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New song from Protoje featured on 'Overstand Entertainment' new Riddim called the 'Militancy

Ye Resist Not Evil
Whoever shall smite thee
Will have to face the almighty
So take away my coat and my cloak
jah a me riches so me never broke

Lord I pray, please never let me lose my way 
In anything i do or say
Keep Jah in My Heart, Father shall carry i cross


How do i say it in a manner that
don't seem hype if i say we bring the banner back
Red gold green not a fad, badge of honour that
defender of the faith fi a fact we den ya pon attack
today tomorrow man a warrior nuh follow that
try put a stop to that but a just a comma dat
matter fact a so the sentence goes
i never try get revenge from these senseless foes

Me likkle bredrin touch 16
sight up the king and a adjust him dreams
Ones can't overstand a wonder what this means
develop fear in them heart and them start set fi him
him tell me, jah never make him get defeat
so him move like a gaddy and prevail pon the street
you nuh see it
a 3 shot him get fi it and him still den ya stand up pin him feet


You turn you back on the well when u done drink the water
all the quarrelling it woulda must bring disaster
fight against you brother just offending the master
them i couldn't join it woulda must kill me faster
oooh, i seen the strategy before fi drain i energy hypocrisy for sure
father please take my nemesis away from Jah premises


Protoje - Resist Not Evil (Militancy Riddim) Overstand Entertainment

Who Knows' is the first official single from Protoje's forthcoming album,  which is due March 10, 2015.  

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It features Chronixx and is produced by Winta James.
Overstand Entertainment/In.Digg.Nation Collective.

Lyrics:

Who knows Who knows Who knows
I just go where the trade wind blows
Sending Love to my Friends and Foes
And I suppose
I'm pleased to be chilling in the West Indies
Jah Provide All My wants and needs
I got the sunshine rivers and trees, Green Leaves.


When me see Jah me see a way
Drastically stray from Hypocrisy i say
Everyman to them owna philosophy
A Live the proper way, and them me read a chapter daily
Man deh Inner City hungry and no eat
And food deh down a country just a drop off a the tree them
You see say poverty no real then
Is what the reasoning revealing

When the rain pitter pat pon the roof
Herb just a steam pepper pon pon the stew
Life is a dream if you got gratitude 
So go tell the regime them can't stop weh we do now
Information you think on your own
Or else you're a slave to the things that you know
What do you know if you learn everyday?
So be careful of things way u say


Africa in a we soul
But a Jah in a we heart
It if of important say I&I gather
If we cannot show now a balance at we yard
How do We propose then to carry it abroad
Cannot Go to Ethiopia and you nuh have a plan
The building of a nation a hand a help a hand
Everyone one love a one
A man is just a man 
It shall be a coronation when we land

Who Knows (feat. Chronixx)

ITUNES

Who Knows ft. Chronixx

"Stylin'" is the second single from Protoje's third studio album, Ancient Future, scheduled for release March 10, 2015.

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Song produced by: Winta James (@overstand_JA)
Shot by Nickii Kane
Directed and Edited by Yannick Reid
Art Direction and Animation by Taj Francis

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Stylin'

Track 6 from Protoje's #1 reggae album, Ancient Future, released worldwide on March 10th!

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Produced by: Winta James
Artwork by: Kokab

I know you think about me every night
especially when he ain't treating you right
I guess it didn't go according to plan
try to replace me with a simpler man
The streets of kingston yeah they do get so cold
to think you thought that they were covered with gold
Now everybody's got your story to tell
i hope you handle it well

(Sevana)
Love gone cold
gave you all i had yes i played my role
cannot give you more than that 
I love you but I'm not coming back
You've done me wrong 
Yet you keep repeating the same old song
But baby that won't change the fact
I love you but I'm not coming back

