Nobody Can Afford This

Volume Two isn’t quite up yet. 🙂

**🔥 NEW RELEASE: NOBODY CAN AFFORD THIS — A PLANETARY PROTEST SUITE FOR A COUNTRY AT THE BREAKING POINT**

There are albums, and then there are warnings.
There are singles, and then there are survival tools.
Nobody Can Afford This is the latter — a multi‑genre, multi‑lineage, multi‑world protest suite from Protyus, the movement architect whose work is redefining what civic music can be.

This project isn’t a playlist.
It’s a living archive of how communities warn, rise, resist, and testify when systems fail them.

Across four core anthems — Nobody Can Afford This, Rise Up (Stand Up Hands Up), We the People, and I Told You So — Protyus builds a planetary soundscape that refuses borders, refuses hierarchy, and refuses to let anyone look away.

And each track exists in dozens of versions, spanning lineages from Boom Bap to barbershop‑dubstep accidents to global folk traditions to horrorcore to lullabies.
Because the crisis is universal — and so is the music.

🎤 THE FOUR ANTHEMS THAT ANCHOR THE MOVEMENT

1. Nobody Can Afford This

The thesis.
The warning.
The chant that became a prophecy.
A song about a system collapsing under its own cruelty — and the people forced to survive inside it.

2. Rise Up (Stand Up Hands Up)

The rallying cry.
A communal ignition point.
A reminder that resistance is a muscle, and communities know how to flex it together.

3. We the People

The reclamation.
A declaration that the civic imagination belongs to the public, not the powerful.
A reminder that democracy is a verb.

4. I Told You So

The reckoning.
The moment when ignored warnings become undeniable truth.
A lament, a curse, a dirge, a storm‑shanty, a Boom Bap prophecy — depending on which version you enter through.

Together, these four songs form a cycle of warning, uprising, reclamation, and revelation — the emotional arc of a nation in crisis and a people refusing to disappear inside it.

🌍 A PROJECT THAT REFUSES ARTIFICIAL BORDERS

Instead of dividing the music into “American” and “Global,” Protyus does something far more honest:
they treat America as the planetary convergence zone it has always been.

Every version — whether Afrobeat, Appalachian, Indigenous‑inspired, punk, gospel, EDM, or barbershop‑dubstep — is part of the same storm, the same lineage of warning, the same communal memory.

Alphabetical order becomes an act of resistance:
a refusal to rank cultures, genres, or emotions.
A refusal to replicate the hierarchies the music is fighting.

⚡ WHY THIS PROJECT MATTERS

Because Nobody Can Afford This isn’t just an album.
It’s a civic document.
A survival toolkit.
A planetary protest canon built for intergenerational use.

It’s music for town halls, marches, classrooms, living rooms, and late‑night moments when the truth finally hits.

It’s a reminder that the warnings were real.
The consequences are here.
And the people are still singing.