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My Shot (Rise Up Remix)
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The Roots
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The Hamilton Mixtape
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Woah oh oh
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Woah oh oh
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Woah oh oh
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Oh oh
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Ayo mugshots, gun shots, dope shots, jump shot
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Take your pick, but you only get one shot
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Advice from a schoolteacher to a young tot
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Applyin' a sticker to his Spiderman lunchbox
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When even role models tell us we're born to be felons
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We're never gettin' into Harvard or Carnegie Mellon
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And we gon' end up either robbin' somebody or killin'
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It's not fair that's all they can tell us
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That's why you hustle hella hard, never celebrate a holiday
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That'll be the day I coulda finally hit the lottery
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I refuse to ever lose or throw my shot away
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Or chalk it up as just another one that got away
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So I'm unapologetic, I'm on my calesthenics
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If I have given it all I got I cannot regret it
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My point of destination's different from where I was headed
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'Cause I'ma shoot for the stars to get it, one shot
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I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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Yo, I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwin' away my shot
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I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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No, I'm not throwin' away my shot
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Yo, I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwin' away my shot
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When opportunity knock, you don't send anyone to get it
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Answer the door, welcome it, let it in or regret it
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They said if you can't beat 'em you join 'em
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I said, "Forget it"
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'Cause once you join 'em you're buildin' a ceilin' the way you're headed
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Be American, express how you feel and take the credit
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Don't settle for 87, go premium unleaded and
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Take off, shake all the hate off, it's over
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It's they loss, the payoff's their weight off your shoulders
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Must admit, I'm feelin', I'm kind of um
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Lighter as a writer with this fire and desire to go higher
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Than a stealth fighter pilot with my eye on every prize
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I surprise you guys, I'm a prize fighter
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My nine to five describe, your scribe survive minor
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Setbacks and take steps back from pied pipers
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Be leaders, believers in yourself and mean it
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I mean you only get one shot, take it or leave it
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I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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Yo I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwin' away my shot
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I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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No I'm not throwin' away my shot
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Yo I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwin' away my shot
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Rise up
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If you livin' on your knees, you rise up
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Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up
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Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up
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When are folks like me and you gonna rise up?
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Every city, every hood, we need to rise up
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All my soldiers, what's good? We need to rise up
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We ain't got no other choice, we need to rise up
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Rise up!
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Throughout my travels and journeys through life I've been searchin'
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And been learnin' to be the type of person to display how determined I get
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When I'm certain, inside I feel that fire that's burnin'
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Like a knife that is turnin', I fight while I'm hurtin'
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Sometimes they're right 'cause life is a burden
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Like the pain from a bite that'll worsen
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Tryna stifle the light that'll shine on me first and
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Before I ride in a hearse and
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My breathing stops and you'll never take my one shot I got 'fore I lie in the earth
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And now I kill again on that Hamilton Hercules Mulligan
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Readin' in Vanity Fair or the Huffington
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Done with the sufferin', we in the guts again, family rushin' in
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Wonder where Busta been, feelin' the hunger and feedin' the lust to win
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See I've been patiently waitin' for this moment
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To rise up again, that's the way I was molded
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And as the last one standin' as the rest of them foldin'
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Give me my one chance to grab the torch and properly hold it
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I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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Ayy, yo I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwin' away my shot
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I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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No, I'm not throwin' away my shot
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Yo, I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwin' away my shot
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I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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Ay yo, I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwin' away my shot
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I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
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No, I'm not throwin' away my shot
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Ayy yo, I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwin' away my shot
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It's time to take a shot
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Woah oh oh
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Oh oh
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Oh oh
My Shot
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