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Yo-Yo Returns on VH1
Saturday, March 22, 2008
By: Mike Ivey Jr.
 Yo-Yo, of “Don’t Play With My Yo-Yo” (1991) fame, will co-host VH1’s latest hip hop reality competition "Miss Rap Supreme", premiering April 14. Michael "MC Serch" Berrin, host of last year’s “The (White) Rapper Show,” is back to welcome a group of hungry female rappers into the “Fembassy” house to see who will take the title and a $100,000 grand prize.
'Miss Rap Supreme' digs deep and sheds a lot of light on the problems female rap artists are having,” says Yo-Yo AKA Yolanda Whitaker. "We know they're only going to allow so many of us in and once we're in, we let them pit us against each other.”
Yo-Yo sees the eight episode series as a chance to re-approach the public eye. The former on-air for Los Angeles radio station KDAY looks to supplement her job as a teacher of a lyrics class at her high school alma mater, Washington Prep, with another radio gig.
Besides planning to work on film soundtracks, Yo-Yo runs an Los Angeles based youth empowerment group called Let Your Light Shine Youth Foundation, co-founded by MC Lyte; the organization raises funds for college scholarships and other constructive programs for disadvantaged kids in the Los Angeles area. Let Your Light Shine Feb. 3 held its’ second annual "Super Party" fund-raiser.
Yo-Yo, the self-styled next Sylvia Rhone (Universal Motown) says, "I will forever do something with music but I want to be an entrepreneur and build an empire; discover new talent and give back what I've learned and know.”
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