Minister Louis Farrakhan was in attendance at the 10th annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival. While there he got a chance to see Jay Z and Jay Electronica perform. After his performance Electronica recieved some critism for using profanity while wearing the Fruit of Islam (FOI) uniform. Louis comment on the situation he said “very proud of the Fruit of Islam (F.O.I.) and the Believers who stood with Brother Jay Electronica as he delivered what he delivered to the people” at the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival. Farrakhan also admits that Jay Electronica was not “perfect in his representation” of the Islamic beliefs, but reasoned why it was acceptable: "I humbly and respectfully ask: Has any of us who have accepted Islam and its required high degree of moral excellence and civilization ever said or done anything that is less than representative of what we believe? I am sure that all of us, if we are honest, would have to say that we have."
At the end of his performance Jay Z placed a 5 percenter chain over Electronica head and proclaimed "peace to the god" after witnessing that Farrakhan said "So, if someone offered me what Brother Jay Electronica was offered by Brother Jay Z, I too would accept it with the biggest smile on my face, for I too, as all of us in The Nation of Islam, are The Five Percent: Poor Righteous Teachers who are called to teach the 85 Percent, and free them from the chains of slavery and subservience as tools of the 10 Percent."