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I have included links to the entire text of songs for documentation sake, however there are explicit lyrics that may offend. Proceed with caution.
| Method Man | "Rawhide" [Ol' Dirty Bastard] (Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version) | I fear for the 85 who don't got a clue |
| Erykah Badu | "On & On"(Baduizm) | If we were made in his image then call us by our names/most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same
I was born under water with 3 dollars and 6 dimes... Yeah, you might laugh 'cause you did not do your math My cipher keeps movin' like a rolling stone |
| Brand Nubian | "All For One" (One For All) | You got to know the ledge of wise and dome And understand your culture of freedom |
| Digable Planets | "9th Wonder" (Blowout Comb) | Now I'm rolling with the seven and the crescent/Puffin' some expression/Manifestin' today's lesson |
| Erik B. and Rakim | "No Competition" (Follow the Leader) | I'm God/G is the seventh letter made |
| Ice Cube | "When Will They Shoot?" (The Predator) | I met Farrakhan and had dinner/And you ask if I'm a five-percenter, well No,/ but I go where the brothers go/Down with Compton Mosque, Number 54 |
| Pete Rock and CL Smooth | "Anger in the Nation" (Mecca and the Soul Brother) | Libraries, broken down as lies buried Television tell a lie vision |
| Poor Righteous Teachers | "Butt Naked Booty Bless" (Holy Intellect) | Praises are due to Allah, that's me |
| Prazwell (Fugees) | "Vocab/Hip-Hop Remix" (Bootleg Versions) | WATCH OUT NOW! When I choose to speak /I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Five Percenter /Knowledge is born, to all beginners |
| Raekwon the Chef (Wu Tang Clan) | "Older Gods" (Wu-Tang Forever) | Most of my team, Five Percent check what the live said/ Yo the Older God put me on and had to rock this/Maintain Three-Sixty Lord live prosperous/It only takes a lesson a day just to analyze life/one time in the respectable mind |
| The Genius | "True Fresh MC" (Words From the Genius) | I be the universal, the Biochemical/Arm, Leg, leg, Arm, Head is the physical That keeps rhymin' until it's unbearable |
| The Roots | "UNIverse at War" (Illadelph Halflife) | U-n-i-verse/you and I verse |
| Wyclef(Fugees) | "Vocab/Hip-Hop Remix" (Bootleg Versions) | I loved P.E., they kept me conscious of what I was saying Afrika Bambaata, Poor Righteous Teacher Got within myself so it made me a Five Percenter |
Curiously, the NGE keep track of many hip-hop artists and have them carefully catalogued, not only according to their beliefs, but also according to their level of commitment (i.e. currently studying the lessons, merely using the lingo, etc.)
For more information on the Five Percent movement and hip-hop please read the following secular-themed articles:
Wikpedia entry on artists associated with Five Percent
Hip-Hop Reviewed
