ma mamma said from the 1st day weh she hold mi hand that im gna b DREAD!

KINGSTON, JAMAICA – Tuesday, January 25, 2011 will be a memorable day for DubRock Reggae artiste, Protoje. After seven years of patience and devotion to his development as a singer and songwriter, his debut album, The Seven Year Itch will finally be available for purchase via major distribution channels such as iTunes and Amazon.
The 13-track album, produced by Don Corleon Records, begins with the title track that chronicles Protoje’s personal and musical journey, representing an informative re-introduction to his fans. It then proceeds into popular hits like ‘Dread,’ ‘Arguments,’ ‘Rasta Love’ (featuring Ky-Mani Marley) and ‘Roll.’

Following the album’s sole interlude, ‘In the Streets,’ a noticeable change takes place. The Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica native switches to a more serious tone with ‘JA,’ the last of the previously released singles. Immediately following that is underground crowd favourite, ‘Wrong Side Of The Law,’ which administers a high dose of dub instrumental and a captivating true story about encountering the Jamaican police. The album closes with two profound and introspective tracks; one features German sensation, Gentleman, and the other features rising songstress, Janine ‘Jah9? Cunningham.

From start to finish, The Seven Year Itch lays out the life, thus far, of a young man committed to his craft and his spiritual growth. The album cover, designed by Taj Francis, complements the music with a whirlpool of calendar dates bearing significance to Protoje’s career. One such date is December 4, 2009, representing the night he staged The Seven Year Wish to showcase some of his album material more than a year before its release.

The Seven Year Itch

Lutan Fyah - Cyaaan Do We Nothing feat. Chronixx [2013]

01-luciano-rub a dub market

http://www.REGGAEVILLE.com

Tracklist:
01. Rasta Freedom feat. Arofat
02. Pressure feat. Arofat
03. Deceitful
04. Nuh Partial feat. Arofat
05. Take Set feat. Arofat
06. Farmerman feat. Ras Muhamad
07. Boasy Slave
08. Take Set Dub(Umberto Echo Dubmix)
09. Rasta Freedom Dub(Umberto Echo Mix)

Produced by Moritz"DaBaron" v.Korff & Benjamin Zecher for Oneness Records

Mix & Mastering Umberto Echo

Drums:Giuseppe“Flash“Coppola,Martino Liver,Gregory“Daddy Zigo“Mavridorakis,Manu Garcia
Bass:Moritz"DaBaron" v.Korff,Sumalee Berlinger
Keys:Frank“Pollensi“Pollak,Frederic Peyron,Luke Dixon,Moritz v.Korff,Martin Hendler,Fyah T
Guits:Ulinjah,Jérémie"Bim"DessusJérémie Gregeois,Tavi,Maxime Ayanian
Perc:Moritz v.Korff,Martino Liver,Gregory“Daddy Zigo“Mavridorakis

Naptali -  Rasta Freedom EP(Megamix)[Oneness Records 2015]

We Just Vibrated Together

This is for my music
Blessings for my music
It’s love for the music
Journey on my music

I’ve been doing this for seven years
I never make a dollar, never make a change I say
Naa go give up, naa go ever slow
You know say me a hold it down for seven more
I’ve been doing this for seven years
I never make a dollar, never make a change I say
Naa go give up, naa go ever slow
You know say me a hold it down for Evaflow

This is my seven year itch and then I’m coming home
My seven year itch and then I’m coming home
My seven year itch and then I’m coming home
My seven year itch, and now I’m coming home

Me mother send me go school for seventeen year
Me come out and turn DJ, it no seem fair
What you seeing here, this is a product
Of two college, one diploma, no degree
No know the meaning, out in this world and
Everything you learn inna the past 5 years, it naa go help you fi earn
nut’n
What’s the word cousin? You help your cousin
So every word that them heard me with worth sup’n
Every burden them hurl at me hurdle so flawless, dem naa listen
Mi a miss out pon lift up mi team
A watch Gong and Stephen Marley a live out the dream you know
But ‘Welcome to Jamrock’ did lift my feeling up
I listen it still, I listen it keen you know
Me decide say the music can meaningful
Take a look at my life and I clean it up
My herb customers calling me
But now my music demanding me
This is my Seven Year Itch

