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* ShoutOut: Bri performs her first battle in a [[StarWars Darth Vader]] hoodie. Also, many references are made to the film Black Panther, including another hoodie and Bri arguing with Malik over whether Killmonger was a villain or an anti-villain.
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* BattleRapping: The whole point of The Ring.
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* BattleRapping: The whole point of The Ring. Bri's takedown of her opponent—notably freestyled, as opposed to his pre-written rhymes—goes viral and catapults her to fame.
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* RealityEnsues: Aunt Pooh plans a huge revenge plan for getting Bri's chain back after she's arrested due to snitching. Jay shuts her down by pointing out that revenge is only going to land her back in jail and besides which, Jay doesn't have money to bail her out.
** Additionally, Trey may have a college education--he even graduated with honors--but the job market is tough and there isn't a whole lot you can do with a bachelor's in psychology. Despite his degree, Trey makes pizzas for minimum wage.
** Additionally, Trey may have a college education--he even graduated with honors--but the job market is tough and there isn't a whole lot you can do with a bachelor's in psychology. Despite his degree, Trey makes pizzas for minimum wage.
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* TrueCompanions: Sonny, Malik, and Bri.
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* ArcWords: "On the come up" and variations.
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* StylisticSuck: Milez' inane song "Swagerific."
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*{{Gangbangers}}: The Garden Disciples, including Bri's Aunt Pooh.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Jojo, especially when he [[spoiler: threatens fully grown gang members]].
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* SassyBlackWoman: Deconstructed; Bri hates being seen as an "angry black girl" who is "aggressive," a "hoodlum," etc. She especially hates [[spoiler: when a song ghostwritten for her tries to paint her as such]].
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* SassyBlackWoman: Deconstructed; Bri hates being seen as an "angry black Black girl" who is "aggressive," a "hoodlum," etc. She especially hates [[spoiler: when a song ghostwritten for record exec calls her tries to paint her as such]].a "sassy Black girl" in so many words]].
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''On The Come Up'' is a novel by Angie Thomas. It is a companion to ''Literature/TheHateUGive''.
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''On The Come Up'' the Come-Up'' is a novel by Angie Thomas. It is a companion to ''Literature/TheHateUGive''.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: Bri refuses to let the Black and Latine student coalition use footage of her being assaulted by the security guards because she doesn't want the media spinning a horrible narrative about her. Eventually, [[spoiler: she allows Malik to use the footage of her being manhandled as part of a music video for "On the Come Up."]]
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* RefusalOfTheCall: Bri refuses to let the Black and Latine student coalition use footage of her being assaulted by the security guards because she doesn't want the media spinning a horrible narrative about her. Eventually, [[spoiler: she allows Malik to use the footage of her being manhandled as part of a music video for "On the Come Up.Come-Up."]]
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* BoastfulRap: The conceit of many freestyles in the Ring, most notably Milez' empty bragging.
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* SunglassesAtNight: Supreme wears his shades almost all the time. When he takes them off, shit's about to go down.
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* BuffySpeak: Bri describes a "clip" as a "thingy that goes on a thingy on a gun."
* CatchPhrase: Curtis's "On God, bruh."
* CatchPhrase: Curtis's "On God, bruh."
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* JerkassHasAPoint: When Jay refuses to take out a loan to bail out Aunt Pooh, Pooh gets angry and hissy. She also accurately points out that Jay, thanks to her drug addiction, abandoned everyone in her family and she's doing it again by leaving a relative in jail. Even though Jay stands firm, it gets to her, especially when she finds out Bri has constant nightmares about being abandoned. She admits she may never make up for being a bad parent but she will try.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: When Jay refuses to take out a loan to bail out Aunt Pooh, Pooh gets angry and hissy.pissy. She also accurately points out that Jay, thanks to her drug addiction, abandoned everyone in her family and she's doing it again by leaving a relative in jail. Even though Jay stands firm, it gets to her, especially when she finds out Bri has constant nightmares about being abandoned. She admits she may never make up for being a bad parent but she will try.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Bri has a small moment like this when she realizes that her song has prepubescent kids repeating her lines about clips and silencers.
** Additionally, Trey may have a college education--he even graduated with honors--but the job market is tough and there isn't a whole lot you can do with a bachelor's in psychology. Despite his degree, Trey makes pizzas for minimum wage.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The superintendent of Bri's school district does eventually listen to Jay when Jay insists that Bri was racially profiled by the security guards and that the guards used excessive force. Sadly averted with the principal of Bri's school.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The superintendent of Bri's school district does eventually listen to Jay when Jay insists that Bri was racially profiled by the security guards and that the guards used excessive force. Sadly averted with the principal of Bri's school.
