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title: "The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip-hop and the Gods of New York"
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# The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip-hop and the Gods of New York

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## Customer Reviews

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    Great read
  

*by P***2 on Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2023*

The product arrived as advertised and on time. Ready start my studies

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    "To Allah, thanks a lot" - John Lindsay, mayor NYC (1968)
  

*by S***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2013*

The first time I knew I didn’t know what the 5% were was in 1993, head splitting on some cheap weed sprayed with something awful, and the two kids in the front seat were talking about the knowledge or some such, and I let them know, “Muslims don’t get high, and they don’t drink.”  They told me I don’t know what I’m talking about, but soon none of us knew what we were talking about so it all left little impression on me.  I had always thought that there was some failure going on when these people with Muslim names got high, some hypocrisy.Knight’s history of the Five Percenters and Hip Hop, while less personal than some of his other writings, and not as exciting or manic in its research, it follows them in its defense of American religious innovation and adaptation.  The Five Percenters are not Muslims, and where appeals to the reformation of criminals and addicts, and immersion into some international framework has sometimes formed the basis of validating the Nation of Islam, the Five Percenters don’t offer, seek, or provide the same validation.  These are people who fight in the military, drink what they want, celebrate Christmas, and don’t apologize for it.  Apple pies are really Dutch or English, but the Five Percenters are as American as hip hop, and while the movement’s vocabulary and rhetoric might be drawn from any number of places, hip hop has disseminated it widely.There was something odd and apt about a recent exchange between Lord Jamar and Michael Muhammad Knight over the former’s homophobic comments and the latter’s criticism of them, and what the recent exchange showed was Knight’s possible myopia in the book, his embrace and defense of the movement overlooking the powerful voice it has to disseminate sometimes reactionary rhetoric.  Knight writes extensively about Brand Nubian and Lord Jamar in this book; but Brand Nubian was getting in trouble for violent homophobic lyrics back in 1992 when homophobia was even more commonplace.I have not read “Why I am a Five Percenter,” but look forward to doing so.  In the recent exchange with Lord Jamar, Knight was critiqued as something of an anthropological tourist, an exploiter of the movement, which seems off to me, but also seems troublingly difficult to shrug off or dismiss.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Brilliant information.
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2022*

Fills in valuable information not included in music and cultural history.

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