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Protoje’s New Album Is Done, New Music Next Week

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Popular Reggae singer Protoje has revealed that new music is on the horizon.

According to a Tweet from the Who Knows singer, the production of his sixth album is finished, and fans can expect to hear new music next week. He posted a series of Tweets yesterday, Friday, July 10, to share the news.

“Time fi give dem ya a sibling ya now,” he said in a Tweet with a picture of four of his previous projects.

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He followed up that Tweet with “Protoje Album Done. New Music next week. Fire.”

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Earlier today, the singer also seemingly revealed what the new album means to him. “You know when you’re making a fire and it starts with a flicker, but then you see it start catch then it burst into flames and you cannot take your eye off it? Yeh just like that,” he said in one tweet.

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“You’re like my favorite painting, one I could never sell. You ever make a painting yet and the way u love it you can’t sell it? Yeh same so.” Protoje said in a followup.

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Protoje, whose real name is Oje Ken Ollivierre, formed the group In.Digg.Nation, which manages Lila Iké and Sevana.  The collective, which was formed about six years ago, recently inked a deal with RCA Records and Six Course, which would see album releases from Protoje and his signees.

Ike’s debut EP, The ExPerience , has been a success, and Sevana this week released the first single, If You Only Knew, from her forthcoming 6-track EP Be Somebody.

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Sevana, Protoje, and Lila Iké (from left)

When the group was formed he said: “I felt like I didn’t have a lot of popular artists mentoring me or putting me on [when I started], so instead of building upwards— I don’t know who said this but—sometimes you have to build laterally,” he says. “You have to build with who is beside you so you can be self-sustaining.”

Earlier this year he shared the news that he was working in the studio with Swizz Beatz: “Mad honour for the link up @therealswizzz and @aliciakey was a real magical night.”

Fellow reggae artiste Kabaka Pyramid also seemed excited about new music next week.  He tweeted a photo of himself, Protoje and Chronixx with the caption: “Time to take over the airwaves again. Who ready?” He, however, later indicated that he was not talking about a collaboration: “To be clear. We each have new music. Its not a collab…..yet.”

No doubt, fans are looking forward to hearing what Protoje has produced.  One of them declared, “Now there’s some good news!” while this fan predicted big things for the album “Me a call it from now… Grammy nominee.”