Girl naa show man no decency 
did all believe up to recently 
change her mind oh so frequently 
and me can't operate pon that frequency
times she'd a deh pon the P's and Q's
start act different she seem confused
all a the things weh she keep consume
carnival a come and she need costume
me waa left from the gliding lights 
she just care bout the friday nights
from sunset back to broad day light
and she coulda be the Queen if the card play right
but she woulda rather be the ace
all a the fun wah she take out of the chase
want make a run but me nuh in a the race then 
but such is the case when

Now you calling in the dead of the night
like i made up the things you did in my mind
you have no respect and you don't even try
out there playing games, always telling lies
Look what you  look what you just look what you did
don't you care about my feelings
there was a time when what we had was true
now those days are gone there is nothing left to do

Now you're alone with all those secrets you keep
Keeping you up and you can't go back to sleep
sleeping around to find a happier place
placing your heart inside a lonelier space
i guess you thought things would get better with time
not knowing what we had was one of a kind
now you're afraid to look at who you've become
an empty soul on the run

Ancient Future

Love Gone Cold feat. Sevana

Love Gone Cold ft. Sevana

Track 10 from Protoje's #1 reggae album, Ancient Future, released worldwide on March 10th!

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Produced by: Winta James
Artwork by: Stella Blu  > https://instagram.com/bystellablu/

30 pieces of sliver i said that was the price
you see the value man woulda put pon the blood of christ
for Joseph it was 20 they never liked his coat
for Bob a coulda more they never liked of what he spoke
inspite of all these notes i see the pattern them developing
Morality secondary to money greed and jealousy
thats how many fell you see and with that being said
i'd wondered if my brothers put a price upon my head

Ive heard that money makes friends and money makes foes
but money it is not all
cause when the dough ends and all the banks close
tell me who can you call 
Who can you call

I've seen empires fall and wither down to dust 
and all the money in the world it could not lift them up
most brilliant of ornaments crumble down to rust
because we put we faith in lust and disregard the trust
hell i know the rush
I've had the feeling take me over
the power in my hand when all the band over my shoulder
the bands of money coming in will change the ones around you 
be wise you know because it cannot stop you getting older but still
i admit that i get caught up in the game
saw the legends do it naturally i did the same
so I'm rolling round the city 
Ms. Jamaica deh den with me
Earth den pon me platter knowing all of this no matter

And do you think that with the last breath that you take 
You'll be sitting thinking bout the money that you made
houses that you lived in cars you drove the bills you paid
and yet it is the focus what we do and what we say
what we give we energy
so you spend your life a work
acting like the money will be with you in the hearse
leaving all you family and friends to fight and search 
that when you see the snakes come out and act like they deserve
like them put you on reserve

Who Can You Call

Lyrics:
Our time Come, check how we a do it.
Keep your eyes Open, trodding in the street, Beware Beware
Our time Come, check how we a do it.
Keep your eyes Open, trodding in the street, Beware Beware

Cause when u see me a go through no bother stop me Babylon
A book in a me bag and is a pen in a me hand
The lyrics weh me have it have to spread to everyone
With my Lines and my letters and my 50 cent stamp
So love it or you hate it that a fi you decision
But when the lyrics sick me operate with precision
A Unity me a say over any division
You never know it now I beg you do u revision

Say From Seven Year old me say me haffi get a buss
Fi flow it on the riddim like a Terror Fabulous
Lift off in the 747 we a ride
then land and drive away in a the 745
7 Number one tune 7 different year
Career fi switch about 7 different gear
7 different weed spot every parish every state
Naa mi change ma mind upgrade everything to 8

Honesty is a necessity if you want to lead
Leadership Necessary if you waa unite the people
Good Intentions get poisoned cause of greed
and the lust for power has enables all the bleeding
YOu run your mouth careful of weh u talk
cause if you lose we trust u naa go get it back
them get them chance and no make no pertinent remarks
So when time u a listen just keep this in a you thoughts.


