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Five-Percent Nation

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The Five-Percent Nation, sometimes referred to as NGE or NOGE, the Nation of Gods and Earths, or the Five Percenters, is a movement founded in 1964 in the Harlem section of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, by a former member of the Nation of Islam (NOI), Clarence 13X, who was named Clarence Edward Smith at birth, and who ultimately came to be known as Allah the Father. [1]

138 relations: Acronym, Acrostic, Allah, Apotheosis, AZ (rapper), Backronym, Big Daddy Kane, Black Sheep (duo), Black Thought, Brand Nubian, Broadway theatre, Brooklyn, Busta Rhymes, C+C Music Factory, Can't Stop Won't Stop (book), Capone-N-Noreaga, Carmelo Anthony, Caucasian race, Chicago, Christmas, Cipha Sounds, Clarence 13X, Common (rapper), Connecticut, Contemporary R&B, Cus D'Amato, Dallas, Denver Nuggets, Detroit, Digable Planets, Disco, Disco Nights (Rock-Freak), Divinity, DJ Kay Slay, DJ Kool Herc, Easter, Elijah Muhammad, Elite, Eric B. & Rakim, Erykah Badu, Espionage, Excommunication, Freedom Williams, Genius (website), Ghostface Killah, God Shammgod, GQ (band), Grammy Award, Gravediggaz, Guru (rapper), ..., Harlem, Harriet Tubman, HBO, Hip hop music, Holiday, Incorporeality, Islam, J-Live, Jay Electronica, Jay-Z, Jedi Mind Tricks, John Lindsay, Jus Allah, Just-Ice, Kase2, Killah Priest, Killarmy, Lakim Shabazz, Large Professor, Latin script, Lil Soldiers, LL Cool J, Lord Jamar, Malcolm X, Manhattan, Martin Luther King Jr., Mathematics (producer), Maurice Broaddus, MC Shan, MF Doom, Michigan, Mike Tyson, Multiracial, Nas, Nation of Islam, National Basketball Association, National Urban League, New Jersey, New Rochelle, New York, New York City, Numerical digit, Numerology, Oklahoma City Thunder, Oligarchy, On & On (Erykah Badu song), Oz (TV series), Papoose, Petey Pablo, Philadelphia, Planet Asia, Poor Righteous Teachers, Pork, Positive K, Potential, Queen Latifah, Queens, Raekwon, Rakim, Raw foodism, Rhythm and blues, RZA, Science fair, Scientist, Seattle, South Carolina, Spin (magazine), St. Louis, St. Lunatics, Staten Island, Style Wars, Sunz of Man, Supreme Alphabet, Supreme Understanding, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Roots, The World According to RZA, The World's Famous Supreme Team, Tragedy Khadafi, United States, Veganism, Vice (magazine), Victor LaValle, Wakeel Allah, Wallace Fard Muhammad, Western esotericism, Wilson Chandler, Wu-Tang Clan, 3rd Bass. Expand index (88 more) »

Acronym

An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters (as in NATO or laser) and sometimes syllables (as in Benelux).

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Acrostic

An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet.

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Allah

Allah (translit) is the Arabic word for God in Abrahamic religions.

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Apotheosis

Apotheosis (from Greek ἀποθέωσις from ἀποθεοῦν, apotheoun "to deify"; in Latin deificatio "making divine"; also called divinization and deification) is the glorification of a subject to divine level.

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AZ (rapper)

Anthony Cruz (born March 9, 1972), better known by his stage name AZ, is an American rapper born in Brooklyn, New York.

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Backronym

A backronym, or bacronym, is a constructed phrase that purports to be the source of a word that is an acronym.

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Big Daddy Kane

Antonio Hardy (born September 10, 1968), better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is a Grammy Award-winning American rapper and actor who started his career in 1986 as a member of the rap collective the Juice Crew.

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Black Sheep (duo)

Black Sheep was a hip hop duo from Queens, New York, composed of Andres "Dres" Vargas Titus and William "Mista Lawnge" McLean.

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Black Thought

Tariq Luqmaan Trotter (born October 3, 1971), better known as Black Thought, is an American rapper and the lead MC of the Philadelphia-based hip hop group The Roots, as well as an occasional actor.

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Brand Nubian

Brand Nubian is an American hip hop group from New Rochelle, New York, composed of three emcees: Grand Puba, Sadat X and Lord Jamar, and formerly two DJs: DJ Alamo and DJ Sincere.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Busta Rhymes

Trevor George Smith Jr. (born May 20, 1972), better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes, is an American rapper, record producer, record executive and actor.