* StylisticSuck: Milez' inane song "Swagerific."
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* WhatTheHellHero: Shana to Bri when Bri seemingly doesn't want to help the Black/Latine student coalition expose how racist Long and Tate are.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Shana to Bri when Bri seemingly doesn't want to help the Black/Latine student coalition expose how racist Long and Tate are.
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* TitleDrop: Frequently; Pooh and Bri talk about getting their "come-up" when Bri becomes a famous rapper, and of course there's the fact that Bri's song is called "On the Come-Up" and the chorus consists almost entirely of repetitions of the line "You can't stop me on the come-up."
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Bri is the daughter of a rapper who was murdered twelve years ago, when she was a child. Her mother turned to drugs, abandoning her and her older brother. Now Jay has won custody of them back but they have no heat and Bri is in no shape to take the ACT. She wants to be a rapper, and wins a battle at the local Ring. The song goes viral, for all the wrong reasons. Now Bri has to forge her path forward, while evading racist security guards and constant suspensions.
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Bri is the daughter of a rapper who was murdered twelve years ago, when she was a child. Her mother turned to drugs, abandoning her and her older brother. Now Jay has won custody of them back but they have no heat and Bri is in no shape to take the ACT. She wants to be a rapper, and wins a battle at the local Ring. The When her aunt uses Bri's Ring win to get her into a studio to record her first song, the song goes viral, for all the wrong reasons. Now Bri has to forge her path forward, while evading racist security guards and constant suspensions.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Bri's best friends, Sonny (Jackson) and Malik (). Also, her brother Trey (Lawrence) and her aunt Pooh (Katricia).
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Bri's best friends, close friend Sonny (Jackson) and Malik ().(Jackson). Also, her brother Trey (Lawrence) and her aunt Pooh (Katricia).
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* ArmoredClosetGay: [[spoiler: Milez, but Miles (with an "s") is thinking of coming out of the closet.]]
* BattleCry: Lyrics from Bri's song become this when the students of color at her school lead a demonstration against [[spoiler: the security guards that assaulted Bri being allowed back on the job]].
* BattleRapping: The whole point of The Ring.
* ArmoredClosetGay: [[spoiler: Milez, but Miles (with an "s") is thinking of coming out of the closet.]]
* BattleCry: Lyrics from Bri's song become this when the students of color at her school lead a demonstration against [[spoiler: the security guards that assaulted Bri being allowed back on the job]].
* BattleRapping: The whole point of The Ring.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Jay, Bri, and Trey have to move in with Bri's paternal grandparents and Bri lost the favor of the record exec who was considering signing her, but Jay has a new job and Trey has gotten into grad school. Oh, and someone huge in the rap world liked Bri's freestyle.]]
* CategoryTraitor: One of the racist security guards at Bri's school is Black.
* DrugsAreBad: Explored. Jay's addiction was hell for both her and her kids, but Aunt Pooh sells drugs and is never hard up for money. [[spoiler: Pooh does end up in jail for dealing, though.]]
* CategoryTraitor: One of the racist security guards at Bri's school is Black.
* DrugsAreBad: Explored. Jay's addiction was hell for both her and her kids, but Aunt Pooh sells drugs and is never hard up for money. [[spoiler: Pooh does end up in jail for dealing, though.]]
* FishOutOfWater: Bri and the other kids from her neighborhood who are bused to Midtown, but Bri especially.
* HarmfulToMinors: Bri, who is only sixteen, gets flung to the floor and handcuffed by security guards who suspect her of drug dealing because she's Black and doesn't want her backpack--which contains the candy she sells for extra money--searched.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Crown who steals Bri's chain.]]
* HarmfulToMinors: Bri, who is only sixteen, gets flung to the floor and handcuffed by security guards who suspect her of drug dealing because she's Black and doesn't want her backpack--which contains the candy she sells for extra money--searched.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Crown who steals Bri's chain.]]
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: While Jay and Bri revere Bri's late father, Trey blames him for getting mixed up in gang activity and getting murdered as a result.
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* OhCrap: Bri has been hiding her new song from her mother. How does her mother first hear it? ON THE NEWS, with the anchor blaming the song for the students' uprising against racist security guards.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Bri's best friends, Sonny and Malik. Also, her brother Trey.
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a peaceful demonstration at Bri's school turning violent.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Bri's best friends, Sonny (Jackson) andMalik. Malik (). Also, her brother Trey.Trey (Lawrence) and her aunt Pooh (Katricia).
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* PosthumousCharacter: Lawless, Bri's father.
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* StraightGay:Sonny.
Sonny. Also, Pooh.
