The Hamilton Mixtape
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Ayo, mugshot, gun shot, dope shot, jump shot
Take your pick—but you only get one shot
Advice from a schoolteacher to a young tot
Applyin a sticker to his Spider-man lunchbox
When even role models tell us were born to be felons
Were never gettin into Harvard or Carnegie Mellon
And we gon end up either robbin somebody or killin
Its not fair thats all they can tell us
Thats why I hustle hella hard, never celebrate a holiday
Thatll be the day I coulda finally hit the lottery
I refuse to ever lose or throw my shot away
Or chalk it up as just another one that got away
So Im unapologetic, Im on my calisthenics
If I have given it all I got I cannot regret it
My point of destinations different from where I was headed
Cause Ima shoot for the stars to get it
One shot
I said Im not throwin away my shot
I said Im not throwin away my shot
Yo, Im just like my country
Im young, scrappy, and hungry
And Im not throwin away my shot
I said Im not throwin away my shot
No, Im not throwin away my shot
Yo, Im just like my country
Im young, scrappy, and hungry
And Im not throwin away my shot
When opportunity knock, you dont send anyone to get it
Answer the door, welcome it, let it in, or regret it
They said if you cant beat em, you join em
I say, Forget it
Cause once you join em youre buildin a ceilin the way youre headed
Be American, express how you feel and take the credit
Dont settle for 87, go premium unleaded and
Take off, shake all the hate off, its over
Its they loss, the payoffs their weight off your shoulders
Must admit, Im feelin, um, kinda, um
Lighter as a writer with this fire and desire to go higher
Than a stealth fighter pilot with my eye on every prize
I surprise you guys, Im a prize fighter 
My nine to five describe your scribe, survive minor
Setbacks and take steps back from pied pipers
Be leaders, believers in yourself and mean it
I mean you only get one shot, take it or leave it
I said Im not throwin away my shot
I said Im not throwin away my shot
Yo, Im just like my country
Im young, scrappy, and hungry
And Im not throwin away my shot
I said Im not throwin away my shot
No, Im not throwin away my shot
Ayo, Im just like my country
Im young, scrappy, and hungry
And Im not throwin away my shot
Rise up
If you livin on your knees, you rise up
Tell your brother that hes gotta rise up
Tell your sister that shes gotta rise up
When are folks like me and you gonna rise up?
Every city, every hood, we need to rise up
All my soldiers, whats good? We need to wise up
We aint got no other choice, we need to wise up
Rise up!
Throughout my travels and journeys through life Ive been searchin
And been learnin to be the type of person
To display how determined I get when Im certain
Inside I feel that fire thats burnin
Like a knife that is turnin, I fight while Im hurtin
Sometimes theyre right cause life is a burden
Like the pain from a bite thatll worsen
Tryna stifle the light thatll shine on me first and
Before I ride in a hearse and
My breathing stops
And never take my one shot I got fore I lie in the earth
And now I come again holdin down Hamilton Hercules Mulligan
Readin in Vanity Fair or the Huffington
Done with the sufferin, we in the guts again, family rushin in
Wonder where Busta been
Feelin the hunger and feedin the lust to win 
See Ive been patiently waitin for this moment
To rise up again, thats the way I was molded
And as the last one standin as the rest of them foldin
Give me my one chance to grab the torch and properly hold it
I said Im not throwin away my shot
I said Im not throwin away my shot
Ayo, Im just like my country
Im young, scrappy, and hungry
And Im not throwin away my shot
I said Im not throwin away my shot
No, Im not throwin away my shot
Ayo, Im just like my country
Im young, scrappy, and hungry
And Im not throwin away my shot
I said Im not throwin away my shot
I said Im not throwin away my shot
Ayo, Im just like my country
Im young, scrappy, and hungry
And Im not throwin away my shot
I said Im not throwin away my shot
No, Im not throwin away my shot
Ayo, Im just like my country
Im young, scrappy, and hungry
And Im not throwin away my shot
Its time to take a shot
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