Tyler Perry gives a word on faith, fatherhood and acting on your dreams!

Yes, Girl!

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Faith, family and forgiveness — and very Black — that’s the formula that has made Tyler Perry (@tylerperry) one of the most successful storytellers in Hollywood. But as he chatted with us about his new film Acrimony, Tyler opened up about how fatherhood has informed his work, creating generational wealth and whether or not he thinks he's funny.

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

Producer: Steven Psyllos @stevenpsyllos

Audio engineer: Chiquita Paschal @ChiquitaPaschal

Music: Gold Standard Creative @gscdotnyc

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0:00.0	Hey yes girl listeners it's Corey and you know what this song best
0:06.0	encapsulates what I'm feeling right now this is for you Landa and Charlie London, Charlie. on my own own. Yes, that's right people. Charlie Penn, Yolanda San Guaney are out.
0:31.0	Charlie is representing Essence
0:32.7	down at Essence Festival.
0:33.9	She's getting this ready down there, Nola.
0:35.8	And Yolanda has gone home.
0:37.4	She's gone to the real Wakanda.
0:39.2	Joe Berg, South Africa.
0:40.6	You all know Wakanda's not real, but Wakanda is real, but that's where
0:44.0	Yolanda is. So I miss you girls and I will just hold it down very quickly. We have a great
0:48.8	episode for you today. We all got a chance to talk to, and I just got to say it again Tyler
0:54.4	motherfucking Perry I mean Tyler Perry yes Black Panther is still holding its
0:59.4	rain as a number one film in the world but Tyler Perry was doing this from Jump and as we'll
1:04.4	you'll hear in our conversation parts of Black Panther were shot on the Tyler Perry
1:07.8	studios lot he didn't even know
1:10.5	Tyler Perry's making that much money he didn't even know that it was being shot. He woke up and said,
1:15.0	Oh, what's Chad, what's Boa been doing here? That's how you make money, all real money. You make money while you sleep.
1:20.0	Speaking of money, he talked about generational wealth. He also opened about his son and of course he's
1:24.7	in town talking about acrimony because of course Tyler Perry is a filmmaker and he is
1:29.2	giving us another great movie with Teraji P. Hempson who we all love and who's also a friend
1:33.6	to the podcast. In addition to Acrimony he also has if loving you is wrong on
1:38.4	television right now, the Have and Have Nots, The Pains Love Thy
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