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Alethea (00:18):
yeah, hello, hello, hello.
And welcome back to In thePassenger Seat with your hype
girl, alethea Crimmins, where wedon't just ride, baby, we take
off those masks that I know thatsome of y'all still wearing.
Take that shit off.
Take that off.
We break boxes that people putyou in because, baby, we live
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outside the box.
Get outside of that box thatpeople have put you in because,
baby, we live outside the box.
Get outside of that box thatpeople have put you in.
We own who we are and we do itwhat Out loud.
Stop living for other peopleand start living for you.
Be yourself unapologetically.
Do not compromise who you arefor anybody.
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Baby, look, I am me.
I am me.
I am loud, I am bold, I have astutter and bitch.
I own each and every part ofwho I am, each and every part,
because it's mine.
It's me.
I am a loud, proud, beautifulgay for all y'all who did not
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know woman, and I own it, evenwhen people are uncomfortable
with who I am, even when peopledo not like who I am.
People talk about me on a dailybasis, but that doesn't stop me
from being me, because, at theend of the day, there's only one
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of me, nobody else can be me.
But our issue is that we want tobe cropping copies of people
that are less than us.
Oh wait, let me get out y'allbusiness.
But I'm going to say that onemore time Y'all want to be
carbon copies of people that areless than you.
(02:13):
Your identity is not up fordebate.
Your authenticity is asuperpower, baby.
You are a superhero, so go outthere and be a superhero.
All right, now we are in thepassenger seat and y'all know I
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am not by myself.
I am not by myself.
I have two people, not just one.
Two, honey, a dynamic duo, baby.
And when you talk about livingout loud, when you talk about
being who you are, when you talkabout I do not give a fuck if
you like me or not.
If you look up authenticity inthe dictionary, I'm sure that
(03:05):
you are going to find these twoBaby.
If you do not know who I'mtalking about, y'all gonna know
after today.
But let's get into this clip.
The Twins (03:21):
Yeah, oh, eat, eat, eat.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
This is no ad.
See a big wall.
That's a little beat.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, ohyeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
oh yeah.
Come and get this yum, yum,yummy.
You know I got that.
Yum yum, yummy.
You say you got cash and blowit.
(03:47):
I might show a little ass ifyou throw it and if you got that
money, then you get this yum,yum, yummy.
Alethea (03:54):
Let me introduce you to a dynamic duo dance floor
slayers, honey and champions forliving your truth out loud.
The Spellman twins Calvin and.
The Twins (04:05):
Clinton.
What's up?
Buh buh, buh buh buh, can weget this?
Yum yum, yummy.
Buh buh, buh, buh buh.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, I got that yum yum, yummy.
Yeah, we got cash and blow it.
The Twins (04:17):
I'm going to show a little ass if I throw it and if
you got that money, then you getthis yum, yum, yummy.
What's up?
No, I'm talking, I'm playingand you're not making stuff up.
Yes, I'm on the podcast.
Alethea (04:32):
Yes, oh, my God.
Look, I have been excited forpeople to be on this podcast,
but when I tell you I'm excitedthat you're on this podcast, no,
I'm hella excited.
Okay, first of all, I need toknow who is who.
Calvin (04:52):
Okay, I'm Calvin and I'm Clinton short-haired, Okay,
Calvin long hair.
Alethea (04:59):
Yes, Now y'all, you better not never cut your hair.
Oh I don't because, because,because, damn it, because
because don't have me go out,there wait calvin no, he has to
keep his hair one of y'all see,that's this.
(05:20):
This is like me, because peoplerecognize me because of my
signature hair, so I can'tchange it.
And I've tried to change it.
I've tried to wear my naturalhair and it's like so I have to
keep my signature hair and butsummertime is here so it's hot.
(05:46):
So you know my signature hair,like y'all be liking this, but
sometimes it get hot, so at somepoint I'm going to have to take
this hair off.
The Twins (05:59):
Okay, you just going to take it off like that?
Alethea (06:05):
Well, it's not mine bitch Fuck, I know, but I can
act like it is Like it is.
I thought it was.
See the tracks.
The Twins (06:18):
You see it, okay okay , okay, hold it, bitch.
Alethea (06:25):
I own everything about who I am.
This is one of the reasons whyI had to had to had to have you
on here, because you own who youare and it's like I don't give
a fuck, I don't care if youdon't like it.
You don't like it, you,somebody out there likes it and
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it shows because your fan baseis huge.
Thank you, it shows I.
I love that.
You are exactly who you are,exactly who you were meant to be
.
Yes, took a while, a while Outloud, and we're going to talk
about all that, but beforepeople knew Calvin and Clinton,
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before the music, before thefame, who were you?
Calvin (07:22):
Honestly, I would say we were very sheltered children.
I feel like we didn't.
Yeah, our parents wouldn't letus do anything.
It was always we were veryathletic.
We were very our parents when Isay parents, I mean more so my
dad and his girlfriend, becauseour mom was absent when we were
six, but or six until we wereadults, but anyway, we played
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sports all our life.
It was just school sports,school sports.
That's what people have knownus as athletes.
Alethea (07:50):
You could tell, because body yaddy, yaddy, yaddy, yaddy
yeah.
Calvin (07:56):
Now, mind you, we weren't just like oh, they play
sports, no, we did this.
So we played football.
Since we were six, we playedbasketball.
But when we got into highschool, we did this.
We played football.
Since we were six, we playedbasketball.
When we got into high school,we honed into track and we got
scholarships to run track incollege.
We didn't just do sports, baby,we did sports.
Alethea (08:16):
They didn't just play.
We didn't just play sports,honey.
We were sports, we Nike, wewere sports, we were sports, we
Nike'd that shit.
Yes.
Calvin (08:29):
And I want to let people know this because obviously
back then we weren't as like,loud and proud as we are now.
So people who see that side,they don't know that's how we
were back then, like we werereally athletes, like people
just see us as like creators andlike music, you know, but
people don't really know weactually really were really good
we did this like I was reallymaking to the championships
everything in track.
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We break school records like wewas in the field like don't let
this page fool you, bitch,because we'll still kill your
favorite athlete, duh so so,basically for for the ones in
the back that miss all of this,they are them they are them.
Alethea (09:11):
I'm going to be humble unless you do the honors because
, listen, because I ain't evengot to walk in with my two out
baby people.
People already know your namebefore you walk into the door.
Listen, my brother used to sell.
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He used to be one of thebiggest dope dealers and he
would always say dope sellitself Yep, I ain't gotta do
nothing.
Dope sell itself Yep, I ain'tgotta do nothing.
Don't sell itself.
Like I ain't even gotta leavemy house.
Yes, and that is what you give,like that is what you are, baby
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.
You sell you.
Calvin (10:00):
Period.
You actually just gave me asong idea for our next era them
or him or him.
Like we are him or them andlike you just gave me a song
idea okay, as long as I as Icould be a feature, because you
know, oh girl, do you want tohave, like, have a voice in it
or something?
Alethea (10:20):
like let me do something, like y'all heard it.
Like let me do something.
The Twins (10:24):
Y'all heard it.
Alethea (10:24):
Let me do something.
Oh no, we're going to need yourinspirational voice today.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Oh, bro Watch this.
Calvin (10:31):
Oh, you think I'm dead.
I'm not joking.
Alethea (10:34):
I'm telling you right.
The Twins (10:34):
When do I?
Alethea (10:35):
need to book a flight.
It's all I'm asking.
Calvin (10:40):
Either book a flight or get a session.
But, girl, we're going to makeit happen.
So y'all hear that first handfrom Spelman Twins.
We're having a future collab onthe way.
Alethea (10:50):
Okay, okay, okay, because I'm ready.
You're going to eat, we'regoing to eat, because what is
four plus four Bitch?
I think it means eight, twoplus six.
Eight, nine minus one bitch.
I think it means 8, what's 2plus 6, 8, 9 minus 1, 8 cause,
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that's all we gonna do duh.
You see, that wasn't my thingfor a second cause I was like
come on, twins, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, get
it, get it, get it, come on,come on.
I had to come on, get it, getit, get it, come on.
Calvin (11:26):
No, because I had to catch it.
I said six minutes.
That wasn't my brightest suit,okay For me.
I was trying so hard not to usemy hand.
Six I suck at math.
I am not.
I was too on the spot, though Iwasn't prepared for that, but I
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had to lock in.
Alethea (11:48):
I'm going to have to send y'all look, we're going to
do math in this next episode.
Calvin (11:55):
We're going to do math bitch, I haven't done math for a
long time.
All I know is that you wastrying to say eight for
everything.
I was like, okay, I caught on.
Alethea (12:04):
Bitch, eight, eight, eight.
What's the square root of eight?
Eight Y'all have such anelectric energy and like it's
not just because y'all twins.
Y'all twins, like y'all justshare some dope ass life
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experiences together and noteverybody has that.
How did your early life shapewhat we see now, the bold,
resilient, fine ass men that wesee right now?
Calvin (12:46):
I'm gonna have them answer first and then I'll
answer okay, I think it's whathappened was when it was a time
where, like, uh, I got caughtcoming like talking to people,
like when I was younger and mydad found out I was gay, and I
think that's kind of where itkind of shaped where we are,
because we kind of like ran awayfrom home.
Not kind of we did.
We went away from home at 17and then it was always just us
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and then just going in fromthere, we were always together,
like wherever we went.
I think it's deeper than that,though.
I think for for us, I think forme, I can speak for myself my
boldness and proudness of who Iam, it comes from like our dad
was, like he wouldn't let melike dance, like I couldn't do
dance classes.
I couldn't.
He always wanted to do sports,sports, sports, and it was
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always like we had to obey themand everything was gay.
Yeah, and again, I mean sobecause during our childhood, it
was mainly our dad and hisgirlfriend, so we weren't able
to, I wasn't able to be myself.
Constantly Say, if we say wegot in trouble at school and it
was false information, I wasn'table to like voice, like the
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correction, so I was alwayssilenced is the word all my life
.
So I think now I think where mypersonality comes from is for
being silenced for so long as akid and not be able to speak how
I speak.
It carried to my adulthood, soI think that's where it I'm
known for a fact.
That's why I am the way I amtoday.
Alethea (14:09):
That is a story that so many of us in the queer
community can relate to, like Iknow for me Definitely can.
And how do you, how did you notlose who you were through all
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of this?
Because there was a time whereI faked the funk, like I had to
fake it to make it.
I had to fake it to make it.
So how did you not loseyourself through all of this?
Because I'm sure that there issomebody out here watching that
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feels the rejection of theirfamily right now, like they've
been dis disowned by people whosay that they love them
unconditionally.
So how do you, how do you notlose your yourself dealing with
all of this?
Calvin (15:10):
I think for us, I think at this point in our life, I
think not losing ourself wouldstem for us wanting to succeed
and prove that we could do thislife without you.
We don't need you in our life.
I think, now that the stuff weworked on I just give you some
little I'm going to hype myselfup real quick Little milestones.
My brother and I decided to hopon social media in 2018.
(15:31):
We got on TikTok in 2017.
Created a big following fromthere.
We also just graduated,december 2023.
We went through college alone,alone, no help, and we graduated
in six years.
Took us six years, but we didit.
We were.
We got a scholarship to runtrack uh, d1, mind you, a D1
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scholarship.
Then what happened recently?
Oh, we're about to uh, we'reabout to get our master's in
social work to be at LCSW, allby ourselves so.
I'm just gonna hype myself up.
So to answer your question,what keeps us from being, you
know, to losing ourselves is towant to succeed, because we want
to prove our parents when wehit them fucking stages, because
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the Spelman twins are going tobe on the motherfucking stage.
You're going to know our nameand then when you see us on TV,
then people are going to be likeoh, those are your kids and you
don't look fucking dumb becauseyou want to be homophobic this
is what I always say like.
Alethea (16:28):
I'm very much driven like you because I no longer
have a relationship with myfamily either.
I have my chosen one that Ichose myself, but my biological
family I do not have arelationship with, and for the
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longest time, my focus was toprove them wrong.
Now, now that's no longer myfocus.
Why?
Because when you try to provethem wrong, it still makes it
about them.
Calvin (17:05):
Yeah, exactly.
Alethea (17:06):
So now I want to prove me right.
Calvin (17:11):
Yes, yes, yes, and I think that's where we're at too
at this point.
It's not so to prove.
When I say prove them wrong,it's more like I'm going to
prove to myself that we can doit, because I don't think about
them on the daily, I thinkRecently.
I'm thinking of how the fuckwe're going to get to Brazil and
do this feature that we got.
I'm thinking about how we'reabout to be on the next stage.
I'm trying to think about howcan we get this deal.
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I'm trying to think how can weget our name out there more.
That's what I'm thinking about.
The Twins (17:37):
I ain't thinking about them because, they over
here and we over here, Girl, youtaught me something.
You taught me something we werestudying girl.
Alethea (17:47):
Because they over here and bitch we over here.
Calvin (17:52):
Use that one.
Use that one and you know what,also helps us a lot too, I
think, since, like I said, wewere very sheltered.
We want to prove to ourselvesthat we could.
You know, we got thrown intothe world.
I ran away when I was 17, so itwas crazy.
It was crazy um, we're alwaysgoing to deep, uh dive into that
, but it's like we had to growup with, we grew up with each
(18:14):
other and we keep ourselves incheck.
I feel like we're our ownparents.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah I love that we're our own parents.
Calvin (18:20):
we really are like we don really talk about that, but
we technically are each other'sparents Because, like something
like I'll do, I'll be like bitch, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And I'll be like what are you doing?
Calvin (18:28):
So we really parent each other.
It's weird to say, but we do.
Alethea (18:34):
No, it's really not, because you have become not only
your own best friend, but eachother's, and you hold each other
accountable.
Yes, and that that's that'ssomething that we don't have,
but by you holding each otheraccountable, you also hold
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yourself.
Yes, okay it.
It makes you more self selfaware of what you have going on,
and that's so important,because a lot of times, we don't
do that, and I love how yourvalidation does not come from
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anything outside of what youhave going on right here, from
anything outside of what youhave going on right here.
Your validation is not in theoutside world, your validation
is not from him, because youdon't have that daddy issues.
He had issues being a daddy, sothat's different.
That's different.
