The best way to explain this is cultural misappropriation of its HIGHEST form.

Hip hop is too tied into the 4 pillars. It's not the forum to use in a Broadway format unless the usage of the art is DIRECTLY related to its origin.

Alexander Hamilton wasn't spitting no struggle bars to 3rd tier beats, B.

The snippets I heard sounded like a piss poor after school special. I can imagine this KILLING as a Elementary School Field Trip that the teenagers ridicule mercilessly on the ride home.

I'm sorry....but if your play isn't a direct product of the art, it's some bullshit. They were going for the "novelty" factor...this ain't nothing but a glorified Hip Hop McDonald's commercial.