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Personal Narrative: Get One Shot
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 Spiderman lunchbox. When even role models tell us we're born to be felons. We're never gettin' into Harvard or Carnegie Mellon. And we gon' end up either robbin' somebody or killin'. It's not fair that's all they can tell us. That's why I hustle hella hard, never celebrate a holiday. That'll 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 I'm unapologetic, I'm on my calesthenics. If I ahve given it all I got I cannot regret it. My point of destination's different from where I was headed. 'Cause I'ma shoot for the starts to get it. One shot.

When opprotunity knock, you don't send anyone to get it. Answer the door, welcome it, let it in, or regret it. They said if you can't beat 'em you join em. I said, "Forget it". 'Cause once you join 'em you're buildin' a
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And been learnin' to be the type of person. To display how determined I get when I'm certain. Inside I feel that fire that's burnin'. Like a knife that is turnin', I fight while I'm hurtin'. Sometimes they're right 'cause life is a burden. Like the pain from a bite that'll worsen. Tryna stifle the light that'll shine on me first and. Before I ride in a hearse and. My breathing stops and. You'll never take my one shot I got 'fore I lie in the earth. And now I kill again on that 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 I've been patiently waitin' for this moment. To rise up again, that's 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

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