(19:39):
And you don't go outsidebecause so many people I'm
talking about me when you don'tget that validation from home,
you go out there and you seek ityeah, that's true, that's true
because it's something that younever had.
Yeah, and the fact that you left, but you left with a mission.
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Like you, you didn't just leave, like you didn't just run away
and then was like okay, what thefuck I'm gonna do now.
Like you ran away with amission, you ran away with a
goal, you left saying I am goingto not and our verbiage is so
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important because you didn't sayoh, oh well, I hope that
something works, I hope thatsome.
No, you left with the mindset Idon't give a fuck what.
I am going to make somethingout of my self just for that
alone.
Like Hair flip on them holes,hair flip on them holes Because
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you did this, you did this.
Calvin (20:56):
We've lived so many.
I feel like we've livedmultiple lives.
If you go back in time, itwasn't that long ago.
Like it's so weird, like itreally wasn't.
The Twins (21:06):
It feels like we like 2017 was only around the corner
.
Calvin (21:09):
Yeah, yeah, dang, and like I feel like.
So I feel like our parents likekind of knew in a sense we'll
be fine, because I'm really likethe rebellious twin like I
really I am.
I'm very rebellious like,especially when we live with
them.
I kind of, as I got, I kind ofstarted voicing myself a little
bit, no matter whether I got hitfor it, but um yeah that's why
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I ran away, even though I ranaway.
I ran away Cause our dad foundout the night of us being gay,
but I ran away Cause I knew likeour life would be over with and
he was why waste my time anyfurther?
Right?
So I ran away that night.
I ran away that night and, yeah, I actually didn't have a plan,
it was just so spontaneous.
I literally left with nothing.
I just was like I already had aplan where I was going to do
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like, go to like Reading and seemy mom, but I did have a
mission to succeed at the end ofthe day, like I knew, like, oh,
even though I'm going out herein the world, even though I'm
going out here in the world, Istill am a go-getter.
Alethea (22:02):
We're going to get it, no matter what.
I love that mindset though.
Calvin (22:07):
I feel like it's hard to have that mindset though.
So anyone watching you kind ofhave to constantly hype yourself
up.
You do Because I think recentlywe were kind of down about
something, but then we had toremember I like the struggle.
I kind of like it because whenyou get to the top it's like
then, then what?
So like you're like, okaybecause I, because, like you
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know, just because you have thetop don't mean they're happy,
right.
Alethea (22:30):
so, oh, it's true yeah it's true listen, because some,
some, some people look looks canbe deceiving, because some
people look happy way up therebut they're not really happy
because what it's what successmeans to them, exactly it's what
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their level of success means tothem.
Like I could be way at the topand still not happy because I
haven't reached what I think.
But sometimes it's not ourlevel, it's other people.
So we we are constantly tryingto reach a level of success that
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is not unattainable.
Yeah, Cause me, me being able toquit my job and do what I love
full time bitch.
I am successful bitch.
I am successful in my eyes meleaving a job doing what I love,
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never missing a meal, nevermissing a bill, being able to
take care of well, let me notlie, in case my wife is watching
.
My wife does take care of me,but I do help, bitch, I do help,
(24:01):
I do help, I do help.
Calvin (24:06):
So being able to help take care of my wife and kids
like that is success yes, Iagree, and you know there's a
quote that makes me happy, thatI think about when I'm like down
, you know what you give me theenergy and a lot of people do.
That's successful.
You're not the moment, you'rethe movement.
Does that make sense?
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You're not the moment amovement, you don't know because
?
Alethea (24:32):
because moments last like this yeah, two seconds.
Calvin (24:37):
a movement is a lifetime and Exactly, and I feel like
Because they are still talkingabout Martin Luther King.
Alethea (24:48):
Exactly he was the movement.
They are still talking aboutHarriet Tubman.
They were a movement.
They were a movement.
The Twins (24:56):
And for us.
Calvin (24:57):
I want to be a movement, not a fucking moment.
No, you will be.
We have a story to tell.
We're gay, we're black, we'reloud, we're proud, and we want
to inspire other black peoplelike that.
You could be yourself, nomatter what.
Even if you have a homophobicfather or parents, you can still
be successful.
We are a testament of that.
So don't ever let nobody tellyou that you cannot be
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successful.
Black, gay, proud, and still doyou Bitch.
We up right now.
All of our people of color areup right now.
We got the movie Sinners Rightnow.
We got some hot artists comingright now.
Black people are winning rightnow.
We winning.
Alethea (25:36):
And we're going to keep winning Period.
I just have to end that becauseit was like period.
Yes, so how has like?
So I read your bio and it saidthat music was your escape.
(25:58):
That's how you.
It was your safe space, Right,but now it's become your
platform.
The Twins (26:09):
Yeah which is so weird.
Alethea (26:11):
How has owning your identity, identity publicly
through your music, changed notjust your lives but the lives of
your fans?
Because fans are watching, theyare listening, they know your
story, so how has has thatchanged?
Calvin (26:35):
um, well, I can just say this about you think I think
like our music is very I mean,as you can see, it's bold, like,
if you see the visuals and likewhat we do and what we
represent, we I actually justsaw a comment the other day.
Some guy was like I like this,the love this generation, how
y'all just don't give a fuckabout nothing, and I love it.
And when you meet says thatlike we don't give a fuck about
other people's opinions.
So I think that us being boldand like what we do in our
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visuals, like our our musicvideo coming soon, the Yum Yum
music video.
Wait till you see the musicvideo.
Yum Yum music video coming May9th, next week.
Alethea (27:11):
Bitch, because what I saw, all that challenges all
your documents.
You haven't seen nothing.
Calvin (27:21):
It's music video next week, so stay tuned.
But look, I think that our boldrepresentation of what we do is
kind of like why I feel likepeople are gravitating towards
our sound.
I think we've made some reallygood.
We've been meeting a lot ofpeople in the industry that are
like we.
Like to meet people with energyright, Like you, for example.
I don't care how big somebodyis If we don't mess.
(27:43):
We ain't working or we?
I don't want to know you Right,I don't give a fuck.
Shivers don't mean shit to us.
We be with people who got amillion, 10 million followers.
Girl, I don't give a fuck.
Duh Sex.
You're just one person, afollower.
Don on followers.
That don't make you Like wehave followers too bitch.
I love everyone that support us.
(28:04):
I don't want to say followers,supporters, people that support
you.
You got to treat those peoplegood too.
Like, if I look up to someoneand you have no energy, girl,
I'm not working with you.
Alethea (28:15):
Like people really do have the idea, which I love that
for me, but people think thatbecause I do what I do, that I'm
bigger than what I am right.
It's like that that I knowexactly what you mean at the end
(28:35):
of the day, bitch, I'm me like,if, if you look in the back, I
live in an apartment.
Bitch, I drive a Ford Fusion.
Bitch like I am regular dangly.
Calvin (28:53):
But I am one of one, exactly.
Alethea (28:58):
I am one of one.
We're just alike.
Calvin (29:01):
Look, look, we have a Ford and we also have a nissan
altima.
Um, let's see, we also.
We're family support counselorstoo.
I don't know if nobody knowsthat, but we also are.
Yeah, I'm a counselor.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
It's weird which doesn't really make sense
because our energy.
Calvin (29:15):
But no, no, no it does.
It transpires in my fieldbecause I, because I break a lot
of my cases.
So trust me, it transpires.
I do want to say because youlive in an apartment that does
not mean anything.
The biggest people live inapartments because houses is a
lot of maintenance.
Alethea (29:35):
And I can't do it.
I'm just, we have to know ourlane and stay in it, and
sometimes that be the issue.
Y'all want to jump lanes bitch.
I'm not trying to wreck, so I'mgoing to stay in my lane and my
lane is.
I know that.
(29:55):
I don't want to pay nobody tofix my roof, thank you.
Calvin (30:01):
I'm going to call the maintenance man and they come
and fix it yes, yes, and yousave and you get to make your
money doing what you love travel, do whatever you want, because
a house don't.
Or a house or apartment because, like I said, people got houses
and mansions and are theyfucking happy.
Alethea (30:15):
No, and this is what people have.
Anybody who is listening rightnow?
Stop letting people tell youwhat success should look like.
Stop letting people tell youwhat your success should look
like.
You are the author of your ownstory.
(30:36):
Stop letting people writechapters in your book.
It's yours, so why are youallowing other people to come
and tell you how to write yourshit?
Calvin (30:47):
Exactly Caught that motherfucking skia.
Alethea (30:51):
Make that make sense.
Yeah, like this is your life,it belongs to you.
You have literally beenrejected.
This basically thrown away bypeople who say that they love
you.
That does not make you any lessvaluable.
(31:15):
You, you went from that toperforming at prides, to like
being on stages.
You about to have a whole musicvideo out here in these
people's streets yes, true yes,like you, that it doesn't matter
(31:36):
who who is not.
It doesn't matter how broken,what people try to break you,
because they may bruise you, butthey ain't gonna never break
you, baby, they ain't gonnanever break you.
And even in your brokenness,what I know and understand as a
(32:01):
former pre-k teacher, I had alot of broken crayons in my
classroom and each one of thembitches still colored.
So it does not matter.
It does not matter.
It does not matter.
Baby, you can still be brokenand be a masterpiece, you still
(32:24):
have value and you are thewalking talking like movements.
That says exactly that.
Calvin (32:34):
Yep, and I tell people all the time.
I tell people, I motivatepeople, I tell them like I feel
like if I didn't go through whatI went through in my life, it
would not.
I wouldn't be where I am today.
I tell people you turn yournegativity into a positive like,
oh yes, I feel like no, I feellike everybody has a story.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
You want your story like to reflect who you are as a
person but you don't want thatto be the excuse you don't want
to be an excuse why you can't dosomething you have a story, but
let your story be.
Calvin (33:00):
it be a lesson, not an excuse to why you're the way you
are, if you're successful.
Alethea (33:07):
Run that back because somebody, somebody going to
catch that next week and I needthem to catch it now.
Ok, one more time.
Calvin (33:18):
I said don't use your success as a don't use that why
a bad situation as an excuse.
Use that as a success story.
Alethea (33:27):
Okay, so stop, what, what, what, what he's saying?
Because, because he, he's, he's, he's saying it, nice, but, but
, but, but, y'all know me, Idon't, I don't, I don't play
that.
Yeah, translate it for me.
Making excuses just becauseyou're going through some bad
(33:48):
shit right now does not meanthat that bad shit will be going
on for the rest of your life.
Stop using that one thing as.
Oh well, you know, since Ididn't make it, I ain't gonna
never make it, because last time, bitch, that was yesterday.
She sounded like Jocelyn whenshe said that that was yesterday
(34:12):
.
Today is what you make it, sowhat are you going to make your
today?
Thank you.
What are you going to make yourtoday?
Calvin (34:22):
Because no one's waiting on you While this person, while
you depressed this person overhere, about one step closer to
fame.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Why you over here?
Calvin (34:32):
depressed.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Nobody waits for you, Unfortunately no one waiting
for us Cause we seen itfirsthand.
Calvin (34:37):
Ain't no one waiting for us?
We went through psychosis.
We're in the hospital.
For three weeks we losteverything we had and nobody.
People who dropped us offbecause we were weren't them
bitches.
I guess you could say we lostour notoriety, but bitch we
bounced back.
Alethea (34:54):
So where you at now, bitch ignore, that's where you
at.
So.
So what was when you say youlost everything, like everything
?
Calvin (35:00):
well.
So we lost our apartment, welost our job, lost our job.
We had working.
We went to uh psychiatric forthree weeks.
So people don't know thatbecause I don't know what
happened.
But we went to la, we went toan event and whatever happened
there, I guess we kind of Ithink our brain was like
overstimulated or something,because we also got kicked off
the track team during that,during that time.
So we had to drop out yeah, wedropped out of school too and we
(35:23):
had no money, so we losteverything and so, luckily, we
had this is 2019 yeah.
So I think that's and that's abig.
2019 was a big awakening for usand how we who we really are
today, cause we learned the fake.
We learned who the snakes are,we know when someone's loose,
and we learned like like.
That's when we learned aboutlike, cause we were 19 when this
(35:44):
happened.
I thought we were very young.
I'm happy it happened to us,though, because it helped us
navigate the social media worldin the industry, because people
are hella fake.
People didn't have our back,like they said they did.
They turned on us like weliterally had nobody, and nobody
waited for us either, like.
So that's why I always saynobody waits for you and nobody
feels really sorry for you.
So you gotta do things, yougotta you gotta make it your on
(36:06):
your own, and luckily we again.
We always had each other, so soit's easy to bounce back faster
?
Alethea (36:12):
yeah, I guess, but you're like y'all are the
billboard of.
It's not about the fall, it isabout the rise thank you it's
not about the fall, becausepeople, yes, they will watch you
fall, but they really want tosee how you get up.
(36:32):
Yep, they really want.
Oh yeah, yes, yeah, they fell,but let me watch them now, let
me see how they get up.
Calvin (36:42):
Yeah, yeah, that's what people want to see.
Alethea (36:45):
Even your haters are watching how you get up.
Oh, that's for real.
Calvin (36:49):
Oh, they are all the time People will always be in
our comment section or DM.
Someone texted us.
They're like talking about afuck y'all.
My brother sent a littlekissing emoji.
We thought I was going to bemad.
Alethea (36:59):
He said well, there's, there's a reason there's.
So, for all of your haters thatare watching, for all of your
haters that are watching, let mejust tell you why you have
haters, because I know that someof your haters are watching
(37:22):
right now.
Hi, how are you?
Yeah, I look cute, Thank you.
So haters y'all haters standsfor having anger towards
(37:43):
everyone reaching success.
That's why y'all mad at my boysright here.
Oh, I'm using that.
Calvin (37:47):
I'm using that.
That's a song title right there.
Alethea (37:51):
That's why y'all mad, because y'all have anger towards
everybody reaching success,because y'all not at that level
yet.
The Twins (37:59):
Yep.
Alethea (38:00):
Aww.
The Twins (38:02):
Aww, wait, I need that, I need that, I need that.
Calvin (38:11):
Go ahead and take it.
We need to get our next songbecause we need your motivating
quotes in the songs thank you.
Alethea (38:19):
Listen how?
Because y'all, y'all'sconfidence in who you are and
just living out loud is soinspiring to me.
