By Any Means

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Royalty Room! My name is Bella and we have a special guest named Calvin. Just kidding. It's me, Legal Queen LA. We're back. Thank you so much, Isabella, for bringing us into the show. That's my baby girl, @IsabellaGracebby_ on Instagram. Okay. But what's more important is that we have Calvin Thomas. What's that? Oh, I. You know, the vibe. Okay, we have to get some of the biggest. Let them know. Hold on, I gotta pop out real quick. The biggest, let them know. The biggest in the world. Why? Okay. Cause I'm not gonna lie, you've been doing your shit. Thank you. Since you came to LA. Thank you. Pretty sure you said you've only been here two years. Yeah, I've been here two years. And soon I came out here, I just foot on the gas, grinding like nonstop, just because I always came out here back and forth for like La Fashion week and like swim week. So I was just like. The plan was way bigger when I come out here. Go attack. Don't be out there playing around. So it just like, I'm hungry. I'm hungry for like, breaking that generational wealth to my family. I love that. And you have a son also. I do. I have a beautiful son. Shout out to my son, Kaden Gene Thomas. He's five years old. He's finna turn August . So he is the own, my own. But he's the best thing that ever happened to me. And that's why I'm out here grinding. That's why I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing while I'm out here. I love that. I think as far as what I've seen and what you can tell on his instagram, on his link tree, you know, all over the Internet. Stop playing. I think you're doing well for the breaking of the generational curses and cycles. Like you're setting him up and yourself for a very successful future. So that's amazing. I'm proud of you. Look at him and he fire. Look at him. Oh, I'm scared. Cause this dude, I'm scared cause he look way better than me. And I just know when he get older, he just gon be that guy. But I don't want him to be that guy. Cause I know how I feel. And you young, you feel like you the man. It is tough. But I want him to focus on like, important things in life. Cause I feel like even like me growing up, I always felt like I was too cool. And I wish and I always say, like, I wish I can go back and change certain things in my life. I wish I would never been so cool, you know? And that's why I tell people, like, I never try and chase fame. Cause it's just like, growing up, we ain't had, like, the TikToks, the Instagram. Instagram kicked in for us. Or probably like that. Tenth grade, nine, tenth grade, eleventh grade year. And that's when we were trying to all figure it out. We are the same age. Relax. Chill. No, I remember my teacher. My teacher made us make an instagram and make a twitter to do, like, extra credit assignments. I'm like, I don't want this. I want to be on Facebook. Bring back my facts, facts, facts. Yeah. It was a tough transition. Transition. You got it. Okay. Yeah. But now we're here. And if I was in high school today, I don't know that I'd make it like Instagram. Oh, now, I ain't gonna lie. I'm gonna be real with you. If I felt like if I was in high school now, I'll be even bigger. Cause I feel like today, kids, that's who's feeling it. It's okay to be cool. I feel like everybody was like, oh, he think he better than us. Oh, he think he cooler than us. Cause it's just like, back then, I popped it the same way I'm dressed right now. How I look. I was popping it. I always popped. I always came as. Calvin always came as the biggest energy. I never thought I was better than nobody. I always know, honestly. Believe you. You feel me? I have no doubt. Stop playing. Stop playing. My mama, like, free. Nah, mom, that's my. Where did you get this guy? That's my slogan. If anybody wanna know, on my mama for me. So if you ever hear anybody say that, you know where it came from. Yeah. Okay. You heard it here first. Stop playing. But before we get into the upbringing and everything, you do it all. So for the people who don't know, you're a model. I'm a model. I'm an actor, motivational speaker. Just a great human being. Somebody who's chasing a big dream. Cause I'm more than that. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a CEO. I'm everything. I'm just out here trying to chase something. Trainer as well. Trainer, tool. I also do personal training. So if you do need a personal trainer, get at me, hit me up. I don't got no problems. You know what I'm saying? Showing you how to make that body look good. You see it on my mama? Maybe for next summer. Oh, okay. I'm playing. Okay. I know what you were looking at. Oh, I know you were looking at him. If not, he's. Cause, listen, we could get into the model talk, because first of all, one, what got you into modeling fashion? All those types of things. And two, what is it? Like? Really? Like, I feel like I've been so immersed in the music space. You're obviously the first male model that I've had on the show. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for coming. How did you get into this space? I would say, for me, I always was the type of person who liked to dress, who always liked to look good. I feel like the fashion sense came from my grandmother and my uncle. Cause they always had, like, the craziest fashion. My uncle always had, like, the shoes and the clothes, and it's so crazy. Like, back then, my uncle was giving us Louis Vuitton. We was wearing Louis Vuitton in school, and nobody know what that was. They was not rocking it. They was rocking, like, the Levi's. They was like, the Levi's was kicking in. The LRG was kicking in. Like, people was not really wearing Louie, you know what I'm saying? So it's just like, I always. I always was, like, ahead of my time, and I feel like the fashion sisters came from, like, my family. Like, they showed me how to put the pieces together, you know? And when I got a little older, always, like, the dress, I always to kill everybody, because, like, days ago to the mall and buy their clothes, I was a little smarter. I say, I'm gonna go to the goodwill and thrift