5 Percenters
 

I know this might sound stupid, but I was wondering about a few things concering the 5 Percenters. As far as I know, they are a religion/sect from the USA, but I'd like to know a few things about them...

1. What are their beliefs etc.?
2. Where are the majority of them located?
3. Could you please name a few rappers who are 5 Percenters?

Thanks

5%erZ?

Isn't that a old RB crew? =/

^ that, and a religious group in the USA :D

Rakim, Wu-Tang, Nas.

As far as I know they study Islam however they aint Muslim. They still drink alcohol, fornicate, and their beliefs are nationalistic.

These things contradict Islam and as a Muslim do not see the 5% as muslims.

^ ahhh thank you... i heard some where on this board that 5% are also racists.... but i cant picture rakim or nas being racist...

and what does fornicate mean exactly?

^Eatin' the pussy.

Fornicate is having sex outside marriage. Islam forbids then and nowhere in the Quran does it say this is allowed. Not sure if they are racist but are nationalistic. Like the Nation of Islam they see God being Black and Black people being the chosen people.

Once again Islam does not condone this view and race plays no part in Islam!!!

yeah and they still push that on other boards too. they bit the name talkin bout 5% of emcee is dope or some shit

anyways

the real 5%ers
A group which started as an offshoot of the NoI. They teach that any large group of people, and more specifically, the African American nation, can be divided into three groups, the 85% = basically the ignorant masses which need to be led, the 5% = the people with true knowledge of self whose job it is to lead the masses and fight against the 10%, the 10% = people who have partial knowledge of self and use it to gain power and wealth by exploiting the 85, also referred to as "bloodsuckers of the poor". The chosen percentages are what they feel that the percentages are within the black community. These numbers are neither universal (all though these groups do exist within any large group) nor unchangeable. "That'll be the day the five percent eat swine" -- Dred Scott (Breakin' combs [1994]).

edit: my 100th post and to think only reason i came back to this cause my other site was down

wow this is summin new ima learn

:)

how an i become one?

i guess you go find a chapter or whatever in your city

note:i'm not in the 5%ers, but i am 5%:D

Nationalistic huh... cant say im a big fan of that

But i dont think they are racist... Nas has allowed Eminem to produce for him, and Ra and Em have been on a label together... also i think eminem produced for method man or something...

fornicate... lol u couldve said premature sex

5 Percenters are wanna be muslims who don't want to commit to the religion..................ALLAH, Arm Leg Leg Arm Head

Busta rhymes is a 5 percenter too.,.........the prob wit da quran is that arabs claim unless you read it in arabic u not a muslim when it was originally written in syrian and half of the dam thing was translated wrong.

Word Bond pretty much broke it down.....

You know when emcee say, "Whuttup, God" like kind of a slang type of way.... that springs from the 5% percent nation too...because one of the theroies on the religeon is that the Black Man is God and the White Man is the Devil....

So thats why alot of cats who follow the religon call themself or another black man "God" becasue of the 5% nation....even though now it's more of a slang word than anything .......

like stated earlier....Nas, Busta, the Wu, State Property, The Lox and alot of other cats sprinkle they rhymes with 5% teachings.....Rakim and Kane was like one of the first ones to do it.......so goes back a ways

Other goups who are 5%'ers, brand nubians, gangstarr, digable planets, pete rock & CL smooth, black moon. Of course because the Wu was hot(mid to late 90's) their 5% lingo was made into slang.
dude broke it down pretty good up there, a couple of more things though:
Son, which is derived from 5% lingo, means God (black man), earth meaning black woman, who revolves around the sun.
G is the 7th letter in the alphabet

They are based on islam, but they concider muslims as part of the 10% (those who have knowledge and use it to take advantage of the 85%(the dumb deaf & blind).

Almost every rapper was 5% or Muslim back in the late 80's early 90's, when rap was mostly about empowerment & upliftment of the black race.
their..uh logo is a giant 7 (# of perfection) & crescent(woman) with a 8 point star (child) behind it.

Other slang that was originated by 5%'ers:

G-stood for God, before it stood for gangster

Word-Kind of like a amen when someone was droppong knowledge

Peace-which was used to greet people entering into a Moorish Temple
break it down/drop science-When someone was teaching "supreme mathmatics" or "Supreme Alphabet"
EX. Supreme mathmatics-G is the 7th letter, the black man has 7.5 ounces of brain matter, whites have 6.
EX. "Supreme Alphabet"
ALLAH=Arm, leg, leg, arm, head
Library-lies buried
Television-tell lies vision
Knowledge-Know the ledge
Universe-U-N-I Verse All

All the prophets have tried to reform white man, but he cannot be reformed. White man continued to do devilishment", and "the potency of melanin in the black man makes him naturally rhythmic" are quote from their teachings.

The 10% include the "grafted" white devil (created, according to Farad's teaching, by the evil scientist Yacub approximately 6000 years ago12) as well as the orthodox Muslims and Christian preachers who preach that god is a "spook" or a "mystery god."


The 5% are the poor righteous teachers who preach the divinity of (black) man, the god who is "manifest" (not a spook, not a mystery god) and who will save the 85% from destruction.

interesting belief...
Have a nice day