And people ask me all the timeand you are exactly what I am
about to say, and after this Ineed to get y'all's shirt sizes.
(38:43):
So people ask me well, how didyou get so bold and so confident
?
Three letters F-T-P.
Fuck them people Because I donot care.
Calvin (39:05):
It's facts, though, like you literally have to.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cutyou off, but it's true.
Like I think, when we came outin 2022, 2021, we came out on
national coming out day.
It was a weird moment for us.
We were like we.
I was like we're tired ofhiding who we are, like it's
like it's not.
People are following us, butthey don't know who we really
are.
Then that's when you, once youcome, once you come out and be
(39:27):
yourself, regardless if you'regay, straight, whatever and once
you become yourself, that shittranspires to the world.
And once we came out, our lifechanged from there, literally.
Once we came out and we decidedto be who we are in bold, you
can't care about what otherpeople are saying to you when we
go out in public and stuff.
We still respect it.
That's the funny part.
We even got the straight peoplecoming up to us and be like
(39:49):
y'all dope, y'all be doing this,and that we had an interview
with the probably moststraightest people ever for DJs.
We had a DJ call.
All straight, they were fuckingwith it.
So it's like it's your energy.
It's not about because you'regay.
This it's not about that.
It's about the person.
People don't care about ifyou're gay or not, it's how you
carry yourself.
(40:10):
So how you carry yourself whenyou're bold and you're in your
truth, that's when people fuckwith you.
Because people can spot fakeauthenticity.
Because I can, he can, I canspot a snake a mile away.
I'm like a hawk, I can spot mydinner a mile away.
Like I can see.
The Twins (40:29):
Someone's out there right now.
Calvin (40:30):
Social media don't play about that fake shit, what you
see right now, social mediadon't play about that fake shit,
what you see right now.
What you see right now is howme and my brother act 24-7
Because people.
Alethea (40:41):
They ask me Is this a game?
No, I knew you, we know this isme, all day, all night, 24-7.
I wake up like this, I wake uplike this, and I woke up like
this, like this is me.
And people some people do notlike who I am because they're
(41:04):
like oh, but she's loud, well,she's this.
Well, who asked you?
Because I don't care.
Because what they eat don'tmake me shit.
Calvin (41:15):
So guess what?
There's a lot of quotes on here.
Alethea (41:18):
I'm using Like I'm going to wake up and be exactly
who I am tomorrow, Like it's notgoing to change.
Other people's opinions don'tmatter, because opinions are
like assholes Everybody has oneand some of them are full of
shit, so it doesn't matter.
Calvin (41:38):
Oh, you A.
The Twins (41:41):
It doesn't matter.
Alethea (41:46):
I love y'all so fucking much Wait we can't forget
what's your Zodiac sign.
Gemini.
Calvin (41:58):
You know, what's funny?
Alethea (41:58):
Wait, wait, wait.
Calvin (41:59):
Okay, I will say Gemini do have a bad rep, but for some
reason Pisces and Gemini makegood friends, okay.
The Twins (42:07):
Okay so we good on that.
Alethea (42:10):
So, like, what you're saying is like we gonna be
besties.
Um, what I'm saying is like,are we going to be besties?
What I'm saying is die the fuck.
Calvin (42:23):
That's how I be feeling.
When you be talking on the,when you go to the videos Like
girl, I said please, y'all.
I mean I love, I'm so glad thatwe found each other because I
need some more motivational shit.
You be having me like, if I'mdown, yo, when I'm down, when I
be seeing those videos, I'm like, oh bitch, I'm happy again.
Like I remember, I commentedthe other day on one of the
posts.
I was like oh, you can yell atme, yes.
Alethea (42:44):
I'm like I love and bitch, I would like.
I tried, because people,because sometimes the shit gets
to your head and like you like,well, do I scream a lot, like do
I?
So I tried to be in my likeTabitha Brown era where I was
(43:08):
like, okay, guys, like you know,and because we're going to have
a good day, I don guys, likeyou know, and because we're
gonna have a good day and I waslike I can't fucking do this,
like that's not even who I am,like you know what bitch.
If you do not like me,unsubscribe, bitch.
(43:32):
Your seven day free trial is up.
Calvin (43:37):
Unsubscribe people are so hypocritical on social media
like we.
So like obviously we're gay, solike we're gonna post gay
things and like we have like ahell of like we still got
followers, but like hell ofpeople like unfollowed us.
Um, it was like because we wentfrom like 121 000 to 115,
because we started like we justbeen ourselves, but like we
(43:59):
wouldn't follow.
It's like y'all knew what y'allwere looking at.
So what are you confused for?
Let it be a female, though.
Y'all all over that.
But because I'm being me, youhave an issue.
But, like, again, I'm happythough, because the those people
who fell off y'all weren't myreal supporters.
You were fake as fuck.
So I purposely do things forpeople to unfollow me because
(44:19):
the people who fuck with us aregonna stay.
Like all we do is monitor ourbusiness posts.
It's my fucking page, you don'thave to watch me.
Alethea (44:27):
So, bitch, get the fuck on followers don't mean shit,
and for every one person thatunfollows me, 10 more people
every day, and they do, and theydo and they do.
The Twins (44:41):
And they what?
Alethea (44:42):
and they do I love y'all so much wait wait, wait,
let me, okay, wait, I gotta getback to my Sorry.
Calvin (44:57):
I know it's hard, so fucking hard bitch.
Alethea (45:00):
I know we bring it out people, I forget we be bringing
people out, like if y'all arelistening, like some of y'all
are watching, so y'all can seethe like vibe Y'all can see.
But for those of y'all who arelistening, like I am sitting
(45:23):
here trying to contain myselfBecause if, like, if you can see
them like they are, you are, Ijust want to reach into my.
Come here, whoa.
The Twins (45:39):
Here I am the bug.
Alethea (45:40):
Let's come here, like I want to book if I like like
today, yes, I want to see your.
Calvin (45:51):
The energy will be so low, so low.
We'll be so loud like, yes, no,I want to see your the energy
will be too.
Alethea (45:55):
Yeah, so, though, so though, okay, so let's jump into
your music, because your musichas just as much energy as you
do.
So what?
What you call this is brazilianfunk.
Calvin (46:13):
It's like a high it's like element, so the sound and
the beat is like they're.
They're funk inspired, but ithas a lot of like pop.
It's really pop and like andhip-hop vibes, but it's funk.
The beats are usually brazil.
We make our beats with ourfriend and the.
When we get, when we make thebeat together, it's like funk,
so it's brazilian.
It's infused also with liketrap.
I don't know if you ever hearlike beat together.
(46:33):
It's like funk, so it'sBrazilian, infused Also with
trap.
I don't know if you ever hearthe bass.
The Twins (46:36):
It has a spirit.
Calvin (46:37):
We start with the funk beat like a bass, and then we
add trap, hip-hop and popelements to it.
It's weird.
We have a weird.
Alethea (46:47):
But it works.
The Twins (46:48):
It works.
Alethea (46:49):
So let's talk about Yum , yum.
Oh yeah, because they are.
It works so let's talk aboutYum Yum.
Oh yeah, because like they aremore than just bops, like Yum
Yum, pom Pom De Niro, oh girlshe's been studying.
The Twins (47:06):
The song ain't out yet.
Calvin (47:07):
She's studying the song Pom Pom and De Niro ain't out
yet, but it's about to be out,it's about to be Bitch.
I do my research.
Bitch, yeah, clearly, clearly.
This girl, that's crazy.
Alethea (47:21):
Like they're more than just like bops.
Your music gives peoplepermission to take up space To
just exist as they are.
Was that the like?
(47:44):
Was that your intention whenlike putting this album together
?
Calvin (47:52):
You want to know the backstory behind the album.
Yes, tell her the backstory ofwhat.
The Twins (47:57):
The album we're working on.
Calvin (47:58):
Okay, it's how we be acting too, I'm like what's up?
I mean I was going to say get toit.
You have to tell me that.
What was the damn question?
Uh, like our album.
That's why one thing about me Iforget I have to say.
(48:20):
That's why I think, when hetalks sometimes, because I
forget I got you the intentionof our album.
Okay, that's your, our music.
(48:41):
In the past I feel like.
So, when we performed our prideevents last, like I think it
was two years ago, the music wasnot, honestly, it's good music,
but like it was boring toperform to me.
So, okay, I told me my brother,we're like, okay, this can
never happen again.
So, like, the music we make hasto reflect our personality.
Because if you see even ourskits of these, our skits, our
music, it all reflects how meand my brother really act like
(49:04):
and it matches our energy.
And so we want to make sure,like this upcoming album and
like even yum yum to be ananthem of like, uh, any like of
our community.
People can just come and eventhough the Yum Yum's kind of
vulgar, it should not matter.
It should be about the energyof what it brings.
It should give you feel gooddance, it should make you want
to twerk the song Yum Yum.
If you don't want to twerk whenyou hear the song, forget the
(49:27):
lyrics.
If you don't want to twerk tothat beat, if're not trying to
do that if you ain't trying todo that with the lyrics.
Did you hear that boom, boom?
That's what we want you to do.
We want you to throw it back,yes and then.
So we want our album to giveenergy.
(49:49):
So, like our album.
The name I haven't evenannounced the name, but I guess
it's gonna be the first I'mgonna announce the album name.
It's called exclusive.
So yeah, so the album toucheson like money, partying, fun,
sex, um, so exclusive.
So it's actually exclusive withit's exxx, because you know
like it's just like yeah, soit's like explicit, so it shows
(50:12):
like sex unfiltered raw Spellmantwins.
So yeah, so y'all hearing it now.
The album name is Exclusive.
That's the name of it.
Alethea (50:22):
Exclusive.
Yes, okay, so we got the albumname first.
Yes you did.
Calvin (50:31):
Yeah, that's how well you deserve the album name.
The Twins (50:33):
You opened that up for us, so.
Calvin (50:36):
Exclusive.
Alethea (50:38):
Because XXX.
Yes, so for all of y'all thatneed to know or that do not know
what XXX means, type it intoyour Google.
No, I'm sorry.
The Twins (50:58):
No but yes, and watch what pop up.
Alethea (51:01):
Yeah, people, uh, um 17 and lower, don't look so I'm,
I'm, I'm just letting y'all knowthat if y'all don't know what
XXX means, type it into yourGoogle search bar and watch what
pops up.
Calvin (51:19):
Yeah, at your own dispense.
Yeah, just be prepared.
Alethea (51:25):
Yeah, yeah.
Calvin (51:28):
Like I said, though, that's where it comes from.
We want to make music Honestly.
We want to have music where wecan dance to on stage and turn
up a crowd, and I feel like wedo a good job doing that, so I
think mission was accomplishedwhen it came to this album.
Alethea (51:39):
Yeah, because I have never and this is a compliment
in every sense of the word LikeI have never heard a more openly
gay song, and I fucking love it, I love it.
(51:59):
I was like, ooh, this is gay,gay, gay, gay it's so weird to
hear people like our music.
Calvin (52:06):
People say like they like it.
I still get like shocked, likepeople like our music.
So in hearing someone say thatlike still, it's just like what?
Because it'd be different ifpeople were like, oh, y'all's
stuff is trash, why y'alldropping stuff?
But people actually nowadaysthey'd be like we're not
dropping, we're not dropping,they don't care about skits.
Because we don't really makeskits anymore, really like that,
(52:27):
because we dove into year andwe're like we don't want to just
be comedians like I don't wantto do that we're.
I think we're entertainers ifanything.
Yes, yeah, entertainers.
Like we can go host clubs anddo stuff like that but and make
music.
But I don't think we're full-on, can be.
Alethea (52:41):
I don't want to be a comedian yeah, no, because
because you're don't, don't putyourself into, to to a box,
which is, which is somethingthat I do not have to tell y'all
.
Calvin (52:52):
Yeah, and also I don't want to be known as a gimmick,
because we're more than justwe're very like.
Yes, we are very fun to bearound, but I feel like we're
also inspiring and we actuallyare serious, we are serious
about all of our craft, likewhat we do.
The seriousness of it is like wewant to have fun and it's a
message behind it, regardless,like even though it's not like a
motivational or like sad songwhere you can relay a message.
(53:14):
It still is a message, though,because for our community to be
happy and loud and proud whenthey do listen to our music and
we are very we motivate peopleum, even like we're more than
just the funny, like we havelots of layers to me, to us so
like it's all a wholeentertainment personality that's
what I say.
It's a mixture of everythinglike you said, don't same.
Yeah, you're funny, but youalso entertain, like you say.
(53:37):
You're really really like yeahyou are funny.
But like also, when you can getserious people can.
I'm like people, I'm sure knowthey can look to you for
motivation yeah, thank you yeah,I do oh well.
Alethea (53:51):
Well, speaking of motivation, we have come to one
of my favorite segments of thepodcast, ask aletheia, where I
take questions from my listenersand we answer them on my
podcast.
(54:11):
So this question that I haveasked Alethea.
It says Alethea, I've beentrying to live authentically,
but every time I do, I losepeople, families, friends, even
relationships.
How do you keep choosing youwhen it costs you people that
(54:38):
you love?
Oh, I can answer that.
I'll let y'all answer this,because you were like tag me.
Calvin (54:46):
Yes, tag me in Tag team this, so okay.
So here's my my thing.
I always am true to my.
I always say for you I wouldsay stay true to yourself
because, regardless, you willcome to realize people only
loved you with conditions, notunconditionally.
So, um, like I feel like for me, I could relate to my father.
He didn't love usunconditionally, he loved us
(55:08):
with conditions.
So when he found out we weregay, that's when you, that's
when you realize who's there foryou and who's not.
So I would say, continue tokeep being you and keep, because
you're going to make a chosenfamily at the end of the day
You're going to.
You're going to create a familyof boys.
Yes, it is kind of.
It does start off kind ofdepressing and dark.
I'm not going to lie, I'm not.
I'm just I'm gonna be real.
But at the end of the day, youare going to choose your journey
(55:30):
, You're going to choose yourfamily and then it's going to
all fall into place.
So, keep being you and keepbeing authentic because, again,
we have chosen family.
We've we've connected with abunch of people that's not even
our relatives, blood related so,and they ride for us harder
than our family.
So, keep being you.
At the end of the day is all Ican say.
