#THE RENT IS ESCALATIN

[wild-moss-art]

If Coco and Dimitri von Fire Emblem were real, woudl they have a Hamilton/Lin Manuel M phase???

Coco definitely loooooves linman, the ashen wolves put together a production of in the heights together. Dimitri saw high school musical once and cried(relates to troy) so he never watched another musical again

[bee-a-lover]

i present you: the product of an ex-theater-kid turned grishaverse stan zoning out for an hour and 45 mins in class this morning

i recommend playing the song (movie version) while reading along for a fun time

the song “96,000”, if it were “30 million kruge” (the part of soc where kaz tells the others about the ice court job)

(without the lyrics changed because i’m not willing to put that much effort into this i just assigned lyrics as the song played on loop in my head all morning)

Kaz:

Ninety-six thousand!

Nina:

Damn!

Kaz:

Ninety-six thousand!

Jesper:

Dollars? Holler!

Kaz:

Ninety-six thousand!

Wylan:

That's a lotta spray cans

Kaz:

Ninety-six thousand!

Jesper:

Yo

If I won the lotto tomorrow

Well, I know I wouldn't bother goin' on no spendin' spree

I pick a business school and pay the entrance fee!

Then maybe if you're lucky, you'll stay friends with me!

I'll be a businessman, richer than [Wylan’s] daddy!

Tiger Woods and I on the links, and he's my caddy!

My money's makin' money, I'm goin' from po' to mo' dough!

Keep the bling, I want the brass ring, like Frodo!

Matthias:

Oh no, here goes Mr. Braggadocio

Next thing you know, you're lying like Pinocchio...

Nina:

Yo, if you're scared of the bull, stay out the rodeo!

Jesper:

Yo, I got more flows than Obi-Wan Kenobio

Kaz:

Ooh, you better stop rappin', you not ready

It's gonna get hot and heavy

And you already sweaty...

Nina:

Yo-yo-yo! Yo!

Matthias:

Yo, yo! I'm sorry is that an answer?

Shut up, go home and pull ya damn pants up!

Kaz:

As for you, Mr. Frodo of the Shire...

Jesper:

What?

Kaz:

96 G's ain't enough to retire

Jesper:

C'mon, I'll have enough to knock your ass off its axis!

Kaz:

You'll have a knapsack full of jack after taxes

Nina:

Ninety-six thousand!

Matthias:

Ay, alabanza!

Nina:

Ninety-six thousand!

Inej:

No me diga!

Nina:

Ninety-six thousand!

Wylan:

I never win shit!

Nina:

Ninety-six thousand!

Jesper:

For real, though, imagine how it would feel goin' real slow

Down the highway of life with no regrets

And no breakin' your neck for respect or a paycheck

For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw

The biggest block party, everybody here

A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy

Rotty/Specht:

Yo! Ma, it's me, check my tickets!

Nina:

Check one two three

What would you do with ninety-six G's...

Inej:

Who me?

Nina:

I mean if it's just between you and me...

Inej:

Esa pregunta es tricky!

Nina/Wylan:

I know!

Matthias:

With ninety-six G's

I'd start my life with a brand new lease

Atlantic City with a Malibu Breeze

Nina:

And a brand new weave!

Jesper:

Or maybe just bleach...

Matthias:

Y'all are freaks

Kaz:

Yo, I'm just sayin'...

It's silly when we get into these crazy hypotheticals

You really want some bread? Then go ahead create a set of goals

And cross them off the list as you pursue 'em

And with those ninety-six, I know precisely what I'm doin'

Inej:

What'chu doin'?

Kaz:

What'm I doin? What'm I doin?

It takes half of that cash just to save my ass from financial ruin

Sonny can keep the coffee brewin'

I'll spend a few on you

'Cause the only room with a view is a room with you in it

And I could give Abuela Claudia the rest of it

Just fly me down to Puerto Plata, I'll make the best of it!

You really love this business?

Wylan:

No

Kaz:

Tough, Merry Christmas

You're now the youngest tycoon in Washington Hiznits!

Wylan:

Yo!

With ninety-six thousand, I'd finally fix housin'

Give the barrio computers and wireless web browsin'

Your kids are livin' without a good edjumication

Change the station, teach 'em about gentrification

The rent is escalatin'

Crows:

What?!

Wylan:

The rich are penetratin'

Crows:

What?!

Wylan:

We pay our corporations when we should be demonstratin'

Crows:

What?!

