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Yo-Yo (born Yolanda Whittaker) is a Grammy-nominated American hardcore rapper and actress. Much of her music has advocated female empowerment, denouncing the frequent sexism found in hip-hop music.

She is the protege of gangsta rapper Ice Cube. Yo-Yo dubbed her crew the IBWC, which stood for the Intelligent Black Woman's Coalition.

"Hip hop may have taken sexual politics out of the halls of black academia and into the 'hood," reflected Joan Morgan in a 1991 Village Voice review, "but feminist remains a word so loaded even a superwoman like [rapper] Queen Latifah steps from it.

So as hip hop's first self-proclaimed feminist activist, 19-year-old Yo Yo should be given her props on bravery alone." Indeed the young rapper did arrive on the scene riding a wave of fierce and successful female rhymesters, but she claimed the mantle of feminism more openly than most of her peers.

With the help of producer-mentor Ice Cube, Yo Yo established herself as a potent force