And you will just keep beingyou because you don't want to be
(55:52):
around fake people.
You want to be around peoplewho actually love all of you and
be all of you.
Don't dim your light for nobody.
Be yourself authentically.
Speaker 3 (55:59):
So I'll leave it at that.
Alethea (55:59):
I'll leave it at that Period.
Calvin (56:07):
Baby, I'm Y'all, don't even need to hear what.
Alethea (56:10):
I'm saying Okay, so listen.
So this is for anybody thatneeds to hear this, along with
my listener who asked thequestion Baby, choosing you will
always cost you, but it's goingto always cost you the wrong
people.
Oh, I love that.
The Twins (56:30):
Choosing you will always cost you the wrong people
listen.
Alethea (56:37):
If loving yourself makes people walk away, then
baby silk sonically, leave thedoor open and let them walk out.
Yes, let them, because thatmeans that they were not for you
anyway, they were not for youanyway, I got chills.
They were not for you.
Anyway, if loving you meanslosing them, then let them go.
(57:02):
Baby Elsa, that shit, and letit go.
The Twins (57:05):
Let it go Let it go.
You're not going to bother meanymore.
Alethea (57:11):
Let it go.
The Twins (57:13):
Let it go.
Let it go.
You want to make a trap behindthat.
Alethea (57:17):
Listen, because you do not need that in your life.
You don't need people in yourlife that's just going to
tolerate you.
You need people that's going tocelebrate you, that's going to
ride for you, that are going tolove you, for you and help you
grow and choose you even moreand help you to become your
(57:39):
favorite version of yourself.
Yep, so choose you, choose you,because that's what you're
supposed to do.
Period, period.
The Twins (57:55):
We ate, that we ate that Wait, nine minus one.
Eight, you cannot do that to me.
It was the crickets for me.
(58:16):
It was the crickets for me,bitch, that's what Eight.
Calvin (58:26):
You threw me on the spot .
The Twins (58:29):
It was the crickets for me.
Okay, wait.
Calvin (58:34):
Your laugh is gonna have me weak.
In person, I can already tell.
Your laugh is going to get meevery time.
The Twins (58:42):
Oh shit Okay.
Alethea (58:45):
I already came up with this game because this is the
first time that I've ever hadtwins.
So before I let you go, we haveto play twin it, twin it, twin
it, twin it, twin it, twin it,and y'all have to both answer at
the exact same time.
Okay, y'all have to answer atthe same time.
(59:09):
Okay, question number one whois the messier twin Me?
Me it takes longer to get readyMe.
The Twins (59:28):
Well, damn.
Calvin (59:31):
Yo, I'll say I want to go somewhere.
One, two ready, ready, I'malready downstairs.
He take hella long texting likehurry up, we gonna be besties
me.
Alethea (59:40):
Yes, calvin, we gonna be besties, because this takes
time.
Calvin (59:52):
I gotta look good this takes some time no, like it's
image, I don't gotta try no,with him he'll.
No, I won't have to either.
I can't remember what I'm gonnawear already.
He be looking for stuff.
Oh girl, I be dipping sauce.
Okay, but look, I won't have toeither.
The Twins (01:00:10):
I can't remember what I'm going to wear.
Already he be looking for stuff.
Calvin (01:00:10):
No, listen, oh girl, I be dipping sauce.
Okay, but look, no.
Okay, but he'll leave the houseand then he'll forget something
.
So I got to double check thehouse before we leave.
Now I don't do that, no more,okay, next question.
Next question who the sexiertwin?
Alethea (01:00:31):
Me.
Who the sexier twin Me?
Girl bye.
So who has the best fashionsense Me?
Calvin (01:00:37):
Well that's subjective though.
The Twins (01:00:38):
I would say both, both.
Calvin (01:00:41):
Yeah, I can't say one or the other, because I step in
too.
Because I tune into ourfemininity.
When we do fashion, love it Tothe the masculinity, so we match
each other like we complimentoh so, so like y'all like yin
and yang, yeah and then the yeahtwins, yeah dream collab go.
Alethea (01:01:07):
My baby daddy, my baby daddy, that's my baby daddy.
Yes, my baby daddy, that's mybaby daddy.
Okay, now we're gonna get Alittle gays.
Let's do it Top or bottom.
The Twins (01:01:27):
Top.
Well, so Okay, top or bottomTop.
Calvin (01:01:34):
Well, so okay, okay, okay.
So we're both tops when we gomeet people.
But if I have a connection withyou and we've known you for a
very long time, we could beversed.
But if I'm dating, for surewe're versed.
But, if I'm meeting someone Idon't know 2-2-2-L girl top, and
you know why?
Because people run their mouth,they run their mouth.
The Twins (01:01:51):
They'll be like oh I fuck they do.
Calvin (01:01:53):
Mind you, we're twins and we have a social media
presence too, so I don't wantpeople to be like, oh, I fuck
that twin, sorry, sorry.
Alethea (01:02:00):
Do you know how many times I said fuck?
The Twins (01:02:04):
Okay, you did.
Calvin (01:02:10):
I don't want people to be like oh I, because people be
messy, they really be messy.
I be very careful.
Who can have access to thebehind?
Because it's thick, yeah, it'syummy.
Alethea (01:02:19):
Yeah, it's exclusive, it's exclusive, it's exclusive,
yum yum.
Calvin (01:02:27):
So I'll say top, reverse Rihanna orverse Rihanna or
Beyonce Rihanna.
The Twins (01:02:36):
I just knew that what she's a Pisces too, she's a.
Calvin (01:02:41):
Pisces too, and she have Addie and she connects with her
audience.
Rihanna is exactly who we.
I feel like we transpirebecause she is not she's big,
but she still connects withcreators audience.
Rihanna is exactly who we.
I feel like we transpirebecause she is not she's big,
but she still connects withcreators and stuff.
Yeah.
Alethea (01:02:54):
Yes, yes.
That's why I love her, yes.
Calvin (01:02:56):
We're going to meet her one day, though I already know
that Child listen, I'm ready,I'm ready, I'm ready.
Alethea (01:03:06):
I'm going to meet y'all and we're going to just oh girl
, that's a given.
Calvin (01:03:10):
That's a given.
What is?
Alethea (01:03:12):
your go-to hype song before performing.
Calvin (01:03:18):
Oh, I can't answer that one.
Oh yeah, that one's not fast.
How do?
The Twins (01:03:23):
we have one.
How do?
Calvin (01:03:24):
we have one, oh, actually, okay, I have a life.
I would say De Niro.
Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
Oh yeah, de Niro, de Niro, our song it's unreleased,
the one that you heard.
Calvin (01:03:37):
We listen to our music way too much.
The Twins (01:03:39):
Yeah, that's what.
Calvin (01:03:39):
I'm saying we listen to our songs more than I listen to
anyone else no, but that's whatyou're supposed to do.
Alethea (01:03:50):
Bitch, when I'm getting ready bitch, I'll be like ain't
nobody so yes, yes, because,because bitch ain't nobody
better than me, cocky oh girl,you ain't.
Calvin (01:04:05):
And you said that with pure confidence.
That's what I like.
Alethea (01:04:10):
No, but that's how I feel.
You may do things differentthan me, but just because you do
it differently than me doesn'tmake it better, so nobody's
better than me.
Calvin (01:04:21):
Duh Clock.
That T the fuck Period.
No one can beat you.
So, yeah, no one can be betterthan you because, bitch, I am
God's favorite, like what you'rewelcome, so what?
Alethea (01:04:49):
what is next for the Spellman twins?
Tell us all things, spellmantwins, and where can we find you
?
Calvin (01:05:00):
So you can find us on every platform TikTok, instagram
, youtube.
Spellman twins with a Z, as youcan see right there.
What's next for us?
I think we can both say thisfashion.
We're really trying to get intothe fashion, because our next
album that we're going to beworking on not this one, but the
next one is definitely going tohave to give the look We've
been trying to dabble intofashion.
(01:05:21):
But we have so much going onFashion performing.
We have a show June 14th, whereJune 14th when.
Sacramento Pride, it's about tobe lit.
Sac Pride, sac Pride.
And then we have one in LAPride.
Yeah, and then.
Alethea (01:05:35):
Wait, that's at the end of May.
Calvin (01:05:41):
No June, no June.
June 14th is Sacramento yeah.
Alethea (01:05:47):
When is LA Pride?
Calvin (01:05:48):
It should be the 21st.
But, it's not going to be at LAPride, it's going to be at a
different event, but it's goingto be lit, though.
We performed at another eventthe same people and they wanted
us to come back Because theysaid we were lit, so they wanted
us back.
Alethea (01:06:00):
And June 14th we going to talk yeah.
Calvin (01:06:06):
So also, what's next?
We have another single.
We're gonna drop De Niro.
I don't know exactly yet, but Iwant to say it may be in the
May or early June, because wegotta still get the music video
prepared.
The cover art is done, though,and then we have our album.
That's gonna drop as well,hopefully on May, may 9th, oh.
Alethea (01:06:31):
Yum Yum music video is dropping.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
May 9th Yum Yum music video.
And if you follow theirInstagram and saw these visuals
of all this chocolate justslathered on top of each other,
I want to watch this video sobad.
Calvin (01:06:53):
Oh, you're going to gag.
It was so bad.
Alethea (01:06:57):
So I like to end every segment with what I call pass it
on.
So my last guest was TeontaeLoves, and his message was don't
worry about what anybody says,just be yourself.
(01:07:17):
Just just be you 24 7, just beyou.
What would your pass it onmessage be?
It could be something,something that you heard a like.
What would that message be?
Calvin (01:07:32):
I got one.
So I say, because I don't knowwhy I like this one Don't be the
moment, be the movement.
And I guess anything in life itdoesn't have to be music
related.
Be the movement, not the moment, because you want to be
remembered for you.
So don't be the moment.
Don't be a gimmick.
Don't be the moment.
Be the movement.
(01:07:53):
Be the people people want tolook up to and follow.
And that goes for your cousins.
Be the movement for them, I say.
For me, I would say always,don't give a fuck.
This is on a rebelliousstandpoint.
I'm very rebellious.
I will say I'm the personthat's gonna tell you don't, let
nobody tell you what the fuckyou can't do.
(01:08:14):
At the end of the day, you onlylive one motherfucking life and
you don't want to be 60, 70 andbe like, oh, I wish I should
have done this.
I wish I could have been this.
Because how many times godforbid how many times we heard
that, yeah, and I try to doeverything so I don't have to
worry, I came, came out veryearly, so I don't have to worry,
and be 70 and be like, oh, Iwish I came out.
No, do everything you want todo now.
All your passions, all yourgoals, all your desires.
Fuck what anybody got to say.
(01:08:35):
Be your motherfucking self andbe unapologetically.
You bitch, because when you'rein that grave, you're going to
be in the grave by yourself,no-transcript.
So keep living that truth ofyours, period.
Alethea (01:08:56):
Wait, Wait.
So so let me tell you that ifyou see me using this in my
videos, I'm going to tag youbecause of this Period.
The Twins (01:09:13):
You're going to do that at the end too In the video
.
You got to go Period.
Calvin (01:09:17):
Period.
This was amazing.
I really thank you for this.
I really appreciate it.
Alethea (01:09:27):
Oh, my God, thank y'all .
Y'all are living proof thatresilience, joy, authenticity
will always win.
Yes, y'all didn't just survive,y'all thrived.
Ooh, I love that Y'all thrived.
(01:09:50):
And you are still here.
Yes, you are still here.
Through everything, everythingthat you've overcome, every
obstacle that you had to face,everybody that left you behind,
that thought that you were goingto break.
(01:10:13):
You're still here, yes, andthat is not a reason to be proud
of you.
I don't know what is.
Calvin (01:10:26):
I love you so much.
I'm so glad We've been meetingsuch great people.
I feel like and I think God issaying something and we've been
meeting the correct people andthey're bringing the right
people in our paths and we wantto really, really thank you.
We were talking about this.
You're like, oh, she's so great.
I cannot wait until we meet you.
Alethea (01:10:46):
That has always been my prayer to send the right,
because I just don't takeanybody on my podcast like I
have to, like I have to kind ofknow a little bit about you,
yeah, and I, when I tell you Ilove y'all and let me be, I know
(01:11:06):
that I am not first, but I wantto tell you out of my mouth I
am extremely, extremely proud ofyou, uh-huh.
The Twins (01:11:20):
Don't make me cry Hold on no no.
Alethea (01:11:25):
You know, people don't say that, so no, but I'm telling
you this I am proud of you andeverything that you have
overcome, and I know that.
I know that I know that therewill be a time that everybody is
(01:11:45):
going to know your name.
There will be a time whereCalvin and Clinton are going to
be at award shows.
There will be a time that youare going to be on national TV
and they're going to be Spellmantwins.
Spellman twins, Spellman twinsthat's the name that you're
(01:12:06):
going to hear, because that'swhat you you are moving
mountains right now no, Iappreciate that you are moving,
I was, about to cry when I'm,when my nose starts.
No, like I just I just reallyneeded to tell you this from my
(01:12:27):
heart for people not only me,but people like my son that need
people like you to be rolemodels, because that's what you
are, thank you.
You are role models, so I lovethis for you, and anytime that
(01:12:51):
you want to come back, you aremore than welcome to sit in the
passenger seat with me.
Yes, okay.
Calvin (01:13:00):
Oh yes, we locked in.
We're going to be more in thepassenger seat.
The Twins (01:13:04):
We're going to be going to dinner.
Calvin (01:13:06):
Yeah, we got to go eat.
The Twins (01:13:06):
We got, we're going to.
Alethea (01:13:10):
Oh, do not go nowhere, because we gonna talk.
Everybody listening, watching,choose you, choose you, cause
there is nobody there ain'tnobody do it better than you,
ain't nobody do it better thanyou, you the best, you, you, you
, the best, you the best, youthe best, you the best, you the
(01:13:34):
best, you the best.
All right, remember that shitas you go out there and be great
in they face and I'm going toneed y'all to help me out,
because if y'all follow me, theny'all know what I'm about to do
y'all go out there and be greatin their face and, as always,
(01:13:55):
y'all have a good day on purposehere.
You're welcome, period, youwon't stop.
yeah, hello, hello, hello.