Wylan:

What about immigration?

Crows:

What?!

Wylan:

Politicians be hatin'

Crows:

What?!

Wylan:

Racism in this nation's gone from latent to blatant

Crows:

Ooh!

Wylan:

I'll cash my ticket and picket, invest in protest

Never lose my focus till the city takes notice

And you know this man! I'll never sleep

Because the ghetto has a million promises for me to keep!

Crows:

Woo!

Jesper:

You're so cute

Wylan:

I was just thinking off the top of my head

Kaz:

Ninety-six K: Go

Inej:

If I win the lottery, you'll never see me again

Jesper:

Damn, we only jokin', stay broke then

Inej:

I'll be downtown

Get a nice studio, get out of the barrio

If I

Win the

Lottery

You'll wonder where

I've been

Jesper, accompanying Inej:

For real, though

Imagine how it would feel goin' real slow

Down the highway of life with no regrets

And no breakin' your neck for respect or a paycheck...

Inej, accompanying Jesper:

I'll be downtown

See you around

If I win the lottery

You won't see a lot of me!

I'll be downtown

See you around!

Crows:

Why-oh!

Inej:

Around!

Crows:

Why-oh!

Jesper:

For real though

I'll take a break from the wheel

And we'll throw

The biggest block party

Everybody here

A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy

For real though

Imagine how it would feel

Goin' real slow

Down the highway of life with no regrets

And no breakin' your neck

For respect or a paycheck

For real though

I'll take a break from the wheel

And we'll throw

The biggest block party

Everybody here

A weekend when we can breathe

Take it easy

Kaz, with Jesper and Inej:

Yo, it's silly when we get into these crazy hypotheticals

You really want some bread?

Then go ahead create a set of goals

And cross 'em off the list as you pursue 'em

And with those ninety-six I know precisely what I'm doin'

Yo, it's silly when we get into these crazy hypotheticals

You really want some bread?

Then go ahead create a set of goals

And cross 'em off the list as you pursue 'em

And with those ninety-six I know precisely what I'm doin'

Yo, it's silly when we get into these crazy hypotheticals

You really want some bread?

Then go ahead create a set of goals

And cross 'em off the list as you pursue 'em

And with those ninety-six I know precisely what I'm doin'

Crows:

Ninety-six

Thousand

Nina:

No me diga!

Crows:

Ninety-six

Thousand

Nina/Inej/Wylan:

No me diga!

Kaz:

Ninety-six

Thousand

Nina/Inej/Wylan/Jesper/Matthias:

No me diga!

Rotty/Specht:

Why-oh!

Inej:

Check, one, two, three!

Kaz/Jesper:

And with the dollah dollah

(TO BE CONTINUED IN THE COMMENTS I LITERALLY HIT THE TEXT BLOCK LIMIT)

[enthusiasticmusicalquotes]

THE RENT IS ESCALATIN’ WHAAAA 

THE RICH ARE PENETRATIN' WHAAAA 

WE PAY OUR CORPORATIONS WHEN WE SHOULD BE DEMONSTRATIN’ WHAAAA 

WHAT ABOUT IMMIGRATION WHAAAA 

POLITICIANS BE HATIN’ WHAAAA

RACISM IN THIS NATION’S GONE FROM LATENT TO BLAAAATANT OOOOOH

[loteriias-moved]

my essay: due in less than 2 hours my brain rn: yo, with 96 thousand i could finally fix housing, give the barrio computers with wireless web browsin’! the kids are living without a good edumication, change the station, teach ‘em about gentrification! the rent is escalatin’, the rich are penetratin’, we pay our corporations when we should be demonstrati-

[tigergingicat]

The best part of the ENTIRE SONG.

[SONNY]

Yo!

With ninety-six thousand, I'd finally fix housin'

Give the barrio computers and wireless web browsin'

Your kids are livin' without a good edjumication

Change the station, teach 'em about gentrification

The rent is escalatin'

[NEIGHBORS]

What?!

[SONNY]

The rich are penetratin'

[NEIGHBORS]

What?!

[SONNY]

We pay our corporations when we should be demonstratin'

[NEIGHBORS]

What?!

[SONNY]

What about immigration?

[NEIGHBORS]

What?!

[SONNY]

Politicians be hatin'

[NEIGHBORS]

What?!

[SONNY]

Racism in this nation's gone from latent to blatant

[NEIGHBORS]

Oooooh!