store and get all my clothes. Same thing. Just being small it up and saving a little more money, you know? And I always, like, like to wear, like, the blazers with the shorts. Like, I always, like, dress different. And I feel like certain people like, this, certain people can understand, especially coming from a hood sense. Like, certain people, like, what the hell you got on? You gay? Like, nah, nah, I'm me, you know, period. You know what I'm saying? And I always like to be different. So I just say, like, this, just always having, like, a fashion sense, going to the thrift store and styling myself. Like, that's where, like, it always popped off and just connecting with photographers back in Dallas. So I am from New Orleans. I was just gonna say, I am. From New Orleans, but I was raised in Dallas, north Dallas at that forest and skill metal wire. That's very southern. Y'all know where it's at. So I just kind of linked up with photographers, and I just went from there. And I always had, like, a passion of, like, looking good in my photo, especially when you had, like, the phones or whatnot. So I just said, you know what? I'm gonna take this serious. Once I got out, like, out of college and hitting like that, trying to find myself, and I always took photos, and I was like, I'm gonna take it to a different level. And that's why I say it all started at, and I'm proud of this. I'm proud. I'm proud of this. Tell me about this. Tell me about this. This Runway. This was for swim week. This was for swim week. You know, shout out to all hearts to say, let me come walk on the Runway. And the outfit explains itself. It just, he's him. It's him. And it's one of things that's, like, everybody can't rock it, so I will, you know, and you can put it together how you want to. Some people would not have chains on with it. Some people won't wear it like that. So I felt like I put it on to where, like, if I go outside, it's how I will wear it, you know? And I'm one hundred percent confident. Everything I'm doing. And when I put it on, what is it like? Like, I took modeling classes back in the ninth grade. One, I'm five foot three and a half. So I didn't really think that that was gonna work out very well for me, especially, like, Runway not, yeah, I'm too short. My torso is too short. All the things, like, it was an idea. It sounded good, but I like, after that, I'm like, yeah, okay, we're done. How is it, like, doing Runway compared to, like, photo shoots or other things? I mean, you have, like, the reality of you have to be tall, but you possibly could, like, still win. Cause you gotta realize female wear heels when they on the Runway. So they give you a couple more inches long as you can go on that Runway and really strut that walk. And, like, sheriff, like, you're physique. Like, you like, you beautiful. You got a nice body. So you could have go in that Runway and give it all you got. You know? I'm just being honest. So it just one of things. Just, like, when you're on the Runway, just be confident. Like, soon you get out there, it's about confidence. It's about, like, selling the pieces. It's about getting out there and everybody do it differently. I go out there, and I just give a little more energy. Because I just feel like doing like a regular little walk is not always the proper way to do it. You know, I go out there because I like interacting with the crowd. So I tell anybody, go out there and be confident and give it all you got. So go out there, look straight up to them cameras and just walk. Distrust it, like, the same way how females be walking up and down the street knowing they look good, knowing people looking, but they kind of still keeping their head focused on straight and not worrying about what nobody looking at. So that's what I say, like, go out there and give y'all. So in this. In this article that they did for the swim week, I noticed you are the only brown skin. Why stop playing? How is it being a black male model in this space? Do you feel like it's some inconsistencies, any type of. How do you feel about that? I mean, if I'm gonna be honest, sometimes. Sometimes it is hard being black and doing fashion because sometimes we get overlooked, you know, for certain things, which is okay, you know. Cause we still here. We still on the screen, period. You heard? So regardless, if we get looked over, our time gonna come. You know what I'm saying? So I just say, let me pipe down, cat, real quick. I got a little too cold. Real quick. This is all good energy, too. This is who I am twentyfour/seven hyper energy, great energy. But I was going to say, like, sometimes being black is not always in because I feel like certain people looking for, like, the whites, you know, the european thing. Yeah. You know, which is okay. But we also got people like me that's gonna sacrifice it and go out there and give it our all and represent my coach and my people. So regardless, if we get overlooked, I just tell a person, I just be patient. Cause you're gonna get overlooked. You're gonna. It's gonna be things that's not gonna go your way for no reason. They might pick another person just because the other person might doing something a little different than you not gonna do, you know? So I just say, if this what you chasing, just know what you're really chasing. Right. Regardless. Yeah. Okay. And besides, like the Runway, I see that you're all over the stores. You're doing nfts. Stop that. You're doing Xbox. Like, tell me. Look, I wanna give a huge shout out to supermodel management, you know? Okay. They honestly the reason why I got booked this Pacific thing with the Xbox. So I would. We love a good manager. Stop playing. All right. Shout out to Jim, shout out to Miranda. Like, I genuinely appreciate y'all from, like, still rocking with me. Cause I'm gonna be honest, I'm not still signed to them, but they still give me, like, paid gigs. Y'all heard what I said? Paid gigs. Not like the free ones. Don't get me wrong. You gonna have some free ones here and there. The majority of everything I be getting booked is paid. He said, make that money. You know, stop