And welcome back to In thePassenger Seat with your hype
girl, alethea Crimmins, where wedon't just ride, baby, we take
off those masks that I know thatsome of y'all still wearing.
Take that shit off.
Take that off.
We break boxes that people putyou in because, baby, we live
(00:42):
outside the box.
Get outside of that box thatpeople have put you in because,
baby, we live outside the box.
Get outside of that box thatpeople have put you in.
We own who we are and we do itwhat Out loud.
Stop living for other peopleand start living for you.
Be yourself unapologetically.
Do not compromise who you arefor anybody.
(01:04):
Baby, look, I am me.
I am me.
I am loud, I am bold, I have astutter and bitch.
I own each and every part ofwho I am, each and every part,
because it's mine.
It's me.
I am a loud, proud, beautifulgay for all y'all who did not
(01:30):
know woman, and I own it, evenwhen people are uncomfortable
with who I am, even when peopledo not like who I am.
People talk about me on a dailybasis, but that doesn't stop me
from being me, because, at theend of the day, there's only one
(01:53):
of me, nobody else can be me.
But our issue is that we want tobe cropping copies of people
that are less than us.
Oh wait, let me get out y'allbusiness.
But I'm going to say that onemore time Y'all want to be
carbon copies of people that areless than you.
(02:13):
Your identity is not up fordebate.
Your authenticity is asuperpower, baby.
You are a superhero, so go outthere and be a superhero.
All right, now we are in thepassenger seat and y'all know I
(02:38):
am not by myself.
I am not by myself.
I have two people, not just one.
Two, honey, a dynamic duo, baby.
And when you talk about livingout loud, when you talk about
being who you are, when you talkabout I do not give a fuck if
you like me or not.
If you look up authenticity inthe dictionary, I'm sure that
(03:05):
you are going to find these twoBaby.
If you do not know who I'mtalking about, y'all gonna know
after today.
But let's get into this clip.
The Twins (03:21):
Yeah, oh, eat, eat, eat.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
This is no ad.
See a big wall.
That's a little beat.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, ohyeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
oh yeah.
Come and get this yum, yum,yummy.
You know I got that.
Yum yum, yummy.
You say you got cash and blowit.
(03:47):
I might show a little ass ifyou throw it and if you got that
money, then you get this yum,yum, yummy.
Alethea (03:54):
Let me introduce you to a dynamic duo dance floor
slayers, honey and champions forliving your truth out loud.
The Spellman twins Calvin and.
The Twins (04:05):
Clinton.
What's up?
Buh buh, buh buh buh, can weget this?
Yum yum, yummy.
Buh buh, buh, buh buh.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, I got that yum yum, yummy.
Yeah, we got cash and blow it.
The Twins (04:17):
I'm going to show a little ass if I throw it and if
you got that money, then you getthis yum, yum, yummy.
What's up?
No, I'm talking, I'm playingand you're not making stuff up.
Yes, I'm on the podcast.
Alethea (04:32):
Yes, oh, my God.
Look, I have been excited forpeople to be on this podcast,
but when I tell you I'm excitedthat you're on this podcast, no,
I'm hella excited.
Okay, first of all, I need toknow who is who.
Calvin (04:52):
Okay, I'm Calvin and I'm Clinton short-haired, Okay,
Calvin long hair.
Alethea (04:59):
Yes, Now y'all, you better not never cut your hair.
Oh I don't because, because,because, damn it, because
because don't have me go out,there wait calvin no, he has to
keep his hair one of y'all see,that's this.
(05:20):
This is like me, because peoplerecognize me because of my
signature hair, so I can'tchange it.
And I've tried to change it.
I've tried to wear my naturalhair and it's like so I have to
keep my signature hair and butsummertime is here so it's hot.
(05:46):
So you know my signature hair,like y'all be liking this, but
sometimes it get hot, so at somepoint I'm going to have to take
this hair off.
The Twins (05:59):
Okay, you just going to take it off like that?
Alethea (06:05):
Well, it's not mine bitch Fuck, I know, but I can
act like it is Like it is.
I thought it was.
See the tracks.
The Twins (06:18):
You see it, okay okay , okay, hold it, bitch.
Alethea (06:25):
I own everything about who I am.
This is one of the reasons whyI had to had to had to have you
on here, because you own who youare and it's like I don't give
a fuck, I don't care if youdon't like it.
You don't like it, you,somebody out there likes it and
(06:47):
it shows because your fan baseis huge.
Thank you, it shows I.
I love that.
You are exactly who you are,exactly who you were meant to be
.
Yes, took a while, a while Outloud, and we're going to talk
about all that, but beforepeople knew Calvin and Clinton,
(07:16):
before the music, before thefame, who were you?
Calvin (07:22):
Honestly, I would say we were very sheltered children.
I feel like we didn't.
Yeah, our parents wouldn't letus do anything.
It was always we were veryathletic.
We were very our parents when Isay parents, I mean more so my
dad and his girlfriend, becauseour mom was absent when we were
six, but or six until we wereadults, but anyway, we played
(07:44):
sports all our life.
It was just school sports,school sports.
That's what people have knownus as athletes.
Alethea (07:50):
You could tell, because body yaddy, yaddy, yaddy, yaddy
yeah.
Calvin (07:56):
Now, mind you, we weren't just like oh, they play
sports, no, we did this.
So we played football.
Since we were six, we playedbasketball.
But when we got into highschool, we did this.
We played football.
Since we were six, we playedbasketball.
When we got into high school,we honed into track and we got
scholarships to run track incollege.
We didn't just do sports, baby,we did sports.
Alethea (08:16):
They didn't just play.
We didn't just play sports,honey.
We were sports, we Nike, wewere sports, we were sports, we
Nike'd that shit.
Yes.
Calvin (08:29):
And I want to let people know this because obviously
back then we weren't as like,loud and proud as we are now.
So people who see that side,they don't know that's how we
were back then, like we werereally athletes, like people
just see us as like creators andlike music, you know, but
people don't really know weactually really were really good
we did this like I was reallymaking to the championships
everything in track.
(08:51):
We break school records like wewas in the field like don't let
this page fool you, bitch,because we'll still kill your
favorite athlete, duh so so,basically for for the ones in
the back that miss all of this,they are them they are them.
Alethea (09:11):
I'm going to be humble unless you do the honors because
, listen, because I ain't evengot to walk in with my two out
baby people.
People already know your namebefore you walk into the door.
Listen, my brother used to sell.
(09:32):
He used to be one of thebiggest dope dealers and he
would always say dope sellitself Yep, I ain't gotta do
nothing.
Dope sell itself Yep, I ain'tgotta do nothing.
Don't sell itself.
Like I ain't even gotta leavemy house.
Yes, and that is what you give,like that is what you are, baby
(09:58):
.
You sell you.
Calvin (10:00):
Period.
You actually just gave me asong idea for our next era them
or him or him.
Like we are him or them andlike you just gave me a song
idea okay, as long as I as Icould be a feature, because you
know, oh girl, do you want tohave, like, have a voice in it
or something?
Alethea (10:20):
like let me do something, like y'all heard it.
Like let me do something.
The Twins (10:24):
Y'all heard it.
Alethea (10:24):
Let me do something.
Oh no, we're going to need yourinspirational voice today.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Oh, bro Watch this.
Calvin (10:31):
Oh, you think I'm dead.
I'm not joking.
Alethea (10:34):
I'm telling you right.
The Twins (10:34):
When do I?
Alethea (10:35):
need to book a flight.
It's all I'm asking.
Calvin (10:40):
Either book a flight or get a session.
But, girl, we're going to makeit happen.
So y'all hear that first handfrom Spelman Twins.
We're having a future collab onthe way.
Alethea (10:50):
Okay, okay, okay, because I'm ready.
You're going to eat, we'regoing to eat, because what is
four plus four Bitch?
I think it means eight, twoplus six.
Eight, nine minus one bitch.
I think it means 8, what's 2plus 6, 8, 9 minus 1, 8 cause,
(11:11):
that's all we gonna do duh.
You see, that wasn't my thingfor a second cause I was like
come on, twins, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, get
it, get it, get it, come on,come on.
I had to come on, get it, getit, get it, come on.
Calvin (11:26):
No, because I had to catch it.
I said six minutes.
That wasn't my brightest suit,okay For me.
I was trying so hard not to usemy hand.
Six I suck at math.
I am not.
I was too on the spot, though Iwasn't prepared for that, but I
(11:47):
had to lock in.
Alethea (11:48):
I'm going to have to send y'all look, we're going to
do math in this next episode.
Calvin (11:55):
We're going to do math bitch, I haven't done math for a
long time.
All I know is that you wastrying to say eight for
everything.
I was like, okay, I caught on.
Alethea (12:04):
Bitch, eight, eight, eight.
What's the square root of eight?
Eight Y'all have such anelectric energy and like it's
not just because y'all twins.
Y'all twins, like y'all justshare some dope ass life
(12:34):
experiences together and noteverybody has that.
How did your early life shapewhat we see now, the bold,
resilient, fine ass men that wesee right now?
Calvin (12:46):
I'm gonna have them answer first and then I'll
answer okay, I think it's whathappened was when it was a time
where, like, uh, I got caughtcoming like talking to people,
like when I was younger and mydad found out I was gay, and I
think that's kind of where itkind of shaped where we are,
because we kind of like ran awayfrom home.
Not kind of we did.
We went away from home at 17and then it was always just us
(13:09):
and then just going in fromthere, we were always together,
like wherever we went.
I think it's deeper than that,though.
I think for for us, I think forme, I can speak for myself my
boldness and proudness of who Iam, it comes from like our dad
was, like he wouldn't let melike dance, like I couldn't do
dance classes.
I couldn't.
He always wanted to do sports,sports, sports, and it was
(13:30):
always like we had to obey themand everything was gay.
Yeah, and again, I mean sobecause during our childhood, it
was mainly our dad and hisgirlfriend, so we weren't able
to, I wasn't able to be myself.
Constantly Say, if we say wegot in trouble at school and it
was false information, I wasn'table to like voice, like the
(13:51):
correction, so I was alwayssilenced is the word all my life
.
So I think now I think where mypersonality comes from is for
being silenced for so long as akid and not be able to speak how
I speak.
It carried to my adulthood, soI think that's where it I'm
known for a fact.
That's why I am the way I amtoday.
Alethea (14:09):
That is a story that so many of us in the queer
community can relate to, like Iknow for me Definitely can.
And how do you, how did you notlose who you were through all
(14:31):
of this?
Because there was a time whereI faked the funk, like I had to
fake it to make it.
I had to fake it to make it.
So how did you not loseyourself through all of this?
Because I'm sure that there issomebody out here watching that
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feels the rejection of theirfamily right now, like they've
been dis disowned by people whosay that they love them
unconditionally.
So how do you, how do you notlose your yourself dealing with
all of this?
Calvin (15:10):
I think for us, I think at this point in our life, I
think not losing ourself wouldstem for us wanting to succeed
and prove that we could do thislife without you.
We don't need you in our life.
I think, now that the stuff weworked on I just give you some
little I'm going to hype myselfup real quick Little milestones.
My brother and I decided to hopon social media in 2018.
(15:31):
We got on TikTok in 2017.
Created a big following fromthere.
We also just graduated,december 2023.
We went through college alone,alone, no help, and we graduated
in six years.
Took us six years, but we didit.
We were.
We got a scholarship to runtrack uh, d1, mind you, a D1
(15:52):
scholarship.
Then what happened recently?
Oh, we're about to uh, we'reabout to get our master's in
social work to be at LCSW, allby ourselves so.
I'm just gonna hype myself up.
So to answer your question,what keeps us from being, you
know, to losing ourselves is towant to succeed, because we want
to prove our parents when wehit them fucking stages, because
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the Spelman twins are going tobe on the motherfucking stage.
You're going to know our nameand then when you see us on TV,
then people are going to be likeoh, those are your kids and you
don't look fucking dumb becauseyou want to be homophobic this
is what I always say like.
Alethea (16:28):
I'm very much driven like you because I no longer
have a relationship with myfamily either.
I have my chosen one that Ichose myself, but my biological
family I do not have arelationship with, and for the
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longest time, my focus was toprove them wrong.
Now, now that's no longer myfocus.
Why?
Because when you try to provethem wrong, it still makes it
about them.
Calvin (17:05):
Yeah, exactly.
Alethea (17:06):
So now I want to prove me right.
Calvin (17:11):
Yes, yes, yes, and I think that's where we're at too
at this point.
It's not so to prove.
When I say prove them wrong,it's more like I'm going to
prove to myself that we can doit, because I don't think about
them on the daily, I thinkRecently.
I'm thinking of how the fuckwe're going to get to Brazil and
do this feature that we got.
I'm thinking about how we'reabout to be on the next stage.
I'm trying to think about howcan we get this deal.
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I'm trying to think how can weget our name out there more.
That's what I'm thinking about.
The Twins (17:37):
I ain't thinking about them because, they over
here and we over here, Girl, youtaught me something.
You taught me something we werestudying girl.
Alethea (17:47):
Because they over here and bitch we over here.
Calvin (17:52):
Use that one.
Use that one and you know what,also helps us a lot too, I
think, since, like I said, wewere very sheltered.
We want to prove to ourselvesthat we could.
You know, we got thrown intothe world.
I ran away when I was 17, so itwas crazy.
It was crazy um, we're alwaysgoing to deep, uh dive into that
, but it's like we had to growup with, we grew up with each
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other and we keep ourselves incheck.
I feel like we're our ownparents.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah I love that we're our own parents.
Calvin (18:20):
we really are like we don really talk about that, but
we technically are each other'sparents Because, like something
like I'll do, I'll be like bitch, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And I'll be like what are you doing?
Calvin (18:28):
So we really parent each other.
It's weird to say, but we do.
Alethea (18:34):
No, it's really not, because you have become not only
your own best friend, but eachother's, and you hold each other
accountable.
Yes, and that that's that'ssomething that we don't have,
but by you holding each otheraccountable, you also hold
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yourself.
Yes, okay it.
It makes you more self selfaware of what you have going on,
and that's so important,because a lot of times, we don't
do that, and I love how yourvalidation does not come from
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anything outside of what youhave going on right here, from
anything outside of what youhave going on right here.
Your validation is not in theoutside world, your validation
is not from him, because youdon't have that daddy issues.
