The Twins: Q&A with Dee & Ricky
You guys tend to jump from one extreme to another quite often. In a single days time you may go from a renegade photoshoot with Jadakiss to a fashion week party with Andre Leon Tally. Do you find it difficult to jump back and forth between different environments like that?
Dee: We are super versatile, its like our super power, actually more like a sixth sense. You gotta know when to say “Nigga” and whip out a bottle of Hennessy and when to talk about Anna Wintour and a bottle of 1945 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild Jeroboam.
Ricky: Word, from Jadakiss to Andre Leon Tally.
What do you think has contributed to your unique personalities and cultural sensibilities?
Dee: Growing up on Staten Island we went to separate schools. We got split up because we were always doing dumb shit. In third grade we were switching
classes and pissing teachers off. I got sent to a new school on the other side of the Island. Lets just say there were only three black kids that went there. Haha.
Ricky: Word. They kept me in the hood school.
It wasn’t too long ago when tall tees, baggy jeans and du-rags were standard issue for a lot of people in America. Nowadays, especially in New York, everyone is dressed like Arthur Fonzarelli with high tops. Who do you think have been the catalysts for such significant changes?
D+R: LMFAO! The Fonz, we wish people dressed like that. He was cool. A lot of stuff made people start dressing “different”, its what usually happens over the years. These celebrities seem to be running the show of these lemmings… haha, everyone should just start dressing like Freddie Mercury.
Photography: Nick Brandreth
