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...Harvard Crimson: Why did you decide to incorporate more unconventional music styles, like rap, into your work...
...wrote a draft my sophomore year; it wasn’t for course credit or anything. I just really felt like I needed to write it, and I wanted to write a full-length musical. They say to write what you know, so I took everything that I knew and threw it into the pot and called it “In the Heights,” and then over the course of the eight-year process getting “Heights” to Broadway, I learned how to write. It’s a lot of discarded songs...
...grew up in a neighborhood similar to “In the Heights,” and it seems like you’ve placed a lot of that in how you’ve expressed yourself. Is it difficult to continue that in further works...
...seems like an idealistic argument—and an unfair one. What place do I have to tell LeBron to choose the Cavalier fans over his own finances...
...write what you know to be true, and I mean that in a much more abstract sense. You know, like this Hamilton project I’m working on. I’m not a founding father, I didn’t grow up during the Revolutionary War, but when I read Ron Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, there was something about Hamilton’s drive to excel and to use words to excel that really spoke to me in a way and I said, “I know that guy.” It?...