He had issues being a daddy, sothat's different.
That's different.
(19:39):
And you don't go outsidebecause so many people I'm
talking about me when you don'tget that validation from home,
you go out there and you seek ityeah, that's true, that's true
because it's something that younever had.
Yeah, and the fact that you left, but you left with a mission.
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Like you, you didn't just leave, like you didn't just run away
and then was like okay, what thefuck I'm gonna do now.
Like you ran away with amission, you ran away with a
goal, you left saying I am goingto not and our verbiage is so
(20:22):
important because you didn't sayoh, oh well, I hope that
something works, I hope thatsome.
No, you left with the mindset Idon't give a fuck what.
I am going to make somethingout of my self just for that
alone.
Like Hair flip on them holes,hair flip on them holes Because
(20:50):
you did this, you did this.
Calvin (20:56):
We've lived so many.
I feel like we've livedmultiple lives.
If you go back in time, itwasn't that long ago.
Like it's so weird, like itreally wasn't.
The Twins (21:06):
It feels like we like 2017 was only around the corner
.
Calvin (21:09):
Yeah, yeah, dang, and like I feel like.
So I feel like our parents likekind of knew in a sense we'll
be fine, because I'm really likethe rebellious twin like I
really I am.
I'm very rebellious like,especially when we live with
them.
I kind of, as I got, I kind ofstarted voicing myself a little
bit, no matter whether I got hitfor it, but um yeah that's why
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I ran away, even though I ranaway.
I ran away Cause our dad foundout the night of us being gay,
but I ran away Cause I knew likeour life would be over with and
he was why waste my time anyfurther?
Right?
So I ran away that night.
I ran away that night and, yeah, I actually didn't have a plan,
it was just so spontaneous.
I literally left with nothing.
I just was like I already had aplan where I was going to do
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like, go to like Reading and seemy mom, but I did have a
mission to succeed at the end ofthe day, like I knew, like, oh,
even though I'm going out herein the world, even though I'm
going out here in the world, Istill am a go-getter.
Alethea (22:02):
We're going to get it, no matter what.
I love that mindset though.
Calvin (22:07):
I feel like it's hard to have that mindset though.
So anyone watching you kind ofhave to constantly hype yourself
up.
You do Because I think recentlywe were kind of down about
something, but then we had toremember I like the struggle.
I kind of like it because whenyou get to the top it's like
then, then what?
So like you're like, okaybecause I, because, like you
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know, just because you have thetop don't mean they're happy,
right.
Alethea (22:30):
so, oh, it's true yeah it's true listen, because some,
some, some people look looks canbe deceiving, because some
people look happy way up therebut they're not really happy
because what it's what successmeans to them, exactly it's what
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their level of success means tothem.
Like I could be way at the topand still not happy because I
haven't reached what I think.
But sometimes it's not ourlevel, it's other people.
So we we are constantly tryingto reach a level of success that
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is not unattainable.
Yeah, Cause me, me being able toquit my job and do what I love
full time bitch.
I am successful bitch.
I am successful in my eyes meleaving a job doing what I love,
(23:39):
never missing a meal, nevermissing a bill, being able to
take care of well, let me notlie, in case my wife is watching
.
My wife does take care of me,but I do help, bitch, I do help,
(24:01):
I do help, I do help.
Calvin (24:06):
So being able to help take care of my wife and kids
like that is success yes, Iagree, and you know there's a
quote that makes me happy, thatI think about when I'm like down
, you know what you give me theenergy and a lot of people do.
That's successful.
You're not the moment, you'rethe movement.
Does that make sense?
(24:26):
You're not the moment amovement, you don't know because
?
Alethea (24:32):
because moments last like this yeah, two seconds.
Calvin (24:37):
a movement is a lifetime and Exactly, and I feel like
Because they are still talkingabout Martin Luther King.
Alethea (24:48):
Exactly he was the movement.
They are still talking aboutHarriet Tubman.
They were a movement.
They were a movement.
The Twins (24:56):
And for us.
Calvin (24:57):
I want to be a movement, not a fucking moment.
No, you will be.
We have a story to tell.
We're gay, we're black, we'reloud, we're proud, and we want
to inspire other black peoplelike that.
You could be yourself, nomatter what.
Even if you have a homophobicfather or parents, you can still
be successful.
We are a testament of that.
So don't ever let nobody tellyou that you cannot be
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successful.
Black, gay, proud, and still doyou Bitch.
We up right now.
All of our people of color areup right now.
We got the movie Sinners Rightnow.
We got some hot artists comingright now.
Black people are winning rightnow.
We winning.
Alethea (25:36):
And we're going to keep winning Period.
I just have to end that becauseit was like period.
Yes, so how has like?
So I read your bio and it saidthat music was your escape.
(25:58):
That's how you.
It was your safe space, Right,but now it's become your
platform.
The Twins (26:09):
Yeah which is so weird.
Alethea (26:11):
How has owning your identity, identity publicly
through your music, changed notjust your lives but the lives of
your fans?
Because fans are watching, theyare listening, they know your
story, so how has has thatchanged?
Calvin (26:35):
um, well, I can just say this about you think I think
like our music is very I mean,as you can see, it's bold, like,
if you see the visuals and likewhat we do and what we
represent, we I actually justsaw a comment the other day.
Some guy was like I like this,the love this generation, how
y'all just don't give a fuckabout nothing, and I love it.
And when you meet says thatlike we don't give a fuck about
other people's opinions.
So I think that us being boldand like what we do in our
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visuals, like our our musicvideo coming soon, the Yum Yum
music video.
Wait till you see the musicvideo.
Yum Yum music video coming May9th, next week.
Alethea (27:11):
Bitch, because what I saw, all that challenges all
your documents.
You haven't seen nothing.
Calvin (27:21):
It's music video next week, so stay tuned.
But look, I think that our boldrepresentation of what we do is
kind of like why I feel likepeople are gravitating towards
our sound.
I think we've made some reallygood.
We've been meeting a lot ofpeople in the industry that are
like we.
Like to meet people with energyright, Like you, for example.
I don't care how big somebodyis If we don't mess.
(27:43):
We ain't working or we?
I don't want to know you Right,I don't give a fuck.
Shivers don't mean shit to us.
We be with people who got amillion, 10 million followers.
Girl, I don't give a fuck.
Duh Sex.
You're just one person, afollower.
Don on followers.
That don't make you Like wehave followers too bitch.
I love everyone that support us.
(28:04):
I don't want to say followers,supporters, people that support
you.
You got to treat those peoplegood too.
Like, if I look up to someoneand you have no energy, girl,
I'm not working with you.
Alethea (28:15):
Like people really do have the idea, which I love that
for me, but people think thatbecause I do what I do, that I'm
bigger than what I am right.
It's like that that I knowexactly what you mean at the end
(28:35):
of the day, bitch, I'm me like,if, if you look in the back, I
live in an apartment.
Bitch, I drive a Ford Fusion.
Bitch like I am regular dangly.
Calvin (28:53):
But I am one of one, exactly.
Alethea (28:58):
I am one of one.
We're just alike.
Calvin (29:01):
Look, look, we have a Ford and we also have a nissan
altima.
Um, let's see, we also.
We're family support counselorstoo.
I don't know if nobody knowsthat, but we also are.
Yeah, I'm a counselor.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
It's weird which doesn't really make sense
because our energy.
Calvin (29:15):
But no, no, no it does.
It transpires in my fieldbecause I, because I break a lot
of my cases.
So trust me, it transpires.
I do want to say because youlive in an apartment that does
not mean anything.
The biggest people live inapartments because houses is a
lot of maintenance.
Alethea (29:35):
And I can't do it.
I'm just, we have to know ourlane and stay in it, and
sometimes that be the issue.
Y'all want to jump lanes bitch.
I'm not trying to wreck, so I'mgoing to stay in my lane and my
lane is.
I know that.
(29:55):
I don't want to pay nobody tofix my roof, thank you.
Calvin (30:01):
I'm going to call the maintenance man and they come
and fix it yes, yes, and yousave and you get to make your
money doing what you love travel, do whatever you want, because
a house don't.
Or a house or apartment because, like I said, people got houses
and mansions and are theyfucking happy.
Alethea (30:15):
No, and this is what people have.
Anybody who is listening rightnow?
Stop letting people tell youwhat success should look like.
Stop letting people tell youwhat your success should look
like.
You are the author of your ownstory.
(30:36):
Stop letting people writechapters in your book.
It's yours, so why are youallowing other people to come
and tell you how to write yourshit?
Calvin (30:47):
Exactly Caught that motherfucking skia.
Alethea (30:51):
Make that make sense.
Yeah, like this is your life,it belongs to you.
You have literally beenrejected.
This basically thrown away bypeople who say that they love
you.
That does not make you any lessvaluable.
(31:15):
You, you went from that toperforming at prides, to like
being on stages.
You about to have a whole musicvideo out here in these
people's streets yes, true yes,like you, that it doesn't matter
(31:36):
who who is not.
It doesn't matter how broken,what people try to break you,
because they may bruise you, butthey ain't gonna never break
you, baby, they ain't gonnanever break you.
And even in your brokenness,what I know and understand as a
(32:01):
former pre-k teacher, I had alot of broken crayons in my
classroom and each one of thembitches still colored.
So it does not matter.
It does not matter.
It does not matter.
Baby, you can still be brokenand be a masterpiece, you still
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have value and you are thewalking talking like movements.
That says exactly that.
Calvin (32:34):
Yep, and I tell people all the time.
I tell people, I motivatepeople, I tell them like I feel
like if I didn't go through whatI went through in my life, it
would not.
I wouldn't be where I am today.
I tell people you turn yournegativity into a positive like,
oh yes, I feel like no, I feellike everybody has a story.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
You want your story like to reflect who you are as a
person but you don't want thatto be the excuse you don't want
to be an excuse why you can't dosomething you have a story, but
let your story be.
Calvin (33:00):
it be a lesson, not an excuse to why you're the way you
are, if you're successful.
Alethea (33:07):
Run that back because somebody, somebody going to
catch that next week and I needthem to catch it now.
Ok, one more time.
Calvin (33:18):
I said don't use your success as a don't use that why
a bad situation as an excuse.
Use that as a success story.
Alethea (33:27):
Okay, so stop, what, what, what, what he's saying?
Because, because he, he's, he's, he's saying it, nice, but, but
, but, but, y'all know me, Idon't, I don't, I don't play
that.
Yeah, translate it for me.
Making excuses just becauseyou're going through some bad
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shit right now does not meanthat that bad shit will be going
on for the rest of your life.
Stop using that one thing as.
Oh well, you know, since Ididn't make it, I ain't gonna
never make it, because last time, bitch, that was yesterday.
She sounded like Jocelyn whenshe said that that was yesterday
(34:12):
.
Today is what you make it, sowhat are you going to make your
today?
Thank you.
What are you going to make yourtoday?
Calvin (34:22):
Because no one's waiting on you While this person, while
you depressed this person overhere, about one step closer to
fame.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Why you over here?
Calvin (34:32):
depressed.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Nobody waits for you, Unfortunately no one waiting
for us Cause we seen itfirsthand.
Calvin (34:37):
Ain't no one waiting for us?
We went through psychosis.
We're in the hospital.
For three weeks we losteverything we had and nobody.
People who dropped us offbecause we were weren't them
bitches.
I guess you could say we lostour notoriety, but bitch we
bounced back.
Alethea (34:54):
So where you at now, bitch ignore, that's where you
at.
So.
So what was when you say youlost everything, like everything
?
Calvin (35:00):
well.
So we lost our apartment, welost our job, lost our job.
We had working.
We went to uh psychiatric forthree weeks.
So people don't know thatbecause I don't know what
happened.
But we went to la, we went toan event and whatever happened
there, I guess we kind of Ithink our brain was like
overstimulated or something,because we also got kicked off
the track team during that,during that time.
So we had to drop out yeah, wedropped out of school too and we
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had no money, so we losteverything and so, luckily, we
had this is 2019 yeah.
So I think that's and that's abig.
2019 was a big awakening for usand how we who we really are
today, cause we learned the fake.
We learned who the snakes are,we know when someone's loose,
and we learned like like.
That's when we learned aboutlike, cause we were 19 when this
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happened.
I thought we were very young.
I'm happy it happened to us,though, because it helped us
navigate the social media worldin the industry, because people
are hella fake.
People didn't have our back,like they said they did.
They turned on us like weliterally had nobody, and nobody
waited for us either, like.
So that's why I always saynobody waits for you and nobody
feels really sorry for you.
So you gotta do things, yougotta you gotta make it your on
(36:06):
your own, and luckily we again.
We always had each other, so soit's easy to bounce back faster
?
Alethea (36:12):
yeah, I guess, but you're like y'all are the
billboard of.
It's not about the fall, it isabout the rise thank you it's
not about the fall, becausepeople, yes, they will watch you
fall, but they really want tosee how you get up.
(36:32):
Yep, they really want.
Oh yeah, yes, yeah, they fell,but let me watch them now, let
me see how they get up.
Calvin (36:42):
Yeah, yeah, that's what people want to see.
Alethea (36:45):
Even your haters are watching how you get up.
Oh, that's for real.
Calvin (36:49):
Oh, they are all the time People will always be in
our comment section or DM.
Someone texted us.
They're like talking about afuck y'all.
My brother sent a littlekissing emoji.
We thought I was going to bemad.
Alethea (36:59):
He said well, there's, there's a reason there's.
So, for all of your haters thatare watching, for all of your
haters that are watching, let mejust tell you why you have
haters, because I know that someof your haters are watching
(37:22):
right now.
Hi, how are you?
Yeah, I look cute, Thank you.
So haters y'all haters standsfor having anger towards
(37:43):
everyone reaching success.
That's why y'all mad at my boysright here.
Oh, I'm using that.
Calvin (37:47):
I'm using that.
That's a song title right there.
Alethea (37:51):
That's why y'all mad, because y'all have anger towards
everybody reaching success,because y'all not at that level
yet.
The Twins (37:59):
Yep.
Alethea (38:00):
Aww.
The Twins (38:02):
Aww, wait, I need that, I need that, I need that.
Calvin (38:11):
Go ahead and take it.
We need to get our next songbecause we need your motivating
quotes in the songs thank you.
