[00:08.48]Lights up on Washington Heights, up at the break of day
[00:11.57]I wake up and I got this little punk I gotta chase away
[00:14.45]Pop the grate at the crack of dawn, sing
[00:17.24]While I wipe down the awning
[00:19.21]Hey y’all, good morning
[00:20.78]Ice cold piragua! Parcha. China. Cherry. Strawberry.
[00:25.78]And just for today, I got mamey!
[00:27.90]Oye, piragüero, como estas?
[00:29.56]Como siempre, Señor Usnavi.
[00:31.70]I am Usnavi and you prob’ly never heard my name
[00:35.60]Reports of my fame are greatly exaggerated
[00:37.73]Exacerbated by the fact that my syntax
[00:40.23]Is highly complicated 'cuz I emigrated
[00:42.58]From the single greatest little place in the Caribbean:
[00:45.18]Dominican Republic!
[00:46.70]I love it!
[00:47.46]Jesus, I’m jealous of it
[00:48.78]And beyond that
[00:49.42]Ever since my folks passed on
[00:51.49]I haven’t gone back
[00:52.86]Goddamn, I gotta get on that...
[00:55.90]Fo! The milk has gone bad, hold up just a second
[00:58.92]Why is everything in this fridge warm and tepid?
[01:02.10]I better step it up and fight the heat
[01:03.96]'Cuz I’m not makin' any profit if the coffee isn’t light and sweet!
[01:08.40]Ooo-oo!
[01:08.96]Abuela, my fridge broke. I got café but no "con leche."
[01:11.32]Try my mother’s old recipe: one can of condensed milk.
[01:15.32]Nice.
[01:15.92]Ay! Paciencia y fe…
[01:19.53]That was Abuela, she’s not really my “abuela,”
[01:22.50]But she practically raised me, this corner is her escuela
[01:25.19]Now, you’re prob’ly thinkin:
[01:26.59]"I’m up shit’s creek!
[01:27.88]I've never been north of Ninety-Sixth Street!”
[01:30.30]Well, you must take the A Train
[01:33.82]Even farther than Harlem to northern Manhattan and maintain
[01:36.71]Get off at 181st, and take the escalator
[01:39.83]I hope you’re writing this down, I’m gonna test ya later
[01:42.69]I’m getting tested; times are tough on this bodega
[01:45.28]Two months ago somebody bought Ortega’s
[01:47.70]Our neighbors started packin’ up and pickin’ up
[01:49.79]And ever since the rents went up
[01:51.14]It’s gotten mad expensive
[01:52.51]But we live with just enough
[01:53.98]In the heights
[01:54.77]I flip the lights and start my day
[01:59.30]There are fights
[02:00.44]And endless debts
[02:01.64]And bills to pay
[02:05.29]In the Heights
[02:06.27]I can’t survive without café
[02:08.97]I serve café
[02:10.96]'Cuz tonight seems like a million years away!
[02:16.28]En Washington-
[02:17.44]Next up to bat, the Rosarios
[02:19.39]They run the cab company,
[02:20.90]They struggle in the barrio
[02:22.41]See, their daughter Nina’s off at college, tuition is mad steep
[02:25.79]So they can’t sleep
[02:26.80]Everything they get is mad cheap!
[02:28.81]Good morning, Usnavi!
[02:31.48]Pan caliente, café con leche!
[02:34.74]Put twenty dollars on today’s lottery
[02:37.31]One ticket, that’s it!
[02:38.72]Hey! A man’s gotta dream...
[02:40.38]Don’t mind him, he’s all excited
[02:43.19]‘Cuz Nina flew in at 3 A.M. last night!
[02:45.99]Don’t look at me, this one’s been cooking all week!
[02:48.81]Usnavi, come over for dinner
[02:51.57]There’s plenty to eat!
[02:52.68]So then Yesenia walks in the room-
[02:55.11]Aha…
[02:56.10]She smells sex and cheap perfume!
[02:58.10]Uh oh…
[02:58.80]It smells like one of those trees
[03:00.36]That you hang from the rear view!
[03:02.30]Ah, no!
[03:03.62]It’s true! She screams, “Who’s in there with you, Julio?”
[03:07.10]Grabs a bat and kicks in the door
[03:09.96]He’s in bed with José from the liquor store!
[03:13.15]No me diga!
[03:15.61]Daniela and Carla, from the salon.
[03:17.40]Thanks, Usnavi!
[03:18.82]Sonny, you’re late.
[03:21.19]Chillax, you know you love me.
[03:24.98]Me and my cousin runnin’ just another dime-a-dozen
[03:28.12]Mom-and-pop stop-and-shop
[03:29.58]And, oh my god, it’s gotten
[03:30.81]Too darn hot, like my man Cole Porter said
[03:33.87]People come through for a few cold waters and
[03:36.47]A lottery ticket, just a part of the routine
[03:39.39]Everybody’s got a job, everybody’s got a dream
[03:42.61]They gossip, as I sip my coffee and smirk
[03:44.83]The first stop as people hop to work
[03:47.44]Bust it- I’m like:
[03:48.76]"One dollar, two dollars, one fifty, one sixty-nine.
[03:51.28]I got it. You want a box of condoms? What kind?
[03:53.98]That’s two quarters.
[03:54.69]Two quarter waters. The New York Times.
