Jay-Z recently stirred controversy by wearing a medallion linked to a racist group while sitting courtside at a Brooklyn Nets game with wife Beyoncé. Now, an active member of Five-Percent Nation is talking about the Magna Carta Holy Grail rapper's alleged affiliation.

"Some of us don't know Jay-Z is a Five Percenter," said Born Justice Allah, a member of the group often described as anti-white. "He should have some kind of influence from some of the Five Percenters in his area 'cause he grew up in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as we call Medina, was heavily influenced back in the '60s. So I'm not gonna say he's not a Five Percenter, but I can't say he is either until I talk with him. Same thing with Carmelo Anthony. I would like to know because you wearing our Universal Flag."

"I couldn't go and just make a Roc logo -- you know, Jay-Z had the Roc logo -- I'm quite sure somebody would have asked me am I down with Roc-A-Fella Records," he continued. "No. If I'm not down with the Roc then why am I wearing the Roc logo. Same way you wearing the Five Percenters' universal flag. Are you affiliated with us? I mean, you showing us respect, you have it on. I wouldn't be ... courtside at the basketball game, but he took it there. Now that it's there, why people zooming in on the flag? Just because Jay-Z wearing it? We been wearing the flag for years. We have some made in medallions for years. Is it really about Jay-Z? Is it really about the Five Percenters? 'Cause the Five Percenters are not wicked people, we're righteous. Our father taught us to be not anti-White nor pro-Black. [He] taught us to be anti-devilishment pro-righteousness. It's a big difference in the twist and turns that people use in words."

In addition, Jay-Z recently made a lyrical reference to Yakub, an ancient scientist responsible for the creation of the White race according to Nation of Islam theology.

"I'm ready to chase Yakub back into the caves / These are the last days / But do I seem fazed?" Jay-Z raps in Jay Electronica's We Made It.

The Brooklyn rapper also made connections to Five-Percent Nation previously by rapping the acronym for Allah in Heaven, a track off his most recent album:

"Arm Leg Leg Arm Head," he says.

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