like that,"
and built a song around it.
-You're having a conversation
with a guy with an iron lung,
and that's all he says to you.
-Yeah.
-Lin, I want to talk
to you quickly.
You have some interesting
"Hamilton" news.
You are reprising your role?
-Yeah, I'm going back in
in Puerto Rico.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-That's major!
-That's major.
-So January, Puerto Rico,
three weeks,
in the theater at the University
of Puerto Rico.
And the goal, really,
is to basically,
you know, a third of the tickets
will be 10 bucks
for people on the island.
And then a third of the tickets
are gonna be super expensive.
And we hope you come see me
in the role
and spend a lot of money
in Puerto Rico,
which really needs it.
And our goal is to restore
arts funding for Puerto Rico.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-That's so exciting.
I'm gonna come.
I'm gonna go to Puerto Rico
and see you do your thing.
For more info on that,
hispanicfederation.org
is a great place to learn
how to help rebuild Puerto Rico.
We have to talk about this.
We have to talk about
Hamildrops.
First of all,
what are the Hamildrops?
-So, the Hamildrops are,
you know, with Quest and Tarik.
We made "The Hamilton Mixtape,"
which was like this dream
come true, all these artists.
And I didn't want
to compete with that.
I didn't want
to make a second one.
And I wanted to -- I was like,
"I don't want to make
a 'Hamilton Mixtape Part Two,'
but I still want to make
all this cool stuff."
And so we decided to just
release one thing a month.
And we have been talking about
this for a year.
-For a year.
-For a year.
-I freaked out.
Al, this is a masterpiece.
Seriously, I mean, you know,
I love all of this stuff.
I love the things that --
This is --
-You're a polka connoisseur.
-I'm a polka connoisseur.
This is "The Hamilton Polka."
I don't know how --
It's so intricate, complex.
It has every single thing that
if you're a fan of Weird Al,
if you want, you have --
there's slide whistle,
there's a duck quack.
There's, like, "pew!"
cartoon sound effects.
It is so great.
And the polka's great.
The harmony is great.
Your rapping is great.
This must be the most intricate
thing you've ever done.
-It is.
I made it so intricate
'cause I thought I'm never gonna
perform this live,
so I'm just gonna make this
impossible to perform.
Like, "Oh, that rapping's fast.
I'm gonna make it 10% faster
and five-part harmony.
Okay. Let's go."
-Did you --
-Well, I called you!
I heard it for the first time
last Thursday night.
And my wife
had the presence of mind
to film me watching it
for the first time.
Tears streaming down my cheeks.
And then the song stops
and then my phone rings.
And it's Questlove,
who somehow already heard it.
-He was the second person
I sent it to.
-That's how he heard it.
And I just hear Questlove go
"Yo!"
He went, "Forget your Pulitzer!
Your genius grant is nothing!"
-Word. Said that.
-"You've been immortalized
by Weird Al.
You're done. You're done.
You've peaked."
-It's the greatest.
-It's true. It's the greatest.
-It is the greatest thing
in the world.
You have to understand
what an honor it is.
So you wanted to FaceTime me
because you were gonna play it
'cause you wanted to
see my reaction.
-I was like, "Jimmy, call me!
Answer the FaceTime!
It's happening!"
-So then Quest started
texting me, he goes,
"Did you hear this
'Hamilton Polka'?
You're gonna freak out.
It's unbelievable."
I go, "I don't want
to listen to it
until Lin gives me permission."
So you sent me the .mp3 of it,
and I listened to it,
and I filmed
my first reaction to the song.
And you filmed your reaction.
Watch how similar this is.
We put them next -- Watch.
-Oh, God.
-Look at these reactions.
-♪♪ Angelica! Work, work! ♪♪
♪♪ Eliza and Peggy ♪♪
[ Blows raspberry ]
♪♪ Look around at how lucky
we are to be alive right now ♪♪
-What!
-♪♪ History is happening
in Manhattan ♪♪
♪♪ And we just happen to be ♪♪
♪♪ In the greatest city ♪♪
♪♪ In the greatest city
in the world ♪♪
-I mean,
it's so unbelievably close.
We both go like, "What!"
and then we're laughing.
It's the greatest thing --
"The Hamilton Polka."
You put 15 songs?
-14 to 15, yeah.
-From the soundtrack
into a five-minute jam.
It's streaming right now,
so please start listening to it
right now and downloading it.
It's fantastic.
