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DomiNque Perry Talks Role on Peacock Original Series 'Bust Down' & 'Rap Sh*t' Issa Rae's New Series
Apr 3, 2022
DomiNque Perry made a splash in the industry when she premiered as Tasha on Issa Rae's 'Insecure', and has been continuing her ascend as she is starring in the new Peacock Original series 'Bust Down'. She talked with Sway In The Morning about the role and much more.
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DomiNque Perry Talks Role on Peacock Original Series 'Bust Down' & 'Rap Sh*t' Issa Rae's New Series
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Yo, that was a clip from the new series on Peacock. It's called Bust Down
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That voice was Nina played by the one and only Dominique Perry
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DB, break that down who Dominique Perry truly is, DB. Oh, yeah. Dominique Perry is..
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Wait, no. I'm going to let DB do it. No, that's my kind of girl right there
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Back, Tracy G, already. DB! All right, now DB got some for us
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Well, she is. Okay, I'm done. Well, yesterday we were talking about that
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We were celebrating DJ Premier's birthday, and DJ Premier attended Prairie View University, which is the same college that she went to
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She also went to TSU, and I'm familiar with both colleges because I went to UNT
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So I'm familiar with both of those universities, very esteemed, distinguished universities
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And so from there, she went from dancing to acting, all forms of entertainment, and she played Tasha on Insecure
0:52
She's going to be playing Nelly on Issa Rae's upcoming series, Rap Shit, which is, I believe, set to premiere this summer
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And right now she is playing Nina on Bust Down on Peacock
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Available right now. Please welcome Dominique Perry. Hey. Hey. DP. DP. Come on
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Yo, you know what? Let's let you do it. You was ready to do it. Tell me who Dominique Perry really is
1:14
No, you know, now I'm on the spot. No, literally he got me like everywhere
1:19
Yeah, I'm like, I really don't know what to say. Everything he said. That's what everything DP said
1:23
That was good. Thank you very much. But you know what was so interesting, what appealed to me so much
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and I've been telling you this off the mic, is I love a great journey. Oh, yeah
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I love a great journey. You were born and raised in Houston
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Born and raised in Houston, Texas. Like, literally. My family is from Louisiana, Houston
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We got those Creole, Louisiana roots. Okay. But, yeah, Houston, Texas is where I'm made
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I love my city. I always go back a lot of times because I have my daughter. So what's your Etouffee game like
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Let me tell you something about me, Swag. Okay. So I can't really cook, but I'm learning
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All right. And so my etouffee game, I plan on cooking all of the southern dishes, like, by the end, by the summer
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Okay. I started my cooking journey, so everything has been pretty good. I make some mean salmon burgers, okay
2:09
Okay, okay, that's good, because I saw Zen, which is your daughter that you mentioned, and she's only three years old, Heather, but she looks like she's a sixth grader
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That's how tall she is. It's her dad. It ain't me, as you can see
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It's her dad. He's like 6'8", 6'9". Damn. Yes, literally. You wasn't scared of that
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I climbed a tree. Hey, come on. I got stuck on the limb, and there she is
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Hey, Tracy, this is our homie right here. It was lit. Absolutely
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It was lit, you know. It was fun. It was fun. You got swayed blushing
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He got stumped. I'm dead. Yeah. Could you do a short dude though, Dominic
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Could you do a short dude? You know what? Like same height as you? I could actually
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I actually don't mind that. I think it's just, it's the person. It's the swag
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I like that. It's the character. You know what I'm saying? It's all about how he presents himself
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If he confident, then we can do that. It ain't going to be no tall tree I got to climb
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Right. Back on that tree, damn it. It's a little shrub. It's a little shrub
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exactly exactly it's just a little shrub i don't know y'all need me to leave the room right now
3:28
and she's beautiful your daughter yeah they're gonna be lined up she really is thank you i mean
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her dad her dad's an actor too yes we actually met um he was on insecure with me yeah so we met
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um not on the set but we met like at a fitting at a wardrobe fitting was it at was it post
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insecure yeah it was it was basically i was you know i was at my fitting uh-huh and shout out
3:53
tyana she did the wardrobe for insecure and she was like you know there's this new dude he's gonna
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be playing molly's boo and he just want to meet you or whatever so you can just stay a little bit
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after your fitting i said okay no problem so i met him he came in i was like oh wow you was tall
