After the war I went back to New York
A-After the war I went back to New York
I finished up my studies and I practiced law
I practiced law, Burr worked next door
Even though we started at the very same time
Alexander Hamilton began to climb
How to account for his rise to the top?
Man, the man is
Non-stop
Gentlemen of the jury, I'm curious, bear with me
Are you aware that we're making history?
This is the first murder trial of our brand new nation
The liberty behind deliberation (non-stop)
I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
With my assistant counsel
Co-counsel
Hamilton, sit down
Our client Levi Weeks is innocent
Call your first witness
That's all you had to say
Okay
One more thing
Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?
Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?
Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?
Soon that attitude may be your doom
Why do you write like you're running out of time?
Write day and night like you're running out of time?
Every day day you fight, like you're running out of time
Keep on fighting in the meantime
Non-stop
Corruption's such an old song that we can sing along in harmony
And nowhere is it stronger than in Albany
This colony's economy's increasingly stalling and
Honestly, that's why public service (he's just)
Seems to be calling me (non-stop)
I practiced the law, I practically perfected it
I've seen injustice in the world and I've corrected it
Now for a strong central democracy
If not, then I'll be Socrates
Throwing verbal rocks at these mediocrities
Hamilton, at the Constitutional Convention
I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention
There as a New York junior delegate
Now what I'm gonna say may sound indelicate
Goes and proposes his own form of government (what?)
His own plan for a new form of government (what?)
Talks for six hours, the convention is listless
Bright young man
Yo, who the eff is this?
Why do you always say what you believe?
Why do you always say what you believe?
Every proclamation guarantees free ammunition for your enemies
Why do you write like it's going out of style? (Hey)
Write day and night like it's going out of style? (Hey)
Every day you fight like it's going out of style
Do what you do
Alexander?
Aaron Burr, sir
Well, it's the middle of the night
Can we confer, sir?
Is this a legal matter?
Yes, and it's important to me
What do you need?
Burr, you're a better lawyer than me
Okay?
I know I talk too much, I'm abrasive
You're incredible in court
You're succinct, persuasive
My client needs a strong defense
You're the solution
Who's your client?
The new U.S. Constitution?
No
Hear me out
No way
A series of essays, anonymously published
Defending the document to the public
No one will read it
I disagree
And if it fails?
Burr, that's why we need it
The constitution's a mess
So it needs amendments
It's full of contradictions
So is independence
We have to start somewhere
No, no way
You're making a mistake
Good night
Hey
What are you waiting for?
What do you stall for? (What?)
We won the war
What was it all for?
Do you support this constitution?
Of course
Then defend it
And what if you're backing the wrong horse?
Burr, we studied and we fought and we killed
For the notion of a nation we now get to build
For once in your life, take a stand with pride
I don't understand how you stand to the side
I'll keep all my plans
Close to my chest (wait for it, wait for it, wait)
I'll wait here and see
Which way the wind will blow
I'm taking my time watching the afterbirth of a nation
Watching the tension grow
I am sailing off to London
I am accompanied by someone who always pays
I have found a wealthy husband
Who will keep me in comfort for all my days
He is not a lot of fun but there is no one
Who can match you for turn of phrase
My Alexander
Angelica
Don't forget to write
Look at where you are
Look at where you started
The fact that you're alive is a miracle
Just stay alive, that would be enough
And if your wife could share a fraction of your time
If I could grant you peace of mind
Would that be enough?
Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay
To write a series of essays defending the new United States Constitution
Entitled The Federalist Papers
The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays
The work divided evenly among the three men
In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays, in the span of six months
John Jay got sick after writing five
James Madison wrote twenty-nine
Hamilton wrote the other fifty-one
How do you write like you're running out of time?
Write day and night like you're running out of time?
Every day you fight like you're running out of time
Like you're running out of time
Are you running out of time?
How do you write like tomorrow won't arrive?
How do you write like you need it to survive?
How do you write every second you're alive?
Every second you're alive? Every second you're alive?
They are asking me to lead
I am doing the best I can
To get the people that I need
I'm asking you to be my right hand man
Treasury or State?
I know it's a lot to ask
Treasury or State?
To leave behind the world you know
Sir, do you want me to run the Treasury or State department?
Treasury
Let's go
Alexander
I have to leave
Alexander
Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now
Helpless
They are asking me to lead
Look around, isn't this enough?
He will never be satisfied
What would be enough?
He will never be satisfied (to be satisfied)
Satisfied
Satisfied (history has its eyes on you)
Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?
Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room? (Look around, look around) (non-stop)
Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room? (He will never be satisfied) (isn't this enough?)
Soon that attitude will be your doom (what would be enough?) (satisfied, satisfied)
(History has its eyes on you) why do you write like you're running out of time? (Non-stop)
Why do you fight like
History has its eyes on you?
I am not throwin' away my shot (just you wait)
I am not throwin' away my shot (just you wait)
I am Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton
Just you wait
I am not throwing away my shot
About me: The delegates of the United Colonies of New Hampshire; Massachusetts Bay; Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; Connecticut; New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; New Castle,
Kent, and Sussex, in Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina, and South Carolina, In Congress assembled at Philadelphia,
Resolved on the 10th of May, 1776, to recommend to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no
government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs had been
established, to adopt such a government as should, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and of
America in general. A preamble to this resolution, agreed to on
the 15th of May, stated the intention to be totally to suppress
the exercise of every kind of authority under the British crown.
