Yo-Yo

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Film & TV

Los Angeles, California, USA

Yolanda Whitaker, better known by her stage name Yo-Yo, has been among the most sophisticated and unpredictable female MCs around. She doesn't take an overtly feminist tack but urges young women to show sexual restraint and use their minds as well as their bodies.

Known for

• Baristas vs Billionaires — Self (voice)2025
• A GRAMMY Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop — Self2023
• The Sherri Shepherd Show — Self - Guest2022
• The Real Queens of Hip Hop: The Women Who Changed the Game — Self2021
• Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. — Pretty Woman2018
• VH1 Hip Hop Honors: All Hail the Queens2016
• My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women and Hip Hop — Self2010
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction — Kendl (voice) (uncredited)2004
• How Do I Look? — Herself2004
• Paper Soldiers — Judge Prince2002

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Country

FI

Active from

1981

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

17,927

Total plays

87,829

Yo-Yo (born Yolanda Whitaker) has been among the most sophisticated and unpredictable female rappers around. She doesn't take an overtly feminist tack but urges young women to show sexual restraint and use their minds as well as their bodies. Yo-Yo came out less embracing and more confrontational on You Better Ask Somebody, her 1993 album. There was little compromise in her rapping, or the record's mood. Where before she'd sometimes seemed conciliatory, this time she was stark and combative, par

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Music

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Yolanda

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Compton

Occupation

film actor

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Genre

West Coast hip-hop

Instrument

voice

Record label

East West Records

Official website

yoyoschoolofhiphop.com

Image

Yo yo-04.jpg

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