Despite the rhyming effect, does "the kettle callin' the pot" refer to any "kettle" or "pot" of the historical backdrop? Burr: Geniuses, lower your voices, You keep out of trouble and you double your choices. I'm with you, but the situation is fraught. You've got to be carefully taught: If you talk, you're gonna get shot! Hamilton: Burr, check what we got. Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot, I think your pants look hot, Laurens, I like you a lot Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot... What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot, Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not, A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists?