Scene 7: Inside the Bodega, the Street

MUSIC 6A: WHAT UP?
(USNAVI is checking lottery numbers. BENNY is there fanning himself.)

[BENNY]
Does my tie look straight?

[USNAVI]
Benny, you look the same as every day. Quit trying to impress Nina.

[SONNY]
(Sniffs.)
Whoo, you need to impress some Old Spice under those arms.

[BENNY]
Shut up. My boss put me on dispatch, I need to look professional.

[SONNY]
"My boss, my boss." You're paving the road to someone else's dreams. Man, strike out on your own.

[BENNY]
I'm learning on someone else's dime. The day I open Benny's Car Service, I'll know my trade inside and out.

[USNAVI]
Either one of you Rockefellers wanna take this business of my hands?

[SONNY]
[BENNY]

Heck no.
Naw, I'm cool.

(GRAFFITTI PETE enters displaying a hand-airbrushed t-shirts.)

[GRAFFITI PETE]
What up? Buy my t-shirt.

[USNAVI]
That's your sale pitch? Get the hell out of here.

[GRAFFITI PETE]
Today's special, two for twenty.

[USNAVI]
How about I give you nothing and you scrub your initials off my awning?

[SONNY]
(Hands PETE a slushee.)
Sonny's Secret Recipe.

[USNAVI]
That's a dollar twenty five.

[GRAFFITI PETE]
Let's trade. I got some roman candles, bottle rockets. Third of July, party starts tonight!

[USNAVI]
Contraband. Vandalism. You got three seconds before I call the cops. 9. 1.

(GRAFFITI PETE exits.)

[SONNY]
Usnavi, double check this.

[USNAVI]
Take Five Lotto. Hold up, we sold a winner yesterday?

[BENNY]
Somebody won?

[SONNY]
Yo, I want a cut of your cut!

[USNAVI]
I don't get a cut. Yup, these numbers match.

[BENNY]

MUSIC 7: 96,000

[USNAVI]
Ninety-six thousand!

[SONNY/BENNY]
Damn!

[USNAVI]
Ninety-six thousand!

(GRAFFITI PETE pokes his head back in, still with the slushee.)

[SONNY]
Dollars? Holler!

[USNAVI]
Ninety-six thousand!

[BENNY, spoken]
Yo, somebody won!

[USNAVI]
Ninety-six thousand!

[BENNY]
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 Nina’s daddy!
Donald Trump 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!

[USNAVI]
Oh no, here goes Mr. Braggadocio
Next thing you know, you’re lying like Pinocchio—

[BENNY]
Yo, if you’re scared of the bull, stay out the rodeo!

[GRAFFITI PETE]
Yo, I got more hoes than a phone book in Tokyo!

[USNAVI]
Ooh, you better stop rappin’, you not ready
It’s gonna get hot and heavy
And you already sweaty—

[GRAFFITI PETE]
Yo-yo-yo! Yo!

[USNAVI]
Yo! I’m sorry is that an answer?
Shut up, go home and pull ya damn pants up!
As for you, Mr. Frodo of the Shire—
96 G’s ain’t enough to retire

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

[USNAVI]
You’ll have a knapsack full of jack after taxes!

(SONNY runs to ABUELA CLAUDIA)

[SONNY]
Ninety-six thousand!

[ABUELA CLAUDIA]
(Crosses herself.)
Ay, alabanza!

[SONNY]
Ninety-six thousand!

[DANIELA/CARLA, spoken]
No me diga!

[SONNY]
Ninety-six thousand!

[VANESSA, spoken]
I never win shit!

[SONNY]
Ninety-six thousand!

(CARLA and DANIELA come out to the street.)

[BENNY]
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
It’s a weekend when we can breathe, take it easy

[NEIGHBORS]
Yo! Ma, it’s me, check my tickets!

[CARLA]
Check one two three
What would you do with ninety-six G’s—

[DANIELA]
Who me?

[CARLA]
I mean if it’s just between you and me—

[DANIELA]
Esa pregunta es tricky!

[CARLA]
I know

[DANIELA]
With ninety-six G’s
I’d start my life with a brand new lease
Atlantic City with a Malibu Breeze

[CARLA]
And a brand new weave!

[DANIELA]
Or maybe just bleach...

[VANESSA]
Y’all are freaks.​

[USNAVI, spoken]
Yo, I’m just sayin’...

(sung)
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’

[VANESSA]
What'chu doin’?

[USNAVI]
What’m I doin? What’m I doin?
It takes most 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?

[SONNY]
No

[USNAVI]
Tough, Merry Christmas
You’re now the youngest tycoon in Washington Hiznits!

[SONNY]
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’

[GRAFFITI PETE]
What?!

[SONNY]
The rich are penetratin’

[GRAFFITI PETE]
What?!

[SONNY]
We pay our corporations when we should be demonstratin’

[GRAFFITI PETE]
What?!

[SONNY]
What about immigration?

[GRAFFITI PETE]
What?!

[SONNY]
Politicians be hatin’

[GRAFFITI PETE]
What?!

[SONNY]
Racism in this nation’s gone from latent to blatant

[COMMUNITY]
Oooooh!

[SONNY]
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!

(A stunned silence. VANESSA kisses SONNY on the cheek.)

[VANESSA]
You are so cute!

[SONNY
I was just thinking off the top of my head.​

[USNAVI]
Ninety-six K: Go.​

[VANESSA]
If I win the lottery, you’ll never see me again

[USNAVI]
Damn, we only jokin’, stay broke then

[VANESSA]
I’ll be downtown
Get a nice studio, I'll get out of the barrio

[VANESSA]
If I
​win the
​​lottery

You’ll wonder where
I’ve been
[BENNY]
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—

[VANESSA]
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!

[WOMEN]
Why-oh!
[VANESSA]
Around!
[WOMEN]
Why-oh!
[BENNY]

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

Oh, whoa, oh!​
[USNAVI]
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,​
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,​
Cross ‘em off
​the list as you
​pursue ‘em,​
And with those
​ninety-six
I ​know
​precisely ​​what
I’m doin’!
And with those
​ninety-​six I
​know precisely
​what I’m doin’!
Yo!

[COMMUNITY]
Ninety-six
​thousand
[CARLA]
No me diga!
[COMMUNITY]
Ninety-six
​thousand
[DAN/CAR/SN]
No me diga!
[COMMUNITY]
Ninety-six
​thousand

[DAN/CAR/SN]
No me diga!

[COMMUNITY]
Why-oh!

[WOMEN]
Check
​one two three
[MEN]
And with the
​dollah dollah
[W] With
​ninety-six G’s

[M] We get to
​hollah hollah
[W] Between
​you and me

[M] We rock the
​hot Impala
[COMMUNITY]
Why-oh!

[W/M] With
​ninety-six G’s
[M] We movin’
​on tomorrah
[W] A brand
​new lease

[M] We rock
​beyond mañana
[W] A Malibu
​Breeze…
[MEN]
We drop the
​mama drama
We stop at the
​Bahamas!
We drink piña
​coladas!
Poppin' lockin'
​up the block
Drop it like it’s
​hot!

[VANESSA]
I’ll be downtown!

[USNAVI/BENNY/SONNY]
We could pay off the debts we
Owe!

[VANESSA/CARLA/DANIELA]
We could tell everyone we
Know!

[USNAVI]
I could get on a plane and
​go!

[USNAVI/BENNY/SONNY]
We be swimmin’ in dough,​
Yo!

[USNAVI/BENNY/SONNY/
VANESSA/GRAFFITI PETE/MEN]
No tip-toein’
We’ll get the dough ‘n’
[WOMEN/MEN]
Who-oaa!
Who-oaa!
Who-oaa!
Who-oaa!

Who-oaa!

Who-oaa!

Who-oaa!

Who-oaa!

Who-oaa!

[ALL]
Once we get goin’
We’re never gonna
Stop tip-toein’
We’ll get the dough an’
Once we get goin’
We’re never gonna—

[SONNY/
PIRAGUA GUY/
DANIELA/CARLA/
VANESSA]
Ninety-six
​thousand

Ninety-six
​thousand

Ninety-six
​thousand

[COMMUNITY]
We’ll get the
​dough ‘n’

Once we get
​goin’

[USNAVI/BENNY/
GRAFFITI PETE]
What?!

What?!

What?!

What?!

[COMPANY]
We’ll get the dough ‘n’
Once we get goin’
We’re never gonna stop!

MUSIC 7A: 96,000 PLAYOFF/ABUELA'S TRANSITION

[ALL]
Ninety six thousand
Ninety six thousand
Ninety six thousand

(DAN=Daniela, CAR=Carla, SN=Sonny, W=Women, M=Men)