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Issa Rae’s breakout moment

South L.A. is “the Los Angeles we wanted to depict and make sexy” on Insecure, says Rae

“I WANT TO MAKE THIS VERY CLEAR,” ISSA RAE SAYS AS SHE DESCRIBES Insecure, the HBO comedy she created and stars on. “This is not the quintessential black-woman experience. It’s a very specific experience.”

The emphasis is unnecessary. Rae, whose popular web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and memoir with the same title catapulted her from office drone to

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