The early '90s rapper who mixed funk with frank talk about women and community.
For a quick sense of her style, 'So Funky' from those early years holds up. 'Black Pearl' is the one that shows what she was really writing about.
When 'They Don't Stink' hit in 1991, it wasn't just the explicit lyrics that got attention. Yo Yo wrote songs like 'Black Pearl' and 'A Few Good Man' that tackled social issues head-on, giving West Coast rap a different kind of voice. She worked with Ice Cube and Coolio, but her own records had their own weight.
She started putting out records in the early 1990s with albums like Make Way for the Motherlode and Black on Black. Later records like Ebony and Blaq Angel came out in the 2000s, but most people still know the early '90s material best. Songs like 'Picture Perfect' and 'Make Way For The Motherlode' still turn up on playlists.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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