With Trump now all but manic, screaming at officials and constructing his own alternate reality about endless election conspiracies. Making matters even more dire, Milley was certain Trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election. Milley had witnessed up close how Trump was routinely impulsive and unpredictable. Li remained unusually rattled putting the two nations on the knife edge of disaster. When Milley hung up, he was convinced the situation was grave. It took an hour and a half, 45 minutes of substance due to the necessary use of interpreters to try to assure him. Quote, it took an hour and a half, 45 minutes of substance - excuse me.
We are 100 percent steady, everything is fine but democracy can be sloppy sometimes. Quote, but that`s the nature of democracy, General Li. Milley was trying to calm Li who he had known for years. Milley said in response, quote, things may look unsteady. Was the American superpower unstable? Was it collapsing? What was going on? Was the U.S. General Milley knew from extensive reports that Li and the Chinese leadership were stunned and disoriented by the televised images of the unprecedented attack on the American legislature. to his Chinese counterpart, General Li, chief of the joint staff of the People`s Liberation Army. Quote: Two days after the January 6th, 2021, violent assault on the United States Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, General Mark Milley, the nation`s senior military officer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, placed an urgent call on a top secret back channel line at 7:03 a.m. He doesn't want this to be about himself, he wants you to pay attention to the music.But the thing that is so bracing and nerve-wracking and important about this new book is what it reveals about how much worse it was than we knew, how much closer we came to real disaster than we have known before now. He channels life experiences - both his and others ("I sit down with you for like two days, you're gonna hear a song called 'Mano y Mano' ") - in his music, but the dividing line is unclear. His biggest influences are Kanye, Drake and Lil Wayne.There's a Westside Gunn duet that shouldn't work but does, there's a twangy Timbaland-produced number, there's "Silence" - which sounds like early Katy Perry - and, of course, "Rascal" to wrap things up.Īs to who he was and is - it'd be a lie to say RMR didn't reveal anything about life before the mask: His EP, released Friday and titled Drug Dealing Is A Lost Art, also hints at a genuinely promising pop-rap artist, the type that can craft smooth, regionless anthems without sinking into the greys of playlist fodder. No gimmicks here, except for maybe the Future and Lil Baby verses grafted onto its remix. A sumptuous slice of trap-n-B melodrama that wouldn't sound out of place on a Ty Dolla $ign record.
Though "Rascal" was unceremoniously taken off Apple Music and YouTube within the week over copyright grounds, it's back on streaming now (on YouTube, though, you can only find the video through third-party accounts).Ĭompared to "Rascal," RMR's second single, "Dealer," is a revelation. The attention shot RMR onto major-label watchlists and into the studio with production legends Timbaland and Mike Dean. It caught on at lightning speed in just days, racking up thousands of retweets, millions of views on YouTube and landing on countless blogs, breathlessly dubbing it one of the best songs of the year. Regardless of the influences or déjà vu, there's no denying that people were genuinely stunned by RMR's debut. It brings to mind the work of Tim Vocals, the Harlem singer who set 2011 Twitter ablaze with his syrupy street balladry. It's musical theater, parody, and/or genuine pain music, depending on how your eyes and ears are tuned. Rap aesthetics animating what is, essentially, a country ballad. RMR's video sets up a bizarre juxtaposition: crooning over the song's somber guitar in a black ski mask and Saint Laurent-branded bulletproof vest, toting a rifle, flanked by a posse also waving around guns. It's an interpolation of Rascal Flatts' " Bless The Broken Road," swapping out the original's shattered hearts and lovers' arms for hustling plugs and a "F**k 12" refrain.