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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Dawn Burkes

Meet the aspiring rapper who plays one — two, actually — on TV

Art imitates life imitates art for Precious Way. She is not just an aspiring rapper, but she also plays two of them — that's right, two — on TV: Jojo on ABC's drama "Queens" and Luscious T on ALLBLK sitcom "Partners in Rhyme."

A lot of rappers can only dream of being featured on songs, much less TV shows, with her co-stars MC Lyte and Brandy. But the dream has come true for Way, who initially tried acting just to do something different.

"I was rapping, and I was having a good time with it," she said. "And I just hit a place in my personal life where I was kind of uncertain. And a friend of mine introduced me to an acting class and it became so fun and therapeutic and I fell in love with it … . Something about it just instantly clicked for me."

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