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um and the first thing he kind of mentioned was my sex scene and i said you know i was on like
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more episodes than that you know so like i was like and we're done because that's all you want
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to talk about you know but no he was cool he was cool and we got like cool ever since okay the job
4:25
what kind of reaction did y'all get from the insecure audience when they saw the two characters
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come together in real life and have a child it was a lot of i got a lot of love and then i got a lot
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of hate because blogs you know like the shade room and bt like a lot of those people had posted when
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and I posted my pregnancy photos, because I didn't announce that I was pregnant
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until she was about to be born. I was a little bit skeptical and scared
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because we were castmates, so I didn't know how people would feel about that
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So I did get a lot of hate about that. I was getting called side piece and HOE and real life, everything
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But I think it's because they were making it like I was Tasha
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and Tasha got a lot of hate. You know what I'm saying? Tasha got a lot of hate. You know
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So I think it was that crowd. But then I got a lot of love, too. And I got a lot of support
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That's what counts. Yes, from a lot of mothers and things like that. So it was cool
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It was cool. Oh, yeah. And he had got a lot of flack, too, which is crazy. What did he get flack for
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Same thing. How dare you? A castmate and stuff like that. And I'm like, we're both single
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You know, we're just having fun. We're friends. You know, it just happened. So I don't know
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We both was getting a lot of flack. But I think as a woman, I was getting the most. Yeah, man, that happens, right
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Y'all get judged on a whole different scale. It was a lot of judgment
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Yeah. It was a lot. But at the end of the day. She's here. There it is. Yes
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She's here. Come on, man. And I wouldn't have had it any other way. Yes, indeed
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So then how now would you advise your daughter to go into the field if it's something, now that you know so much and your partner is in the field as well, you know the love, the hate you experience that having her
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Would you advise her to go into the field or what are your thoughts now
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I know it's still early. I would. I actually was thinking of putting her in like modeling, like print, because I've been getting a lot of comments like, man, she's tall, you know, and she's beautiful
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You should get her in print. So I was thinking about that. I kind of wouldn't want to get her in acting
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And Sharona's felt the same way. Sharona is her father. Sharona's Jackson
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And I just kind of don't want to put her in that unless she decides to do that, because there's so much rejection that you face in this business
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And it can really mess with your top, you know, with your mental. So I just was like, if she wants to do it, no problem
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And like my mom told me, it's good that you're paving the way so that way the doors can be a little bit easier for her to open
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You know, so if she wants to when she gets older and she decides to great
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But if she don't, that'd be even better. One of the things you did that I have a daughter who's grown, though, she's a she's an adult woman now
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But when she was when she was younger, we put her in something called AGC, which was, you know, performance theater group
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And you've done that, too, as a child, right? I did. And how much did that benefit you
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Because I see a lot of parents, when they ask me, well, what did you do with your child
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I say, I put her through training. Yeah, exactly. And I think that benefited her in more ways
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All that was she learned there transcended into other areas of her life. Oh, absolutely
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What advice do you give parents who want to put their kids in entertainment? I think they should do it
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I actually have a niece who's very vocal. She's very vibrant, colorful
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so i always say i went to a theater called the ensemble theater downtown it's in um it's in
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downtown houston and they had a young performers program which is like what you put your daughter
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in so they taught like acting singing dancing and we did it i went every summer from when i was around
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six to 17 i did a lot of their main stage plays yeah i did a lot of their main stage plays um
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their musicals and they molded me and i loved it i would i would love and i met so many friends
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there. The adults, they kind of helped shape me. And from there, I went on to PV and then majored
