Editing Five-Percent Nation (section)

==Influence on hip-hop  ==
The majority of allusions to Islam in American hip-hop, either conscious or otherwise, spawn from adherents of the Five Percenters.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejf_DwAAQBAJ&dq=Five+Percenters&pg=PA169 |title=Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation |last=Mohamed Nasir |first=Kamaludeen |date=2020 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=9780253053053 |access-date=April 29, 2021 |archive-date=June 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220603061001/https://books.google.com/books?id=ejf_DwAAQBAJ&dq=Five+Percenters&pg=PA169 |url-status=live }}</ref> In its article on Five Percenter [[Jay Electronica]], ''[[Vice Magazine]]'' stated in regard to the Five Percent Nation: "It's a movement that's been affiliated with hip-hop from the very beginning, coining terms like 'ciphers' and 'dropping science' and influencing everyone, [[World's Famous Supreme Team]], [[Big Daddy Kane]], [[Busta Rhymes]], [[J. Cole]], [[Jay-Z]], [[Rakim]], [[Wu-Tang Clan]], [[Brand Nubian]], [[Nas]], [[Common (rapper)|Common]], [[Poor Righteous Teachers]], [[Erykah Badu]], and [[AZ (rapper)|AZ]]. With these artists, and any others associated with the Five Percenters, music was more than just a message."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-prestige-the-five-percenters-and-why-jay-electronica-hasnt-released-his-debut-album/ |title=The Prestige, The Five Percenters, and Why Jay Electronica Hasn't Released His Debut Album |last=Bassil |first=Ryan |date=October 23, 2013 |publisher=Noisey.vice.com |access-date=April 19, 2014 |archive-date=February 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227225011/http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/the-prestige-the-five-percenters-and-why-jay-electronica-hasnt-released-his-debut-album |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Nation of Gods and Earths has propagated its teachings throughout the [[United States]] and abroad. In the early 1980s, this spread was in part due to early adherents teaching when away at college or in the military and, more famously, because of the rise of [[hip hop music]]. The main theme of the NGE doctrine spoken on hip hop records were the teachings that black people were the original or first human life to walk the planet, that the Blackman is God, the Blackwoman is Earth, and through the inner [[esoteric]] powers of the Gods and Earths, the youth can transform and possess its true potential, which aspires to overthrow the overbearing [[oligarchy]] by becoming just rulers of themselves. This especially meshed well with conscious themes found in other golden-age hip hop recordings.

Early hip-hop acts affiliated with the Five Percenters, and who spread its teachings through hip hop, include two MCs from the conscious-rap era of the late 1980s and early 1990s: [[Rakim]] of [[Eric B. & Rakim]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_WwhU7vQ5ancC |title=SPIN – |via=[[Internet Archive]] |date=February 1991 |publisher=SPIN Media LLC |access-date=February 13, 2012}}</ref> and [[Big Daddy Kane]]. These two acts, as well as some of their other contemporaries, infused Five-Percent teachings and symbolism throughout their music and videos. This reputation brought fans of Rakim in particular to refer to him as the God MC.{{sfn|Allah|2007|p=321}}<ref name="Knight 2007 117–186">{{Cite book |title=The Five Percenters |last=Knight |first=Michael |publisher=One World |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-85168-615-5 |pages=117–186}}</ref><ref name="Washington 2014 101–136">{{Cite book |title=Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence |last=Washington |first=Teresa |publisher=Oya's Tornado |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-9910730-0-9 |pages=101–136}}</ref><ref name="Miyakawa 2005 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253345745/page/41 41–72">{{Cite book |title=Five Percenter Rap |last=Miyakawa |first=Felicia |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2005 |isbn=0-253-21763-6 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253345745/page/41 41–72] |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253345745/page/41}}</ref>

