Joe Tache’s U.S. Senate Campaign Drops an Album: Time's Up for the Billionaires
Time's Up for the Billionaires — a 13-track socialist Hip Hop album made by more than a dozen Massachusetts artists for the Joe Tache for U.S. Senate campaign — is out now on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music. More than 500 tickets were sold for the release party on Thursday, August 27th, at Artists For Humanity in South Boston. The record grew out of the campaign's "Sounds of a Socialist Future" event in April. Full lyrics for every track are published in full at this link.
[Boston, MA] — Time's Up for the Billionaires is out. It has thirteen tracks and features more than a dozen Massachusetts artists.
More than 500 tickets were sold for the album release party Thursday night at Artists For Humanity in South Boston, where the artists performed the record live for a room of supporters and volunteers.
The album is executive produced by Paul Willis and engineered by Joi Beatz, and features Jonathan Gramling, The Kid Kung Fu, Karim, Solmaria, MaceyOMaze, João Paulo, Sol E Soul, Messi Amaru'Khan, Terry Borderline, Erik Andrade, ÄNTI The Artist, Foundation Movement, and Javi. Javi is the youngest artist on the record – he raps on it and also produced a track for his father's group, Foundation Movement, whose last release came 20 years ago, just before Javi was born.
The songs are about the cost of living, housing, healthcare, the wars the United States funds abroad, and the pressure on Black and immigrant communities at home. They argue for a specific alternative: socialism, a system in which working and oppressed people hold power and the economy is planned to meet people's needs rather than to produce profit. The record makes that case in the tradition of Nina Simone, Sam Cooke, Public Enemy, dead prez, and Kendrick Lamar — as an argument for organizing, and for collective political action.
"This album both denounces the status quo and the situation we find ourselves in, but also proposes an alternative — and that's the alternative we're fighting for in our socialist campaign and our socialist movement," said Tache.
"All art is inherently political," said MaceyOMaze. "You've got to pick a side, or the sides will pick you — they'll take your narrative and they'll write it for you."
Listen and read along:
Bandcamp: tache4ma.bandcamp.com/album/times-up-for-the-billionaires
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/2hr833KAXx1JUeoPYEhLfE
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/times-up-for-the-billionaires/6802825849
Full lyrics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dLV0VY_J5f0YaTqn51sIZcHw5Qc5tXPw4T-5rkrVkVE/edit?tab=t.0
All streaming links, vinyl pre-order, and CDs: tache4ma.com/album
Joe Tache is running for U.S. Senate as a socialist with the Party for Socialism and Liberation. He is not a candidate in the September primary; he qualified for the November general election ballot after an all-volunteer effort collected more than 20,000 signatures in two weeks. The campaign takes no money from corporations or PACs.
Read more details about Joe's campaign at www.tache4ma.com.
For interviews with Joe Tache, executive producer Paul Willis, or any of the featured artists, contact Ben Gaudiosi at press@tache4ma.com or (617) 545-5359.
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