Jussie Smollett meets us in Arkansas + Roxanne Shante and Chante Adams on finally telling this hip hop legends story

Yes, Girl!

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Our podcast cup runneth over this week with three special guests: Jussie Smollett (@jussiesmollett) who, hours after wrapping up a project in Memphis, drove through the night so he could spend the afternoon with us in Bentonville, Arkansas. During our live recording, Jussie gave us a preview of his new album Sum of My Music and why he celebrates Black History Month every day. Back in New York, we sit down with hip-hop legend Roxanne Shante (@ImroxanneShante) and the ingénue who plays her, Chanté Adams (@chanteaadams), in Netflix’s biopic Roxanne, Roxanne. Plus, @yolizama wants to know “What feeds your soul?” Tell us using #yesgirlpodcast

Yes, Girl! hosts: Cori Murray @corimurray; Charli Penn @ManWifeDog; and Yolanda Sangweni @yolizama

Producer: Steven Psyllos @stevenpsyllos

Audio engineer: Chiquita Pascal @ChiquitaPaschal

Music: Gold Standard Creative @gscdotnyc

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0:00.0	What up your London?
0:02.0	Hey, Corey.
0:04.0	Charlotte Pan.
0:05.0	My love.
0:06.0	I love when you wear your glasses.
0:07.0	Oh, I know, I can see the world now.
0:10.0	Yeah.
0:11.0	It's been a lot of non-self-care. Now, I, Cori, you're a blonde hair.
0:15.0	Oh, I'm going to have blonde head forever.
0:17.0	Oh my gosh, hey Booth, how are you? I'm good. I am Charlie Penn. I am Cory Murray. I'm Yolanda Sunwinning. And we are, yes girl. I love our harmony. Yes. Can we shout out to the harmony? Because you know there's a singer among us.
0:34.0	Her name is Yolanda.
0:36.0	Oh, I saw you jamming with your musician brothers.
0:41.0	Well, I have another life and I love it which I feel like a lot more of us professional women should do that
0:49.0	feeds your soul you know how work feeds your check your pocket and then I do music to feed my soul.
0:57.6	I saw and I when I first when you first came to essence and I got to know you you
1:02.1	were you sang regularly yeah like it was a
1:04.2	regular thing for you to do and then you stopped well at least I thought you
1:06.7	stopped and then you know I'm bad because I thought I could live with just my paycheck
1:10.1	and I just can't do it I I need something to feed my soul.
1:13.0	Yo, I love how you brought that home.
1:15.0	Yeah, yeah, she didn't just say yes,
1:19.0	see, she was like, but it was for my soul,
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