{"id":15537,"date":"2026-10-03T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/?p=15537"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:34:22","slug":"protoje-love-overflow-addis-girls-skate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/15537","title":{"rendered":"Protoje Films Love Overflow With Addis Girls Skate in Addis Ababa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/inbody-upload.jpg\" alt=\"Taxi stand and street traffic in Addis Ababa in October 2023\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A taxi stand on a busy street in Addis Ababa, October 1, 2023 (Ginevrajocosa88 \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0). This photo is not from Protoje\u2019s 2026 Love Overflow video shoot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Protoje has released the official video for \u201cLove Overflow,\u201d filmed in Addis Ababa with young women from Addis Girls Skate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dancehallmag.com\/2026\/09\/23\/news\/protoje-drops-love-overflow-music-video-filmed-in-addis-ababa-ethiopia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DancehallMag<\/a> says he spent a day skating through Ethiopia\u2019s capital with the Addis Girls Skate crew, and that the shoot was made possible through Ethiopia Skate. <a href=\"https:\/\/reggae.fr\/lire-news\/24919_202609_L-Ethiopie-comme-vous-ne-l-avez-jamais-vue-avec-Protoje.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reggae.fr<\/a> says he filmed for one day in the streets of the capital with the young skaters from the collective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dancehallmag.com\/2026\/09\/23\/news\/protoje-drops-love-overflow-music-video-filmed-in-addis-ababa-ethiopia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DancehallMag<\/a> names Samokush as the director and Fernando F. Hevia as the person who shot the film. In that account, Protoje describes \u201cunbridled fun and freedom through the eyes of these young Ethiopian ladies moving through their city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reggae.fr\/lire-news\/24919_202609_L-Ethiopie-comme-vous-ne-l-avez-jamais-vue-avec-Protoje.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reggae.fr<\/a> points to a line in the song that asks who is planting the trees, and says Protoje treats those trees as youth. The same piece says Ethiopia holds an important place in the world of the album, a point he discussed with <a href=\"https:\/\/reggae.fr\/lire-news\/24919_202609_L-Ethiopie-comme-vous-ne-l-avez-jamais-vue-avec-Protoje.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reggae.fr<\/a> in a spring interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove Overflow\u201d is on his seventh studio album, The Art of Acceptance. <a href=\"https:\/\/maddaroadmedia.com\/2026\/09\/30\/protoje-love-overflow-video-addis-ababa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madd A Road Media<\/a> says the album was released in April through In.Digg.Nation Collective under exclusive licence to Ineffable Records. <a href=\"https:\/\/ineffablerecords.bandcamp.com\/track\/love-overflow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ineffable Records\u2019 Bandcamp page<\/a> lists the album date as April 17, 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/maddaroadmedia.com\/2026\/09\/30\/protoje-love-overflow-video-addis-ababa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madd A Road Media<\/a> names Winta James, Ziah .Push, and Protoje as the producers of the song.<\/p>\n<p>The official video is on Protoje\u2019s YouTube channel under the title \u201cProtoje &#8211; Love Overflow (Official Video).\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='780' height='439' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WR7Q0plVn4U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A taxi stand on a busy street in Addis Ababa, October 1, 2023 (Ginevrajocosa88 \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0). This photo is not from Protoje\u2019s 2026 Love Overflow video shoot. Protoje has released the official video for \u201cLove Overflow,\u201d filmed in Addis Ababa with young women from Addis Girls Skate. DancehallMag says he spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sharing_disabled":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[2,4,735,420],"tags":[629,749,753,644,757,752,754,748,755,747,750,751,756],"class_list":["post-15537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-lifestyle","category-news","tag-addis-ababa","tag-addis-girls-skate","tag-ethiopia-skate","tag-ethiopian-culture","tag-in-digg-nation","tag-ineffable-records","tag-jamaican-reggae","tag-love-overflow","tag-music-video","tag-protoje","tag-reggae","tag-the-art-of-acceptance","tag-winta-james"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/featured-churchill-ave-addis-scaled.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9OJMY-42B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15542,"href":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537\/revisions\/15542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}