* TrueCompanions: Sonny, Malik, and Bri.
* WhatTheHellHero: Shana to Bri when Bri seemingly doesn't want to help the Black/Latine student coalition expose how racist Long and Tate are.
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* TrueCompanions: Sonny, Malik, and Bri.
* WhatTheHellHero: Shana to Bri when Bri seemingly doesn't want to help the Black/Latine student coalition expose how racist Long and Tate are.
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Jay calls Bri "Bookie"...in front of several of Bri's classmates.
* MamaBear: Jay when she confronts the superintendent about Bri being assaulted by racist security guards.
* OhCrap: Bri has been hiding her new song from her mother. How does her mother first hear it? ON THE NEWS, with the anchor blaming the song for the students' uprising against racist security guards.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Bri's best friends, Sonny and Malik. Also, her brother Trey.
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''On The Come Up'' is a novel by Angie Thomas. It is a companion to ''Literature/TheHateUGive''.
Bri is the daughter of a rapper who was murdered twelve years ago, when she was a child. Her mother turned to drugs, abandoning her and her older brother. Now Jay has won custody of them back but they have no heat and Bri is in no shape to take the ACT. She wants to be a rapper, and wins a battle at the local Ring. The song goes viral, for all the wrong reasons. Now Bri has to forge her path forward, while evading racist security guards and constant suspensions.
!! Tropes for this book include:
* BigBrotherInstinct: Trey takes offense on Bri's behalf when Jay wants her to give up rapping. He points out it's hypocritical and a DoubleStandard that she thinks rapping isn't as viable a dream as graduate school.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Jay refuses to take out a loan to bail out Aunt Pooh, Pooh gets angry and hissy. She also accurately points out that Jay, thanks to her drug addiction, abandoned everyone in her family and she's doing it again by leaving a relative in jail. Even though Jay stands firm, it gets to her, especially when she finds out Bri has constant nightmares about being abandoned. She admits she may never make up for being a bad parent but she will try.
* KickTheDog: Rival gangmembers steal Bri's chain, which belonged to her father. Then they taunt her about it, all the way up to the end of the story.
* ParentsAsPeople: Jay was a drug addict who dumped her kids at her parents' house, and it took her nearly a decade to win custody of them back owing to all the issues. As a result, Bri has trust issues and nightmares about being abandoned, and she doesn't even call Jay "mom" until the end of the story. Jay as a result is overly hard on Bri to help her break the cycle of poverty.
* ParentalHypocrisy: Jay wants Bri to quit rapping but supports Trey going to grad school. Trey calls her out on this.
* RealityEnsues: Aunt Pooh plans a huge revenge plan for getting Bri's chain back after she's arrested due to snitching. Jay shuts her down by pointing out that revenge is only going to land her back in jail and besides which, Jay doesn't have money to bail her out.
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Bri is the daughter of a rapper who was murdered twelve years ago, when she was a child. Her mother turned to drugs, abandoning her and her older brother. Now Jay has won custody of them back but they have no heat and Bri is in no shape to take the ACT. She wants to be a rapper, and wins a battle at the local Ring. The song goes viral, for all the wrong reasons. Now Bri has to forge her path forward, while evading racist security guards and constant suspensions.
!! Tropes for this book include:
* BigBrotherInstinct: Trey takes offense on Bri's behalf when Jay wants her to give up rapping. He points out it's hypocritical and a DoubleStandard that she thinks rapping isn't as viable a dream as graduate school.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Jay refuses to take out a loan to bail out Aunt Pooh, Pooh gets angry and hissy. She also accurately points out that Jay, thanks to her drug addiction, abandoned everyone in her family and she's doing it again by leaving a relative in jail. Even though Jay stands firm, it gets to her, especially when she finds out Bri has constant nightmares about being abandoned. She admits she may never make up for being a bad parent but she will try.
* KickTheDog: Rival gangmembers steal Bri's chain, which belonged to her father. Then they taunt her about it, all the way up to the end of the story.
* ParentsAsPeople: Jay was a drug addict who dumped her kids at her parents' house, and it took her nearly a decade to win custody of them back owing to all the issues. As a result, Bri has trust issues and nightmares about being abandoned, and she doesn't even call Jay "mom" until the end of the story. Jay as a result is overly hard on Bri to help her break the cycle of poverty.
* ParentalHypocrisy: Jay wants Bri to quit rapping but supports Trey going to grad school. Trey calls her out on this.
* RealityEnsues: Aunt Pooh plans a huge revenge plan for getting Bri's chain back after she's arrested due to snitching. Jay shuts her down by pointing out that revenge is only going to land her back in jail and besides which, Jay doesn't have money to bail her out.
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