[SONNY]

I'll cash my ticket and picket, invest in protest

Never lose my focus till the city takes notice

And you know this man! I'll never sleep

Because the ghetto has a million promises for me to keep!

[NEIGHBORS]

Woo!

In the Heights (2021) dir. Jon M. Chu

[keepingupwithlinmanuel]

Lin-Manuel Miranda thanks you for defending bodegas

The creator of "Hamilton" and "In the Heights" on Thursday praised those who criticized a controversial startup that they fear would kill the neighborhood mom-and-pop shop. The company, called Bodega, wants to put pantry boxes stocked with convenience store items in gyms, dorms and other buildings.

The backlash started after Bodega was profiled this week in a Fast Company article. The title: "Two Ex-Googlers Want To Make Bodegas And Mom-And-Pop Corner Stores Obsolete."

Critics said that it appeared Bodega was taking aim at stores that are usually run by immigrants, while also misappropriating immigrant culture and celebrating gentrification.

Miranda tweeted his dismay about the company.

The rent is escalatin’ The rich are penetratin’ We pay our corporations when we should be demonstratin’ What about immigration? Politicians be hatin’ Racism in this nation’s gone from latent to blatant

[dawsonscreekwasalwaysbad]

some lin-manuel miranda rhymes that I can’t believe exist

break of day/chase away

dawn, sing/awning/morning

exaggerated/exacerbated/complicated/emigrated

beyond that/passed on/gone back/get on that

escalator/test ya later

Rosario/barrio

cousin/runnin’/dime-a-dozen

Cole Porter/cold waters

practice at it/mathematics

stressed/yes/press/mess/checks/next

earner/learner/burner

statement/payment/pay rent

wide awake/highest place/fire escape

scholarship/dollar/college

GWB/gee nina, what’ll you be?

eyes on/horizon

Benny, hey/any sign/anyway/anytime

check it/rubber neckin’/a hundred ninety second/double decker/bus wreck

honey/money/one day

businessman/richer than

spending spree/entrance fee/friends with me

braggadocio/pinocchio/rodeo/tokyo

ready/heavy/already sweaty

answer/pants up

ass/axis/knapsack/jack/taxes

neck/respect/paycheck

hypotheticals/set of goals

pursue em/doin/ruin/brewin’/few on/room with a view/room with you in it

business/Christmas/Hiznits

thousand/housin/browsin

escalatin’/penetratin’/corporations/demonstratin’/immigration/hatin’/nation/latent/blatant

jokin’/broke then

snide/hide/inside

perceive it/believe that

silent type/island type/wild all night

guard the store/bombard the store/ain’t got a store no more

dilemmas/mess/less of/Vanessa

bogus/noticed

gather round, sit down/announcement/amounts, it’s/thousand

Republic/in love with

coroners/corner/foreigners

coulda been/hood again

plastic cups/has the cups

calling card/falling hard

crack of dawn/blackout goes on

back/trash/past/sack/cash

Hudson/just when/floods in

dawn/salon/move on/gone

legacies/recipes/rest in peace

destiny/best in me/test and we/pressin’ and/yes indeed

Scotsman/forgotten/spot in the/providence/impoverished

father/farther/harder/smarter/starter/charter/slaughtered/carted/guard up/part of/borrow/barter

came/reigned/drain/brain/refrain/pain

insane, man/mainland/came, and/name, man

Hamilton/haven’t done

debt ridden/bed ridden/half dead, sittin’

suicide/ruined pride/new inside

less astute/destitute/restitution

landlord/can’t afford

burr/sir/sure/service/nervous/blur/bursar/were/verse/worst/immature/words/absurd/confer/Mercer/secure/stir

handles/financials

orphan/war then/more than

horses/of course it’s/intercourse/four sets/corsets

college/astonish/polish/knowledge

piece of coal/reach my goal/unimpeachable

older/colder/shoulder

disadvantage/manage/brandish/famished

independently/essentially/relentlessly/spendin’ spree/descendants free/century/enter me/parentheses/mentions me/sets us free/eventually/ascendancy