Originally slated for Protoje's "Seven Year Itch' album this track was left of because of sample clearance issues. It has since found its way to the Internet and is available for FREE download at <a href="http://www.protoje.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://protoje.com/our-music/</a>


Protoje - Our Time Come ft. Don Corleon

Protoje - Rub A Dub Soldier ft. Ky-Mani Marley & Da Professor

Empress look what I brought for you
Marijuana a glisten in the morning dew

She put her lips to my blunt and kiss it
No excuse when she roll she spliff
For she don’t even care if it smudge no lipstick
Naa refuse that a how she rep
She make sure I have some greens with it when I sip it
Then she roll off and roll up ma ting
And make me know that anyhow I put it in ma lyrics then
Only some girls goin’ comprehend

No she nuh agree wid dem policy so she bun her trees
No apologies never needed
Pon her property no it never cease so she get her peace
And her release when she weeded
Like it when it cure but she have a pree, prefer when it green
Have more THC when she steaming
When me go country and me come back in
She nuh ask a ting ‘cause she know wah me bring

Ohh she love my herb etiquette
How I roll it up so delicate
How I naa take a draw before she get a hit
How me drive in from far and me alone pon the road jussa move with
My light and my music with
The thought of you just waiting make me reach home safely
Navigate me baby, I know it’s on you brain
When you hear these statements and this message placement
No need to explain what I saying

So now she say she grown up
And she growing her own from the ground up
From the seed to the stalk ‘til the pound drop
And now a me make demands when I show up
Then I set sail as I inhale
The surplus is not for sale
Its purpose it much more real
So courteous with how she deal it
But it increase her feeling when a me build it

She wet it and seal it

Protoje - No Lipstick

First collaboration with Kabaka Pyramid and Protoje.  The song is called 'Warrior' and is produced by Zincfence Records.

Warrior - Kabaka Pyramid Ft. Protoje

LYRICS:

What Don't kill you make u stronger
If u wanna make a move girl don't stand and look
I know u got u heart broke before girl
but them deh boy and the natty nuh read the same book 
What Don't kill you make u stronger
If u wanna make a move girl don't stand and look
I need a lioness in a me Jungle
So what you say to me?


If u see what you want please no fi cease fi proceed
bring it come girl
Any season u want mi reach when u speak it 
is no reason for concern 
How It feel when I gone 
Turn in the sleep
it so real make u wonder
saif it discreet how you want 
but mi still pre it and talk 
and this i know......


Say with me she nuh have me problem 
Anytime when diggy drop it proper pon dem
When u see me hop up and den 
Ackee pon the menu sours op inna mi blender
She know me have it chop and blem
puttig it together how you stop that tandem girl
and she a nuh second hand 
So you know mi haffi consent
and this i know...


Tell me girl how it feel when u ride 
cause thief never love fi see thief make a swipe
Misery love keep company by its side
And them nuh know the feeling so them start criticize
Never have you in a doubt
Never leff u in a drought 
once a this me in never see me coming out
never see me looking round
Not carryin you round no corners
That's not what i want
and this i know....

Protoje - Stronger (Antique Riddim)

Lyrics:

A who them a program
Who them a young girl have them eye pon
A who them a program
Who informer sit down and a spy pon
A who dem a program
Who Mr. Babylon have them eye pon
Who dem a Program
Who informer sit down and a spy pon

Is a brand new prince pon the scene
Jah a move with me two foot prints that I mean
See him when u see him, general fi the team
This ya reign ya coming draw fi you gabardine
Them a look and a watch like live stream
And mi skunk purple like  Ribena mean
Them a dream like arlene
Bout king them  boy deh a queen like Carlene
No bother tell me say me cant
5 6 7 8 drop in a me path
Eeeeey warrior in a me heart
Philosophic in a mind
A deliver you art

