Five Percenter Hip Hop S/D

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As I've mentioned elsewhere, "Concerto in X Minor" is possibly the greatest Brand Nubian affiliated track ever.

"To the East, Blackwards" still the G.O.A.T.

I recently dug up a disc from my back vaults by a group called Movement Ex - their one single of note was "Freedom Got a Shotgun." I'll see about zsharing (or somesuch) the album this weekend.

can any of the ilm rap doods direct me any recent 5 Percenter stuff - are there young guys doing any full-time stuff like X Clan or Lord Jamar?

I always liked Grand Puba "Soul Controller"

The Five Percent Album is so solid

can any of the ilm rap doods direct me any recent 5 Percenter stuff - are there young guys doing any full-time stuff like X Clan or Lord Jamar?

-- J0hn D., Friday, April 25, 2008 9:10 AM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

freeway
az
jada
lupe
nas
roots
busta

is slim thug muslim? some of the boss hogg outlaws tracks are on some 5% shit

omg blood for blood by killarmy w/the dead can dance sample is so so great

and of course the greatest rap album ever has tons gods n earths talk

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002WU9.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

i happened upon a five percenter rally in the park near my house a few years ago - def seems a movement in decline - everyone was 30+

it was kinda funny the speaker was yelling all this crazy aggressive racist shit - but the crowd had the vibe of a class reunion w/little kids running around and people being psyched to see each other

I just ordered this new-ish bio about Clarence 13 X/Allah, hope it's good

to be completely honest i prefer cosmic black jews - a van of theirs was parked near my house the other day w/all these crazy slogans stenciled all over it

Let's get an Hon. Mention for rastafarian nuttiness, too. Bunny Wailer's "I Have Never Seen the Image of a Baldhead Jesus Yet" came up on my itunes a few days ago, and that was great.

to be completely honest i prefer cosmic black jews - a van of theirs was parked near my house the other day w/all these crazy slogans stenciled all over it

-- jhøshea, Friday, April 25, 2008 10:34 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

theres a bathroom at the marta station here with all this black jewish gay stuff sharpied on the wall - like weird hebrew shit and ORIGINAL MAN and ADAM LOVED ADAM and shit

whao i did not know they rolled like that

I am just helpless before cryptic religious cult stuff & esoteric teachings & so on, I never get tired of hearing about it

unfortunately most of the people writing about such stuff are sociologists - all respect to any sociologists here but I have never read a book by a sociologist that wasn't completely boring - so I usually stick to primary sources & just get completely into the cultspeak

yah totally - ive been fucking w/the ed sanders manson bio on and off for a while O_o

i still need to get that crazy lord jamar record ethan was talking about with the 100 page book or whatever about 5 percent.

Ice Cube was kinda five percent for awhile....I never could quite tell the difference between repping Nation of Islam and repping strictly 5 percent shit.

Poor Righteous Teachers I think were.

This dude I remember called Jibri Wise One

Big Daddy Kane was 5 percent I think

Method Man, too, I'm assuming most of the clan...U God for sure

GZA and Killah Priest are both on last year's Wisemen album, which is 5%

from killah priests lyrics i always assumed he was more down w/the space jews

lupe is muslim but not 5% i think.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/bhi.htm

from killah priests lyrics i always assumed he was more down w/the space jews

this is my favorite post in recent memory :)

why be a muslim if you aren't 5 percent? it's like turning down an offer to join the superfriends!

Poor Righteous Teachers, for sure. Holy Intellect is a great album. Lots of crazy Nation of Gods and Earths business all the way through their stuff.

I was always fascinated by the notion of "Verbal Milk."

Vainglorious.

Lakim Shabazz

i guess superfriends is a bad comparison, 5 percenters are more like the Navy SEALs of islam

nation of islam is the x-men - 5% is the new mutants

Freedom Got an AK

what about paris?

ADAM LOVED ADAM

!

what about paris?

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, April 25, 2008 4:19 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

More a Panther than a God, right? Like the Coup, who keep bringing up Mao in their rhymes.

Mr. Hood

I guess Ansaar is close enough to 5%

what are the chances that a schizophrenic created 5 %ism? I'd say 85%.

most of the dudes i named are just str8 up muslims not 5%ers

So if NOI are X Men and 5% are New Mutants, Ansaars = X Force?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TP6806APL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

can any of the ilm rap doods direct me any recent 5 Percenter stuff - are there young guys doing any full-time stuff like X Clan or Lord Jamar?

-- J0hn D., Friday, April 25, 2008 9:10 AM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

freeway
az
jada
lupe
nas
roots
busta

I thought Nas was a Christian? And I haven't heard much five percentism in AZ's lyrics either, though I'm not as familiar with him as with Nas.

from killah priests lyrics i always assumed he was more down w/the space jews

Killah Priest quite freely mixes all sorts of religious imagery in his lyrics, though most of it is Christian, not Muslim. I think he even claims to be an atheist in some song.

