5 percenter

English

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Etymology

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.

Noun

5 percenter (plural 5 percenters)

  1. A member of the Five-Percent Nation, a cultural movement influenced by Islam, founded in 1964 in New York City.
    • 2009, “Exhibit C”, in Victory, performed by Jay Electronica:
      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?"

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