<i>Hamilton</i> and <i>black-ish</i> Star Says Not Being Political Isn’t an Option

Oct 09, 2016, 02:08 PM

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Daveed Diggs has become accustomed to rapping rapidly in front of hundreds of people in the Broadway smash Hamilton. But at 7:30 a.m. on a Tuesday in September, he's performing for an audience of one.

Sitting in a coffee shop in the New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights, just north of Harlem, he warns that it's "too early to do anything," including rap.