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in theater. So I think it's a great thing to put your kids in, if that's something
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that they want to do. Yeah. So is that what you wanted to do that early on
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Because you said six. Heather, yes. Girl, let me tell you. Let me tell you
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Because I'm dramatic by nature. Yes. So I remember I saw a video of me. It was a
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Chuck E. Cheese, my third birthday. and of course you don't remember that but my mom got the vhs so i was watching the vhs and it got to
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the time where i had to open gifts and so all my family was crowded around and my grandmother i think
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had got me a card with ten dollars in it so i was sitting in my mama's lap and my mama was like oh
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look dominique big granny got you ten dollars and i just like fainted like I said you know yeah you do right there And so they started fainting me I said it a raise over It a done dollar
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I was born to be on the tizzle, you know. So it just worked
9:04
I've never done anything else. Wow. I've never done anything else. I've waitressed
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You had jobs. I've waitressed. You worked at Hooters. Hooters, yeah. I worked at Hooters
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I worked at Twin Peaks. I worked at like a clothing store. I've always gotten fired or I quit
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It just don't work for me. Because a lot of entertainers, we think on like the left side of our brain
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it's just going to a nine to five. No offense, it's just, it's very hard for an entertainer
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Because we want to do so much more with our gift. Everyone in this room is not working a nine to five
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You see what I'm saying? And look what you're doing. And it is something with your brain, I think
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And a person, people will tell you who don't really understand your purpose
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or your gift or your dream. You're crazy for leaving your job. You're crazy for this
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You're crazy for that. But it's literally like a fire inside of you that you can't put out
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Like you try, but you just can't. And it's hard. It's literally so hard to go to a job when you are in the entertainment industry
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of whatever. It's just very, very hard. And I knew it. Every job I got, I was like, okay
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And then a lot of times they wouldn't hire me because I didn't have no experience. But I was a waitress
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I was horrible at waitressing. Yeah. I was a hostess. I worked at Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles out here when I moved out here
10:19
Was you eating the chicken and waffles? I sure was. I sure did get that Obama special
10:26
Yeah, I ate it. I was the hostess there because I was horrible at being a cashier
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Because I'm horrible at math. Okay. So I couldn't really count and add a lot of the change because everything was done manually
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I say, oh, snap. You know, that scared me. So they just had me do the hostessing, but I was embarrassed because I was like, I'm going to be a star or something
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So I was like, I'm embarrassed. then I would see a lot of celebrities come in Roscoe's and I was like oh lord like your table
10:49
over here you know I was like your table over here but let me tell you this is when I said I had
10:55
to leave Roscoe's no offense I love Roscoe's I had to leave Roscoe's
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when I I don't know if I'm jumping the gun but when I got cast
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in Insecure I was still working at Roscoe's and Prentice Penny who's the showrunner I told him this
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and he was like why didn't you say this on set I was like because I was embarrassed and a sprinter pulled up when I was at work
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and I didn't know who it was, but I always be having like gut feelings
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I say, what if that's like HBO, like pulling up in a Sprinter? And I kid you not, it was the director, Melina Masukas
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It was, I don't think Prentice was there. It was all of like the Insecure team there
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And I just was like, they were scouting locations. I left. I couldn't let them see me like that
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And I had just got cast. So you had got cast And was still working at Roscoe's
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Oh absolutely I had to But once I started filming I had left
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Man Dominique Perry Trace you've been laughing this whole time She was like I ain't leaving until I get on set Nah
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I needed that little check I needed that little check Wow Dominique got me looking up flights to LA for tomorrow
12:08
So I can hang out with her I need you to come back Please, I'll be right here
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It'd be just me and my baby. Like, we'd just be chilling. Please, come
12:17
I love it. Well, I got two things for you, my dear. Because you have so much confidence
12:21
and you knew that this was the position that you were going to be in, in the entertainment field
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specifically as a thespian. So how did you deal with rejection? I'm trying to get into your internal dialogue
12:33
because I imagine it's very difficult to not take it personally when it's you who is demonstrating this character