Britain/shittin’

apprentice/parentis

fraught/taught/shot/got/Lancelot/hot/lot/plot/pot/spot/not

manumission/abolitionists/position/ammunition is

memory/ahead of me/let it be/melody

ask/fast/laugh/flask/have/last/that’s

movement/prove went

foes oppose us/roll like Moses

honest stand/promised land

independence/descendants/endless/defendants

street is excitin’/bleedin’ and fightin’/readin’ and writin’

summer in the city/someone lookin’ pretty

searchin’/urchin

disgust me/discussed me

Common Sense/Thomas Paine/I’m intense/I’m insane

revolution/revelation

happenin/Manhattan/happen to be in

rabble/unravel

have not/have-nots

interests/win this

Boston/cost and/lost and/Congress

strangely/mange

mercy/Jersey

modulate the key/not debate with me

divisive/indecisive/niceties

arrangement/estrangement

millisecond/feel a second

general/men are all

elegance/eloquence/elephant

fleeting/leading/retreating/bleeding

Brooklyn/rook/look

batterin’/battery

stand with the/stamina/granted us

giddy up/divvy up/city up/givin’ up

distance/assistance

Montgomery/summary

neck/Quebec

play out/way out

contrary/beyond scary

hire you/why’re you

inside/kingsmen/things slide

spies/supplies/guys/surprise

station/information/occasion/nation

on and on/phenomenon

watch this/obnoxious

undeniable/reliable

sister/if, Burr

rich, son/which one

revel/rebels

nightly/write me

harem/share him

dollar to my name/dollop of fame

confides in me/bite of me

bride/side/provide/satisfied/rewind

pang frame/dang name

heart aflame/part aflame/not a game

match wits/catch, it’s

seeing the light/key and a kite/see it, right?

two minutes/three minutes/agreement, it’s/dream and it’s

wittiest/city is/insidious

penniless/any less

status, I’d/that aside/that is why/that’s his bride/satisfied

mind/find/kind/silently/resigned/mine/fine/lyin’

fantasize/alexander’s eyes/romanticize/hadn’t sized

four of us/poor of us

colonel/journal

command/mannin’

sensible/indispensable

unlawful, sir/officer

brimstone/hymns won’t

preacher/teach ya

despondent/correspondence

George/forces/resorted/horses

assistance/sixpence

apprenticeship/sent a ship

gone with/Monmouth

piss in/listen

devices/indecisive/crisis to crisis

go back to/tobacco

second/reckoned

civility/deniability

moment/opponent

ruinous/doin’ this

Alexander/commander

war was won/war’s not done

poor man’s wife/your life/your wife

quagmire/flag higher

weapon/step in

henchmen/Frenchman

engagin’/escapin’/enragin’

do in a trench/ingenuitive/fluent in French/use him eventually/do on the bench

resilience/brilliance

practical/tactical

fight for your land back/right hand man back

command/firsthand

rise in me/eyes on me

lies in you/eyes on you

ahead of me/end of me/friend with me/expectin’ me

one shot/gunshot

stay in it/bayonet

Rochambeau/go man go

American/experiment

government/smuggle it/covenant/lovin’ it/ruffians/shovel it

say to you/day to you

jury/curious

harmony/Albany

democracy/Socrates/rocks at these/mediocrities

delegate/indelicate

listless/is this

abrasive/persuasive

solution/Constitution

amendments/independence

stall for/all for

London/husband

always pays/all my days/turn of phrase

orphan/war vet/more debt/forfeit/more yet

President/precedent

resist him/system

haven’t had the chance/ambassador to France

step in the place/red in the face

quote em/wrote em

paid/afraid/made/shade

outrageous/damn pages

land of the free/candidacy

assume the debts/union gets

competitive/sedative

Enlightenment/fight in it

President/reticent/jettison/medicine/debt is in

Madison/mad as a hatter, son

two shits/shoe fits

blunder/wonder/thunder

compromise/otherwise

ocean away/notion away

socked away/block away

said/head/red/led/bed/spread/said

helpless/hell yes

last time/pastime

received a letter/even better

luck/fuuuuu–

cuckold/unbuckled

apologetic/pathetic

dinner and invite/Virginian insight

another/southerners/other words

God we trust/got discussed

save the day/trade away

Republican/up and up again

great/create/upstate/Wait.

