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Giants (ft Mutombo Da Poet)

by Kojo "Easy" Damptey

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I wrote this song in Ghana in 2014. Since I wrote it back home I wanted to record it and collaborate with musicians back home as well. So I hooked up with Mutombo Da Poet and Flynt Agyei Boateng in the studio and we made it happen.

The song is a decolonial process building on what Prof Kwame Gyekye calls Critical Sankofaism. He explains critical sankofaism as approaching one’s traditional past with critical eyes to select those elements that would be of use to one’s present life and could also be helpful to building a better life in future.

For Africans & the African diaspora, we tend to forget our past due to the ever-penetrating tentacles of colonization & neo-colonialism. As such it is important to reach back into our rich cultures and tradition to remember the GIANTS that made us who we are. It is in that journey back that can inspire us to conquer colonization and create a better future for the continent and its peoples in proper Pan-African fashion.

lyrics

Verse 1
When the Giants' march on we will feel their wrath.
A wrath born from the ageless hammer of destruction.
We will hear the river's roar we will know their pain.
Pain endured from generation to generation.
So let them run free for their time is here and now.
They will rise like the sun shedding light for all.
For the world has no respect for the unseen.
Only marked bills with heroes of destruction

Chorus
We will keep marching with the giants.
We will keep fighting for the fallen.

Verse 2
There's no rhyme or reason we reside in prison.
Pain and suffering all we know is a life of enslavement
Militarized policemen tell me what's the difference
Raise your hands! You're about to turn cold on the pavement.
Helpless amidst confusion we're force-fed illusion
Are we free or subservient to a life of consumption
Some reap a meager pittance others bask in abundance
Foolish perdition as the world begs for deliverance

Chorus
We will keep marching with the giants.
We will keep fighting for the fallen.

credits

released April 9, 2018
Vocals: Kojo "Easy" Damptey & Mutombo Da Poet
Back Up Vocals: Emily Kemp
Piano: Flynt Agyei-Boateng
Mixed & Mastered by Aaron Hutchinson

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Kojo "Easy" Damptey Hamilton, Ontario

Kojo “Easy” Damptey is an award winning Afro-Soul musician. He was born and raised in Accra, Ghana.

He is currently working on his second album Giants: Stories of Existence, Resilience, & Resistance which will be out on Sept 12th, 2018, to celebrate the life of Amilcar Cabral.
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