text: The Hamilton Mixtape
  Woah, woah, woah, woah
  Woah, woah, woah
  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
  Woah, woah, woah, woah
  Woah, woah, woah, woah