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C+C Music Factory

C+C Music Factory is an American musical group formed in 1989 by David Cole and Robert Clivillés.

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Can't Stop Won't Stop (book)

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation is a book by Jeff Chang chronicling the early hip hop scene.

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Capone-N-Noreaga

Capone-N-Noreaga (also known as C-N-N) is an American hip hop duo formed in 1995, from Queens, New York City, New York.

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Carmelo Anthony

Carmelo Kyam Anthony (born May 29, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Caucasian race

The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid or Europid) is a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon, which, depending on which of the historical race classifications used, have usually included some or all of the ancient and modern populations of Europe, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, Central Asia and South Asia.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.

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Cipha Sounds

Cipha Sounds (born Luis Diaz on April 19, 1976 in Bronx, New York) is an American radio and television personality of Puerto Rican descent.

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Clarence 13X

Clarence Edward Smith (February 22, 1928 – June 13, 1969), better known by his assumed names Clarence 13X and Allah, was an American leader and founder of the Five-Percent Nation.

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Common (rapper)

Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr. (born March 13, 1972), better known by his stage name Common (formerly Common Sense), is an American rapper, actor, poet, and film producer.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B (also known as simply R&B), is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.

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Cus D'Amato

Constantine "Cus" D'Amato (January 17, 1908 – November 4, 1985) was an American boxing manager and trainer who handled the careers of Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson, and José Torres; all went on to become members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Denver Nuggets

The Denver Nuggets are an American professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Digable Planets

Digable Planets is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987, in Brooklyn, New York.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)

"Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)" is a song written by Emanuel LeBlanc, Herb Lane, Keith Crier, and Paul Service and performed by American band GQ from their debut studio album Disco Nights in 1979.

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Divinity

In religion, divinity or godhead is the state of things that are believed to come from a supernatural power or deity, such as a god, supreme being, creator deity, or spirits, and are therefore regarded as sacred and holy.

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DJ Kay Slay

Keith Grayson (born August 14, 1966), professionally known as DJ Kay Slay, is an American hip hop disc jockey (DJ) from New York City.

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DJ Kool Herc

Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican–American DJ who is credited with helping originate hip hop music in the early–1970s in The Bronx, New York City.

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Easter

Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the Book of Common Prayer, "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher and Samuel Pepys and plain "Easter", as in books printed in,, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary 30 AD.

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Elijah Muhammad

Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was a black religious leader, who led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1934 until his death in 1975.

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Elite

In political and sociological theory, the elite (French élite, from Latin eligere) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a society.

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Eric B. & Rakim

Eric B. & Rakim are a hip hop duo formed in Long Island, New York, in 1986, composed of Eric B. (born Eric Barrier) and MC Rakim (born William Michael Griffin Jr.). AllMusic wrote that "during rap's so-called golden age in the late '80s, Eric B. & Rakim were almost universally recognized as the premier DJ/MC team in all of hip-hop." Tom Terrell of NPR called them "the most influential DJ/MC combo in contemporary pop music period," while the editors of About.com ranked them as No.

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Erykah Badu

Erica Abi Wright (born February 26, 1971), known professionally as Erykah Badu, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, disc jockey, activist, and actress.

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Espionage

Espionage or spying, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information without the permission of the holder of the information.

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Excommunication

Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular receiving of the sacraments.

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Freedom Williams

Frederick Brandon Williams (born February 13, 1968), better known by his stage name Freedom Williams is an American hip hop and dance music performer, who gained fame as the lead vocalist on C+C Music Factory's biggest hits.

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Genius (website)

Genius (formerly Rap Genius) is an American digital media company.

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Ghostface Killah

Dennis Coles (born May 9, 1970), better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and member of the Wu-Tang Clan.

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God Shammgod

God Shammgod (born April 29, 1976 and formerly known as Shammgod Wells) is an American basketball coach and former professional player.

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GQ (band)

GQ was an American group, formed in The Bronx, New York, primarily noted for its success in disco and R&B.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Gravediggaz

Gravediggaz was an American hip hop group from New York City, known for its dark sense of humor and abrasive, menacing soundscapes.

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Guru (rapper)

Keith Edward Elam (July 17, 1966April 19, 2010), better known by his stage name Guru (a backronym for Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal), was an American rapper, producer, and actor.

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Harlem

Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Holiday

A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work including school, are suspended or reduced.

