[00:00:00] My Shot(Rise Up Remix) - The Roots&Busta Rhymes&Nate Ruess&Joell Ortiz [00:00:02] The Hamilton Mixtape [00:00:19] Ayo mugshots gun shots dope shots jump shot [00:00:22] Take your pick but you only get one shot [00:00:25] Advice from a schoolteacher to a young tot [00:00:27] Applyin' a sticker to his Spiderman lunchbox [00:00:30] When even role models tell us we're born to be felons [00:00:33] We're never gettin' into Harvard or Carnegie Mellon [00:00:35] And we gon' end up either robbin' somebody or killin' [00:00:38] It's not fair that's all they can tell us [00:00:40] That's why you hustle hella hard never celebrate a holiday [00:00:42] That'll be the day I coulda finally hit the lottery [00:00:45] I refuse to ever lose or throw my shot away [00:00:48] Or chalk it up as just another one that got away [00:00:50] So I'm unapologetic I'm on my calesthenics [00:00:53] If I have given it all I got I cannot regret it [00:00:55] My point of destination's different from where I was headed [00:00:58] 'Cause I'ma shoot for the stars to get it [00:01:00] One shot [00:01:01] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [00:01:03] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [00:01:05] Yo I'm just like my country [00:01:07] I'm young scrappy and hungry [00:01:08] And I'm not throwin' away my shot [00:01:10] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [00:01:13] No I'm not throwin' away my shot [00:01:15] Yo I'm just like my country [00:01:17] I'm young scrappy and hungry [00:01:18] And I'm not throwin' away my shot [00:01:20] When opportunity knock you don't send anyone to get it [00:01:23] Answer the door welcome it let it in or regret it [00:01:26] They said if you can't beat 'em you join 'em [00:01:28] I said forget it [00:01:28] 'Cause once you join 'em you're buildin' a ceilin' the way you're headed [00:01:31] Be American express how you feel and take the credit [00:01:34] Don't settle for 87 go premium unleaded and [00:01:36] Take off shake all the hate off it's over [00:01:39] It's they loss the payoff's their weight off your shoulders [00:01:41] Must admit I'm feelin' kinda um [00:01:43] Lighter as a writer with this fire and desire to go higher [00:01:46] Than a stealth fighter pilot with my eye on every prize [00:01:49] I surprise you guys I'm a prize fighter [00:01:51] My nine to five describe your scribe survive minor [00:01:54] Setbacks and take steps back from pied pipers [00:01:56] Be leaders believers in yourself and mean it [00:01:59] I mean you only get one shot take it or leave it [00:02:01] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [00:02:04] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [00:02:06] Yo I'm just like my country [00:02:08] I'm young scrappy and hungry [00:02:09] And I'm not throwin' away my shot [00:02:11] I said I'm not throwin' away my shot [00:02:14] No I'm not throwin' away my shot [00:02:17] Yo I'm just like my country [00:02:18] I'm young scrappy and hungry [00:02:19] And I'm not throwin' away my shot [00:02:22] Rise up [00:02:23] If you livin' on your knees you rise up [00:02:26] Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up [00:02:28] Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up [00:02:31] When are folks like me and you gonna rise up [00:02:33] Every city every hood we need to rise up [00:02:36] All my soldiers what's good we need to rise up [00:02:38] We ain't got no other choice we need to rise up [00:02:41] Rise up [00:02:43] Throughout my travels and journeys through life I've been searchin' [00:02:45] And been learnin' to be the type of person to display how determined I get [00:02:48] When I'm certain inside I feel that fire that's burnin' [00:02:51] Like a knife that is turnin' I fight while I'm hurtin' [00:02:53] Sometimes they're right 'cause life is a burden [00:02:54] Like the pain from a bite that'll worsen [00:02:56] Tryna stifle the light that'll shine on me first and [00:02:58] Before I ride in a hearse and [00:02:59] My breathing stops and [00:03:00] You'll never take my one shot I got 'fore I lie in the earth [00:03:03] And now I kill again on that Hamilton Hercules Mulligan [00:03:05] Readin' in vanity fair or the Huffington