Kanye West is having a devil of a time convincing critics that he's not a Satan worshiper.
The hip-hop star took to Twitter yesterday to deny claims that his new short film "Runaway" contains references to the occult and the Illuminati, a secret society thought to control world events. In fact, MTV reports, West claims he doesn't even know what the Illuminati is!
"Is Illuminati and devil worshiping like the same thing?" tweeted West, whose video shows people marching in hoods and model Selita Ebanks as a sexy phoenix.
West goes on to have fun with the rumors. "What's better for devil worshiping, Iphone or the Droid?" he asks. "Does Lucifer return text... is he or she on Skype? Don't wanna be sexist."
This isn't the first time West has been accused of turning to the dark side. He created a stir last year after spitting out the freestyle verse, "I sold my soul to the devil," and also sparked rumors with his Jay-Z/Rihanna collaboration, "Run This Town." In the video for the song, the trio perform in front of an angry mob and appear to overthrow the order of things.
For his part, Jay-Z, who has also faced numerous Illuminati accusations because of alleged occult imagery in his videos and Rocawear clothing designs, denies having a deal with the devil.
"As far as God, of course I believe in God," he told radio DJ Angie Martinez of Hot 97 in New York City. "Am I a part of some sect or cult? That sounds stupid to me. It’s like ignorant to even say, and umm… I guess that’ll be the last time I address that. It’s ignorant to me.”
The illuminati is an old secret group of scientists who were put down by the catholic religion. Their goals was to reduce the religion's power and to make science triumph over it. Unfortunately people treated them as heretic and now people have them confused with devil worshippers.
The illuminati is an old secret group of scientists who were put down by the catholic religion. Their goals was to reduce the religion's power and to make science triumph over it. Unfortunately people treated them as heretic and now people have them confused with devil worshippers.
Anybody who actually believes this still exists, ESPECIALLY IN THE GENRE OF RAP, which is anti-political and is a sense of 'rebelness' is ****ing retarded. First off, if they do still exist - they're in your ****ing government - not in the rap industry. Secondly - they're a cult - artists like Jay-Z saying they'd rather 'die' than have people saying he's in the Illuminati tottaly defeats their purpose - they're out to set a 'new world order' - artists denying it after people claim they admit to it and hint at it all the time is a ****ing fallacy.
They used to say the same things about classic rock artists - people just need to pick and find something wrong to not like a certain artist - they used to say Elvis was the devil respawned in human form smfh. THEY'RE INTERNET RUMORS. THESE SIGNS THAT THEY TELL YOU ABOUT BEEN A GAJILLION OTHER THINGS, ONE PERSON ON THE INTERNET MAKES THESE CLAIMS, and a bunch of followers start believing it with no proof - it's ****ing pathetic.
And it's funny because both free masons and people in the Illuminati have nothing to do with the ****ing devil so everyone who believes in this cause just die.
Yes! I can finally listen to kanye's music without that thought in the back of my head. 
Thank you 
I was losing my faith in the human race
lol.... Someone could have just told him to do that lol