Make Way for the Motherlode

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/make-way-for-the-motherlode-mw0000674464|title=Make Way for the Motherlode Yo-Yo|website=AllMusic|last=Henderson|first=Alex|access-date=February 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211213100418/https://www.allmusic.com/album/make-way-for-the-motherlode-mw0000674464|archive-date=December 13, 2021|url-status=live}}

| rev2 = Robert Christgau

| rev2score = A−{{cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|title=Yo Yo|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1708&name=Yo+Yo|access-date=August 28, 2022|website=Robert Christgau}}

| rev3 = The Source

| rev3score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{cite magazine|last=C.|first=Greg|date=May 1991|issue=20|title=Record Report: Yo Yo – Make Way for the Motherlode|magazine=The Source|page=57|location=New York}}

}}

Robert Christgau commented that: "By loosing Roxanne Shante's tough talk on Queen Latifah's leadership seminar, Ice Cube's no-shit sister doubles her chance of teaching "intelligent black women" how one respects oneself. Her most salient theme is an ass she's not inclined to give up on the first date, and when she succumbs, she lives to regret it at speeds that'll set you on yours. Sir Jinx's soul-thick, jazz-inflected production suits her gritty drawl and wayward mouth. And if they should split she'll figure out another way to get over." The New York Times noted that Yo-Yo is "fast-talking and competitive in the requisite boasts, then slows down the rhymes to detail male transgressions and, more often, female naivete."{{cite news |last1=Pareles |first1=Jon |title=Yo-Yo: 'Make Way for the Motherlode' |work=The New York Times |date=Apr 14, 1991 |page=A30}}

Alex Henderson of AllMusic wrote: "As positive as Queen Latifah but as abrasive in her delivery as MC Lyte, Yo-Yo showed some potential on her debut album, Make Way for the Motherlode."

{{Track listing

| all_writing = Yo-Yo

| title1 = Stand Up for Your Rights

| writer1 = {{hlist|Yo-Yo|Sir Jinx|Chilly Chill|Stevie Wonder}}

| note1 = featuring Ricky Harris, Tamika Ingram and Threat

| length1 = 1:00

| title2 = Stompin' to the '90s

| writer2 = {{hlist|Del|Sir Jinx}}

| length2 = 4:07

| title3 = You Can't Play with My Yo Yo

| note3 = featuring Ice Cube

| writer3 = {{hlist|Yo-Yo|Ice Cube|James Brown|Charles Sherrell}}

| length3 = 3:34

| title4 = Cube Gets Played

| note4 = featuring Ricky Harris

| length4 = 0:19

| title5 = Put a Lid on It

| writer5 = {{hlist|Ice Cube|Sir Jinx|James Brown}}

| length5 = 3:04

| title6 = What Can I Do?

| writer6 = {{hlist|Del|Ice Cube|Clarence Reid}}

| note6 = featuring Ice Cube

| length6 = 4:13

| title7 = Dedication

| writer7 = {{hlist|John Barnes III|J-Swift}}

| note7 = featuring LA Jay & Ricky Harris

| length7 = 0:52

| title8 = Sisterland

| writer8 = {{hlist|Yo-Yo|Alvertis Isbell|Bob Crewe|Kenny Nolan}}

| length8 = 3:38

| title9 = The I.B.W.C. National Anthem

| writer9 = Yo-Yo

| note9 = featuring Dawn, Diamond & Sparkles

| length9 = 1:44

| title10 = Make Way for the Motherlode

| writer10 = {{hlist|Del|Ice Cube|George Clinton|Bernie Worrell|Bootsy Collins}}

| length10 = 3:47

| title11 = Tonight's the Night

| note11 = featuring Dazzie Dee

| length11 = 3:38

| writer11 = {{hlist|Dazzie Dee|Betty Wright|Willie Clark|Willie Hutchinson}}

| title12 = I Got Played

| writer12 = {{hlist|Ice Cube|Sir Jinx}}

| length12 = 2:45

| title13 = Girl, Don't Be No Fool

| writer13 = {{hlist|Ice Cube|Sir Jinx|The J.B.'s}}

| length13 = 4:40

| title14 = Ain't Nobody Better

| writer14 = {{hlist|Yo-Yo|Del|Hawk Wolinski|George Clinton|Philippe Wynne}}

| length14 = 4:22

| title15 = Outro

| note15 = featuring Ricky Harris

| writer15 = {{hlist|Del|Ice Cube|Clarence Reid}}

| length15 = 0:23

| title16 = More of What I Can Do

| writer16 = {{hlist|Del|Ice Cube|Reid}}

| note16 = featuring Sir Jinx

| length16 = 1:48

| total_length = 43:54

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Notes:

• Some CD editions list the outro with the incorrect running time of 2:10
• Featured artists are not listed

{{reflist}}

{{Discogs master|112293|Make Way for the Motherlode}}

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Category:Yo-Yo (rapper) albums

Category:1991 debut albums

Category:East West Records albums

Category:Albums produced by Ice Cube

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