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Yeah, it is a lot of rejection. I try, I don't know because you still deal with that
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Like even now, I just, now I become numb to it. It's almost like it's whatever
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Like you just got to move on. And that's what my manager said. You just got to like do the audition and like move on
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You know what I'm saying? So that's kind of how I deal with the rejection. Now I just become numb to it because if not
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it will take you down. Because at first I used to think like, well maybe it's me um am I not good enough like should I be doing another job but then I'm like
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I don't have a plan b so it's like you know so I cried many a days many a nights um I still do
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you know so it was it yeah I've had a lot of auditions even recently where I was like oh man
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bro like what is going on you know because I'm ready to I see the star and all my peers are
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touching it but it's like i just can't touch it you know what i'm saying yeah so it it definitely
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has an emotional turmoil on your you know on your brain and things like that but i just try to keep
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it going because i had a friend say well she gonna go like what you gonna do so i'm like i just gotta
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keep it going you know that's what kind of pushed me but it can definitely be emotional that's the
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reason why i was like if my daughter wants to get into it she can but i'm not gonna force it before
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Tracy asks a second question um do you think the tears come from you wanted it so bad and you felt
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like you didn't get something that you wanted or you um just hearing just hearing that no because
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there's there's the process of the agent calling oh we didn't get this but don't worry they said
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you were awesome and maybe blah blah blah where do you where do you think the tears come from
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because we do know we have to move on. But still, you're human and those tears will start flowing
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I think the tears come from just like the waiting game. You know what I'm saying
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And it's just like here I go again. Like it's year after year
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I'm getting older and older. I'm seeing everybody around me that hasn't even worked as hard as me
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and they just rising. And it's just like you're asking God, like what is going on
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Like, you know what I'm saying? Because I'm putting in the work. I'm making the sacrifices
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and to get told another no, it's just, it's heartbreaking. It really truly is
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I recently, I think my most biggest heartbreak, I think it was just the lead up to all of the no's
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I was up for the lead on rap shit. And Issa was believing in me and everything like this
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And shout out to Chameleon who actually got the role of Mia. She is amazing
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She is so, so good. But I was up for the role of Mia and I was studying so hard for that role
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for months and I'm like yes we're gonna be in Miami I finally can get that financial break you
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know things like that and it won't I won't be struggling anymore I can help out my family
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and so it's all of that that's building up and then you got the lawyer calling you like oh snap
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okay we negotiate right right we getting there you know Issa's texting like yeah let's do it and
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then you get there and you do your best and you do the chemistry read and then it's like
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your manager call and your agent call and the group and it's like they just want to say that
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you did good and it's just like oh my god oh I can't even explain the feeling it took so much
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out of me yes um it was indescribable I was so depressed and hurt by that because I was like
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finally I'm gonna hit this lick you know what I'm saying and then to not get it once again it's just
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it takes so much out of you but the good thing is i started creating and i think that's what god
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wanted me to do so now i i wrote a script it's a comedy it's called underdogs and i'm trying to
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film it in houston once we get all the resources together and i think that's what god was telling
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me to do like okay we're gonna i'm gonna get you these other roles isa's gonna call you
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but just like create your own stuff you know what i'm saying so you know i i think that's what it
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guided me towards you know what i'm saying to say man i can do this i can be absolutely well you
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know i didn't think i could do it so it was a blessing in disguise but it takes a lot out of
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you i swear those tears it's just so much built man we got the kleenex right there for you and
