Meanings
plural 5 percenters · alternative Five Percenter · alternative Five-Percenter
- A member of the Five-Percent Nation, a cultural movement influenced by Islam, founded in 1964 in New York City.
Trying to find the meaning of life in a Corona / 'Til the Five Percenters rolled up on a nigga and informed him: / "You either build or destroy, where you come from?"
2009, “Exhibit C”, in Victory, performed by Jay Electronica
Origin
The term refers to the movement's belief that only five percent of all people understand God and consider the Black man as superior to all, leaving eighty-five percent as slaves to a ten-percent elite conspiracy that rules the world.
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