On the 7th of June, certain resolutions respecting independency
were moved and seconded. On the 10th of June it was resolved,
that a committee should be appointed to prepare a declaration
to the following effect: ‘‘That the United Colonies are, and of
right ought to be, free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain
is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.’’ On the preceding day it
was determined that the committee for preparing the declaration should consist of five, and they were chosen accordingly, in
the following order: Mr. Jefferson, Mr. J. Adams, Mr. Franklin,
Mr. Sherman, Mr. R. R. Livingston. On the 11th of June a resolution was passed to appoint a committee to prepare and digest
the form of a confederation to be entered into between the colonies, and another committee to prepare a plan of treaties to be
proposed to foreign powers. On the 12th of June, it was resolved,
that a committee of Congress should be appointed by the name
of a board of war and ordnance, to consist of five members. On
the 25th of June, a declaration of the deputies of Pennsylvania,
met in provincial conference, expressing their willingness to
concur in a vote declaring the United Colonies free and independent States, was laid before Congress and read. On the 28th
of June, the committee appointed to prepare a declaration of
independence brought in a draught, which was read, and ordered
to lie on the table. On the 1st of July, a resolution of the convention of Maryland, passed the 28th of June, authorizing the deputies of that colony to concur in declaring the United Colonies
free and independent States, was laid before Congress and read.
On the same day Congress resolved itself into a committee of the
whole, to take into consideration the resolution respecting independency. On the 2d of July, a resolution declaring the colonies
free and independent States, was adopted. A declaration to that
effect was, on the same and the following days, taken into further consideration. Finally, on the 4th of July, the Declaration
of Independence was agreed to, engrossed on paper, signed by
John Hancock as president, and directed to be sent to the several assemblies, conventions, and committees, or councils of
safety, and to the several commanding officers of the continental troops, and to be proclaimed in each of the United States,
and at the head of the Army. It was also ordered to be entered
upon the Journals of Congress, and on the 2d of August, a copy
engrossed on parchment was signed by all but one of the fiftysix signers whose names are appended to it. That one was Matthew Thornton, of New Hampshire, who on taking his seat in November asked and obtained the privilege of signing it. Several
who signed it on the 2d of August were absent when it was adopted on the 4th of July, but, approving of it, they thus signified
their approbation.
NOTE.—The proof of this document, as published above, was
read by Mr. Ferdinand Jefferson, the Keeper of the Rolls at the
Department of State, at Washington, who compared it with the
fac-simile of the original in his custody. He says: ‘‘In the facsimile, as in the original, the whole instrument runs on without
a break, but dashes are mostly inserted. I have, in this copy, followed the arrangement of paragraphs adopted in the publication
of the Declaration in the newspaper of John Dunlap, and as
printed by him for the Congress, which printed copy is inserted
in the original Journal of the old Congress. The same paragraphs
are also made by the author, in the original draught preserved
in the Department of State.’’
Who I'd like to meet: Listen bruh, I understand what you saying.
But I'mma help them understand what
you saying. Basically this how the girl be
Where?
Who?
You been Where!?
With who!?
Mmmm. For real? Oh really? That's how you feel?
And the guys be like
Askin' all them questions.
Askin' all them questions.
Why you askin' all them questions making statements, assumin'?
Askin' all them questions.
Askin' all them questions.
Why you askin' all them questions making statements, assumin'?
Mhh. Where you been?
How much, how mu—how much did you spend!?
Yeah I trust you. Now unlock your phone.
Uh uh uh uh who is this hoe?
See why you playing with me,
that's the same reason why you ain't staying with me.
You tryna get up in these drawers you ain't laying with me
I ain't even tryna hear what you saying to me.
Just grab your stuff, hit the door.
Go chill with them other girls.
That is why her weave stank
Talking bout some beach curls,
Please,
She ratchet!
That's why I'm pregnant and you the papi!
Ah ha,
Looking stupid that's what you get.
Walking round here lyin', thinkin' that you slick.
But you dumb. You stupid?
Uh, don't you talk when I'm talking, you better mute it!
Now unlock your phone let me see them pictures.
I'mma check your Facebook and I'mma
check your Twitter and I bet it tell me
Where?
Who?
You been Where!?
With who!?
Mmmm. For real? Oh really? That's how you feel?
Asking all them questions.
Asking all them questions.
Why you asking all them questions making statements, assuming?
Asking all them questions.
Asking all them questions.
Why you asking all them questions making statements, assuming?
Girl. Why you buggin'?
Oh who that girl? That just my cousin.
You wanna know the truth? And how I feel?
Stop tweet watching, so I know it's real!
Girl, ain't nobody lyin' to you,
I ain't got no secrets, I ain't hiding from you.
But you still wanna check my phone and my tweets,
Find out who I'm talking to and who I'm tryna meet.
What you said you pregnant!? It ain't mine!?
Girl I wrapped it up. That's how I know you lyin'.
What you think I'm dumb. You think I'm stupid?
You think I love you, do I look like cupid?
Hold on,
Let me see your pictures.
Let me check your Facebook.
What's the password to your Twitter?
You wanna DM.
You tryna see him.
At 7 P.M.
This weekend, so he can
Spend it all on you.
(You ain't slick you ain't slick)
Where?
Who?
You been Where!?
With who!?
Mmmm. For real? Oh really? That's how you feel?
Asking all them questions.
Asking all them questions.
Why you asking all them questions making statements, assuming?
Asking all them questions.
Asking all them questions.
Why you asking all them questions making statements, assuming?
Whatever. Whatever nigga!
What you gon' do? You just mad, because you got caught.
You dirty. Yo dirty ass, you dirty.
And then the guys always flexing like they gon' hit her,
"Man get yo hand out my face shawty,
man somebody better get her! I ain't playin'!"
And the girls always want to beef
over the Internet they would say some like
"Uh. Tell that thirsty trick you with