[03:56.59]You need a bag for that? The tax is added.?"
[03:58.57]Once you get some practice at it
[03:59.99]You do rapid mathematics automatically
[04:01.48]Sellin’ maxipads, fuzzy dice for taxicabs and practically
[04:05.46]Everybody’s stressed, yes!
[04:06.88]But they press through the mess,
[04:08.92]Bounce checks and wonder what’s next
[04:11.15]In the heights
[04:11.95]I buy my coffee and I go
[04:14.63]I buy my coffee and-
[04:16.68]Set my sights
[04:17.50]On only what I need to know
[04:20.60]What I need to know
[04:22.16]In the heights
[04:23.18]Money is tight
[04:24.49]But even so
[04:25.53]Even so
[04:27.83]When the lights go down I blast my radio!
[04:32.85]You ain’t got no skills!
[04:34.79]Benny!
[04:35.69]Yo, lemme get a-
[04:36.41]Milky Way
[04:37.39]Yeah, lemme also get a-
[04:39.48]Daily News-
[04:40.28]And a-
[04:40.79]Post-
[04:41.26]And most important, my-
[04:42.52]Boss’ second coffee, one cream-
[04:44.23]Five sugars
[04:45.90]I’m the number one earner-
[04:46.38]What?!
[04:46.96]The fastest learner-
[04:47.77]What?!
[04:48.27]My boss can’t keep me on the damn back burner!
[04:50.58]Yes, he can
[04:51.39]I’m makin’ moves, I’m makin’ deals, but guess what?
[04:53.94]What?
[04:55.00]You still ain’t got no skills!
[04:57.14]Hardee-har
[04:57.96]Yo, Vanessa show up yet?
[04:58.95]Shut up!
[04:59.82]Hey little homie, don’t get so upset
[05:01.78]Man...
[05:02.47]Tell Vanessa how you feel, buy the girl a meal
[05:05.38]On the real, or you ain’t got no skills
[05:07.96]Nooo!
[05:09.41]No no nooo!
[05:12.30]No no nooo, no-no-no!
[05:14.20]Nooo, no-no-no!
[05:15.36]No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no, no-no-no-no-no!
[05:18.14]Mr. Johnson, I got the security deposit
[05:20.74]It’s locked in a box in the bottom of my closet
[05:23.41]It’s not reflected in my bank statement
[05:25.83]But I’ve been savin’ to make a down payment and pay rent
[05:28.93]No, no, I won’t let you down-
[05:31.28]Yo, here’s your chance; ask her out right now!
[05:34.30]I’ll see you later, we can look at that lease!
[05:36.71]Do somethin’, make your move, don’t freeze!
[05:39.39]Hey!
[05:39.85]You owe me a bottle of cold champagne!
[05:43.90]Are you moving?
[05:45.20]Just a little credit check and I’m on that downtown train!
[05:49.22]Well, your coffee’s on the house
[05:50.68]Okay!
[05:51.98]Usnavi, ask her out
[05:53.47]No way!
[05:54.78]I’ll see you later, so…
[05:58.70]Oooh... Smooth operator, aw, damn, there she goes!
[06:00.73]Yo, bro, take five, take a walk outside!
[06:03.49]You look exhausted, lost, don’t let life slide!
[06:05.98]The whole hood is struggling, times are tight
[06:08.72]And you’re stuck to this corner like a streetlight!
[06:14.57]Yeah, I’m a streetlight, chokin' on the heat
[06:17.31]The world spins around while I’m frozen to my seat
[06:20.12]The people that I know all keep on rollin' down the street
[06:22.95]But every day is different so I’m switchin’ up the beat
[06:25.76]'Cuz my parents came with nothing, they got a little more
[06:28.63]And sure, we’re poor, but yo, at least we got the store
[06:31.39]And it’s all about the legacy they left with me, it’s destiny
[06:34.33]And one day I’ll be on a beach with Sonny writing checks to me
[06:37.10]In the Heights, I hang my flag up on display
[06:40.86]We came to work and to live and we got a lot in common
[06:42.75]It reminds me that I came from miles away
[06:46.60]D.R., P.R., we are not stoppin’
[06:48.35]In the Heights
[06:49.18]Every day, paciencia ye fe
[06:51.84]Until the day we go from poverty to stock options
[06:54.17]In the Heights
[06:54.89]I’ve got today
[06:56.16]And today’s all we got, so we cannot stop
[06:58.53]This is our block!
[06:59.54]In the Heights
[07:00.41]I hang my flag up on display
[07:03.30]Lo le lo le lo lai lai lo le!
[07:05.21]It reminds me that I came from miles away
[07:08.62]My family came from miles away-
[07:11.70]In the Heights
[07:11.86]It gets more expensive every day
[07:14.00]Every day
[07:16.30]And tonight is so far away-
[07:18.99]But as for mañana, mi pana
[07:20.92]Ya gotta just keep watchin’
[07:22.28]You’ll see the
[07:22.98]late nights
[07:23.74]You’ll taste
[07:24.40]beans and rice
[07:25.23]The syrups and
[07:25.95]shaved ice
[07:26.71]I ain’t gonna
[07:27.50]say it twice
[07:28.11]So turn up the stage lights
[07:29.80]We’re takin’ a flight
[07:30.95]To a couple of days
[07:31.80]in the life of what it’s like
[07:32.91]En Washington Heights!