“Proto” to most, “Oje” to some
Call him “Diggy,” the only son, the sister young
Mommy legendary, ask around, ask fi a pound
And dem will tell you who did carry Macka a town
Ask Marshall, ask him, and if u get a glimpse a Sean Paul
Beg uunu ask him how it feel fi go three times plat
Then ask shaggy ‘cause him did move three times that
Me, no haffi feel like that
Just want retire to a seaside lot
Lef’ all the war and bring the peace right back
Never been in love until now, just just lost it wondering how
Mi woulda get through it, like customs with herb
And no mi no accustom to hurt but I got accustomed to her
And her, she accustom to me
Addicted to the thing weh addicted to she
Empress far and she calling me, but now my music demanding me
This is my Seven Year Itch

Got me, got me bad, mashing up my meds

No lie, I say the moment is right
I hoping you let me know tonight so that I
Can put in the overtime
I found someone for I, Fari, no lie
I say the moment is right
I hoping you let me know tonight so that I
Can put in the overtime, can put in the overtime

‘Cause she no impressed by the vanity
And all that it brings
Diamond clusters and all o’ the bling
Let us get away, I’ll give you all o’ the things
You’re my precious like in ‘Lord of the Rings’
And I’ll put the necessary ring pon you finger
To the right of you pinky deh
Pon you left hand
You know the wedding band, get a bridesmaid
Get a perfect wedding dress in your size made

Eyes on eyes, I eyes the prize beside me
Side by side in the ride we ride
Chick weh ride or die a play from the iPod I
LOX tune, me girl grow locks too
She on track with me tracks too, take me out of bad mood
Crush it up and roll Backwood
Intelligence she got too
Spirituality intact too, so you know I had to

And now she pretty in pink with a witty instinct
As I roll through the city of Kingston
A talk me a talk the truth, car tint so them can’t see who
And she wink as the stink hit the lids of her eyes while she staring
At me steering, hit clutch, shift gear in
No I lying, no clutch, tiptronic as the whip
Skip thru every room in the traffic

Overtime

New music from Iba Mahr, produced by Winta James for Overstand Entertainment

Iba Mahr - Great Is H.I.M (RootsMan Riddim)

"No Guarantee" is the fourth official single from Protoje's (@Protoje) forthcoming fourth full-length album "A Matter Of Time" to be released June 29, 2018.

Chronixx (@Chronixxmusic) joins Protoje on the track, pairing Protoje’s potent lyricism with a catchy yet poignant hook. Together they explore the human condition as it relates to topics of love and hate, envy, jealousy and loyalty.

“No Guarantee” will be available May 18, 2018, as an instant track with the pre-order of the album A Matter Of Time at Protoje.com.

Produced by Winta James (@wintafreshness)
Overstand Entertainment/In.Digg.Nation Collective
Licensed by Mr Bongo/Easy Star Records(US)/Baco Records(FR)

LYRIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/00u5MpRgw1Y

No Guarantee Ft. Chronixx

It’s gonna be
What is it gonna be?
I said it’s gonna be
I’m telling you it’s gonna be

My mommy said, from the first day that she hold my head
That I was gonna be dread, so now I’m gonna be dread
My mommy said, from the first day that she hold my head
I was gonna be dread, so now I’m gonna be dread

Hockey jersey inna heat, Patrick Ewing pon the feet, Buju Banton pon the
beat, uunu ‘member that?
‘92 December that, Paco Jeans and Travel Fox boots from vendor that
Me jussa learn say rubbers a no pencil top, I pencil that, write it out now
Bet you say them fight it out now
When a no now man a fight with po-po, police leave me colleagues please
Soldier lef’ the green inna can like Folgers
Like say a coffee, that haffi pack
Conceal the smell, collect it and unseal it then unleash it
‘Til the first mil reaching in
No sleep, we bleaching fi make money like Lee-Chin
Or at least him brother dem
So mi can try get a super buss until the money surplus like Superplus,
It’s a must!

I used to get a bounce pon me cheque, but now me get a cheque
everytime me track a bounce pon u deck
Plus me get a nod and a bounce from u neck, and a “ooow” she
pronounce when she bounce pon me
A thousand fi the ounce of the brown pon a stick or a stalk or a stem but
the pound do the trick for me
Full o’ so much ganja talk, just come in from me ganja walk
Oh yes it is pon me!
The lyrics make dem conversate it, police want fi confiscate it
When dem see it pon me
But squaddie say him love me music and that must be why me use it
So him leave it pon me
So mi leave promptly and go back a the yard, go back and record
Diggy lean pon me
With no sleep we hunting fi make money like Bunting fi achieve this one
thing

‘Cause…

It’s gonna be, who gonna be
We gonna be, it’s gotta be
I gotta be dread dread
From the first time I show my head, I gotta be dread, dread
From the first time I show my head, I gotta be dread, dread, dread.

