remember YOYO?

You can't play with my Yo-Yo

"Don't try to play me out, don't try to play me out"

I think once she tried the acting thing & it didn't work she just faded the fuck out

Yea, she was key lo lo on Martin.

Last thing I remember from her was Patra's "Romantic Call", which was the cut, btw.

GangstaFam said:

"I'm across da ocean & I'm feelin very lonely in my sleeeeep..."

So was Brandy's "I Wanna Be Down" remix before or after that? She was on that too

CalhounSq said:

That's the other last thing I remember by her. I think they were around the same time. Both great songs.

lilgish said:

I recently saw her on the Style Network's Show How Do I Look. They did a makeover of her. She is trying to do a comeback album.

didn't she do some rap with Ice Cube?? something about "yeah.. the Bonnie & Clyde thing"..

did they only work together on vinyl, or did Ice Cube "fill her glass"???

mltijchr said:

Yep. It was the Bonnie & Cylde Theme Rhyme.

yea she did work with ice cube !! dunno what happened to her ive got 2 of her albums and they are very good ! female rap to ice cube beats !!

Her website

an article from this year

she was on a make-over show on the style network last year. she is trying to come back out. she rapped on a remix of Ciara's "goodies". it sounded ok to me.
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k7i2m3 said:

I mentioned the Style network show earlier in the thread. Also, she did the theme for that show. Oh, I didn't know that she rapped on Ciara's remix interesting.

Yo-Yo is great. She reminds me of the quintessential WEST COAST girl back in the day :::dyed micro-mini braids (or ponytails with scrunchies), biker shorts, fanny packs, sucking on some kind of lollipop, blow pop or push-pop, big hoop earrings, long tallion nails... YES*!

LOL.

But anyway, she's still around. I see her in spotted black movies here and there.

lilgish said:

lilgish, you're awesome


Actually, that always sounded like a vocal sample from Queen Latifah's "Wrath of My Madness" to me.

The scene is mine cause I took it
I took it for the money and I took it for the fun
Don't step up in my face, you don't want to feel the taste
Don't try to play me out, cause I am not the one (one)

CinisterCee said:

Your right Cee that is La sampled in that song....both cuts being classics to me...I had the pleasure of meeting Yo-Yo back in 93 many many years ago,she is such a sweetheart,her last studio album Ebony was supposed to be released in 98 only to be canned and her being dropped from Elektra/East-west...this album I was fortunate to come across a burnt copy (being that the promos that are out there are very limited) I believe this album would have blown her up commercially it boasted cameos by Gerald Levert,Missy Elliot,Lil' Shawn,and Kelly Price. In the beginning of 05 she did 2 unofficial remixes Ciaras "My Goodies" and The Games "How we do" she said this is just a little something to get her name back in the streets and she is finishing up the touches on her next album to be titled Fearless released independently sometime this year she has guest spots from Tha Dogg Pounds Kurrupt,and Petey Pablo as well a few other suprises. I think it's time for a chick from the left coast to come out again...and who better then the original Queen of the west.

Yo-Yo Ma is among the finest cellists of his generation, and a musician of unusually broad appeal. His great success is no doubt due to an easygoing, friendly stage personality in addition to his fine, adventurous musicianship.

Indeed, Ma appears to have music in his blood: his mother was a singer in Hong Kong, his father a conductor, composer, and teacher. Although he had his first cello lessons at age four, memorizing two bars of Bach's Cello Suites every day, he had initially studied the violin, then the viola. When he was seven, the family moved to New York so that Yo-Yo could study with Janos Scholz. At the age of eight, Ma appeared on American television on "The American Pageant of the Arts," in a concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein. He joined the junior department of the Juilliard School as a pupil of Leonard Rose. However, he left Juilliard in 1971, questioning whether he would continue with his cello studies despite international recognition while still in his teens.

Ma eventually enrolled at Harvard, where teachers, including composers Leon Kirchner and Earl Kim, gave him confidence to continue. The most important turning point, though, was a trip to the Marlboro Festival, where he heard the great cellist Pablo Casals perform. Says Ma, "The commitment behind each note, the belief he had, was a wonderful example."

In 1978 Ma won the Avery Fisher Prize, establishing himself as one of a very few genuine superstars in classical music. Since then, he has appeared with nearly all of the world's great orchestras and conductors. He also is active in chamber music, often in a piano trio with Young Uck Kim and Emanuel Ax; Ma and Ax won a Grammy award for their recording of the Brahms Cello Sonatas. In 1982 Ma was invited to appear in the inaugural concert of the London Symphony Orchestra's new concert hall at the Barbican Centre in London, where he played in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II. He has won numerous Grammy awards, recording such diverse music as Brazilian bossa nova, Argentine tango, American roots and bluegrass, and the soundtrack for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In 1998 he founded the "Silk Road Project," to explore the exchange of musical ideas that occurred along the trade route. His CDs of the early 2000s have touched on both traditional and crossover repertory, with two albums of Vivaldi's music recorded with keyboardist and conductor Ton Koopman emerging as successful examples of the former, and the Obrigado Brazil CD becoming another crossover best seller.

Playing a Montagnana cello and the "Davidov" Stradivari previously used by Jacqueline du Pré, Ma produces a relatively lean and focused, though warm, tone, with a tight, fast vibrato. His performances are a unique blend of rhapsodic and seemingly spontaneous music-making; at the same time, his playing is tempered by intellectually rigorous analysis and forethought. He places great importance on not repeating performances from the past, either those of other artists or his own.

GrayKing said:

wrong Yo-Yo!!!!

boriquateddy said:

Indeed.

Hotlegs said:

oops sorry i didn't read all of the thread before i posted a response.

ThreadCula said:

Her website is dead.

lilgish said:

yeah I check it periodically to see if it will be up and running....I did email her in the beginning of the year at the address giving and she responded and sent me the "Goodies remix".

Ah, yes! -- Yo-Yo -- The very same Yo-Yo that made a pass at my girlfriend when she worked at a bank. I guess for us men, playing with HER Yo-Yo was a definite No-No! LOL!

NeoSoulScribe said:

So you saying Neo, that she is on the flipside.

MsLegs said:

Yes ma'am, I am!

NeoSoulScribe said:

Damn, she really got hard up.

MsLegs said:

This was back in 91 when that happened, right as she started to blow up.

NeoSoulScribe said:

awwwww shit put Yo-Yo bizz on blast!!!! LOL u know I always wondered...because even though she rapped alot of man hatin shit...she never came across as butch as Latifah & Lyte. Flipmode or not I still luh me some Yo-Yo.

boriquateddy said:

True Dat.

funny how she wasn't put on blast when the whole "Da Brat Gay" threads were hot.
Is Da Brat Gay? http://www.prince.org/msg/8/130450
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