[00:02.56] The Hamilton Mixtape [00:09.31] Woah, woah, woah, woah [00:13.57] Woah, woah, woah [00:19.73] Ayo mugshot, gun shot, dope shot, jump shot [00:22.76] Take your pick, but you only get one shot [00:25.66] Advice from a schoolteacher to a young tot [00:27.81] Applyin' a sticker to his Spiderman lunchbox [00:30.59] When even role models tell us we're born to be felons [00:33.13] We're never gettin' into Harvard or Carnegie Mellon [00:35.52] And we gon' end up either robbin' somebody or killin' [00:38.07] It's not fair that's all they can tell us [00:40.22] That's why I hustle hella hard, never celebrate a holiday [00:43.03] That'll be the day I coulda finally hit the lottery [00:45.84] I refuse to ever lose or throw my shot away [00:48.33] Or chalk it up as just another one that got away [00:51.09] So I'm unapologetic, I'm on my calesthenics [00:53.49] If I have given it all I got I cannot regret it [00:55.89] My point of destination's different from where I was headed [00:58.36] 'Cause I'ma shoot for the stars to get it [01:00.86] One shot [01:01.43] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [01:03.34] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [01:05.64] Yo I'm just like my country [01:07.32] I'm young, scrappy, and hungry [01:08.57] And I'm not throwin' away my shot [01:10.68] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [01:13.50] No I'm not throwin' away my shot [01:15.94] Yo I'm just like my country [01:17.40] I'm young, scrappy and hungry [01:18.67] And I'm not throwin' away my shot [01:21.16] When opportunity knock, you don't send anyone to get it [01:23.67] Answer the door, welcome it, let it in, or regret it [01:26.37] They said if you can't beat 'em you join 'em [01:28.23] I said, "Forget it" [01:29.10] 'Cause once you join 'em you're buildin' a ceilin' the way you're headed [01:31.53] Be American, express how you feel and take the credit [01:33.80] Don't settle for 87, go premium unleaded and [01:36.62] Take off, shake all the hate off, it's over [01:39.23] It's they loss, the payoff's their weight off your shoulders [01:41.64] Must admit, I'm feelin', um, kinda, um [01:43.94] Lighter as a writer with this fire and desire to go higher [01:46.81] Than a stealth fighter pilot with my eye on every prize [01:49.36] I surprise you guys, I'm a prize fighter [01:51.38] My nine to five describe your scribe, survive minor [01:54.76] Setbacks and take steps back from pied pipers [01:57.29] Be leaders, believers in yourself and mean it [01:59.37] I mean you only get one shot, take it or leave it [02:02.05] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [02:04.48] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [02:06.84] Yo I'm just like my country [02:08.42] I'm young, scrappy and hungry [02:09.73] And I'm not throwin' away my shot [02:12.08] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [02:14.67] No I'm not throwin' away my shot [02:17.24] Yo I'm just like my country [02:18.97] I'm young, scrappy and hungry [02:20.05] And I'm not throwin' away my shot [02:22.45] Rise up [02:23.61] If you livin' on your knees, you rise up [02:26.36] Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up [02:28.81] Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up [02:31.37] When are folks like me and you gonna rise up? [02:33.83] Every city, every hood, we need to rise up [02:36.48] All my soldiers, what's good? We need to rise up [02:39.01] We ain't got no other choice, we need to rise up [02:41.24] Rise up! [02:42.82] Throughout my travels and journeys through life I've been searchin' [02:45.81] And been learnin' to be the type of person [02:47.26] To display how determined I get when I'm certain [02:49.26] Inside I feel that fire that's burnin' [02:50.85] Like a knife that is turnin', I fight while I'm hurtin' [02:53.11] Sometimes they're right 'cause life is a burden [02:54.67] Like the pain from a bite that'll worsen [02:56.22] Tryna stifle the light that'll shine on me first and [02:58.59] Before I ride in a hearse and [02:59.63] My breathing stops and [03:00.92] You'll never take my one shot I got 'fore I lie in the earth [03:03.57] And now I kill again on that Hamilton Hercules Mulligan [03:05.99] Readin' in Vanity Fair or the Huffington [03:08.00] Done with the sufferin', we in the guts again, family rushin' in [03:10.21] Wonder where Busta been [03:11.82] Feelin' the hunger and feedin' the lust to win [03:13.92] See I've been patiently waitin' for this moment [03:16.70] To rise up again, that's the way I was molded [03:18.69] And as the last one standin' as the rest of them foldin' [03:21.16] Give me my one chance to grab the torch and properly hold it [03:23.76] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [03:26.24] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [03:28.61] Ayy, yo I'm just like my country [03:30.17] I'm young, scrappy and hungry [03:31.41] And I'm not throwin' away my shot [03:33.72] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [03:36.34] No I'm not throwin' away my shot [03:38.84] Yo I'm just like my country [03:40.41] I'm young, scrappy and hungry [03:41.65] And I'm not throwin' away my shot [03:44.08] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [03:46.53] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [03:49.06] Ayy, yo I'm just like my country [03:50.65] I'm young, scrappy and hungry [03:51.89] And I'm not throwin' away my shot [03:54.12] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [03:56.76] No I'm not throwin' away my shot [03:59.37] Ayy yo I'm just like my country [04:00.85] I'm young, scrappy and hungry [04:02.06] And I'm not throwin' away my shot [04:04.50] It's time to take a shot [04:06.27] Woah, woah, woah, woah [04:14.23] Woah, woah, woah, woah [04:30.70]