Dread

They never gonna love you
They never gonna love you
They never coulda love you
Protoje ay ay ay
Protoje ay ay ay

They never gonna love you JA like I love you JA ay ay
They never gonna need you like I need you that’s why I’ll be stay
ay ay aying
And no me naa go lef’ you for another land, that’s not my plan
Not my plan

Even though the times get hard and the mindset hardm no mi
can’t lef’ Yard (me a TRY!)
Even though the body dem a pile and the gun dem a oil, can’t lef’
off a me soil (just TRY!)
Even though the times get rough now and life get snuff out, dem
things we a tough out (TRY!)
Tell them say no matter what a talk and no matter what a spark,
yow a yah so a me heart

I never been a shotta but I seen a shotta
Meet a meaner shotta and get shot up by a senior shotta
Seen a mother seen her son, dead a ground, glock around
Nuh know say that a come
She need a shot a rum
No need no doctor come pronounce him gone
Him done seem calm, the shotta shift him ounce and gone
And if him touch the route again
The dead yute him have a group o’ friends
Weh buss it like a JUTA man
And them a (TRY!)

I never been a fedi but I seen a fedi
Take a piece o’ evidence and plant it pon the scene already
Me see them kill seven youth out deh
A never shoot out deh
Execution, a so them do it out deh
A that me hear a echo round the ghetto
I hear it from a distant hill, response still
I get an instant chill when infants die
When them drive by in an instance I
And things start fly and them a (TRY!)

Protoje - JA

Say them all have an argument
So I’m calm, I not harming them

And this girl is crying over me, dying over me, she wants me to know
This girl is holding on and she's bold enough to say she naa let me go
Next girl pree the scene and try intervene, what does she want me to do
Ex-girl keep sweating me, she naa set me free, she naa let me be

Me say me have a problem
Kinda no want fi have them
Yet mi kinda no want fi solve them
Woman I want fi have them in numbers, that’s plural
Whether uptown to rural
And not to say I can't settle down
Just trying to make u know I can’t settle now
I jussa make u know that I tried the monogamy
But I couldn’t take all a the naggin’ in ma noggin’ and

She say she kick sneakers off again
Her speakers on again
My CD is on again, gwaan again
Blunt no deh a yard again
You know she a order dem
No smoke with no other man other than
She say she better than all o’ dem
So me fi leff all o’ dem
and if me leff all o’ dem calling and
Coming over ma yard again and as it reach morning then
You know say dem gone again, argument

All have an argument
So I’m calm, I not harming them
Yet they all have an argument

Arguments

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

Lead The Way Compilation EP
Track 10
Prod: Flash Hit Records 
2013 Bebble Rock Records

Kabaka Pyramid - Worldwide love

Track 14 from Protoje's Sophomore album ' The 8 Year Affair' (2013)

I'm just making music from my heart
Not music for the charts, no
No, I won’t get caught up in all of the things dem woulda start
To stray I from I path
Wont fall victim to dem conduct
I'm making music from my heart
Not music for the charts, no, no
With all the things dem coulda start
To stray I from I path
Won’t, won’t

Now I see what is my responsibility
The blessings I’ve received, I must do my best to lead then
‘Cause when people they stand in front of me with them ears attentively
Well then I do my best to reach them
For if I am making music from my soul and know my role
Well then it cannot get depleted
So divine when these energies align, thoughts flow from mind
So I know that I

[CHORUS]

Mommy, if I never win a Grammy don't you ever cry for me
No billboard up in the sky for me
If I never get to put a plaque on Don's wall
I'll appreciate the fact that even one sold
Daddy, do you see yourself when you look at me
I look at you and feel like that is what I've got to be
And so my strategy is to stay ‘way from the vanity
Plus LeAnn, I did promise she
That I would make my

[CHORUS]

Said no I will not pick a fight with my brothers just to get to the top
When I write, it’s truth and rights incite in every drop
Represent for all the younger ones that’s coming up
And show them love
No competition, it’s not “I,” it’s “us”
See, for all our times will come and go
When there’ll be no more lights, and there’ll be no more shows
And no more interviews, and no more people saying they loving you
I'm telling you, and then we'll know

[CHORUS]

No, no
Yeah, yeah
No, hey, hey
Music from my heart
Music from my heart
No, no, no, no, hey
So I give thanks for the ones that before us, you know?
And for the ones that forward, you know
Treat the music with respect


Music From My Heart

Reggaeville Riddim
Oneness Records 
2012

Protoje - JA

Protoje

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