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Incorporeality

Incorporeal or uncarnate means without a physical body, presence or form.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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J-Live

Jean-Jacques Cadet (born February 22, 1976), better known by his stage name J-Live, is an American rapper, DJ and producer.

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Jay Electronica

Timothy Elpadaro Thedford (born September 19, 1976), known professionally as Jay Electronica, is an American rapper and record producer from New Orleans.

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Jay-Z

Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969) known professionally as Jay-Z (stylized JAY-Z), is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and entrepreneur.

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Jedi Mind Tricks

Jedi Mind Tricks (JMT) is an underground hip hop group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded by two high school friends, rapper Vinnie Paz (Vincenzo Luvineri) and producer Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (Kevin Baldwin).

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John Lindsay

John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician, lawyer, and broadcaster.

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Jus Allah

James Bostick (born June 30, 1978), better known by his stage name Jus Allah is an American rapper best known for being a former member of both Jedi Mind Tricks (JMT) and Army of the Pharaohs.

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Just-Ice

Joseph Williams Jr. (born June 22, 1965), better known by the stage name Just-Ice, is an American rapper from New York City.

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Kase2

Kase2 (born 1958), also known as King Kase2 and Case2; born Jeff Brown, was a graffiti writer and a significant contributor to the hip-hop movement.

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Killah Priest

Walter Reed (born August 16, 1970), better known by his stage name Killah Priest, is an American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan affiliate who was raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville, Brooklyn.

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Killarmy

Killarmy is a hip hop group that is known through its affiliation with Wu-Tang Clan It is one of the earliest and most successful of the many Wu-Tang affiliates along with Sunz of Man.

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Lakim Shabazz

Lakim Shabazz (born Larry Walsh) is a former hip-hop emcee artist who was one of the founding members of the original version of the Flavor Unit crew.

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Large Professor

Large Professor is the stage name of William Paul Mitchell (born March 21, 1973), at Allmusic.com an American hip hop rapper and record producer also known as Large Pro and Extra P. Based in New York City, he is known as a founding member of the underground hip hop group Main Source and as mentor and frequent collaborator of Nas.

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Latin script

Latin or Roman script is a set of graphic signs (script) based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, which is derived from a form of the Cumaean Greek version of the Greek alphabet, used by the Etruscans.

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Lil Soldiers

Lil Soldiers was a rap group signed to No Limit Records from Asbury Park, NJ whose members were siblings Ikeim (YungFreedomU) and Freequan.

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LL Cool J

James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), known professionally as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American rapper, actor, author and entrepreneur from Queens, New York.

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Lord Jamar

Lorenzo Dechalus (born September 17, 1968), known professionally as Lord Jamar is an American rapper, record producer and actor.

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X (19251965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

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Mathematics (producer)

Mathematics, also known as Allah Mathematics, (born Ronald Maurice Bean, October 21, 1972) is a hip hop producer and DJ for the Wu-Tang Clan and its solo and affiliate projects.

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Maurice Broaddus

Maurice Broaddus is a fantasy and horror author best known for his short fiction and his Knights of Breton Court novel trilogy.

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MC Shan

Shawn Moltke (born September 6, 1965) better known by his stage name MC Shan, is an American hip hop and R&B recording artist.

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MF Doom

Daniel Dumile (born January 9, 1971) is a British-born, US-based hip hop recording artist and record producer from Long Island, New York.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Mike Tyson

Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005.

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Multiracial

Multiracial is defined as made up of or relating to people of many races.

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Nas

Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), better known by his stage name Nas, is an American rapper, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.

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Nation of Islam

The Nation of Islam, abbreviated as NOI, is an African American political and religious movement, founded in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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National Urban League

The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New Rochelle, New York

New Rochelle is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Numerical digit

A numerical digit is a single symbol (such as "2" or "5") used alone, or in combinations (such as "25"), to represent numbers (such as the number 25) according to some positional numeral systems.

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Numerology

Numerology is any belief in the divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events.

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Oklahoma City Thunder

The Oklahoma City Thunder are an American professional basketball team based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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Oligarchy

Oligarchy is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people.

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On & On (Erykah Badu song)

"On & On" is the debut single of Neo soul singer Erykah Badu, from her 1997 debut album Baduizm.

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Oz (TV series)

Oz is an American television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes.

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Papoose

A papoose (from the Algonquian papoos, meaning "child") is an American English loanword whose present meaning is "a Native American child" (regardless of tribe) or, even more generally, any child, usually used as a term of endearment, often in the context of the child's mother.