playing. So it just feels good to have somebody, like, behind you, pushing you, knowing that, you know, you got a good energy, you got a good look, you got a good spirit. Imma put you in front of some people that you can't put yourself in front of, right? And they got me booked this, and I did this. And this is a big thing. Cause I'm on all the Xbox controllers and headsticks around the world. It's a good feeling. Like, you guys gotta realize I come from nothing, yo. Like, I come from the bottom. I come from the gutter. I'm really from the streets. I ain't ever supposed to make it this far. A lot of, like, all my close friends are either in jail or still in the streets, or we just don't talk no more. Cause sometimes you outgrow people when you try to chase them. Cause when you chase it, a dream, it gets lonely. It gets super lonely. You don't got nobody. You gotta be your main character. You gotta be your main supporter. You gotta be a main cheerleader. Like, if nobody else gonna tell you that you did good, you got to yourself. Cause they not gonna tell you. They only gonna tell you when you really get the top or when you dead and gone. That's a fact. And I hate it. And I hate that fuss. Yeah, it's true. It's true. What was that experience, like growing up? Like, did you have any, like, struggles or things that, like, you felt would hold you back at that point, I. Would just say, like, now things a little different from back in the day. But I was gonna say my experience back in the day, I had an older brother, so I always was, like, in a mixed before my time shout out to my brother, Daron d boy. I always followed, like, his crowd. So I always had to, like, I felt like I always had to be seen or overdo them, you know? Cause they was older than me, so anything they did, I feel like I can just outdo them. Like, if they was either robbing people, beating people up, you know? Now I'm not pushing that. I'm not glorified. I'm just telling y'all my story, you know? Cause that's where I come from. That's the stuff we was doing back then. So I'll just say, like, my thing is not really having, like, the best relationship. My mom, too, you know? And we cool now. Like, thank God, like, us being cool now because, like, growing up, like, the relationship was trash and it wasn't her fault. She kind of. She got bipolar issues, and she had, like, a bad marriage, so things wasn't, like, perfect for her. But as you get older, you just see things from a different perspective. Like. Yeah, because now I'm a father myself, so I see, like, all right. I see what you're really going through, you know? Like, your parent really ain't put their all into you, so I see what you broken. Yeah. So I just. I feel like that's a such a special space to reach. Yeah, of course, I'm newly in that with my father. Of course. Of course. Myself. It was very. Yes, all the time. But now you hit. You hit, what, like, , , . Like, wait a minute. Yeah. If I was their age, if I was doing this, if I had a child at this point, like, I don't know. I don't know that I could have done it better than. I really don't. And that's what I'm saying. Like, as I'm grinding and I'm trying to be great, and, like, I see, like, damn. Life is not how people think it is, right. You know, obviously, if you ain't come from, like, a silver spoon or a good family, like, it's hard trying to, like, build your own family and keep everything together, you know? Especially when you don't talk every day. You're chasing a dream. You ain't gonna talk to your loved ones every day. You're gonna get that little time here and there. We talk to, but they not with you, and so it's a different feeling. So I just feel like when I'm getting older and all my friends, like, be with their family, and it kind of bothers me now, just, like, let me just boss up and make it right with my mom, you know what I'm saying? Because it really ain't nothing, you know? Now with my father, I don't know my real father, my dad, he got killed when I was growing up in high school over a phone, so he got killed. Yeah. Huh? Yeah, man, that's when those notes phones first came out, you know? Yeah, he had. I guess his friend had came from Atlanta and had a pack of phones brand new phones and they were selling them to people and I guess they sell them to these guys at North Park Mall, which is dumb. Like, Norpark Mall is like, what's the biggest mall out here? Like the biggest, like expensive mall. I just said, whatever. Expensive mall. Culver City. Yeah, I'm all, South Coast Plaza maybe. Yeah, girl said something like that. Awe fashion island. So it's gonna be cameras everywhere. Like cameras everywhere. Like supposed everywhere. Like you go, like if you walk in there, you on camera. Okay. They got the cameras now. Like, you know, you walk in somewhere and they can like probably like get your, like your facial. Yeah. You know it recognize you. So I guess the guy went back to their neighborhood and it was like, they want some more phones. And my, my dad and his friend went to the place, but when they seen the address, it was like a dead end and they had knocked off the street. Call lights out. So you just go in there like this. Pitch black. And at that time, like when you were hustling, you gon go anywhere, get that bag, you know, especially not really. You scared? You ain't really scared of nothing. Like, you gotta get this money. So I guess, like the kid had ran up to the car and he was gonna do like, I guess his, he was gonna do a snatch and run, but his partner was like, man, we gonna rob them. So I guess they had walked. The dude had walked to the car and like, give me everything. And I guess from what I was told, the dude tried to drive off. And once he tried to drive off, like, he has the car got second neutral. I don't know. And my dad got shot like nine times. Yeah. All in the face and that. And that's the, that really, like, changed me. I just got chills. I'm so sorry. It changed me for like, the better and the worst. Yeah. Knowing that, like, you ever met a person where like, nobody in the world can, like, ever mess with them, could like you feared them so much where like, you know, like, they don't play about you. So if they ever do something, like, if somebody ever did something to me, he was, he was out there head first. He was gonna make something, make sure nobody played with us. I can say that, you know, so it did suck. Especially being like, in eleventh grade, the popliest person in your neighborhood, in your school, and you gotta, like, walk around like you, okay. Face smiles and feel like you good when you. And especially being a man. Yeah. Being a black man. Yeah. Like, you can't just unfortunately cry. You can't you can't show your emotions, can't let things affect you. And I hate that, by the way. Bullshit. Couldn't. It's bullshit. But I do think that the black community and men are grasping the mental health thing. Thanks. Thanks. And it's being talked about so much more. