Nicki Minaj has said the Illuminati 'could' be real, but stopped short of giving a clean yes or no during a recent appearance on The Bryce Crawford Podcast, where the 42 year old rapper described feeling that powerful people had made her career harder. The remarks placed one of pop culture's oldest conspiracy theories back in the frame, this time filtered through Minaj's own account of pressure, conflict and what she called 'spiritual warfare.'
The exchange came near the 45 minute mark of the interview, when evangelist Bryce Crawford asked Minaj directly whether the Illuminati was real. She did not answer like someone looking for a headline. She answered like someone talking through a scar. 'My situation, I feel like it's very personal,' she said. 'I feel that there definitely is a group of people that have made things very difficult for me, but I don't know if they're Illuminati. I don't know what they are.'
