Greedy Men – a breakdown

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Greedy Men – a breakdown

Artiste:            Stonebwoy

Title:                Greedy Men

Writer:            Livingstone Etse Satekla (Stonebwoy)

Producer:        Rock Steady Scope of Song

Greedy Men project highlights detrimental effects of illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana (often known as galamsey). – Stonebwoy speaks on the economic loss, greater loss of life and property, poisoning of soil and groundwater, biodiversity loss, chemical leakages, and other long-term negative repercussions the activity is having on the country.

In the video of the song, he highlights how foreign companies engage in illegal gold mining in Ghana in their quest for riches at the detriment of the local people. He also highlights how these foreigners use the underprivileged as cheap labour in mines of communities where they labor long hours for little money to dig gold etc, profiting themselves while the nation does not even benefit in the process.

Stonebwoy uses his position as a very influential figure in the lives of Ghanaian youth to highlight the long-term destructive effects of illegal small-scale mining to persons living in the community and the environment at large. The video shows emotional scenes of the effects of illegal mining on the lives of people living in the communities where they happen.

Lyrics

Intro

Think about the future children

Mankind wicked and wild

Destroying Generational….

Deeeey

I Here why

 

Verse 1

Cyanide and Mercury inna Di Water

The Lead is poisoning the water

The farm lands are chemicalized and I don’t know what to do

And this is because of illegal mining

And cocoa production declining

Deforestation and rise inna violent crime everyday

 

Chorus

Many Men Shall Die

Because of the Greedy of another yeah

Worldwide

Many men shall die

Because of the greedy of another man yeah

Nations

Many men shall die because of the greedy of another man yeah

Bhimnation

Many men shall die because of the greedy of another yeah

Worldwide

 

Hook

Think about the future children

What kind of legacy you leaving for them

Selling and destroying Generational Wealth and The people are suffering

 

Think about the future children

What kind of legacy you leaving for them

Selling and destroying Generational

Wealth and the People are suffering

 

Verse 2

Women and children Suffer the most

Handling poisonous chemicals without no gloves

Contaminated water running through the holes

That is what we drink and same thing washes the clothes

Whole heap of young youth them a dying everyday

Hustling to feed family from galamsey

Why Do We Give Permission to the china State

The price that we pay is never worth the bargain.

No no..

 

Verse 3

Mama Africa is bleeding I feel it..

She say rise up sons and daughters

No one is Gonna fix it for you.. yeah

They never love mama better than you..

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