cawacko
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Anyone here familiar with Five Percenters? As I understand it it's a black nationalist group influenced by Islam founded sometime in the '60's in NYC. This being a Flashback Friday I heard the classic Brand Nubian song from 1990 called Wake Up this morning thus the topic being on the brain. At the start of the video they make reference to Five Percenters and use the phrase (in reference to Grand Puba) about "this brotha has knowledge of self". I remember kids in high school saying that to each other (around the time this song came out), they would say "this is Damon, this brotha has knowledge".
This song is a classic as well as kind of informative/educational about the Five Percent Nation and what they stand for. Curious if anyone has more info on them or their beliefs or have studied them at all. Edit: I rarely hear any reference to Five Percenters today but I know we have some posters who were around in the '60's so curious if you recall them being discussed back then.
This song is a classic as well as kind of informative/educational about the Five Percent Nation and what they stand for. Curious if anyone has more info on them or their beliefs or have studied them at all. Edit: I rarely hear any reference to Five Percenters today but I know we have some posters who were around in the '60's so curious if you recall them being discussed back then.