We naa watch no face make it do what it do
From the first time when nomads a puupookopuu
Cause dem nuh want see  u in the coupe a go thru
Dem will call Babylon and state trooper fi you
Den then come with them warrant
Kick off door a run in a you  apartment wooii
But the fire ago scawling  oh when dem falling
Caa say we never warn them wooii
Eeeeey....But dem power couldn't real
Try all dem want and dem couldn't crack the seal
Eeeeey...Who nun hear dem ago feel
A Selassie a mi shield
So them couldn't stop the meal

Watch the sprinter
Man a run marathon
Madda Dan one a don riddim wah me drop it pon
Rapapaam dem nuh badda Dan Papa San
Beet root carrot haffi  pack Ina the caravan
Travel plan,  see u moving with a paragon
Confident no confuse it with no arrogance
Rasta man no confuse this with no Barack and Farrakhan
Shashamane a weh we have da land
Eeeeey fi mi words dem naa go mute
I see what they do and that really never suit me
Eeeey dem nuh  even know the root
Africa fi Africans I deliver u the truth


Who Dem A Program

Lyrics for:
'This is NOT a Marijuana Song' by Protoje, Produced by Niko Browne for LifeLine Music. 2012

And so it was said that the herb be provided for I&I 

They don't want you to know Marijuana
Ites up and be Free
Jah so Let it be

Herb smoke keep i sane, take my pain 
Stop migraine, so much i gain, so why blame?
I'm saying Jah might bring the right strain 
To my brain fi chop lightning like I-Wayne
Cause man deh ya pon the Lava Ground
And if u soft like a guava u can't come round
This part of Town, I tell unuh the thought alone
A could a Sparta it falter down
REVIVAL Hallelujah it start up now
Reprisal fi the luu Jah it watered down, Naa Pardon none

What deh in a  mi garden strong
This is NOT a Marijuana Song

This is not Marijuana music
Just a Message from the ones that use it
Don't abuse it cause a mind that's fertile
Brings forth something that's worthwhile 
Know your worth child
Cause no officer alive coulda look in a ma eyes 
And see what i prophesy 
My mind it forever occupies, thoughts of.........
Hold ma talk cause spies amongst us
If trouble did a trouble me, well that mi chalice woulda bubbly
drop in a one load then double it

What deh in a me garden strong
This is NOT a Marijuana Song

Listen up, the truth is to be told
Open your eyes there is beauty to behold
What is the new if u consider the old
Why gain the world and no consider your soul 
What is the cloud if u understand the lining
Who is the king if u consider the LIneage
You know its H.I.M so no continue deny him
Is it freestyle if i consider the Line 
Then configure the timing adjust to fit the rhyme scheme
With no trouble to my mind really?
Seal It

I say wah deh in a me garden strong
This is not a Marijuana Song

This Is Not A Marijuana Song

LYRICS:

And She didn’t know how to tell him
She was In love with a Rasta Man
Fire was burning and Burning
To let out what she was holding In

I know her story before she say it
Daddy just want her Co-operate
Find somebody that’s corporate 
Suit and Tie more appropriate
Him say him naa make him daughter stray
But reggae music she start fi play it
Ital food when she sort her plate
Militant yute wah she want fi date
And that is what she need
Marcus Garvey she start fi read
Hair stop comb and it start look neat
SO him want keep her off the street from who she with
And that be me
More than a natty head is what she see
NO lovers leap is not for me
And she nuh waa keep it a secret but she cant tell him who she sleep with


And she wants to be free 
From all this captivity 
So she’ll be who she will be
They cant tell her who she need
They cant tell her who she want  who she can’t
She talk her owner chant chart her owner path 
And follow her owner heart
Call me over her own apartment
Now as I answer the phone that’s the tone she start with
She know say she don’t fi part with 
One Like I even though so much impart it
So she haffi do her owner thing
Cause she can never live life for them
Knowing that she would look back when
To the time weh she couldn’t explain to him cause then

Rasta Love ft. Ky-mani Marley

A short story based on the events of May 23rd, 2010, when the Jamaican government deployed its military into Tivoli Gardens in the capital city of Kingston.
Premier Nov 5th.

