Lin-Manuel Miranda freestyled Jimmy Fallon’s epic voicemail message

Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is clearly no stranger to epic duels. Friday on The Tonight Show, the MacArthur genius took on The Roots' Tariq Trotter in a new game called Wheel of Freestyle.

Naturally, the Broadway phenom held his own. Watch him somehow not come up empty when tasked with incorporating the terms dinosaur, pumpkin pie, and Darth Vader into the same freestyle rap.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.