Lin-Manuel Miranda in Washington Heights (2008) 🍎 You Had To Be There | MTV News 

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He had to be his own Lin like Usnavi but older!

And those New York City streets getting colder I shoulder.

@@wolfkai8583 Every burden disadvantage I've learned to manage

@@thedarkninja3562 I walk the streets famished

Off topic but I LOVE YOUR PFP LMFAOOO

Lovejooooyyy

Lovejoy!!!!!

Well… Someone did do “In the Heights” before Lin. That musical was “RENT.” “In the Heights” uses RENT as a springboard. Both musicals are centered around a major holiday. Both have a character named Benny, who yearns for upward advancement, among other things. Both have a main character who isn’t directly part of the action (Mark vs Usnavi). Both have a character who keeps the community or family together (Angel vs Abuela Claudia). Both are meant to be for generation “now.” In Jonathan’s time, “RENT” was for the MTV generation. “In the Heights” is for us now.

@@ElizaHamilton1780 lin literally said in the interview that he got inspiration from rent hahaha

We got to see his ascendancy.

They better!!! Yes!!

He started* You can start today too :)

It took him 8 years to finish it. People forget they have time, all they need to do is spend it doing what they love. Besides, the timer only starts when you begin

I published my novel when I was 19.

Say it with me everyone! I raised that boy! 😊

Same and Same

@@inserthahafunniusername9656 yeah sure so did I

@@inserthahafunniusername9656 riiiight

I hope so. I'm hoping sooner. Lol

Hard to say. He knows more about writing musicals now, so it might happen faster. But between the many other things he has been able to do now because he's famous, and the [waves hands around at the world right now] and the projects he's been doing to make the world less bad, it might take longer.

@@OrigamiMarie "to make the world less bad" I like that. I like that a lot.

@@Angie-ji7be I was probably thinking of The Foundation To Reduce World Suck (which is a real thing) when I wrote it! And thank you, I think that mitigating the harm is super important right now! Well, always, but especially now. I've been trying to help by writing letters to people who are less likely to vote, to help encourage them to go to the trouble.

@Nicholas Parker and now he's making a concerted effort to stay off of Twitter, so that might even happen! I'm sad he's not tweeting anymore though.

FORESHADOWING

according to him it wasn’t on purpose (he said in a tweet that Vanessa from the musical was “born” in 1999 and him and ‘real’ Vanessa only started dating in 2005) but i saw an interview where he said they knew eachother in high school and that he was too shy to talk to her or something, so i wonder if it was subconscious (that he named the female lead Vanessa). but that’s just my theory lol it might just be a crazy coincidence.

@@victoriat7961 i share your theory. Its suuuuch a coincidence.

recently I've read about it (or watched an interview with him) and he said that Vanessa is named after his sister's best friend. Unfortunately I don't remember where but if I find it I'll post it here

dude finally, someone else noticed that!

Ikr? Why is nobody talking about that. Also Lin said that he was totally crushing on V and everyone knew except Vanessa

Dime.

I would actually be really interested to hear that

i’m curious

All the bestttt!!!!!

Me at 19: published a book and passing community college classes.

I noticed that too lol

The movie adaptation isn't doing to well at the box office .. :/

@@retro9173 probably because of COVID and it's availability online rather than because the movie is bad, I personally loved it

@@rushankadri8055 yeah I chose to watch it at home too. I'll be buying it on DVD for sure. I LOVED ti

Founding father without a father

got a lot farther by working a lot harder

@@Henry3Productions by being a lot smarter by being a self starter

by fourteen they placed him in charge of a trading charter

And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up

Big MTV interview...yeah stress does that and tightens up people's voices so the speak at a higher pitch.

LMAO YES

Yes. Just YES!!!!

Congratulations. You predicted the future! :)

@@CaribbeanOlympian what?

@@tsthinker1318 Watch the movie adaptation if you haven’t already, and you’ll see what I mean.

Saw it yesterday. It's wonderful! Do not leave until AFTER the credits. You'll miss 1 last scene!

@@laurathornton1456 NO WAY!!

@@cxcflower4727 YES WAY! I think you can find it on RU-vid. It's just a little thing but cute.

@@laurathornton1456 best cameo ever

California madres too!

Umm, I think you mean Hispanic. Spanish means it's from the country of Spain in Europe.

@@runefaustblack yes ty

This is so sad we must protect the arts

This made me laugh

@Rebeca Alejandra Salgado Sánchez :)

I wouldn't say that. Those of us who grew up in the 1980s were inundated with Andrew Lloyd Webber themes as they were the big ticket shows. Prior to that it was Westside Story. ALW brought Rock into theatre starting in the 1970s. There weren't many original musicals in the 1990s other than RENT. LMM isn't throwing shade, he's just saying it was an intimidating task and ambition to be in.

He IS Hamilton

Yes it is

@@TheJMOREi no he just wrote it and plays him

@@josefag5153 Ya don't say

Nah, too much blinking. Fake Lin!

What's in a name? What we call a rose will smell just as sweetly with any other name...

Jesus christ. You could own 2 houses for that price where I live in Florida, taxes and all (in which the property taxes are quite high).

@@5620103893 - hey ... like the lyrics, from the old Blues Tune - 'Tobacco Road' - "But It's Home, the Only Life, I've Ever Known ..." But seriously, I nor any long time residents, are Not likely to be paying Current Fair Market Value. Thanks to NYC Rental Laws. But, I would agree. For anyone starting fresh in NYC. " the Rent is Too Damn High !" ;-)

This video was filmed in 2008 when the musical came out on broadway so he was 28 at that time.

This video is 14 years old

NO MATTER HOW PASSIONATE OR GOOD YOU ARE, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE PEOPLE WHO WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED. 😏