Alethea (38:19):
Listen how?
Because y'all, y'all'sconfidence in who you are and
just living out loud is soinspiring to me.
And people ask me all the timeand you are exactly what I am
about to say, and after this Ineed to get y'all's shirt sizes.
(38:43):
So people ask me well, how didyou get so bold and so confident
?
Three letters F-T-P.
Fuck them people Because I donot care.
Calvin (39:05):
It's facts, though, like you literally have to.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cutyou off, but it's true.
Like I think, when we came outin 2022, 2021, we came out on
national coming out day.
It was a weird moment for us.
We were like we.
I was like we're tired ofhiding who we are, like it's
like it's not.
People are following us, butthey don't know who we really
are.
Then that's when you, once youcome, once you come out and be
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yourself, regardless if you'regay, straight, whatever and once
you become yourself, that shittranspires to the world.
And once we came out, our lifechanged from there, literally.
Once we came out and we decidedto be who we are in bold, you
can't care about what otherpeople are saying to you when we
go out in public and stuff.
We still respect it.
That's the funny part.
We even got the straight peoplecoming up to us and be like
(39:49):
y'all dope, y'all be doing this,and that we had an interview
with the probably moststraightest people ever for DJs.
We had a DJ call.
All straight, they were fuckingwith it.
So it's like it's your energy.
It's not about because you'regay.
This it's not about that.
It's about the person.
People don't care about ifyou're gay or not, it's how you
carry yourself.
(40:10):
So how you carry yourself whenyou're bold and you're in your
truth, that's when people fuckwith you.
Because people can spot fakeauthenticity.
Because I can, he can, I canspot a snake a mile away.
I'm like a hawk, I can spot mydinner a mile away.
Like I can see.
The Twins (40:29):
Someone's out there right now.
Calvin (40:30):
Social media don't play about that fake shit, what you
see right now, social mediadon't play about that fake shit,
what you see right now.
What you see right now is howme and my brother act 24-7
Because people.
Alethea (40:41):
They ask me Is this a game?
No, I knew you, we know this isme, all day, all night, 24-7.
I wake up like this, I wake uplike this, and I woke up like
this, like this is me.
And people some people do notlike who I am because they're
(41:04):
like oh, but she's loud, well,she's this.
Well, who asked you?
Because I don't care.
Because what they eat don'tmake me shit.
Calvin (41:15):
So guess what?
There's a lot of quotes on here.
Alethea (41:18):
I'm using Like I'm going to wake up and be exactly
who I am tomorrow, Like it's notgoing to change.
Other people's opinions don'tmatter, because opinions are
like assholes Everybody has oneand some of them are full of
shit, so it doesn't matter.
Calvin (41:38):
Oh, you A.
The Twins (41:41):
It doesn't matter.
Alethea (41:46):
I love y'all so fucking much Wait we can't forget
what's your Zodiac sign.
Gemini.
Calvin (41:58):
You know, what's funny?
Alethea (41:58):
Wait, wait, wait.
Calvin (41:59):
Okay, I will say Gemini do have a bad rep, but for some
reason Pisces and Gemini makegood friends, okay.
The Twins (42:07):
Okay so we good on that.
Alethea (42:10):
So, like, what you're saying is like we gonna be
besties.
Um, what I'm saying is like,are we going to be besties?
What I'm saying is die the fuck.
Calvin (42:23):
That's how I be feeling.
When you be talking on the,when you go to the videos Like
girl, I said please, y'all.
I mean I love, I'm so glad thatwe found each other because I
need some more motivational shit.
You be having me like, if I'mdown, yo, when I'm down, when I
be seeing those videos, I'm like, oh bitch, I'm happy again.
Like I remember, I commentedthe other day on one of the
posts.
I was like oh, you can yell atme, yes.
Alethea (42:44):
I'm like I love and bitch, I would like.
I tried, because people,because sometimes the shit gets
to your head and like you like,well, do I scream a lot, like do
I?
So I tried to be in my likeTabitha Brown era where I was
(43:08):
like, okay, guys, like you know,and because we're going to have
a good day, I don guys, likeyou know, and because we're
gonna have a good day and I waslike I can't fucking do this,
like that's not even who I am,like you know what bitch.
If you do not like me,unsubscribe, bitch.
(43:32):
Your seven day free trial is up.
Calvin (43:37):
Unsubscribe people are so hypocritical on social media
like we.
So like obviously we're gay, solike we're gonna post gay
things and like we have like ahell of like we still got
followers, but like hell ofpeople like unfollowed us.
Um, it was like because we wentfrom like 121 000 to 115,
because we started like we justbeen ourselves, but like we
(43:59):
wouldn't follow.
It's like y'all knew what y'allwere looking at.
So what are you confused for?
Let it be a female, though.
Y'all all over that.
But because I'm being me, youhave an issue.
But, like, again, I'm happythough, because the those people
who fell off y'all weren't myreal supporters.
You were fake as fuck.
So I purposely do things forpeople to unfollow me because
(44:19):
the people who fuck with us aregonna stay.
Like all we do is monitor ourbusiness posts.
It's my fucking page, you don'thave to watch me.
Alethea (44:27):
So, bitch, get the fuck on followers don't mean shit,
and for every one person thatunfollows me, 10 more people
every day, and they do, and theydo and they do.
The Twins (44:41):
And they what?
Alethea (44:42):
and they do I love y'all so much wait wait, wait,
let me, okay, wait, I gotta getback to my Sorry.
Calvin (44:57):
I know it's hard, so fucking hard bitch.
Alethea (45:00):
I know we bring it out people, I forget we be bringing
people out, like if y'all arelistening, like some of y'all
are watching, so y'all can seethe like vibe Y'all can see.
But for those of y'all who arelistening, like I am sitting
(45:23):
here trying to contain myselfBecause if, like, if you can see
them like they are, you are, Ijust want to reach into my.
Come here, whoa.
The Twins (45:39):
Here I am the bug.
Alethea (45:40):
Let's come here, like I want to book if I like like
today, yes, I want to see your.
Calvin (45:51):
The energy will be so low, so low.
We'll be so loud like, yes, no,I want to see your the energy
will be too.
Alethea (45:55):
Yeah, so, though, so though, okay, so let's jump into
your music, because your musichas just as much energy as you
do.
So what?
What you call this is brazilianfunk.
Calvin (46:13):
It's like a high it's like element, so the sound and
the beat is like they're.
They're funk inspired, but ithas a lot of like pop.
It's really pop and like andhip-hop vibes, but it's funk.
The beats are usually brazil.
We make our beats with ourfriend and the.
When we get, when we make thebeat together, it's like funk,
so it's brazilian.
It's infused also with liketrap.
I don't know if you ever hearlike beat together.
(46:33):
It's like funk, so it'sBrazilian, infused Also with
trap.
I don't know if you ever hearthe bass.
The Twins (46:36):
It has a spirit.
Calvin (46:37):
We start with the funk beat like a bass, and then we
add trap, hip-hop and popelements to it.
It's weird.
We have a weird.
Alethea (46:47):
But it works.
The Twins (46:48):
It works.
Alethea (46:49):
So let's talk about Yum , yum.
Oh yeah, because they are.
It works so let's talk aboutYum Yum.
Oh yeah, because like they aremore than just bops, like Yum
Yum, pom Pom De Niro, oh girlshe's been studying.
The Twins (47:06):
The song ain't out yet.
Calvin (47:07):
She's studying the song Pom Pom and De Niro ain't out
yet, but it's about to be out,it's about to be Bitch.
I do my research.
Bitch, yeah, clearly, clearly.
This girl, that's crazy.
Alethea (47:21):
Like they're more than just like bops.
Your music gives peoplepermission to take up space To
just exist as they are.
Was that the like?
(47:44):
Was that your intention whenlike putting this album together
?
Calvin (47:52):
You want to know the backstory behind the album.
Yes, tell her the backstory ofwhat.
The Twins (47:57):
The album we're working on.
Calvin (47:58):
Okay, it's how we be acting too, I'm like what's up?
I mean I was going to say get toit.
You have to tell me that.
What was the damn question?
Uh, like our album.
That's why one thing about me Iforget I have to say.
(48:20):
That's why I think, when hetalks sometimes, because I
forget I got you the intentionof our album.
Okay, that's your, our music.
(48:41):
In the past I feel like.
So, when we performed our prideevents last, like I think it
was two years ago, the music wasnot, honestly, it's good music,
but like it was boring toperform to me.
So, okay, I told me my brother,we're like, okay, this can
never happen again.
So, like, the music we make hasto reflect our personality.
Because if you see even ourskits of these, our skits, our
music, it all reflects how meand my brother really act like
(49:04):
and it matches our energy.
And so we want to make sure,like this upcoming album and
like even yum yum to be ananthem of like, uh, any like of
our community.
People can just come and eventhough the Yum Yum's kind of
vulgar, it should not matter.
It should be about the energyof what it brings.
It should give you feel gooddance, it should make you want
to twerk the song Yum Yum.
If you don't want to twerk whenyou hear the song, forget the
(49:27):
lyrics.
If you don't want to twerk tothat beat, if're not trying to
do that if you ain't trying todo that with the lyrics.
Did you hear that boom, boom?
That's what we want you to do.
We want you to throw it back,yes and then.
So we want our album to giveenergy.
(49:49):
So, like our album.
The name I haven't evenannounced the name, but I guess
it's gonna be the first I'mgonna announce the album name.
It's called exclusive.
So yeah, so the album toucheson like money, partying, fun,
sex, um, so exclusive.
So it's actually exclusive withit's exxx, because you know
like it's just like yeah, soit's like explicit, so it shows
(50:12):
like sex unfiltered raw Spellmantwins.
So yeah, so y'all hearing it now.
The album name is Exclusive.
That's the name of it.
Alethea (50:22):
Exclusive.
Yes, okay, so we got the albumname first.
Yes you did.
Calvin (50:31):
Yeah, that's how well you deserve the album name.
The Twins (50:33):
You opened that up for us, so.
Calvin (50:36):
Exclusive.
Alethea (50:38):
Because XXX.
Yes, so for all of y'all thatneed to know or that do not know
what XXX means, type it intoyour Google.
No, I'm sorry.
The Twins (50:58):
No but yes, and watch what pop up.
Alethea (51:01):
Yeah, people, uh, um 17 and lower, don't look so I'm,
I'm, I'm just letting y'all knowthat if y'all don't know what
XXX means, type it into yourGoogle search bar and watch what
pops up.
Calvin (51:19):
Yeah, at your own dispense.
Yeah, just be prepared.
Alethea (51:25):
Yeah, yeah.
Calvin (51:28):
Like I said, though, that's where it comes from.
We want to make music Honestly.
We want to have music where wecan dance to on stage and turn
up a crowd, and I feel like wedo a good job doing that, so I
think mission was accomplishedwhen it came to this album.
Alethea (51:39):
Yeah, because I have never and this is a compliment
in every sense of the word LikeI have never heard a more openly
gay song, and I fucking love it, I love it.
(51:59):
I was like, ooh, this is gay,gay, gay, gay it's so weird to
hear people like our music.
Calvin (52:06):
People say like they like it.
I still get like shocked, likepeople like our music.
So in hearing someone say thatlike still, it's just like what?
Because it'd be different ifpeople were like, oh, y'all's
stuff is trash, why y'alldropping stuff?
But people actually nowadaysthey'd be like we're not
dropping, we're not dropping,they don't care about skits.
Because we don't really makeskits anymore, really like that,
(52:27):
because we dove into year andwe're like we don't want to just
be comedians like I don't wantto do that we're.
I think we're entertainers ifanything.
Yes, yeah, entertainers.
Like we can go host clubs anddo stuff like that but and make
music.
But I don't think we're full-on, can be.
Alethea (52:41):
I don't want to be a comedian yeah, no, because
because you're don't, don't putyourself into, to to a box,
which is, which is somethingthat I do not have to tell y'all
.
Calvin (52:52):
Yeah, and also I don't want to be known as a gimmick,
because we're more than justwe're very like.
Yes, we are very fun to bearound, but I feel like we're
also inspiring and we actuallyare serious, we are serious
about all of our craft, likewhat we do.
The seriousness of it is like wewant to have fun and it's a
message behind it, regardless,like even though it's not like a
motivational or like sad songwhere you can relay a message.
(53:14):
It still is a message, though,because for our community to be
happy and loud and proud whenthey do listen to our music and
we are very we motivate peopleum, even like we're more than
just the funny, like we havelots of layers to me, to us so
like it's all a wholeentertainment personality that's
what I say.
It's a mixture of everythinglike you said, don't same.
Yeah, you're funny, but youalso entertain, like you say.
(53:37):
You're really really like yeahyou are funny.
But like also, when you can getserious people can.
I'm like people, I'm sure knowthey can look to you for
motivation yeah, thank you yeah,I do oh well.
Alethea (53:51):
Well, speaking of motivation, we have come to one
of my favorite segments of thepodcast, ask aletheia, where I
take questions from my listenersand we answer them on my
podcast.
(54:11):
So this question that I haveasked Alethea.
It says Alethea, I've beentrying to live authentically,
but every time I do, I losepeople, families, friends, even
relationships.
How do you keep choosing youwhen it costs you people that
(54:38):
you love?
Oh, I can answer that.
I'll let y'all answer this,because you were like tag me.
Calvin (54:46):
Yes, tag me in Tag team this, so okay.
So here's my my thing.
I always am true to my.
I always say for you I wouldsay stay true to yourself
because, regardless, you willcome to realize people only
loved you with conditions, notunconditionally.
So, um, like I feel like for me, I could relate to my father.
He didn't love usunconditionally, he loved us
(55:08):
with conditions.
So when he found out we weregay, that's when you, that's
when you realize who's there foryou and who's not.
So I would say, continue tokeep being you and keep, because
you're going to make a chosenfamily at the end of the day
You're going to.
You're going to create a familyof boys.
Yes, it is kind of.
It does start off kind ofdepressing and dark.
I'm not going to lie, I'm not.
I'm just I'm gonna be real.
But at the end of the day, youare going to choose your journey
(55:30):
, You're going to choose yourfamily and then it's going to
all fall into place.
So, keep being you and keepbeing authentic because, again,
we have chosen family.
We've we've connected with abunch of people that's not even
our relatives, blood related so,and they ride for us harder
than our family.
