[00:03.30]The Hamilton Mixtape
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[00:20.36]Ayo mugshots gun shots **** shots jump shot
[00:23.41]Take your pick but you only get one shot
[00:25.95]Advice from a schoolteacher to a young tot
[00:28.38]Applyin' a sticker to his Spiderman lunchbox
[00:30.78]When even role models tell us we're born to be felons
[00:33.70]We're never gettin' into Harvard or Carnegie Mellon
[00:36.24]And we gon' end up either robbin' somebody or killin'
[00:38.71]It's not fair that's all they can tell us
[00:40.78]That's why you hustle hella hard never celebrate a holiday
[00:43.30]That'll be the day I coulda finally hit the lottery
[00:46.12]I refuse to ever lose or throw my shot away
[00:48.81]Or chalk it up as just another one that got away
[00:51.00]So I'm unapologetic I'm on my calesthenics
[00:53.98]If I have given it all I got I cannot regret it
[00:56.49]My point of destination's different from where I was headed
[00:59.17]'Cause I'ma shoot for the stars to get it
[01:01.06]One shot
[01:01.59]I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
[01:03.55]I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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[01:06.21]Yo I'm just like my country
[01:07.63]I'm young scrappy and hungry
[01:08.90]And I'm not throwin' away my shot
[01:11.15]I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
[01:13.67]No I'm not throwin' away my shot
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[01:16.46]Yo I'm just like my country
[01:17.91]I'm young scrappy and hungry
[01:19.11]And I'm not throwin' away my shot
[01:21.39]When opportunity knock you don't send anyone to get it
[01:24.39]Answer the door welcome it let it in or regret it
[01:26.78]They said if you can't beat 'em you join 'em
[01:28.71]I said forget it
[01:29.41]'Cause once you join 'em you're buildin' a ceilin' the way you're headed
[01:31.84]Be American express how you feel and take the credit
[01:34.55]Don't settle for 87 go premium unleaded and
[01:37.23]Take off shake all the hate off it's over
[01:39.53]It's they loss the payoff's their weight off your shoulders
[01:42.02]Must admit I'm feelin' kinda um
[01:44.34]Lighter as a writer with this fire and desire to go higher
[01:47.20]Than a stealth fighter pilot with my eye on every prize
[01:49.78]I surprise you guys I'm a prize fighter
[01:51.70]My nine to five describe your scribe survive minor
[01:54.90]Setbacks and take steps back from pied pipers
[01:57.34]Be leaders believers in yourself and mean it
[01:59.91]I mean you only get one shot take it or leave it
[02:02.44]I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
[02:04.81]I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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[02:07.45]Yo I'm just like my country
[02:08.90]I'm young scrappy and hungry
[02:10.13]And I'm not throwin' away my shot
[02:12.39]I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
[02:14.90]No I'm not throwin' away my shot
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[02:17.61]Yo I'm just like my country
[02:19.15]I'm young scrappy and hungry
[02:20.37]And I'm not throwin' away my shot
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[02:23.20]Rise up
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[02:24.25]If you livin' on your knees you rise up
[02:26.63]Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up
[02:29.08]Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up
[02:31.74]When are folks like me and you gonna rise up
[02:34.28]Every city every hood we need to rise up
[02:36.89]All my soldiers what's good we need to rise up
[02:39.39]We ain't got no other choice we need to rise up
[02:41.84]Rise up
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[02:43.97]Throughout my travels and journeys through life I've been searchin'
[02:46.04]And been learnin' to be the type of person to display how determined I get
[02:49.33]When I'm certain inside I feel that fire that's burnin'
[02:51.67]Like a knife that is turnin' I fight while I'm hurtin'
[02:53.73]Sometimes they're right 'cause life is a burden
[02:55.05]Like the pain from a bite that'll worsen
[02:56.69]Tryna stifle the light that'll shine on me first and
[02:58.83]Before I ride in a hearse and
[03:00.47]My breathing stops and
[03:01.40]You'll never take my one shot I got 'fore I lie in the earth
[03:04.10]And now I kill again on that Hamilton Hercules Mulligan
[03:06.45]Readin' in vanity fair or the Huffington
[03:08.34]Done with the sufferin' we in the guts again family rushin' in
[03:11.24]Wonder where Busta been
[03:12.22]Feelin' the hunger and feedin' the lust to win
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[03:15.32]See I've been patiently waitin' for this moment
[03:17.10]To rise up again that's the way I was molded
[03:19.25]And as the last one standin' as the rest of them foldin'
[03:21.68]Give me my one chance to grab the torch and properly hold it
[03:24.11]I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
[03:26.39]I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
[03:28.94]Ayy yo I'm just like my country
[03:30.62]I'm young scrappy and hungry
[03:31.82]And I'm not throwin' away my shot
[03:34.10]I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
[03:36.60]No I'm not throwin' away my shot
[03:39.20]Yo I'm just like my country
[03:40.86]I'm young scrappy and hungry
[03:42.05]And I'm not throwin' away my shot
[03:44.36]I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
[03:46.85]I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
[03:49.31]Ayy yo I'm just like my country
[03:50.99]I'm young scrappy and hungry
[03:52.24]And I'm not throwin' away my shot
[03:54.56]I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
[03:57.06]No I'm not throwin' away my shot
[03:59.61]Ayy yo I'm just like my country
[04:01.21]I'm young scrappy and hungry
[04:02.44]And I'm not throwin' away my shot
[04:04.76]It's time to take a shot
[04:05.97]Woah woah woah woah
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