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's a kid who cried now. Yeah, you better go cry. So. Yes. So nice to see. And something I had realized with my sister. Cause my dad is Latino. He's machismo. Very, you know, tough, strong. I'm first generation on his side. All right, so third world countries, we're not discussing the mental health. Hispanic men, the latino population of men. We haven't reached there yet. And we gonna. This is gonna be a whole nother episode. I'm gonna find some young machismo to sit right in this chair. But, like, I'm really proud of the way that the black community is moving forward in mental health facts. So I'm so sorry that you went through that, but I'm sure it did make you exactly who you are today. %. I'm glad that you're able to talk about this. Like, it's hard. It's really hard. I cannot imagine %. Especially. Cause, like, before that, I had went to jail. My child changed the subject. But no, go ahead. I went to jail this year. Episode. My tenth grade. Yeah, I went to jail for a whole year for being a police officer. Wow. So I already realized. I already missed that year. Then, boom, like, this was right before. Yeah, imagine, like. And then imagine, like, you going in jail. Then you coming out of jail a whole different type of person. Cause they sent me off to boot camp. I still was a juvenile, so I was in jail for a little bit. They sent me off the boot camp, and that's when I learned how to really be a man. That's how I learned structure. That's how I learned how to clean, how to work out, how to know how to, like, deal with your anger, you know, how to read, how to write. Like, I learned that from the boot camp and meeting beautiful people. Like, chef. Shout out to chef Janice. She gave me my first job. This is a five star restaurant in Holland park, you know. Oh, wow. So I just imagine, like, coming home from that, then, boom, he getting killed. You gotta, like, suck that in and, you know, like, your. And this is all in high school. Yeah. Wow. And then transition. My twelfth grade year, my little. We call it. I call him my little brother, but he really my first cousin, but he my little brother. Cause we all had like, we all grew up. Everybody got a brother. Yeah, we all grew up together. And he killed himself in a high speed poly chase, you know. And it's just like taking l's at the l's, at the l's at the l's. Cause it's just like, yo, pops, that's like, yo, that was like, that was like my own security, realistically. That's like my security, even though I can handle my own. But he was like. He always said, calvin, will you make. That's gonna be your security. I got you. Cause he like, he a real, like, he a street. He a real street nigga. So you like, I don't have. I don't want no faintness. Let me your security. I said, man, you could do that. And then my little brother, he was like, he was also a rapper. He would have been like the next NBA young boy. If he'll never die, swear to God, he would have been like, way bigger. He would have been like the biggest thing coming from New Orleans. But he's like, new Orleans is like one of the things everybody be in a high speed podcast, still in cars. And he ended up killing himself. But he a soldier, though. Cause he got in a high speed poly chase and they had ran into a pole. He the only one survived. They had a little girl in there. She got killed. She went through the window, split her head open. And then his best friend had died in the backseat off just a collision of the crash. So it just like, I guess him, by him seeing like, the little girl that was his stepdaughter, seeing her into his best friend killed, I guess he just blew his brains out. And just like, dad was like a mother. Like, that was like my brother, my best friend. It was also like my soldier, you know. So it just like, I took l after l at the l and still trying to, like, keep it going. Still with a fake smile, still trying to keep it, like, pushing and chasing this dream. That's why I tell people, like, I don't really chase no fame. It's about the money for me. Cause I already lost the people who I genuinely wanna be here with. I mean, my big brother still alive. Shout out to d boy once again. You know, he gonna be with me once the time come. But I just feel like once your whole group not there, you gonna be feeling the same. Because now you got to replace them with stranger people that, you know, they don't move the same way you move, or they don't hold the same loyalty as you hold, but they just cool people. And you know what I'm saying? You gotta just. You'll just let them be around. Cause you don't really care, you know? So it's like, even being out here, like, that's things I think about that keep me motivated to keep me going and chasing the dream, chasing the goals. Cause it's people that could have been way bigger than me, and they died. And I'm here for a reason. And this shit is hard, trying to, like, keep it going by yourself. You gotta, like I say, you gotta be your own fan, your own chili. Because the people that you really want hop on that phone call where you hit that motivation, they not really here. You know, I hear from other people, but I won't be knowing if it's genuine or not. Cause you only. You don't hear all the time. You