After Rakim and Kane's heyday, acts emerged that were more explicitly aligned with the NGE, most notably [[Brand Nubian]], [[Poor Righteous Teachers]], [[Wu-Tang Clan]], [[Killarmy]], [[Sunz of Man]], [[Gravediggaz]] and [[Busta Rhymes]].{{sfn|Allah|2007|p=321}}<ref name="Knight 2007 117–186"/><ref name="Washington 2014 101–136"/><ref name="Miyakawa 2005 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253345745/page/41 41–72"/> The popularity of these acts sparked a boom of new NGE students. The hip hop group [[3rd Bass]], whose MCs [[Pete Nice|Prime Minister Pete Nice]] and [[MC Serch]] were white and Jewish, respectively, cited NGE lessons in the song "Triple Stage Darkness" and other songs.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genius.com/3rd-bass-triple-stage-darkness-lyrics |title=3rd Bass – Triple Stage Darkness |website=Genius |publisher=[[Genius.com]] |access-date=September 3, 2017 |archive-date=September 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903212035/https://genius.com/3rd-bass-triple-stage-darkness-lyrics |url-status=live }}</ref>

Five Percenters were the innovators behind early hip-hop slang, including "word is bond", "break it down", "peace", "droppin' science", and "represent".<ref name="HipHopWired" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shobak.org/text/hiphop-full.html |title=FEAR OF A MUSLIM PLANET:THE ISLAMIC ROOTS OF HIP-HOP |last=Mohaiemen |first=Naeem |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002100445/http://www.shobak.org/text/hiphop-full.html |archive-date=October 2, 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=September 22, 2013}}</ref> Many MCs employ the technique and terminology of the Supreme Alphabet to create [[acrostics]], [[acronyms]] and [[backronyms]] in their rhymes. For example, in the song "Wildflower", [[Ghostface Killah]] rhymes, "I'm God Cipher Divine", spelling G-O-D in the Supreme Alphabet.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blackapologetics.com/supremealpha.html |title=Supreme Alphabet |publisher=Blackapologetics.com |access-date=February 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208121207/http://www.blackapologetics.com/supremealpha.html |archive-date=8 February 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://rapgenius.com/Ghostface-killah-wildflower-lyrics |title=Ghostface Killah – Wildflower Lyrics |publisher=Rap Genius |access-date=February 13, 2012 |archive-date=April 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401001542/http://rapgenius.com/Ghostface-killah-wildflower-lyrics |url-status=live }}</ref> [[RZA]] directly rhymes the Twelve Jewels of life's objectives on his later work with [[Gravediggaz]], rhyming in succession: knowledge, wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, equality, food, clothing, shelter, love, peace, happiness.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genius.com/Gravediggaz-twelve-jewelz-lyrics |title=Gravediggaz – Twelve Jewelz |website=Genius |publisher=[[Genius.com]] |access-date=September 3, 2017 |archive-date=September 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903211703/https://genius.com/Gravediggaz-twelve-jewelz-lyrics |url-status=live }}</ref> He regularly wears an eight-pointed star pendant, with a number seven and a crescent, which can be seen on the cover of his album ''[[The World According to RZA]]''.

Five Percenters in New York City were a visible presence at parties during hip hop's formative years of the 1970s. Scene pioneer [[DJ Kool Herc]] recalled that while there was a heavy gang presence in attendance, the Five Percenters were there as a ''de facto'' peace-keeping element.<ref name="GodHop">{{cite book |title=Five Percenter Rap: God-Hop's Music, Message, and Black Muslim Mission |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253345745 |url-access=registration |author=Felicia M. Miyakawa |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2005}}</ref>

Other examples of hip hop and [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]] acts who are, or have been, associated with Five Percent teachings include [[Killah Priest]], [[Digable Planets]], [[J-Live]], [[Nas]], [[Erykah Badu]], [[Queen Latifah]], [[Planet Asia]], and [[Guru (rapper)|Guru]].<ref name="Miyakawa2005b">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253345745 |url-access=registration |quote=nas percenter. |title=Five Percenter Rap: God Hop's Music, Message, and Black Muslim Mission |author=Felicia M. Miyakawa |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2005 |isbn=0-253-34574-X |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253345745/page/4 4], 103–106}}</ref>