Gods in Hip Hop (God 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, Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles, especially among the hip hop scene. Hip hop artists such as Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, many members of Wu-Tang Clan, Brand Nubian, Hell Razah, Wyclef Jean, King Just, Erykah Badu, JusT, Poor Righteous Teachers, Noreaga, Gang Starr, J-Live, Planet Asia, AZ, Thizz-N-Livin, Nas, Busta Rhymes 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. 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", which today most consider to mean "gangsta", is in fact derived from the 5-Percenter belief that everyone of their Nation is God, or the letter G in the Supreme Alphabet. 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 5%'s shared 120 lessons.