just hear hearing there. We show when you do successful things. Yeah. And show, like, positive. Yeah. If you don't post the dang on call, I promise you, dangling this hit you up. You good? What's up? Now they wait for your instagram post. They waiting for stuff like that. Right. That's why I say I don't really chase no fame because obviously I'm a modern actor that comes with what I'm doing. So I'm not chasing it. I'm some more chasing the money so I can change my family's foundation. I want to be well. And I said, I said, don't get it twisted. Oh, I'm always, we definitely gon get it. We can't get it back. What does that mean? Why? You're doing a lot. You're doing a lie. You're doing everything right. You're doing all of these things. And now, like, even knowing all of the things you went through, and I know that's just a brief, you know, two, three years life. That is a lot to overcome. And it could have taken you out. It could have, like, could have went so many different directions. So, one, I'm proud of you. Two, congratulations. Because a lot of people don't even make it out of hometown facts. Facts or hometown mentality. That is. Is something that needs to be escaped from. Like, you know, so what. What are you doing now to, like, give back to the community and. And, you know, kind of pay it forward so other people can follow your path. So, um. So things I do, I've been doing before any of this, I always pass food out to the homeless. You know, I try to get the clothes off my back. If you go. If you go on my page, you can see I'm passing out food space on jute. You know, they were trying to give me the comments. Hold on, let's talk about that. You know, talking about, wait, wait, wait, hold up. Someone talking about, oh, you ain't have no napkins, you ain't have this. Let's make something clear. I'm doing what I can. First of all, don't complain on the Internet. Why don't you go do it yourself? You gotta realize some people get paid to do this. Some people get, like, from their business, they get like, the money back. I'm spending this, my personal money. I'm out here grinding like everybody else. You know what I'm saying? I'm not wealthy yet, so I'm doing what I can do. Like disappreciate. Like, I'm out there, but I'm not from LA, I'm from New Orleans, raised in Dallas, Texas. So you don't. And make that clear. I don't gotta be doing this shit for nobody. I do this. And let's make some clear. When I post it online, when I post it, so people can see it, it's for motivation, motivational purpose only. So the younger people who are looking up to me or whoever, older, young, they can be like, you know what? He motivate me. Do that. And I get those messages in my dm and I appreciate them people. But when I do stuff like that, just know. It's like it's off love. It's just genuine love. And I try to do that. Cause I know what I've been through, and I know I can help the next person. Or when I went to Dallas, shout out to my boy Chris. He got his company. You with faces. When I was in jail, I was at this place called youth village, like a boot camp for kids. And I went back there and I talked to all the kids in there and I'm telling them, like, look, go chase some dreams, go chase some goals. But the most important thing I felt like I told them was like, go change your life. Go buy your mama house. Go buy your grandma on house. That's when you become a boss. That's when you become a real man. That's on the top of my bucket list. Buy my mom's house. And like I told you already, I ain't have a perfect relationship with my mom, but I be damned if I don't do that. That's always been on my bucket list. And I have a little sister, too, so my mom, like, I got so much respect for her and I got to see how hard she worked to make sure, like, my sister life so much better. And I got so much respect for that. Cause I know, like, growing up, like, she couldn't do what she wanted to do, but she did what she can, and I appreciate that. Growing up now, at first, I'm like, girl, what the hell is this? This prepaid phone. She can't do shit with this. I don't want this. But you get a little older, you see how times was hard, and she did what she could do, like, the little money she could squeeze out and pay for something. So I just appreciate it now. So it just, like, when I could get back to the people just, like, fall talk, follow young dudes, females, whatever you are, whatever you like, go buy your mom a house. So I'm like, I'm really glad that you said that, because grandma, I'm looking. I'm. Grandma. What? I'm looking right at you. So my dad, like I said, he came to America from Honduras when he was, like, nine. I'm first Gen on his side. So he is, you know, a partner in his firm. He does something different than me, but, like, he's a partner in his firm. He's supporting the family. He's doing all these great things. And my grandma doesn't understand the american idea of, you know, growing up in the third world country, if your kids are taking care of you, that's not a good thing. You know what I mean? She's not doing what she need to do. But in America, the goal is to buy your mama a house. The goal is to buy a grandma house. And that's what my dad has been able to do for her, for us, for the family. And, like, my. All my uncles, that all three of them are engineers in different type of engineering. And she'll brag about it, she's happy about it, but she still don't want them to do shit for her. And I'm just like, grandma, just let the men provide. I ain't gonna lie, though. Be real. I could appreciate a person like that. She's so good. Cause a person like that, she's so good. A person like that is not gonna take everything from you. You gotta realize, you could buy a person a house, a car, and then you. And then they still want more you. Like, God damn. I just. Nah, you know what I'm saying? It just, like, you can't. So you gotta. You gotta cherish people like that. Yeah, they go into small things. Cause now you gotta realize, social media best everybody head up so everybody want the fanciest stuff, the biggest house, the nicest cars, which is. Yes, that's