Issa Rae’s new HBO Max comedy Rap Sh!t alongside KaMillion.“This girl moved to Miami and moved right in the trenches,” KaMillion tells ESSENCE, speaking to her co-star’s commitment to the role. “I’m like, you got all this money girl, you could be living in a… and she lived right around the corner from where we were filming in the projects just so she could relate to the character.”Defending her choice, Osman, who grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, interjects, explaining, “My character lives in Little Haiti, I’m not about to go to Miami and live in South Beach when my character lives in Little Haiti.
I’m not messing this up for Issa,” she adds, laughing. I’m gonna be there with the little Haitian grandmas.”Osman and KaMillion star as Shawna and Mia, former high school friends who reconnect and embark on a journey to become rappers — each with different motivations — in the series.
And for Florida native KaMillion, there couldn’t be a more perfect part.“I get to represent the legacy of the women in my family,” KaMillion says of her role. “Everything they worked so hard for.
Everything they fought for. Everything that they didn’t believe could come true. My mom wanted to be in show business but her mom didn’t believe it.
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