Before Damn Homie 11 would blow up on Instagram with one account sitting on over 1/2 a million
followers and have her main surpass 1 Million followers via her sexualized comedy sketch
videos.
Before Damn Homie would collab with the likes of Michael Blackson, Ken Starrz, Tyrone, The
Dude With The Violin, and get features from World Star Hip Hop.
Before Damn Homie would get interviews by the New York Post, The Daily Mail & now on
Before They Were Famous.
If your a 20 something dude it's unlikely you have scrolled across some video posted
by Damn Homie where she acting reckless with her bulging beauty literally jumping outta
your phone.
Originally from Russia, Mya made the move to America at 9 years old but the transition
wasn't an easy one.
More interested in sports than school or keeping up with the girls she became the victim of
relentless bullying that had her switching schools a total of six times.
If you think that's rough, she also told me.
“I couldn’t loose my virginity to save my life.
Boys always thought I was ugly and one of the guys growing up.”
Her life was heading in a much different direction from professional athlete to New York city
real estate agents before a random video post made with her drug dealer would go viral overnight.
From there she hasn't looked back on doing what makes her happy and had big plans to
take Instagram comedy to whole notha level.
Oh ya, she almost got shot and killed by an ex.
We got lots to cover in this one.
What's going on guys?
It's your boy Michael McCrudden back at it again with another Before They Were Famous
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Now let's get into this video.
Damn Homie was
born Mya Ehrlikh on May 11th, 1987 in Moscow Russia and is of Jewish decent.
What do you love about America?
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For this one Mya has sent me some old video clips.
So Mya grew up in Russia and one day when she
was five her mother Margo just got up and walked out on the family.
Looking back on her younger self Mya cited herself as “a skinny loser struggling to
cope with abandonment.:
She has an older sister named Alina 13 years her senior who is a lawyer and still lives
in Moscow.
She's from her dad's first marriage.
At 9 years old her father Mikhail took her and his newly widowed mother to America and
they settled in Coney Island Brooklyn New York but the American dream was far from her
reality.
Speaking no english and looking like this (Show Photo) she quickly became the victim
of cruel bullying that seemed to never end.
Her father on the other hand was doing great in the land of opportunity he found work as
a Matalorf building factories that make different metals for airplanes.
He now also owns hotels and a lot of real estate properties.
So dad was doing good, apparently he was also a hit with the ladies.
For a while he was young Mya's only friend.
School didn't get better for her so she found an interest in Volleyball and Tennis.
It didn't take long for Dad to find his third wife named Oksana who has a son of her own
one year older than Mya named Vlad.
Shout out Vlad I hear he's found him self a hot little Latina and has some Russian mixed
with Mexican babies coming soon.
Mya's parents would eventually decide to move back to Russia leaving her alone in the big
city by 18 but we ain't at that part of the story just yet.
Roll back the clock to 15 and she crossed paths with her biological mother who was visiting
the city.
She took young Mya to a bar and told everyone she was 21.
Their reunion didn't live up to her expectations and the two haven't met or spoken since.
Her father raised her like a little boy and put her into sports early on shaping her into
a tomboy.
Her favourite class was Gym.
No matter how much she hated high school, sports kept giving her a reason to continue
getting good grades and staying on the volleyball team.
She played volleyball at Adelphi Academy but she would get kicked out of there along with
5 other schools for fighting.
The bullying never really stopped and she always felt like she needed to defend herself.
She eventually graduated from all girls Jewish high school where she didn’t get a graduation
or a Prom.
Today I'm sure there is a line up of fellas who would want to take her.
She continued playing tennis for years and was gonna go pro but told me “just because
you’re talented at something you can’t do it if you don’t love it.”
Outside of fighting and sports she was obsessed with the movie How High starring Red Man & Method
Man it's her all time favorite, I mean.
You can actually see a poster in her room:
Speaking about how this film inspired her, she told me.
“I knew that was me as a female tho and my comedy came from smoking a lot and rewatching
that movie so many times I know it word for word.
“
She would see other East Coast performers acting out on the gram like kenstarrrz and
Tyrone who would lift her spirits when she was feeling down not expecting that some day
soon she would be working with them.
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She also listens to a lot of hip hop and grew up in the era of G Unit and 50 Cent which
had a major influence on her.
In fact when it came to picking out an Instagram handle we can thank 50 Cent for Damn Homie,
in high school you was the man homie.... for Mya it worked as her moniker as everything
she said was so shocking and people never knew what she would say next
She went onto college to get a BA, she also dabbled with performance attending the New
York Film Academy for acting and some classes at the prestigious Lee Strasberg theatre.
Eventually she wound up in the lucrative business of New York City real estate and it paid well
but she wasn't happy doing it.
“I liked always being busy but I didn’t like the people I worked with and felt like
they were cut throat.
Where I’m always fair with people.”
So she opted to go into the world of Entertainment.
Equally cut throat some might say but overall more enjoyable.
Her first instagram video which went viral was a spur of the moment decision, something
she filmed with her weed dealer.
All of a sudden the
post was getting shared, reposted and meme'd and a new opportunity had landed in her lap
but now she had to convice her boyfriend that this was the right career move for her.
She had been in a long term relationship with a dude for 10 years but they broke up.
She told the New York Post:
“Everyone I’ve been with has always wanted me to just sit home and pop out kids;”
Next up she dated a dude for a year and a half, they got engaged but then he went to
jail for 7 months.
When he got out he broke her nose in an argument and it turns out prince charming had a sad
piece out in Baltimore.
This experience explains a lot about her comedy skits.
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This break up actually put her in a deep depression she thought she would never overcome, but
that same dude ended up marrying his side piece and then 6 months later he shot his
wife in the face at a family get together in Coney Island.
The woman died.
Damn!
That changed everything for Mya, knowing how fragile life could be and how quickly it could
all be over.
She decided to live the life that made her happy.
She quit doing real estate and started living her life on the gram which if you are not
following already you should do so now.... like asap.
As for the rest of the story, well we are gonna wrap this one up here because this is
Before They Were Famous.
My name is Michael McCrudden.
Let us know who is next in the comments down below and I'll see you guys in another video.
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