Ey, ey
Watch ya dread
Hey hey

Kingston, be wise
Kingston, free up your mind
Kingston, just be wise
Kingston, free up the I, yeah

When the city a go click-clack-blow, you bet
Government fingers and tic-tac-toes in it
And while they working on the X's and O's
I'm living I-N-I like I'm Mister Kamoze
No surprise when they sending foes to me
Opposite of when plain clothes approaching me
Follow they rules is what they propose to me
Selling they souls for what is owed, you see
Nothing is owed, nothing is promised 
Never know the government woulda run up inna them garrison
Without no sorry, without excuse
Soldier man inna them lorry, everybody get abused, and
Everybody have them views now
The media is owned so know where you get your news from
And the blood deh pon them shoes now
When them walking it trace
Look them hard in them face
And say

Kingston, be wise
Kingston, free up your mind
Kingston, just be wise, for me
Kingston, free up the violence

Now all the damage can't quantify
Roy Rayon couldn't sanctify 
Say a nuff a dem them send fi die
So the city a intensify
Say the ghetto them a gentrify
Well I, nobody nuh identify
Nuff bodies unidentified and just a lie deh
Then where the gun deh? Dead pon Saturday 
Buried Sunday like Solomon Grundy
Like a no Sons of Solomon them have down deh
Leonard Howell, Pinnacle and them land deh
Subdivision, them deal it underhand deh
So learn it 'cause them come back with dem plan deh
So tell me how far do you wanna go now, hey
'Cause them will ratta-tatta-tatta when u pow-pow-pow


Kingston Be Wise

Track 2 from Protoje's Sophomore album ' The 8 Year Affair' (2013)

Selah
Know what they longing for
Know what they longing for
And I’ve got it, I’ve got it
We’ve got it, yeah.

Young General a talk, tell anyone at all
Them never coulda want take a part inna harm me
Man a war inna Menelik army
See it, them a move with the message of Garvey
Can’t listen who dem elect, hardly
Dem a play fi dem part in a party
Hear say Audley start drive Audi
Beg you pardon, a Bimma me sorry
Lead who them lost we nuh follow them
Organize and form inna one again
Twelve Tribes, you nuh see we with the banner dem
Bobo Hill a talk, walk far, do nuh bother them
Ithiopia, the Ark of the Covenant
Queen Makeda, the start of the sovereign
Selassie I order we governing
We nuh inna none a dem tings, so I say

Ites I a gwaan hold
A love we living in
I&I a pass through
Greetings I bring again
(repeat)

Ites I a gwaan hold
When I&I a pass through
(repeat)

Said I took a break and I loved the break,
Now I'm off the brake, looking to make a break
At a greater stake and the flow sweet like grater cake
Sharper than a grater make
And then I take a date and a make a mate
At a greater pace, naa use razor blade
And grate my face, dem ‘fraid a me
Lyrics a penetrate
Nuh hesitate fi make tune generate
That will devastate you, Don say it devastating
With more thoughts than them ever stating
Keep them waiting like thugs in a state bing
Jail or prison system, same thing

Flee the scene with thoughts of escaping
My mind did need fi get right
Clarity wha’ we need fi get, so

[CHORUS]

Know what they longing for
Know what they longing for
Know what they longing for
And we’ve got it, we’ve got it
We’ve got it, yeah, yeah.

Track 5 from Protoje's Sophomore album ' The 8 Year Affair' (2013)

You ready? (Yeah yeah yeah)
So I say step closer, you know
‘Cause you see it and I see it you know girl
Yeah yeah yeah

Someone like you 
Someone like you
Someone like you
Someone like you

(Protoje)
Hold me tight so that I won't forget
‘Cause every girl that I have been with, they don't know me yet
So I'm over it
The way it worth it we should go for it
For if we try we shall not fail and hence we won't regret
So how it set?