the goal. Of course. I'm not saying that, but just be grateful if I buy your porsche, be grateful. The poorest. Listen, I'm ready. Go and give me a bag of chips. Girl thought of me. Come on. Oh, she likes these ones. No, simple. So that's. So that's why I can admire about your grandma. Like, she just genuine, like, I'm okay. You know what I'm saying? Cause some people, you could bomb some, and it's not enough. And you can spend your last, earn hard earned money on it, and it's not enough. So I can appreciate somebody like, you know, I'm good with this. Thank you. That's something my sister has brought up recently as well, about how society has basically melted men down to money. And that's it. It's hard to females now. The value is only money. And I don't believe that. Like, I, we not, we not go get into my relationship history, but, like, I'm, I'm the breadwinner, I'm the, the provider. I'm the, the person who's doing all the things. And I've never, like, amounted men to money because I don't want nothing. Like, I do everything for myself and I can't do, I can't do it myself. My daddy gonna do it for me. You know what I mean? So it's like, I've never been that. But the way that society makes you think, it's like, if I'm doing that, I'm wrong. And no one wants a, no one wants an independent woman now. Everybody just wants a dumb girl who's just gonna sit and, you know, just listen and be at home and she gets taken care of. No, like, I want to be taken care of too. Yeah, but I'ma still work and I'ma still take care of you at the same time. Like, I just think everything is just so backwards and just. Yeah, like, now the dating scene is about, like. And I ain't gonna say everybody, but I'm gonna say the majority of everybody. Like, the females now, they want, they want a guy with all the money now. Yeah. Five bands on the first date. Like, you're out of your mind. Taco Bell, you want to burrito? Cuz the reality, the reality of it, if, if I'm looking for somebody and looking to grow long term with somebody, you want to know if, like, is she gonna like when things go? Because how life, life be going good sometimes, then life be like shit. Like, what's the next move? You want somebody that's gonna have your back at all times, you know what I'm saying? And I promise you, a man will cherish a woman. Especially, like, helping them out, showing the way, like, when they down. And also, like, I love women that can, like, put their man on too. Like, who. It don't matter who the bread one. It's about, like, when we put our money together. Yeah. Can we keep it going? Building something? You go keep it flowing. Cause, like, at the end, they ask a lot of. I seen a lot of dudes who was up, spurred their money on female, and they fucked up. And it's their demise. You know what I'm saying? Which is cool. But it's one thing. I'm not looking for somebody who date my pockets. I'm looking for somebody who date my heart, you know? And this society is hard. Date your heart. I don't even be looking for. And expand the pockets together. You feel me? Nowadays, you can't even look. You gotta, like, you gotta just be focused on your dreams and goals. Cause like I said, especially in LA these days, a lot of people are trash. And I'm sorry to say that. And dudes, too, you know? Don't be sorry to say that. I see from every angle I'll be seeing, I be like, man, it ain't how it used to be. Listen, I'm about to start. I put it on TikTok already. I'm about to start a little series. I don't know if it's gonna be a podcast. A little la dating horror stories. I'm telling you. Y'all keep hearing me talk about it. Y'all go here. Fuck Arisa Tisa. Okay. Y'all have no idea what your girl has been through out here, okay? Five years of nightmares and y'all let. What happened? Oh, damn. Whoo. Damn. What happened, y'all? What we doing? Come on. Oh, you interviewing me now? You get one question. Go ahead. What's your type of meaning that you like? That's the whole problem. What's your type? That's the whole problem. I feel like I don't necessarily have a type, I don't think. But everyone else would say that I do have a type. What's your type? What type? That camera I'm playing. Even the producers leaning on this. Yeah, they got type. Oh, I got three words for you in the studio, right? I like being in the studio like a rapper. Like a rapper? Like, as in, like, what type of rapper? Like trap rapper or like, hi, lil baby. Oh, she won't wham. I've been in the Cooper, and I'm talking. I been a coop, and I'm popping the chicken. Listen, don't do him. Nah, I like what you mean, but. That is my problem. And I. You know, if. Listen. Yeah, I don't know. I, like, I'm involved in the music industry. I like. I don't know. I want to be like Keisha and Gucci. You know what I mean? Like, I don't want to be an artist. I don't want to be Cardi and offset. I don't want to be Beyonce and Jay Z. You're that. But I want to be me, and I want you to be you, and I want to support you, and I want to do this thing together. But it's just like, they just want a thousand bitches instead of one that's down. You got to be careful. You say you want take down Gucci. And Keisha, you know, she went through. A lot with Gucci, and I'm that. Type of girl, but a lot of women, a lot of women can't do what she did either. When that man did Jill, he had nothing. He gave her all the money, and she turned that little money into some big ass money. And then guess what? Feel me? He put her on a pedestal like she deserves. Yup. So, yes, I am Akeisha, but ain't nobody a Gucci. Like, this is the problem, bruh. This is. All right. Okay. Gucci, man. Listen, we could take zero six Gucci, man. Yeah, okay, listen, I would see Gucci Mandev. Listen, I shouldn't even be telling y'all about this. I'm a lawyer. But guess what? Limewire, YouTube, Mp3. I got everything Gucci ever put out. Everything Nikki ever put out. Everything Wayne ever put out. Listen, I'm telling you. But, yeah, so that's the one question. You got la dating horror stories coming soon. Yay. Stop playing. Okay, so obviously, we met at Cathy J. Hood's community cleanup. Amazing. He