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heather look like y'all cried out yeah i had that cry girl please audition and it is in between my
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feet hurting because i had i wore some shoes i was supposed to wear you got your last ten dollars
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so let me go but that's all right because this last ten dollars when i booked this role
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i'm gonna be making so much money yeah oh snap and i know i did good yeah and then you get enough
17:24
i ain't watch girlfriends for like probably the first season because you had audition for
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girlfriends what and you know that you took that yeah that no was so that call
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cuz you know what it could do to you cuz you know I asked you that cuz you are you know what it could do your life is gonna change man one year with one yes and god and the same thing god was like i i got you in this corner so you could i could show you the way out yeah you wasn listening
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while you was dreaming about your life about the change you wasn't listening to my messages
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so now let me send you to the corner yeah to calm you down a bit and i'm gonna give your path to
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walked out yeah it's so weird it's so weird but then you it'd be like but why everybody else just
18:10
did yeah but shout out to girlfriends why everybody else that was incredible
18:15
yeah yeah tracy ellis ross of course but even to your note oh yeah yeah i'm yeah well i'm sorry
18:26
chase go ahead i was gonna say on your note the fact that you wasn't able to watch it for a year
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which I completely empathize with. But I'm wondering, Dominique, when you know the person who has taken a role
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you had your heart set on, how are you even able to be around them
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You know what I mean? When it comes to the energy of envy that we all experience
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we're not going to act like this is a foreign emotion. Yeah. It was a lot
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That's the word. I love that response. A lot. in a nutshell be politically correct it was a lot especially recently rap shit going to Miami and
19:07
just seeing how like how the characters and the leads and everything and how their life is about
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to change and it's like man I was like right there you know what I'm saying and it's like
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the envy was there but I asked God to take that away from me because I had to be appreciative that
19:22
I was there Issa did not have to call me I she offered that you know that role to me of Nelly
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And so I just appreciated that. But in the mix of it, it was like a man
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I'm I'm there still and they're there, you know, that type of thing. And I was so close to being there
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So I had to ask God to like release that. You know what I'm saying? Release that because these girls deserve it
19:45
It was great casting. And I think, you know, that it was supposed to be what it was supposed to be
19:51
But it still was like real. It was a sword. So you didn't get the role of Mia, but you did get the role of Nelly
20:00
Of Nelly, yeah. So you're still in the series. So I'm still in the series. So when I didn't get the role of Mia, I was like, oh, man, I don't know what to do
20:09
I'm getting my hair washed around, like, October. I'm just at the salon getting my hair washed
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I love you said October. Yeah, because I'm like, I remember. You remember
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I remember. I'm getting my hair washed and then I got the call
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from my agent like hey so Issa wants to offer you the role
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of Nelly you know playing Mia's best friend so it's like I didn't get it
20:34
but I'm like her best friend which is great it was so great and I love Nelly
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cause she's fun and she brings so much life to the show I feel
20:44
and I love it I was like oh snap okay she was like could we
20:49
fly you in the next day. I said, Oh Lord. All right. Well, that's fine with me. So it was
20:54
it was great. Wow. I love it. Dominique Perry, Dominique Tracy. Yeah. I have another one. I love DP bro. DP is my girl. Listen, a question came to mind that I had
21:09
asked Michael Ely sometime last year. And it was about when you are an actor and you have
21:16
the skill set of transformation do you take advantage of it in your real life like if you
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have to deal with someone that you don't like do you say you know what I'm just gonna play a
21:27
character or if you're nervous because you're going I don't know to your booze Thanksgiving
21:32
to meet the family for the first time do you say you know what I'm gonna play someone who's confident
21:36
in this moment there's a step your lying game up you know what not the acting because they ain't
21:42
paying me for it no i'm joking no i'm joking i'm joking it's a joke no um it actually doesn't i
21:48
actually just be dominique wherever i go which is great a lot of times if i'm doing like a comedic
21:54
role or something i'm just naturally kind of funny and vibrant so um i really don't know how to be
22:00
anything else but me when they yell cut so you know i can try to act confident because i do you
22:07
And I'm working on that day by day, my confidence level and things like that
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So I try to do that. But usually, no, I don't really do any roles or try to act a certain way off camera
22:19
I'm kind of just like me all day, every day. Love it. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad
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I don't know. Okay. Well, it's good over here, girl. We love who that is