So, keep being you.
At the end of the day is all Ican say.
And you will just keep beingyou because you don't want to be
(55:52):
around fake people.
You want to be around peoplewho actually love all of you and
be all of you.
Don't dim your light for nobody.
Be yourself authentically.
Speaker 3 (55:59):
So I'll leave it at that.
Alethea (55:59):
I'll leave it at that Period.
Calvin (56:07):
Baby, I'm Y'all, don't even need to hear what.
Alethea (56:10):
I'm saying Okay, so listen.
So this is for anybody thatneeds to hear this, along with
my listener who asked thequestion Baby, choosing you will
always cost you, but it's goingto always cost you the wrong
people.
Oh, I love that.
The Twins (56:30):
Choosing you will always cost you the wrong people
listen.
Alethea (56:37):
If loving yourself makes people walk away, then
baby silk sonically, leave thedoor open and let them walk out.
Yes, let them, because thatmeans that they were not for you
anyway, they were not for youanyway, I got chills.
They were not for you.
Anyway, if loving you meanslosing them, then let them go.
(57:02):
Baby Elsa, that shit, and letit go.
The Twins (57:05):
Let it go Let it go.
You're not going to bother meanymore.
Alethea (57:11):
Let it go.
The Twins (57:13):
Let it go.
Let it go.
You want to make a trap behindthat.
Alethea (57:17):
Listen, because you do not need that in your life.
You don't need people in yourlife that's just going to
tolerate you.
You need people that's going tocelebrate you, that's going to
ride for you, that are going tolove you, for you and help you
grow and choose you even moreand help you to become your
(57:39):
favorite version of yourself.
Yep, so choose you, choose you,because that's what you're
supposed to do.
Period, period.
The Twins (57:55):
We ate, that we ate that Wait, nine minus one.
Eight, you cannot do that to me.
It was the crickets for me.
(58:16):
It was the crickets for me,bitch, that's what Eight.
Calvin (58:26):
You threw me on the spot .
The Twins (58:29):
It was the crickets for me.
Okay, wait.
Calvin (58:34):
Your laugh is gonna have me weak.
In person, I can already tell.
Your laugh is going to get meevery time.
The Twins (58:42):
Oh shit Okay.
Alethea (58:45):
I already came up with this game because this is the
first time that I've ever hadtwins.
So before I let you go, we haveto play twin it, twin it, twin
it, twin it, twin it, twin it,and y'all have to both answer at
the exact same time.
Okay, y'all have to answer atthe same time.
(59:09):
Okay, question number one whois the messier twin Me?
Me it takes longer to get readyMe.
The Twins (59:28):
Well, damn.
Calvin (59:31):
Yo, I'll say I want to go somewhere.
One, two ready, ready, I'malready downstairs.
He take hella long texting likehurry up, we gonna be besties
me.
Alethea (59:40):
Yes, calvin, we gonna be besties, because this takes
time.
Calvin (59:52):
I gotta look good this takes some time no, like it's
image, I don't gotta try no,with him he'll.
No, I won't have to either.
I can't remember what I'm gonnawear already.
He be looking for stuff.
Oh girl, I be dipping sauce.
Okay, but look, I won't have toeither.
The Twins (01:00:10):
I can't remember what I'm going to wear.
Already he be looking for stuff.
Calvin (01:00:10):
No, listen, oh girl, I be dipping sauce.
Okay, but look, no.
Okay, but he'll leave the houseand then he'll forget something
.
So I got to double check thehouse before we leave.
Now I don't do that, no more,okay, next question.
Next question who the sexiertwin?
Alethea (01:00:31):
Me.
Who the sexier twin Me?
Girl bye.
So who has the best fashionsense Me?
Calvin (01:00:37):
Well that's subjective though.
The Twins (01:00:38):
I would say both, both.
Calvin (01:00:41):
Yeah, I can't say one or the other, because I step in
too.
Because I tune into ourfemininity.
When we do fashion, love it Tothe the masculinity, so we match
each other like we complimentoh so, so like y'all like yin
and yang, yeah and then the yeahtwins, yeah dream collab go.
Alethea (01:01:07):
My baby daddy, my baby daddy, that's my baby daddy.
Yes, my baby daddy, that's mybaby daddy.
Okay, now we're gonna get Alittle gays.
Let's do it Top or bottom.
The Twins (01:01:27):
Top.
Well, so Okay, top or bottomTop.
Calvin (01:01:34):
Well, so okay, okay, okay.
So we're both tops when we gomeet people.
But if I have a connection withyou and we've known you for a
very long time, we could beversed.
But if I'm dating, for surewe're versed.
But, if I'm meeting someone Idon't know 2-2-2-L girl top, and
you know why?
Because people run their mouth,they run their mouth.
The Twins (01:01:51):
They'll be like oh I fuck they do.
Calvin (01:01:53):
Mind you, we're twins and we have a social media
presence too, so I don't wantpeople to be like, oh, I fuck
that twin, sorry, sorry.
Alethea (01:02:00):
Do you know how many times I said fuck?
The Twins (01:02:04):
Okay, you did.
Calvin (01:02:10):
I don't want people to be like oh I, because people be
messy, they really be messy.
I be very careful.
Who can have access to thebehind?
Because it's thick, yeah, it'syummy.
Alethea (01:02:19):
Yeah, it's exclusive, it's exclusive, it's exclusive,
yum yum.
Calvin (01:02:27):
So I'll say top, reverse Rihanna orverse Rihanna or
Beyonce Rihanna.
The Twins (01:02:36):
I just knew that what she's a Pisces too, she's a.
Calvin (01:02:41):
Pisces too, and she have Addie and she connects with her
audience.
Rihanna is exactly who we.
I feel like we transpirebecause she is not she's big,
but she still connects withcreators audience.
Rihanna is exactly who we.
I feel like we transpirebecause she is not she's big,
but she still connects withcreators and stuff.
Yeah.
Alethea (01:02:54):
Yes, yes.
That's why I love her, yes.
Calvin (01:02:56):
We're going to meet her one day, though I already know
that Child listen, I'm ready,I'm ready, I'm ready.
Alethea (01:03:06):
I'm going to meet y'all and we're going to just oh girl
, that's a given.
Calvin (01:03:10):
That's a given.
What is?
Alethea (01:03:12):
your go-to hype song before performing.
Calvin (01:03:18):
Oh, I can't answer that one.
Oh yeah, that one's not fast.
How do?
The Twins (01:03:23):
we have one.
How do?
Calvin (01:03:24):
we have one, oh, actually, okay, I have a life.
I would say De Niro.
Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
Oh yeah, de Niro, de Niro, our song it's unreleased,
the one that you heard.
Calvin (01:03:37):
We listen to our music way too much.
The Twins (01:03:39):
Yeah, that's what.
Calvin (01:03:39):
I'm saying we listen to our songs more than I listen to
anyone else no, but that's whatyou're supposed to do.
Alethea (01:03:50):
Bitch, when I'm getting ready bitch, I'll be like ain't
nobody so yes, yes, because,because bitch ain't nobody
better than me, cocky oh girl,you ain't.
Calvin (01:04:05):
And you said that with pure confidence.
That's what I like.
Alethea (01:04:10):
No, but that's how I feel.
You may do things differentthan me, but just because you do
it differently than me doesn'tmake it better, so nobody's
better than me.
Calvin (01:04:21):
Duh Clock.
That T the fuck Period.
No one can beat you.
So, yeah, no one can be betterthan you because, bitch, I am
God's favorite, like what you'rewelcome, so what?
Alethea (01:04:49):
what is next for the Spellman twins?
Tell us all things, spellmantwins, and where can we find you
?
Calvin (01:05:00):
So you can find us on every platform TikTok, instagram
, youtube.
Spellman twins with a Z, as youcan see right there.
What's next for us?
I think we can both say thisfashion.
We're really trying to get intothe fashion, because our next
album that we're going to beworking on not this one, but the
next one is definitely going tohave to give the look We've
been trying to dabble intofashion.
(01:05:21):
But we have so much going onFashion performing.
We have a show June 14th, whereJune 14th when.
Sacramento Pride, it's about tobe lit.
Sac Pride, sac Pride.
And then we have one in LAPride.
Yeah, and then.
Alethea (01:05:35):
Wait, that's at the end of May.
Calvin (01:05:41):
No June, no June.
June 14th is Sacramento yeah.
Alethea (01:05:47):
When is LA Pride?
Calvin (01:05:48):
It should be the 21st.
But, it's not going to be at LAPride, it's going to be at a
different event, but it's goingto be lit, though.
We performed at another eventthe same people and they wanted
us to come back Because theysaid we were lit, so they wanted
us back.
Alethea (01:06:00):
And June 14th we going to talk yeah.
Calvin (01:06:06):
So also, what's next?
We have another single.
We're gonna drop De Niro.
I don't know exactly yet, but Iwant to say it may be in the
May or early June, because wegotta still get the music video
prepared.
The cover art is done, though,and then we have our album.
That's gonna drop as well,hopefully on May, may 9th, oh.
Alethea (01:06:31):
Yum Yum music video is dropping.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
May 9th Yum Yum music video.
And if you follow theirInstagram and saw these visuals
of all this chocolate justslathered on top of each other,
I want to watch this video sobad.
Calvin (01:06:53):
Oh, you're going to gag.
It was so bad.
Alethea (01:06:57):
So I like to end every segment with what I call pass it
on.
So my last guest was TeontaeLoves, and his message was don't
worry about what anybody says,just be yourself.
(01:07:17):
Just just be you 24 7, just beyou.
What would your pass it onmessage be?
It could be something,something that you heard a like.
What would that message be?
Calvin (01:07:32):
I got one.
So I say, because I don't knowwhy I like this one Don't be the
moment, be the movement.
And I guess anything in life itdoesn't have to be music
related.
Be the movement, not the moment, because you want to be
remembered for you.
So don't be the moment.
Don't be a gimmick.
Don't be the moment.
Be the movement.
(01:07:53):
Be the people people want tolook up to and follow.
And that goes for your cousins.
Be the movement for them, I say.
For me, I would say always,don't give a fuck.
This is on a rebelliousstandpoint.
I'm very rebellious.
I will say I'm the personthat's gonna tell you don't, let
nobody tell you what the fuckyou can't do.
(01:08:14):
At the end of the day, you onlylive one motherfucking life and
you don't want to be 60, 70 andbe like, oh, I wish I should
have done this.
I wish I could have been this.
Because how many times godforbid how many times we heard
that, yeah, and I try to doeverything so I don't have to
worry, I came, came out veryearly, so I don't have to worry,
and be 70 and be like, oh, Iwish I came out.
No, do everything you want todo now.
All your passions, all yourgoals, all your desires.
Fuck what anybody got to say.
(01:08:35):
Be your motherfucking self andbe unapologetically.
You bitch, because when you'rein that grave, you're going to
be in the grave by yourself,no-transcript.
So keep living that truth ofyours, period.
Alethea (01:08:56):
Wait, Wait.
So so let me tell you that ifyou see me using this in my
videos, I'm going to tag youbecause of this Period.
The Twins (01:09:13):
You're going to do that at the end too In the video
.
You got to go Period.
Calvin (01:09:17):
Period.
This was amazing.
I really thank you for this.
I really appreciate it.
Alethea (01:09:27):
Oh, my God, thank y'all .
Y'all are living proof thatresilience, joy, authenticity
will always win.
Yes, y'all didn't just survive,y'all thrived.
Ooh, I love that Y'all thrived.
(01:09:50):
And you are still here.
Yes, you are still here.
Through everything, everythingthat you've overcome, every
obstacle that you had to face,everybody that left you behind,
that thought that you were goingto break.
(01:10:13):
You're still here, yes, andthat is not a reason to be proud
of you.
I don't know what is.
Calvin (01:10:26):
I love you so much.
I'm so glad We've been meetingsuch great people.
I feel like and I think God issaying something and we've been
meeting the correct people andthey're bringing the right
people in our paths and we wantto really, really thank you.
We were talking about this.
You're like, oh, she's so great.
I cannot wait until we meet you.
Alethea (01:10:46):
That has always been my prayer to send the right,
because I just don't takeanybody on my podcast like I
have to, like I have to kind ofknow a little bit about you,
yeah, and I, when I tell you Ilove y'all and let me be, I know
(01:11:06):
that I am not first, but I wantto tell you out of my mouth I
am extremely, extremely proud ofyou, uh-huh.
The Twins (01:11:20):
Don't make me cry Hold on no no.
Alethea (01:11:25):
You know, people don't say that, so no, but I'm telling
you this I am proud of you andeverything that you have
overcome, and I know that.
I know that I know that therewill be a time that everybody is
(01:11:45):
going to know your name.
There will be a time whereCalvin and Clinton are going to
be at award shows.
There will be a time that youare going to be on national TV
and they're going to be Spellmantwins.
Spellman twins, Spellman twinsthat's the name that you're
(01:12:06):
going to hear, because that'swhat you you are moving
mountains right now no, Iappreciate that you are moving,
I was, about to cry when I'm,when my nose starts.
No, like I just I just reallyneeded to tell you this from my
(01:12:27):
heart for people not only me,but people like my son that need
people like you to be rolemodels, because that's what you
are, thank you.
You are role models, so I lovethis for you, and anytime that
(01:12:51):
you want to come back, you aremore than welcome to sit in the
passenger seat with me.
Yes, okay.
Calvin (01:13:00):
Oh yes, we locked in.
We're going to be more in thepassenger seat.
The Twins (01:13:04):
We're going to be going to dinner.
Calvin (01:13:06):
Yeah, we got to go eat.
The Twins (01:13:06):
We got, we're going to.
Alethea (01:13:10):
Oh, do not go nowhere, because we gonna talk.
Everybody listening, watching,choose you, choose you, cause
there is nobody there ain'tnobody do it better than you,
ain't nobody do it better thanyou, you the best, you, you, you
, the best, you the best, youthe best, you the best, you the
(01:13:34):
best, you the best.
All right, remember that shitas you go out there and be great
in they face and I'm going toneed y'all to help me out,
because if y'all follow me, theny'all know what I'm about to do
y'all go out there and be greatin their face and, as always,
(01:13:55):
y'all have a good day on purposehere.
You're welcome, period, youwon't stop.
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