crooked/took it

tyranny/here and he

basket/ask it

freedom/lead ‘em

rioting/disquieting

witted/admit it/acquitted

remind you/behind you

action/reaction/fractured/factions/fractions/retractions/satisfaction/fits of passion/pits of fashion/ration to ration/cash in

askin’/task/vacous mass/at last/unmask

cock it/watchin’/Washington/pocket

doubled the/government/wasn’t the/trouble with/much of our

enterprise/centralizing

credit/competitive/abet it

complicit in/kissin’ it/isn’t gon’/listen to/disciplined/dissidents/this is the/difference/this kid is

up against/Republicans

favor/say, sir/pay for/behavior

less/press/address/yes

pseudonym/do to him

moment/home in

pieces/Jesus

Coast Guard/Post ardently

vice President/nice president

taunts/response

courted me/escorted me/corner/extorted me/sordid fee/quarterly/mortally/orderly

record/check in/checkered/check it

again/against

history/list and see/consistency

spent/cent/sent/scent

resistance/existence/indifference/deliverance

had aside/at her side/satisfied

senses/sentences/defenseless/obsessed/senseless

blocks/box/fox/frocks/socks

watch the show/father though

go now/show now

want this/conscience

like it uptown/quiet uptown

faction/attractive

extreme you/redeem you

change course/key endorsement

defeatist/elitist

here with him/beer with him

orphan/whore’s son/endorse

disgrace/time and place/face to face

believe/sleeve/grievance/disagreements

legitimate/bit of it

enemy/ever see/remember me/legacy/get to see

sing for me/symphony/sent for me

difference/immigrants/fingerprints

rise up/time’s up/wise up/eyes up/Eliza

[ninasfireescape]

in the heights aesthetics >>> sonny de la vega “the rent is escalatin’, the rich are penetratin’, we pay our corporations when we should be demonstratin’. what about immigration? politicians be hatin’. racism in this nation’s gone from latent to blatant!”

[musicalkincare]

Yo! With ninety-six thousand, I’d finally fix housin’ Give the barrio computers with wireless web browsin’ Your kids are livin’ without a good edjumication Change the station, teach 'em about gentrification The rent is escalatin’

Sonny De La Vega + Blue/purple. Requested by anon.

[musicalssorted]

Sonny: Ravenclaw

Like a lot of Ravenclaws, Sonny is more of a feeling than actual proveable evidence, and you could point him into almost any other house, but when watching In The Heights, I always feel like he’s more of a Ravenclaw.

You can see this in 96,000-

With ninety-six thousand, I’d finally fix housin’

Give the barrio computers with wireless web browsin’

Your kids are livin’ without a good edjumication

Change the station, teach 'em about gentrification

The rent is escalatin’

The rich are penetratin’

We pay our corporations when we should be demonstratin’

What about immigration?

Politicians be hatin’

Racism in this nation’s gone from latent to blatant

I’ll cash my ticket and picket, invest in protest

Never lose my focus 'til the city takes notice

And you know this man! I'll never sleep

Because the ghetto has a million promises for me to keep!

Sonny seems to be the only one in the group that has a clear idea of ways he could actually cause change- though changing the world is a pricey endeavor and 96,000 certainly wouldn’t cover the whole bill, as a Ravenclaw would, Sonny clearly has put a lot of thought into this.

This is also evident in Carnaval del Barrio, when everyone else is celebrating and throwing caution to the wind and Sonny is the only one who’s remaining with sensibility about what all of this actually means:

Listen up, is that what y’all want?

We close this bodega, the neighborhood is gone!

They selling the dispatch and they closing the salon

And they’ll never turn the lights back on, ‘cause we are powerless, we are powerless

And y’all keep dancin’ and singin’ and celebratin’

And it’s gettin’ late and this place disintegratin’

Though for me, one of the most Ravenclaw lines I’ve ever seen is in the Finale, after Usnavi sees the grate.

“He hates it.”

“Shhh. He’s forming an artistic opinion.”

That just seems to fit Ravenclaw so much better than any other house.

Musicalssorted official stamp on Sonny is that he is a Ravenclaw! Tune in tomorrow for a Hufflepuff.

[awonderstruckswiftie]

Yo! With ninety-six thousand, I’d finally fix housin’ Give the barrio computers with wireless web browsin’ Your kids are livin’ without a good edjumication Change the station, teach 'em about gentrification The rent is escalatin’ The rich are penetratin’ We pay our corporations when we should be demonstratin’ What about immigration? Politicians be hatin’ Racism in this nation’s gone from latent to blatant I’ll cash my ticket and picket, invest in protest Never lose my focus 'til the city takes notice And you know this man! I'll never sleep Because the ghetto has a million promises for me to keep!

Sonny, 96,000