“Miss Amutha Nature” was also featured on a Mercury Records compilation called “Dred in the Head” – probably a promo showcasing their current roster of artists at the time. It doesn’t completely blunt her edge though: “Not from the sewer but straight out the gutter/that’s right you heard what I said, I didn’t stutter.” Et tu Das EFX? She also has a message for her foes: “This planet ain’t big enough for you and me both, so I guess somebody gotta get whacked.” Ouch! The album version produced by DJ Pooh certainly has that early 1990’s West coast music video remix, which features jazzy piano breaks and gives the somewhat militant Nefertiti a softer and more accessible edge. The thing that struck me right away listening to “L.I.F.E.” was that the version of “Miss Amutha Nature” on the album was not the one I remembered from MTV/BET back in the day. Let’s all pray that day isn’t for a long time to come. I’ve added more information in 2014 than was available on her in 1994, so if the day comes where someone has to write the obituary, all of the elements have been tied together in one knot. Now that I know she’s been all over the U.S., blessed with success above and beyond her music career, and that she’s even making a difference for fellow cancer sufferers and survivors I feel properly equipped to talk about the blip in her life (and mine) that “L.I.F.E.” has become. I was convinced enough it was her when said friends were all emcees. I found a Facebook profile that could be hers (with three mutual friends) but it’s not my business to pry into her personal life, so I won’t share it here. I can’t find any information about how she’s doing since the Daily’s story on her in 2012, though I’m hopeful that the lack of a “R.I.P.” in my many searches means she’s still in remission and doing well. The face is undoubtedly the same as the one on the back cover of “L.I.F.E.,” although chemotherapy and radiation had taken their toll. I actually had to check and double check just to make sure the rapper Nefertiti was the “Lance Armstrong of stomach cancer,” but the most telling sign of all was the photo of her in the Daily article. The music career is largely forgotten except for brief notes in various bios, but what struck me as I was doing my research for this review was that Strong is a stomach cancer survivor, which was noteworthy enough for a feature in the New York Daily News, which itself makes just the slightest mention of her rap career. eventually transitioned to residence in Brooklyn. Nefertiti’s career in front of the camera eventually transitioned to a role behind the lens, and her stay in L.A. Her most memorable role may have been Alma in the Mario Van Peebles directed movie “Panther,” where she lays down the law to the growing Black Panther Party that women need to have a role equal to the men. It’s claimed that her debut album “L.I.F.E.” sold over 500,000 copies – and we’ll get to reviewing it in a moment – but some may remember her acting career more than her musical one. She was born in Chicago, moved to Los Angeles at a young age, and developed her poetical skills on the scene to the point she got noticed and signed to PolyGram/Mercury. Somebody should get on that.” Everybody just focused on what they were into, although some archives did try to collect hip-hop resources as a whole.Īnyway after about a dozen searches I can tell you a few facts about Ms. There’s an unfortunate amount of hip-hop history that has yet to be entered from the early to mid-90’s, because even those of us who lived through it and used the internet didn’t have a checklist that said “Nobody has made a bio on Nefertiti yet. (Living In Fear of Extinction)” for over 20 years now, and while that doesn’t pre-date my time as a hip-hop writer, it does pre-date a time when there was a Google search engine (that came along in 1998). The modern day global network of connected resources we commonly refer to as “the internet” (and occasionally as “a series of tubes”) has a wide variety of information both useful and useless, but it took more than a couple of searches to get the 411 on Angelica ‘Nefertiti’ Strong.
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