Rotimi Is Giving Us LIFE and 'Love Riddim' This Summer

Yes, Girl!

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Hey fam! Charli and Cori are back from Essence Fest and their recap is one for the books. There, they bumped into this week's guest, Rotimi, and his Power costars. Rotimi’s (@rotimi) quickly become a worldwide heartthrob but he's naturally multi-talented and FOCUSED out here. On this episode, we chat with Mr. Nigerian Butterscotch about his unique start as an actor and the seasoned actors who have mentored him, and how he's contributing to Afrobeats mass takeover. Plus, the qualities he’s looking for in a “Mrs. Nigerian Butterscotch!” (Heads up, ladies: having a little “riddim” is a great thing!) Follow the Yes, Girl! Hosts: Cori Murray @corimurray; Charli Penn (IG - @charlipenn, Twitter: @ManWifeDog). Tell us what you think of the episode on social and remember to use hashtag: #YesGirlPodcast.

Yes, Girl! Hosts: Cori Murray (@corimurray) Charli Penn (IG = @charlipenn / Twitter = @manwifedog)
Executive Producer: Tiffany Ashitey (@misstiffsays)
Producers: Ashley Hobbs (@ashleylatruly) + Shantel Holder (@shadesofshan_)
Bookings: Cori Murray, Charli Penn, and Tiffany Ashitey
Audio: Josh Gwynn (@regardingjosh) + Anthony Frasier (@anthonyfrasier)
Music: Gold Standard Creative (@gscdotnyc)

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0:00.0	Cori Marie Marie Marie
0:08.8	Charlepin
0:10.8	We are survivors. Survivor.
0:14.0	I'm a survivor.
0:16.0	We have made it through
0:18.0	we have made it through another.
0:20.0	The 25th.
0:21.0	The 25th.
0:22.0	We did that. We really did. And we are going to give you guys the full, yes girl recap. But first, it is very important that we say, we praying for Nola. Yes, we are.
0:35.0	Nola, New Orleans, you all are being hit with a very, very torrential rainstorm right now.
0:42.0	There's flooding.
0:43.0	There's flooding.
0:44.0	I think it's Hurricane Watch, I think they've already named it Barry.
0:48.0	I'll be honest, I saw one woman's face.
0:51.0	She was carrying her two kids. I think on Nola.com and for whatever reason I
0:56.5	imagine the bubble in her head going not again that is exactly that was the
1:01.5	reaction I had it's been heartbreaking to see the photos coming through and the storm hasn't even hit yet and it's crazy because we were just there. I flew out wheels up Tuesday morning. When we got back to work Wednesday we were
1:14.7	already hearing about 19,000 plus people out of power. It's it's like I mean we
1:20.0	just had the time of our lives in New Orleans with the people of New Orleans
1:23.2	We're bright sunny skies everything the city was so welcoming the skies were
1:27.4	bright I mean it was like what a sunstorm yeah and there and then which they
1:31.4	call the ones that just so. Oh yeah, those, yes, summer storms.
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