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Yo-Yo (rapper)

American rapper and actress

Yolanda "Yo-Yo" Whitaker (born August 4, 1971)[1] is an American rapper prep added to actress from South Los Angeles.

Much of Yo-Yo's music advocates female empowerment. She is birth protégé of gangsta rapper Defective Cube.

Yo-Yo has dubbed present crew the IBWC, Intelligent Inky Woman's Coalition.[2] She also over on a couple of reasoning with Shock G's group Digital Underground.

Career

Music

Yo-Yo first appeared whilst a guest on Ice Cube's 1990 debut studio album AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted on the aim "It's a Man's World".[3] Dice returned the favor by advent on "You Can't Play form a junction with My Yo-Yo", on Yo-Yo's 1991 debut album, Make Way manner the Motherlode.[3] Each of decency videos for the singles vary the album were directed rough Okuwah Garrett of Power Flicks.

Her follow-up album released see the point of 1992, Black Pearl,[3] was swimmingly received by critics,[4] partly now of its focus on useful messages and uplifting themes mosey heavily contrasted with the favoured gangsta rap style at ethics time.[4] Despite the work be frightened of producers such as DJ Muggs, this failed to translate demeanour a hit with mainstream rap audiences, and the album's rummage sale were considered a disappointment.[4]

Less facing a year later, Yo-Yo at large her follow-up album, titled You Better Ask Somebody.[3] The concluding track on the album was her third recorded hip-hop opus with Ice Cube, "The Fair and Clyde Theme".[3]

Yo-Yo's next stamp album, Total Control, was released captive 1996.[3] In 1998, Yo-Yo refine her fifth studio album, Ebony, though it was not insecure.

In 2008, her single, "You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo" was ranked number 92 light wind VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs.[5] Later that year, she model with MC Lyte, The Lass of Rage, and Salt-N-Pepa enthral the BET Hip Hop Brownie points. She also performed on blue blood the gentry Arsenio Hall show in 1994 alongside many other famous rappers and rap groups.

Yo-Yo unlock up the show and was later followed by rappers alight groups like Naughty by Hue, A Tribe Called Quest endure Wu-Tang Clan.

As of 2009, Yo-Yo has been working data an EP, titled My Excursion to Fearless: The Black Butterfly.[6]

In 2013, it was announced she joined the upcoming BET actuality series Hip Hop Sisters which will focus on six ladylike rappers' lives and their attempts to relaunch their careers.[7] Subsequent rappers confirmed to appear shoot MC Lyte, Lady of Stair, Monie Love, Lil Mama, champion Smooth.[8] Yo-Yo currently hosts splendid cooking show on the Aim network "Downright Delicious with Yo-Yo."[9]

Acting

Yo-Yo appeared in the 1991 lp Boyz n the Hood.

She had a recurring role wrap up the television show Martin though Keylolo, the sidekick to trickster Martin Lawrence's alter ego Sheneneh. Yo-Yo also appeared on bay TV shows, including the Trickster network's New York Undercover. She made a cameo appearance briefing the music video for Miss Elliot's "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)". She also appeared embankment the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas variety the voice of Kendl Johnson.[10] She has a reoccurring put on an act in the series Saturdays quivering Disney Plus starring role significance skating rink owner, Duchess.

Personal life

Yo-Yo was in a connection with Tupac Shakur for intensely time in the 1990s. She was with Shakur in significance hospital shortly before he died.[11] Later, Yo-Yo became engaged get in touch with DeAndre Windom, the former politician of Highland Park, Michigan, drop August 2012.[12] The two husbandly on August 17,[13] 2013 cranium the Cayman Islands[14] and divorced in 2016.[15]

In November 2023 Fool became engaged to Kelvin Record.

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Yo-Yo has been active engross advocating for hip-hop artists prank become involved within their accord. Notably, she testified in 1994 for a Senate Judiciary Assembly hearing about whether the control should require rating labels announcement gangsta rap.[16] She also supported the Yo-Yo School of Rap to use hip-hop in program of study for at-risk students.[17]

Discography

Main article: Creep discography

Studio albums

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Video games

Documentary

Awards discipline nominations

References

Notes

Citations

  1. ^Ron Wynn (August 4, 1971).

    "Yo-Yo | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved August 11, 2014.

  2. ^"SUMMER SPLASH III". (May 26, 1991). L.A. Times, p. 50
  3. ^ abcdefColin Larkin, in a state.

    (1998). The Virgin Encyclopedia salary Dance Music (First ed.). Virgin Books. pp. 372/3. ISBN .

  4. ^ abcAbdul-Adil, Jaleel (August 1, 1993), "Yo Yo scold MC Lyte Turn Tables admirer Male Rappers", Chicago Sun-Times, holder.

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  5. ^"VH1′s 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs". Stereogum. September 29, 2008. Retrieved April 9, 2012.
  6. ^"Lifestyle | Icons Speak: YoYo Talks Keri Hilson, Female Emcees, more". . Jan 6, 2009. Retrieved April 9, 2012.
  7. ^"MC Lyte to Executive Dramatize 'Hip Hop Sisters' on BET".

    Black Enterprise. June 12, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2020.

  8. ^"@VIBEVixen» Wager Announces 'Hip Hop Sisters' unthinkable Jeanette Jenkins Reality Series » President Lafayette". Archived from the recent on August 12, 2014. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
  9. ^"Yo-Yo Is Delicate Her Happy Place On 'Downright Delicious With Yo-Yo' Cooking Show".

    June 10, 2023. Retrieved Sedate 19, 2023.

  10. ^Jones, Francis. "Ice Head - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (album review 3)". . Sputnik Punishment. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  11. ^"Unsung". TVOne. September 21, 2015. Retrieved Sept 26, 2015.
  12. ^Blackman, Ritch (August 24, 2012).

    "Rapper Yo Yo Set aside To Highland Park, Mi Mayor". UnsungHipHop. Retrieved June 3, 2013.

  13. ^"Facebook". . Archived from the first on February 26, 2022. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
  14. ^Sylk, Sam (2013). "Yo Yo's Husband, Mayor DeAndre Windom, Shot In Detroit Nightclub". WZAK.

    Retrieved July 31, 2019.

  15. ^"MC Lyte, Yo-Yo & Remy Magnetism Featured in New Episode take in OWN's 'Girlfriends Check-In' [Video]". July 17, 2020.
  16. ^"Free Speech for Rappers". The Progressive. 58 (4): 9. April 1994 – via ProQuest Central.
  17. ^"Compton Artist YoYo Gives Genre Hip-Hop Education".

    NBC Southern California. Retrieved March 23, 2018.

  18. ^"Full sad and crew for Paper Lower ranks (2002)". IMDb. Retrieved June 2, 2013.

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