Arguments

Arguments

Protoje

The first single from Protoje’s debut album, 7 Year Itch. In his own words, it’s his “first hit single and the beginning of this musical journey.” Speaking on Proto’s website, Don Corleon said:

The first song I ever heard from Protoje, and the song that signed the deal for the collaboration we started. It was pretty much a breath of fresh air for me to even hear the song playing, especially because at the time I had lost faith in the Jamaican music scene. The mellow vibes of the song was what first hit me about the song, the slightly jazz feel, mixed with the a lover’s rock vibe created this kind of…atmosphere in my head, so that’s how the colour scheme and look of the artwork came into play at first.

I listened to the song over and over and learnt the lyrics so I could come up with a concept. The artwork takes the chorus into the main focus. The concept was to have a man looking perplexed by the multiple women in his life and how it’s affecting his main relationship. The ‘main woman’ in the background tears are manifested into the issue of these other women that are literally piled up in his head. “..that I tried the monogamy, but I couldn’t tek all the nagging in ma noggin..” I think that line basically sets the tone….which by the way is some sick word play…which happens a lot of course.