Is Divine Styler a Five Percenter or some other type of Muslim? I think Wordpower 2 is lyrically one of the most interesting Islamic rap albums.

nas uses alot of 5% imagery in his songs but yeah i guess hes probly some weirdo religious mix cuz he talks about jesus shit too. az is def a muslim tho ive seen interviews & shit where he says he wants to use rap to teach kids about allah

[Verse One: AZ the Visualiza]
Visualizin the realism of life and actuality
Fuck who's the baddest a person's status depends on salary
And my mentality is, money orientated
I'm destined to live the dream for all my peeps who never made it
cause yeah, we were beginners in the hood as five percenters
But somethin must of got in us cause all of us turned to sinners

"we were all beginners in the hood as five percenters / but something musta got in us cuz all of us had turned to sinners"

lol xp

divine styler is just a hippie i think

pwn

lol i think nas might be the religion of whoever hes sharing a verse with

remember when diddy and nas did the video that involved them being crucified and puffy got really mad

Wasn't Rakim a 5%er?

not only was rakim a 5%er im pretty sure he was the first cat to rap about it

also that cat on the ego trip comp

lakim shabazz was rapping around the same time as rakim too

guru uses a lot of 5% slang in his shit... its hard to tell which dudes are actual members of gods and earths and which dudes just like the supreme alphabet and the slang

Didn't a lot of it carry over from a drug gang that used it to foil cop surveillance? That's what I saw on that one tv show anyway.

it=the supreme alphabet/slang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Team

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Five_Percenters

AP: What was your main religious influence, your denomination growing up?
Nas: I was surrounded by Christians ... my grandmothers, all my family was from the South, Baptist. As I got older I got into the 5 Percent Nation, and then that pushed me toward Islam. But (I'm not any) religion.
AP: Would you consider yourself agnostic?
Nas: I consider myself (pauses) I know there's a higher power.

I don't think that Wikipedia list of Five Percenters is reliable, it has people like Funkdoobiest and Vanilla Ice on it.

hmm, you think?

Why'd you link it then?

tuomas if only 100% useful content was required in every post ilx would have been shut down in 2001

I think he even claims to be an atheist in some song.

-- Tuomas, Friday, 25 April 2008 16:55 (1 hour ago) Link

"religion is like a prison for seekers of wisdom"

the thing is that nation of gods and earths doesnt claim to be a religion--its a "culture" and youre supposed to study all the major world religions

http://www.zshare.net/download/11145461a1c6f6de/

Movement Ex - Movement Ex (1990, Columbia)

1. Prologue - This Movement Is Ex-Rated
2. Freedom Got a Shotgun
3. United Snakes Of America
4. Universal Blues
5. KK Punanni
6. I Deal With Mathematics
7. Zig Zag Zig
8. Is My Mic On?
9. The Lord Speaks His Mind
10. Rap Mafia
11. Get Up Off the Pipe
12. Comin' At Ya
3. Epilogue - This Movement Is Ex-Rated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDn7SbIDLvc

5. KK Punanni

A+

bump for weekdays

http://www.discogs.com/release/404742

5%er metal

haha who else but bill laswell to produced a 5 percenter metal record?

its just a p-funk spinoff

(one of many Laswell was doing in the early- mid-90s)

new X-Clan album (Mainstream Outlawz) is great if you loved the last one, which I did - big mellow hammond sounds, soul crooning harmony choruses here and there, classic pissed-but-positive lyrics. Bun B verse on "Thru My Eyez."

damn I love X-Clan so much.

why be a muslim if you aren't 5 percent? it's like turning down an offer to join the superfriends!

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, April 25, 2008 4:09 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark

lol

wow bun on a an x-clan joint

say man it's big Bun B, I got ghetto respect
OG up in the hood I keep the ghetto in check
pointin out when the man is showin ghetto neglect
cuttin through the red tape to show the ghetto effect
or the effect on the ghetto when the government don't
cause the government can't, or the government won't
that's why I'm still in the hood
you know I gotta keep it trill in the hood (say what?)
'cause life is still real in the hood
grippin wood grain [peel?] in the hood
let me take you on a tour of the corners where they kill in the hood
cause we got (what?) black on black, and black on brown
brown on black, brown on brown
it's really goin down
when we all one and the same
and we all really know who the blame
man it's time to start changin the game
and it's time to start changin the aim
it's no surprise where the enemy lies
wanna see? take a look through my eyes

wow bun on a an x-clan joint

― straight up, you're payin' jacks just to hear me phase (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, March 9, 2009 10:14 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink