"Blood on the Fitting Room Floor," from the new album The Devil and the Deluge by New Haven-based hip-hop artists Kevlar Kohleone & DoSe, is a rumination…
that you want to create. and so i kind of think that way, rather than trying to meld things together or fuse things together, which for me feels like too contrived a way to think. and so, i mean, you saw there, there s different musicians and singers who were singing melodies that i created and some which actually borrowed from pakistani and indian traditions, going into brazilian traditions of flamenco, and so on, but all those things are music forms that influence me a great deal. so the music is unique and it s highly complex in some ways, because it s taking so much from so many different places. but also, it s complex in terms of the lyricism. i mean, it s difficult to tell from a short clip like that, but the beyond skin album is quite a deep, sort of, rumination on the impact of nuclear weapons
there are nato allies there that are worried. he talked about how they would send in troops to nato allies such as poland, et cetera. i mean, this rumination potentially has international results. yeah, i mean, i think that that s part of the problem is that hopefully it s not up to putin to determine what minor incursion means, right? i mean, the problem is that the words came out of the president s mouth, and then vladimir putin, who s looking for an excuse to do something, might take him up on that. and, you know, test the boundaries of what that means. but, i mean, i think what s also i think for the white house really frustrating right now, obviously, is that earlier today, things were actually looking pretty positive on this front. negotiations were actually going pretty well. and there was a sign that things had really cooled off. and now i think the people are anxious again. and as you pointed out, he was asked specifically about what happens if all of the nato allies that su