was already out there acting a full. But obviously, we could tell you're in the gym. Obviously you're a model. What do you do to look like you, to feel like you like, what's your. What's your daily life like? So, with me, I always wake up three thirty a.m. every single day. First I prayed and I start brushing my teeth, getting ready for the gym. So I'm in a gym no later till anything from like, four a.m. to four thirty minutes gym, and I'm grinding, and I'm getting my. And that's, like, how I start my day off. It's like, it's part of my meditation and praying, like, hitting the gym, that's when I have, like, a perfect day. You know, go work out anything from, like hours to hour and a half, get it in, eat my oatmeal. And I go in there and start looking for casting calls, and I just be grinding. You know, it never stops. It starts at three thirty, but it never stops. And that's what people don't realize about, like, a grinding. When you chasing a dream, you gonna start early, you're gonna go to sleep super late, and you got to wake up the next day and give it all you got. Once again, it's going to suck like this. What part of the grind is so you have to be disciplined first. You got to have a schedule. I'll tell you, anybody who's chasing some, especially when they come into a different city, have a schedule set up, wake up early, go to the gym, go work out, eat healthy, and eat healthy is anything from broccoli chicken meal prep day. Like, go, like, don't be smart about your money, too. Like, go to, like, the dollar tree, the -cent store. Go buy, like, a chicken and rice broccoli kind of meal, and meal prep. And that's what I do. And I eat my little meal preps, and I'm going out, I'll drink my smoothie, and I do twice a day in the gym. FYI, if people don't know, I go at three thirty in the morning, and I'll bounce back again. Can't even go once a month. Well, now, see, that's why I'm saying you gotta, you know what I'm saying? You gotta come with a hot boy, and then we can just, you know what I'm saying? Do it like that. Hot girl, summer 25. Why? Yeah. I say if you chasing some, be disciplined. Wake up early, and go to sleep at night, and it's not easy. Wake up at 330. Don't go to bed at 330. No, I mean, you can't. I mean, everybody have a different lifestyle, everybody chasing something different. So if you chasing, like, a club scene or a party promoter, you're gonna be going to sleep around that time or a studio session. Yeah, that's just the reality. Yeah. Facts. That's just the reality of it. But you also could be like the other rappers, like Gunnar, I feel like he go to sleep late, he still be in that gym and still getting it in you know, so you gotta just see how you gotta be disciplined. Oh, Kevin Gates. Kevin Gates goes, he be in the studio late, then he'll still get up and hit a gym. That's one of the person I look up to, him and Rick Ross, you know, wow. Yeah, that's interesting. Stop playing to mention Rick Ross in a gym compared to. Hold on. That was like, no, no, Rick, you know what's crazy, though? I'm gonna tell y'all something. I'm gonna tell y'all something. That's crazy. If y'all go watch Rick Ross story in the morning, see as people be sleep on, watch his story. This man is up early in the morning, just like me. And he may end, obviously his workout, probably not gonna be my workout. Everybody got a different workout, but he's still up there in the morning glory. Morning glory morning. He walking, he doing, he can do, but you gotta realize at the end of the day he's not being there. He don't even gotta do these things. He's still do it. And I say I look up to him mostly like the business aspect of it. Like, like having, like, yeah, the biggest boss, having his money, having all the real estate, having the wing stop. Like that stuff. I look up to, I look up like giving my son like one day, like his own business. Like, huh, son, huh? Now you manage that. I want to see what you can do when you manage that. Or even Lil boosie. I know a lot of people like Lil Boosie, but what he did with his home structure, his family, his family. He built all his kids houses. And I don't want to hear anybody talking shit about the layout, about the size, what family housing have, airport. What, what community of condos have you built? Airport. And where would you put it in your. Anyways. And that's, and that's motivation because on his property, he's the owner, not the buyer, he's the owner. And for me, it's just like I'm a shout out to Orleans. I'm, you heard now he from Baton Rouge, but we shout out the whole New Orleans because he definitely hold us down. Shout out to BG because he's free now. But I just want something like that. I want to be able to wake up every day of my life and I already pictured, I already see it having my own, probably my own land where I got a pond over. I can go fishing with my son. I have a beautiful wife and we have more kids and everything just going well. We all waking up early, going workout together. You know, my son going to a private school, like, got nice cars, got a good business, you know, super wealthy. But not, like, overdoing it. Like, I don't got to have cars. This gave me five or seven. And three of those gonna be classic. It's gonna be like, an old school Range Rover. . A BMW convertible. It's like, I'm chill, you know? Cause I wanna make sure, like, my pocket's good, my family's good. Like, the looking flash and all that. That shit's cool. But when you really got it even feel better, you know? I love that. So that's where I'm at with it. The person that you are is so needed. Like, everybody is just so serious. Everybody is just so. is a. Is a scary place. Yeah, it is. So I appreciate that. You are very unserious. Oh, no, I'm me. Yeah, I'm me at all times in the end. And it's. But sometimes it gets sucked, though. Cause, like, you can be you. And certain people hate when I'm like this, though. Some. Cause, like, you gotta realize we walking in the rooms. These. I'm just speaking on models when I'm speaking on the whole LA. When you walk into rooms and you carry yourself. I care to. Everywhere I