(Tessanne)
So many sleepless nights
With you resting on my mind
Is this what it seems or am I only dreaming
That I'd find someone like you

[CHORUS]

(Tessanne)
I will pick you up when you’re feeling bad
Kiss a smile to your lips when you're feeling sad
Tell me what you want ‘cause I can deal with that
That’s a fact
Got the remedy here for you, yeah

(Protoje)
I hope you knowing what you do to me, all of this is new to me
Holding out for you to see, just time and opportunity
Wan’ give you the best of me fi carry on the legacy
I’ve got to find someone like you

[CHORUS]

(Protoje)
I tell you this is the one, the one
Please don't let me lose this one
And I’ve been watching you all along
Have you now where you belong


(Tessanne)
Tell you this is the one, the one
Please don’t let me lose this one
And now I’ve got you where you belong
Please don't let me lose this one

[CHORUS]

Somebody like you, yeah yeah
Somebody like you, oh yeah! (You know, you know, oh oh)
Somebody like, body like, body-da-da-da-na-na-na-na yeah yeah yeah
(Somebody like you) Somebody like, somebody like
Protoje! (Yeah yeah)
Can you feel me! (Yes, you know I do)
Somebody, somebody, somebody like you

[CHORUS]

Oh yes, I telling you
Somebody like you

Someone Like You ft. Tessanne Chin

Track 11 from Protoje's Sophomore album ' The 8 Year Affair' (2013)

You need a bullet proof vest
No need to run!

(Toi)
I’ve been shot by love
And now me can’t run away, run away
I’ve been shot in the heart
Them call it love in the first degree
I’ve been shot by love
And now me can’t get away, get away
I’ve been shot in the heart
Them call it love in the first degree

(Protoje)
Me say me full up a ammunition when me touch down
Love zone knock her down from inna the first round
The love ya realer than the Vatican own
She a the queen fi me African throne
No mercenary Taliban it control
Me a the one fi lock your body and soul
Jah set the plan, me just a watch it unfold
You overstand, that’s why me left it untold

[CHORUS]

(Protoje)
Me say me shot you with me loving but your life ain’t gonna end
No need for running, this is just the beginning
Aiming for the target, the tranquilizer tame you
And cupid him coulda never have dem aim ya
Now you really won't forget wha’ true love feel like
Me loving touch you heart and knock you down in a real life
Love in the first degree, you know say me do it right
And fill her up with the real type, sleep tight

[CHORUS]

(Toi)
Them say you can’t escape it, can’t mistake it
When love knocks you down
Now my heart is yours, unarmed and open
You took my barrier down
A shot without a sound
Me never see you coming
Like a stranger in the night
Me never see you coming

Shot by Love ft. Toi

Track 13 from Protoje's Sophomore album ' The 8 Year Affair' (2013)

Every morning I rise
Peace to my mind when I hail Ras Tafari
Knowing His eyes are on I
Jah be my guide, I reside with the Most High
Even inna drought I nuh cry
These are the times when I hail Ras Tafari
Knowing that Jah will provide for I

I said He giveth and He taketh away
Understanding nothing is belonging to me
Earth will provide you with the necessity
Me say simplicity is what we use in these days
And Ras Tafari prophesied there would be wars
Many possessions would be lost
What you live is what you leave with, so
Hold it close, it’s the only thing that's yours

[CHORUS]

Because we know Jah we cannot walk away
Heart of the Lion is telling us not to stay far
‘Cause when it all passes away
To abide in Your presence is the only thing I pray for
‘Cause it is beautiful to know
Storms all around and You safely guide the way home
Yes, You lightening my load
Keep me right here on the straight road

[CHORUS]


Haile love I, you never forget
Haile bless I, don’t you ever forget
Haile love I, don't you ever forget
Haile bless I, don’t you ever forget

[CHORUS]

Haile is the power and the knowledge and the key
One, two, three, the Holy Trinity, yeah


Hail Ras Tafari

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