How interesting. Dang...now I have to find some new grooves. Everything has an origin. I'm just too lazy to research all the background information. I guess it is easier to stick to the Word. (sigh)
Below is from Wiki - I don't take the info. as legit all the time but it is a bases of pulling the meaning of things together.
Hip hop
From the early 1980s to today, many Five Percenters are found among the American
East Coast,
West Coast, and
Midwest, in
cities such as
New York City,
Trenton,
Philadelphia,
Chicago, and
Los Angeles, especially among the
hip hop scene. Hip hop artists such as
Rakim,
Wu-Tang Clan,
Brand Nubian,
Talib Kweli,
Papoose,
Busta Rhymes,
Hell Razah,
Erykah Badu,
Nas,
Prodigy,
Jus Allah,
Poor Righteous Teachers,
Gang Starr,
J-Live,
AZ, and many others had success spreading the
theology of the Five Percenters. This spread, in part, uses the
language of
Supreme Mathematics, which represents universal law and order, and the
Supreme Alphabet, which represents universal principles of life, ostensibly to forge solidarity with the inner-city youth through a common language.
[8] The main theme of the Five-Percenter doctrine that can be heard on hip hop records is the teaching that the Original Blackman is God, the Original Blackwoman is the planet Earth, and through the inner
esoteric powers of the Gods and Earths, the youth can transform and possess its true
potential, which seems to overthrow the overbearing
oligarchy by becoming just rulers of themselves.
Many terms that originated as Five-Percenter
jargon have been adopted into the
hip hop slang as well. For example, the term "G" in hip hop originally was short for the Five-Percenter greeting of "God", which, through its spread to the
West Coast and the rise of
gangsta rap, it eventually evolved into "gangsta", a stretch from its origin. Other popular terms such as "word is bond", while having significantly older roots than the Five Percenters, were believed to have gained prominence through its use of the term, referring back to the Nation of Islam and the NGE's shared 120 Degrees.
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