go, I'm like this. Oh, y'all heard it. Y'all know the vibes. I'm here. Yeah. What's up? I'm me. And like I told you earlier, I'm not saying I'm better than nobody. I'm gonna be Calvin at all times. Cause I'm a light at the end and I'm a Leo. The biggest July night. You're. I tell em again, July . I see the. All right. Yeah, you can't. For me, you can see it. All right. But it's like when you have that energy like this, you. When you alight and you. And you just. You confident in yourself. Yeah. Certain people hate that. You can't. A lot of people. A lot of people can't pop it like that. Can't. You know what I'm saying? A lot of people can't beat themselves. And I go everywhere like this, you know? And it's obviously, like. It's different. Different roles that you have to play, but always being yourself and I feel like that. Play a lot of roles. That's one of the biggest compliments, I feel to me, is that I'm authentic. Yeah, I feel like you are very authentically yourself. And that doesn't happen out here at all. And everybody, like you said, everybody don't know how to play the like different position because I can go from like the star Calvin. Oh, I to nominate security. Now I'm watching everybody. I'm watching everything. I don't know if you noticed that when we had went to a car, we was downstairs. I'm watching everything. Like, I'm always on point. I'm ready for walk. I'm ready. Don't think y'all gonna just run up on a nigga like me. I didn't look like this. Hey, I don't mean no home to nobody. I don't want no problems, nobody. But if you think you gonna take some or you think you gon it ain't gonna go your way, that's only imma say, I promise you that I'm a genuine person and I love everybody and I want everybody to win genuinely. You gotta wait your turn. But I know how to play every role, you know. I'm telling you, I go from the star to security to the hype man to the people. The hype man. I feel like that's the biggest. If you had a Venn diagram of yourself. I feel like hype man is like the biggest. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Cuz I'm on a person. I can walk into every room and hype everybody up. I don't care if you tall, straight, gay, whatever you are. I know how to interact with everybody. Everybody love me because I'm genuine. I don't ex nobody. I don't cancel nobody out. I don't care what you are. I'm going in there and I'm hyping everybody up everywhere. And I appreciate it. I appreciate you for coming to sit down with us on the royalty room. What would you like to leave the people with? Advice, thoughts, prayers? Whatever I would say to everybody who's watching and listening. First of all, thank you all for watching and listening. But whatever dream you got, keep chasing it, keep going. Of course it's going to get hard. Of course it's some days you're going to want to give up. I've been there. I'm there. Only thing you got to do is pray. Pray to God every single day and have that and pray how you want to pray, man. Stop worrying about what everybody else saying. Like, I be talking to God. Like, God, what's going on? You probably be my nigga. You probably my dog. Like, what's up? Like, I'm out here grinding. And I feel like some days like going, be going good and some days be going bad. Like, and he and he know we got this relationship where I can come to him as Calvin, as me. So I just say, whatever you doing out there, just keep chasing and keep going. Have those conversations. Be patient with yourself. That's something I'm trying to learn slowly, to be patient. But don't wait on nobody. Don't wait on nobody. However long it gets. Get up, go get it. Go chase them dreams, go chase them goals, and you will succeed. You gotta have faith in everything you doing and never give up and never wait on nobody. Love. Wow. Why? Why I keep trying to tell y'all? What are you talking about? Stop playing with me like I'm one of them. Why? Whose man's is this? Bro, I don't know where I found- I don't know where I found your ass, but tell the people where they can find you too. Stop playing. You can follow me on Instagram and TikTok, iam_calvinn. That's c a l v i n with one mo’ N. And that's @iam_calvinn Instagram, TikTok. I was gonna tell the only fan. I don't know, but I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. I saw. I saw a billboard the other day. I'm stuck. Hold up. Before we close out. Go ahead. What you thinking about that. The billboard? Fuck the billboard. The onlyfans. I mean, get your money, honey. I ain't subscribing. I ain't nobody. I ain't paying to see nobody. You get yours free. I pay. He's stupid. Anyways, I seen the billboard. It says, delete your onlyfans. Stop simping. So is it, like, are the shorties simping or are the people who subscribe? And I'm gonna be real, and this me? Cause a lot of people gonna be real when men do. All these fans, the reality is gonna be mostly dudes. I'm gonna be. That's just gonna be %. Like, when people be telling me to do it, it'd be mostly dudes. It'd be females here and there. But, like, dudes gonna spend on you. And let's make some clear. I'm not gay. I don't like dudes. But if they support me, shit, I don't give a shit what you like. Shit, it's all love. You hear me? It is all money. Green and blue. I don't care. And that's. That's true. That's something. Yeah. Think about. Because where. Where else would you have that access? Where else would you have. Have that opportunity? Wow. Yeah. So, yeah. Okay, well, anyways, I guess if you make onlyfans. You can find it through his instagram whenever. Stay tuned. I'm still thinking about. I probably don't do it, but just in case. Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. Nah, that's what they made Instagram subscriptions for. What, you mean like the. We gotta have an off camera? Yeah, listen, I'm a tea later, but you already know what it is. It's the royalty room. We're on season 2. So, so happy to have my guy Calvin here. Thank you. Legal Queen LA on all platforms like subscribe, comment, questions, concerns, let me know and we'll see y'all next time. And keep chasing them. Dreams and goals. Love.