TIME

Daveed Diggs, actor and rapper

Best known for his Tony-winning dual role as an ebullient Marquis de Lafayette and a swaggering Thomas Jefferson in the musical Hamilton, Diggs is getting political in his music with hip-hop group clipping. and onscreen with a role on the ABC sitcom black-ish
BEYOND THE STAGE ONSCREEN Diggs will star as a teacher opposite Julia Roberts in the film Wonder next year IN THE STUDIO Diggs released the album Splendor & Misery with hip-hop group clipping. on Sept. 9

DAVEED DIGGS BECAME 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,”

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from TIME

TIME3 min read
Milestones
When King Charles III bestowed new honors on his family members on April 23, St. George’s Day, the batch of titles sounded as grand as can be: his son William, the Prince of Wales, became Great Master of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath; Charles
TIME12 min read
Holding Court
At the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., maybe the most prestigious nonmajor tournament on the global tennis tour, players conduct their warm-up routines on a patch of grass outside the stadium. Some toss medicine balls to their trainers, whi
TIME2 min read
A Man In Full, Adapted And Redacted
Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full is a massive book, in more ways than one. The 742-page social novel about a swaggering Atlanta real estate mogul, which took Wolfe over a decade to write, sold a jaw-dropping 1.4 million hardcover copies after its publicatio

Related Books & Audiobooks