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The one and only Dominique Perry is up in here. Dominique. 888-742-3345
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Let's go to Charlotte. North. Is it Charlotte? North, South Carolina? North, North City
22:39
Okay, okay, my bad. Kev, I'm sorry. Kev, forgive me, Kev. It's early, baby
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It's early. We got Kev on the line. Rise and shine, Kev. Yo, yo, yo
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What up, though? What up, though? Swain, ain't gonna check you on that North Carolina, South Carolina thing
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Charlotte and North Carolina. Hi. My bad, though. I'm gonna let it ride, though
22:55
But Dominique, what's going on? Oh, good morning to everybody, first and foremost. Hi. Hi. Good morning, bro
23:00
What's good? What's good? What up, though? Dominique, good morning to you. Good morning
23:05
Yo, I just wanted to give you a quick shout-out. Blessings, congratulations on your whole career
23:11
even from starting at Born to Dance. Ooh. I worked on the show
23:17
You might remember me. I drove. You drove? I drove. I was the driver on the show
23:23
Oh, my God. Oh, wow. Do you know how long ago that was? Of course I do
23:29
Get a 10-inch. I was on the show. Oh, my God. That is so amazing
23:33
Do I ring a bell? Do I ring a bell to you? You know what? I'm going to tell you the truth. No
23:37
You do. However, but I do. Let me tell you something. My memory is so bad
23:43
But it's so good to hear from you. No doubt. You know what
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I'll shoot you a DM. Don't you trip. Please shoot me a DM. Please shoot me a DM like I'm so serious
23:53
I'm so happy that you called. No doubt. Like I said, I remember from the beginning
23:58
I was like the first, if I'm not mistaken, of you being on TV. Yeah
24:02
Well, that was before. But Born to Dance, yeah, they didn't even pick me then
24:07
They don't even know about that. That's the funny thing. Folks don't know about that, but I do. Oh, my God
24:12
Yes, Born to Dance. That was on BET. Born to Dance. You did
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Yep, with Laurieann Gibson. Sure was. I remember everything and everybody. But I just wanted to congratulate you
24:22
Blessing you. Thank you. What was she like back then, Kev? You know what
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Partly she was cool. She was really cool. I ain't even going to knock it. I worked in the industry after that
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But she was really cool, personally cool. Like, not no, you know, in the air with it, but seeing her on TV and seeing her grow up
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I'm like, oh, look at me. That's what that means. Look at me, y'all. Thank you
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Once you see my face, hopefully it reminds you of who I am
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But, yeah, we go back that far. Please slide in the DMs. I really do appreciate that
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No doubt, girl. No doubt. How's your life now, Kev? What you doing
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Man, I'm chilling. Married two kids, Charlotte, North Carolina. I'm chilling, man
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I'm chilling. That's what's up, man. My man, Kev. Thanks for calling in, man
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You a citizen. I'm Sway in the morning. Yes, sir. I appreciate your blessings. Love
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You all right with me. You did America's Best Dance Crew. You was with Extreme Motion
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I was. With the crew Extreme Motion. Y'all lost. Wow, Powerade. Let me tell you something
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Let me tell you something, though, Sway. That was the best two weeks of my life
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I was telling Sway I was going to tell my mama to quit. Quit her job because we made it
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I thought we was going to be the female Jabbawockeez. First episode
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Yeah, we out of there. The first episode. I think we was more like a gimmick because we came in, bucking
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All of us came because I was a dancer at Prairie View, and I was a major with the band, and I was a major at TSU
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So we all came from TSU, from the dance line, from the motion of the ocean
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And I don't know. I felt like they just wanted us on there because we were different
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It was a gimmick, but then they was like, we're going to kick in. We got y'all out of there
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Right. But look, look what it led to. Yeah, it was great
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And what I appreciate about you is you are like a quadruple threat
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You do it all. Yes, yes. You know, and you sing as well, right? I used to
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What? What does that mean? I used to. The Lord giveth and then he takes away
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Take it away. Because I just, I didn't use it. I didn't use it no more
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Yeah, it'll dry up if you don't use it. Oh, yeah. Singing? I thought what you were singing? Anything
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my mama said I sound like Yolanda Adams that's what she said
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that's what her mama said that my girl this battle is not yours it the Lord I played that for you sir Yeah And she said I sound like Yolanda How does it go How does it go Dominique Oh Lord
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See, what I can't do. What happened? What I can't do is that
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Look at her publicist. Like, please don't. Don't do it. Don't do it. The first line is, there is no pain Jesus can't feel
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Jesus can feel. There is no hurt. Uh-oh, here it comes. Forget about all that other junk
