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...Yo-Yo, a Grammy-nominated female rapper, is also nostalgic for the days of “old-school” hip-hop. She hopes to bring more female artists into the music’s new era and has made it her mission to spread the message of female empowerment in hip-hop. As a judge for “Take Back the Music” and the host of the new VH1 reality series “Ego Trip’s Miss Rap Supreme,” Yo-Yo hopes that she will...
...creativity level in hip-hop just sucks,” Yo-Yo says. “It’s just dumbed down to people who have great talent but can’t really channel it. They don’t know where to send...
...Yo-Yo, who also teaches a class on lyrics at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz in Los Angeles, recounted an instance in which she asked her students to write without mentioning partying, drinking, bad relationships, “bling bling, or how fly they were.” On the day that the assignment was due, no one had written anything, because they claimed that they didn’t know what to write...
...They just had to be creative, to come up with a story,” Yo-Yo says. “That was so hard. Back in the day, that’s all hip-hop was, was storytelling...
...Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and his interviewer Howard E. Gardner ’65 waited to begin their conversation last night on the role of music in the world, the famous cellist took in the room and said, “This is like a wedding.” Ma displayed good humor and genuine affection for both his interviewer and the crowd that gathered to see him in the Radcliffe Gymnasium as he explained his attitudes towards the cello, culture, and the world at large. Gardner, a professor at the Graduate School of Education...