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Petey Pablo

Moses Barrett III (born July 22, 1973), known by the stage name Petey Pablo, is an American rapper from Snow Hill, North Carolina.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Planet Asia

Jason Green (born October 24, 1976), better known as Planet Asia, is a rapper from Fresno, California.

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Poor Righteous Teachers

Poor Righteous Teachers was a hip hop group from Trenton, New Jersey, founded in 1989.

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Pork

Pork is the culinary name for meat from a domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

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Positive K

Positive K (sometimes stylized as +K) (born Darryl Gibson on August 8, 1970) is an American emcee and songwriter from the Bronx, New York City, New York, and one of the original artists of the First Priority Music camp.

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Potential

Potential generally refers to a currently unrealized ability.

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Queen Latifah

Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), known professionally as Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, songwriter, singer, actress, and producer.

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Queens

Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Raekwon

Corey Woods (born January 12, 1970), better known by the stage name Raekwon, is an American rapper and a member of the Wu-Tang Clan.

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Rakim

William Michael Griffin Jr., better known by his stage name Rakim (born January 28, 1968), is an American rapper.

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Raw foodism

Raw foodism, also known as following a raw food diet, is the dietary practice of eating only (or mostly) food that is uncooked and unprocessed.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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RZA

Robert Fitzgerald Diggs (born July 5, 1969), better known by his stage name RZA, is an American rapper, record producer, musician, actor, filmmaker and author.

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Science fair

A science fair experiment is generally a competition where contestants present their science project, results in the form of a report, display board, and/or models that they have created.

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Scientist

A scientist is a person engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge that describes and predicts the natural world.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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St. Louis

St.

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St. Lunatics

The St.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost and westernmost of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York.

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Style Wars

Style Wars is an American 1983 documentary film on hip hop culture and its American roots, directed by Tony Silver and produced in collaboration with Henry Chalfant.

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Sunz of Man

Sunz of Man is a Wu-Tang Clan affiliated group that currently consists of Prodigal Sunn, Hell Razah, 60 Second Assassin, Shabazz the Disciple and Killah Priest.

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Supreme Alphabet

The Supreme Alphabet of the Nation of Gods and Earths is a system of interpreting text and finding deeper meaning in the original 120 Lessons written by Elijah Muhammad and Wallace Fard Muhammad by assigning meanings to the letters of the Roman alphabet.

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Supreme Understanding

Supreme Understanding, also known as Dr.

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The Ballad of Black Tom

The Ballad of Black Tom is a 2016 fantasy/horror novella by Victor LaValle, revisiting H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Horror at Red Hook" from the viewpoint of a black man.

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The Roots

The Roots is an American hip hop band, formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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The World According to RZA

The World According to RZA is a compilation album featuring the production of Wu-Tang Clan member RZA that features his tracks for emcees from a variety of European countries.

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The World's Famous Supreme Team

The World's Famous Supreme Team was an American hip hop radio show crew and recording group from the early 1980s.

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Tragedy Khadafi

Percy Chapman (born August 13, 1971, in Queens, New York, United States), known by his stage name Tragedy Khadafi, and formerly known as Intelligent Hoodlum, is an American rapper and producer who hails from the Queensbridge Housing Projects in Queens, New York,Brown, Marisa.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Veganism

Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals.

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Vice (magazine)

Vice is a Canadian-American print magazine focused on arts, culture, and news topics.

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Victor LaValle

Victor LaValle (born February 3, 1972) is an American author.

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Wakeel Allah

Wakeel Allah is an American author, historian and a member of the Nation of Islam.

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Wallace Fard Muhammad

Wallace D. Fard, also known as Wallace Fard Muhammad (Arabic: ولي فرض محمد) (born February 26, 1877 - Unknown), was a co-founder of the Nation of Islam.

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Western esotericism

Western esotericism (also called esotericism and esoterism), also known as the Western mystery tradition, is a term under which scholars have categorised a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements which have developed within Western society.

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Wilson Chandler

Wilson Chandler (born May 10, 1987) is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Wu-Tang Clan

Wu-Tang Clan is an American hip hop group from Staten Island, New York City, originally composed of East Coast rappers RZA, GZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God and Masta Killa.

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3rd Bass

3rd Bass was an American hip-hop group that rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was notable for being one of the first successful interracial hip-hop groups.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-Percent_Nation

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