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This battle ain't joy. smelling yours it's the lord think about it and then start shouting oh baby my mama listening to
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that every morning we hear it here too i'll be playing it for sway really what heather
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there is no pain yes indeed thank you thank you take it yet i sound like her that's who you sound
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like okay all right good okay you want to know what dominique sound like this is how she sounds
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My mama said it, so you got to believe her. Y'all grew up in the church
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Did you grow up in the church? We did, but not too much, actually. We did have, like, a church home
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Like, my family has a church home, Greater Jerusalem Baptist Church, you know, missionary Baptist Church
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So we, I was there. I praised dance. You know, I did that because I used to do a lot of, like, point the ballet
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So I used to praise dance on point, and I used to do parties, bar mitzvahs
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Look me up. I'm in the books. And so I used to do a lot of that. So, yeah, I grew up in the church a little bit
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I did the choir and everything like that. Yo, I love your story
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I told her when I went to the green room to greet her just to kind of just in case she was a little nervous about coming in the room
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Sometimes you could get that way that, you know, I just really appreciate a great journey. Oh, most definitely
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It's definitely be. I did that. I did move to Atlanta. And then from Atlanta, I came here for pilot season because I wanted to give it a try
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And, yeah, I just stayed here after Insecure. So it's been a it's been quite a journey
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It still is a marathon. but I'm running it. So it's no problem. Let's go. Let's go. DB, you want to talk to your statemate
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Yeah, I actually do because I'm sure she can attest to this, but like there's a lot of places
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Texas is a huge state. You know, Houston is a great city. There's a lot of stuff going on there
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but there's a lot of places within Texas and middle America and that Bible area where people
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grow up, they go to school, they get a job, they get married, they have kids, grow old and die
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And that's kind of like the format that a lot of people just follow. And when you say like
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oh you know i want to move to hollywood or i want to move to new york and chase my dreams people kind of give you that side like it's unheard of get the out of here you know what i mean so
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what would you say to someone and i know it kind of sounds like a cliche question but you know for
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somebody who's out there sort of where you were at that point in college where you like you know
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dancing singing just doing whatever you could to sort of break into the industry uh who people
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don't have that support system of like you know you had your mom in your corner so what would you
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say to them who were just kind of on their own like can i do this because the hardest thing is
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making that first step of moving out of your area and your surroundings exactly it's a lot of people
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that didn't have family that made it work you know what i'm saying or a support system i just say do
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it i like realize now we literally have one life to live y'all i didn't i didn't really think about
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that until now at my age that i'm at now like i was like man we really have one life to live around
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here so it's like i just say if you have a dream or you have a goal you have to literally just go
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for because what else do you have to lose if you don't have the support system you got to support
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yourself and if you have faith and I'm just a believer in God and I just feel like God has
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gotten me through a whole lot of places where I didn't have the support you know I only had my mom
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or my sister you know or my cousin so I didn't have a lot of support moving in all of these places
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but I just have kept the faith and I asked God to guide me through and it's it's work so I just feel
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like if you have him by your side the sky's the limit for me amen so i just don't think anybody
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just should stop where they're at it really hurts me when i see a lot of people just have dreams and
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they don't know how to go i've just always just been a faith i've just been always been a faith
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believer and i'm like i feel like if you can do it do it i don't know just keep it going in any
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kind of way possible i love that man yeah i like carrie yeah why you ain't married you know what
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Why I always do this to Sway? It's always here. It's right there
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I like it, though. You know what, Sway? I don't know. I'm single
