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To: HiTech RedNeck

5 Percent Nation is a Nation of Islam spin off group from the 60s. I had a post with some pictures on FR but an overzealous mod deleted it (in two separate threads).

Jay-Z wore a 5 Percent Nation medallion courtside to some basketball game. Jay-Z also pals around with Obama.

The rapper Rakim is also a member and Coca Cola put his lyrics on the side of a Sprite can (along with texts by other black rappers). A piece I read in the Guardian (about rappers and advertising) said that one of the variant cans was a litany of Rakim’s 5 percent nation beliefs (like the pillars of Islam) however the can I saw pictured for Rakim had other text.

Here is the wiki page. Maybe the mod didn’t like the potty mouth (I posted a redacted version of the word) that a member used in a Vice magazine article quoted in the Wiki page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-Percent_Nation


175 posted on 06/27/2015 6:26:07 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: a fool in paradise

I’d be curious... it’s possible that since most people don’t understand Arabic that something really hinky and hokey got onto a beverage can, the agent who did it just saying it was some slogan.


176 posted on 06/27/2015 6:31:00 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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