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The guys is just, it's like the guys that I like don't really be coming at me, you know
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I feel like I got to chase them so much. I don't understand. You're not about that chase
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Or you want it to be mutually. I want it reciprocated. I don't want it to be one-sided
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And it seemed like all the men that I like, they like don't really give me that same reciprocation
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I don't understand. Are you looking for marriage or are you just looking for? Absolutely
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Okay. Absolutely. I would love for the man to come in my life, you know. But it's just like I like him and they be like, oh, I don't like you like that
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I want your body. But I don't really want you like that, you know. And it's like the story of my life
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So I'm like, okay, let me just chill out. But I have no clue
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but the ones that I really don't like they love me you know what
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they will give me the world on a silver platter and I'm like I don't want
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thank you I don't want that one what's wrong with them they're just not my type physically
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I don't really have a type but they're just not really they're not the type
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that you know that you don't really have right now you know what i'm saying but i'm open i'm open you know i'm a mom i'm very open-minded
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you know what i'm saying but it's just i don't believe in settling so i just feel like if you
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have to settle you shouldn't because you you holding that person back from somebody that
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really think they're amazing that's you know so why do that to that person you know let them go
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and find their soulmate let me go and find mine so i just i i have no clue why do they need to be
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in the entertainment field could it be a mailman you know what yes is he cute yeah he's an handsome
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guy he's a handsome guy well then that's fine he can be a mailman that's fine he can work at the
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bank okay he can work at best buy you know what i'm saying he can do that he can do all of that
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but i just i don't know i just want somebody to make love easy i don't know i just feel like Mm-hmm
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Damn, that was powerful. I've only had one boyfriend ever in my life, so I just kind of
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Yeah. I don't know. Love has kind of been hard for me to find in my lifetime
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I don't know why. Maybe it's because I'm chasing dreams too much or I'm chasing the wrong ones
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but we'll see. I don't know. Dominique Perry. Come on. After this, they'll be on you
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Oh, that's fine. I'm a bachelorette right here. Right. That's fine. Might have to do that bachelorette series
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Ooh. You know, you got so much to offer your energy, you know, your journey, your experiences, your knowledge, your amazing person
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And I'm sure that won't be an issue for you. But I want to thank you for coming on the show this morning
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Yes, absolutely. Thank you all for having me. I don't have all the answers, Sway
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I've been wanting to say that. I don't have all the answers, Sway
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I've been wanting to say that the whole day. The whole day
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I said I'm going to do it. I don't know when, but I'm going to do it
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No, I thank y'all so much for having me on. This was so much fun
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Anytime. Anytime. Okay. She said she only been in New York once
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Yeah, and I didn't enjoy myself because it was for a model thing that I had to do for a coup, T.I
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And it was like I was so young. But it was a snowstorm going on, so we were only there for like a day
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So I didn't get a chance to enjoy myself, so I've always said I wanted to go back to New York. When she come back, what are we going to do? Please
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Heather you gonna cook for her? Absolutely She's cooking She can't cook for herself
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She learning though I'm learning My salmon burgers I can bring y'all some
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They pretty good now I'm there for that Let's do it And I'll bring the sides Alright Absolutely
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When you talk to Issa Send our love I surely will Powerful Amazing Brilliant Yes
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I surely will Alright Dominique Perry Ladies and gentlemen Alright Tell people how they can reach you Yes
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You can reach me on my social media My Instagram Which is at DominiquePB D-O-M-I-N-Q-U-E-P
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There it is. And Twitter as well. Okay. We got, tell Zen Uncle Sway says hi
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Oh, my gosh. She would love that. Tell Uncle Sway says hi. I'm going to tell her that
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Okay. She is going to love that. All right. We got Celebrity Wire coming up. Yep
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