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Nick Cannon

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“Compassion My gratitude, which then probably then turns into humility that turns into my humor which then turns into my comedy which turns into my art form I mean that's built into the compassion and stuff as well too To be able to say, man He made the world a better place by making people smile. And if I could do that My humor, my music, my art, my movies, my finances. I just want to make people smile. So hopefully even when I'm gone. Things that I left behind make people smile.”
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“I thought I did. I had to define what it was. I'm still defining what it is. I realized that my children aren't my legacy. Children are my children. My children aren't necessarily mine. They're their own. I've been given the stewardship and the privilege for a certain amount of time to be able to guide them to the best of my ability for 18 to 25 years. But they're their own people. So I've learned that that's not my legacy. We can build together as a family can become a legacy.”
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“But it's life. It's fun. It's have fun with it. Whatever that challenge is, whatever issue that child brings. Have fun with it. Find the story in it. Find the lesson. What's the happily ever after to this? Because it's happily ever after every day. You just got to focus on it. Don't, you know, even the villains have happy ever afters. Like it's like you just got to figure out at the end of the day, how am I going to say I learned this or I got this out of this, even though I went through the fire to get there or I'm still going through it you got to find the enjoyment in the journey.”
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“For me, and I was thinking about this this morning you're just grateful for when I was like, wow, there's no problems right now. It's quiet where everybody's good. Let's embrace this moment. And then, you know, when problems or issues, challenges, obstacles arise, we all deal with it as a family. So you appreciate life for you become a problem solver. You become an individual who every day wakes up and overcomes whatever challenges in front of them.”
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“Yeah, it's not, and they don't care about their siblings' problems. You got to deal with this one right now. Dad, my chameleon has an eye infection. We have to rush to the vet now. Like, what? It's a lizard. All right. And it's life or death. The chameleon can't die or to, you know. That one's fun and silly, but taking us back to Zin and what we were talking about, like those were my issues. Those were my problems. Those brought out things that I never thought I would ever have to deal with. Because as I watch my five-month-old sit here and deal with life. So it's like their problems become your, and what you think about.”
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“Do it. Yeah, I mean, but it's because it's what life is all about. Like, it's like, you're going to do it the way you want to do it. Like I said, one of the things, I never, and me having so many kids, I'm like, man.”
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“Whatever they have an issue is now your issue from the spot. If they got diarrhea, you got diarrhea. Like if they're crying, you're crying. If they can't sleep, you can't sleep. And it happens forever. If they have a problem getting, if they're stressing about school, you're stressing about their school.”
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“With all of my children having to, they're all going to deal with things in a completely different fashion. So hopefully whatever their hangups are don't necessarily become my hang-ups because I know as a parent, we do that. You know, that's the compassion of parenting. You got any kids? Yeah, that's the thing they don't tell you that their problems become your problems.”
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“Maybe before I'm kind of doing the work. So I kind of know that about myself, but I'm also, I've never been one to take life seriously like that. And almost to my detriment, you know, sometimes I need to take something seriously, like my health or, you know, even some certain relationships. But I used to care what people thought about me, you know, because we're in an industry of that. We'd be lying. I still pay attention to what people say about me. But I don't allow it to, you know, make decisions for me. So I don't deal with that anymore. And that's why I said now I'm probably at this space to where even if it's the small things. Know I kind of How to compartmentalize even for the moment. Like, all right, I spent enough time on that. We got to move off it. As a father, I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm going to learn so many more lessons.”
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“Did you interview my therapist last? As much as I may internalize things and over analyze, because I would say I'm a perfectionist on one end. I'm also Fly by the seat of my pants, carefree, whatever happens, happens type of person. So in therapy. To figure out which box I'm gonna put my issues in. They are the ones I overanalyze about, and those usually have to deal with my children and, you know, relationships based off of wanting to be the best me in that space. And then there's the stuff that was like, I can't control that, whatever. Like, Those are the things that keep people up at night, and you just lost how many millions of dollars, I don't care. So to answer that very question. Insightful question. Nothing would happen. It would be very similar to, and that's what I've learned, like the things that I overanalyze. Stress about”
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“Therefore, that makes the whole room uncomfortable because everybody else has to be quiet, especially someone like me who is loud, you know, especially in my own home when it becomes an eerie silence. And it's internalizing, it's thinking, it's taking the time. It's being appreciative of. Of the time of the energy. But see a lot of love, a lot of compassion, but a lot of silence.”
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“Instead of because sometimes grief can turn into anger and sadness. I don't think that's what it's meant for. I think that may be the innate feeling. But when you can turn, oh man, I lost my grandmother. I lost my mother. So therefore it makes me more compassionate to women. I lost my child, so that makes me appreciate other children. I lost my father. I never knew my father. So that makes me want to be a greater father. You know, like when you learn that pain or that grief can actually turn and make you fulfill you with strength in those spaces that once were empty. Think that then allows you to figure out why We're here in the first place.”
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“Grieving is forever It's not a time period. That's why I was talking about it's not about time. It's like, that's something you're going to grieve daily. Absolutely. And I think we all loss. You know what I mean? And it's learning how to turn your grief into purpose, learning how to turn your grief into A badge of honor in your character. Because we all experience it.”
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“Create this fog that protects you, but at the end of the time, again, you just got to keep pushing through. And then, you know, they do say Time heals all wounds. I think, you know, you feel... Just something that you'll never completely heal from, but you live and you learn to operate and you learn to smile. You learn to be appreciative. If you're a jovial and optimistic person like I am, you know, you push through, but that pain never leaves you.”
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“It's an awful club to be a member of, but I can understand. Where the It's hard to relate I've learned a lesson in that to where when other people are going through stuff, never use the word I understand because you don't. It's just so many things that go through your mind of. Even in a short period of time of five months, the level of pain, the level of guilt, the level, you know, like that one struggles with because Know, you think, like, oh, well, A child would have got to grow to see five years or twenty-five years, you start asking all of these questions that of concepts you just struggle to understand. So when you go through it, you kind of have to just.”
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“Yeah, yeah. And it's like, and moving so fast, you start to regret like, man, I didn't do what I should have done in that moment. So It's a constant reminder, you know what I mean? And I think perspective, perception, a lot of those things help us daily.”
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“Good health. And I was still on the board of St. Mary's Children's Hospital, and I did a lot of work with the Children's Miracle Network and stuff. I probably started that in my mid-20s. And it just... I almost want to say help prepare me for the mindset of when I have my own diagnosis or when ultimately ended up losing my own child, you know, even a decade later after that. It was like, you got to enter these spaces with empathy, with compassion. Because then that reminds you that we're all human. And make the most out of this day because you might not be able to walk tomorrow. You might not, you might take a loss of someone that you thought was going to be there forever, that you thought was going to outlive you.”
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“But man, you know what I used to do even before I was diagnosed with lupus. It's funny. And I don't even just put on my heart, but I knew it helped my perspective every month. Started off every month and it started to be like once a quarter, but I would go To St. Mary's Children's Hospital. Read books, give toys Really just hang out And I wouldn't do it for publicity Was just a reset button for me to put everything in perspective because you would see these children who We're dealing with life altering sometimes just chronic and detrimental disease. And they would have these smiles on their faces, man. And they would just. So happy and like hooked up the tubes, and I'm like, man, if they're having a good day I have no complaints. I'm going to walk out of here.”
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“Similar to chemotherapy and my hair falling out, stuff like that. It's been quite the journey, but you never know how strong you are to being strong is the only option. You just got to push through.”
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“Some can be worse than others. So early on, when I was trying to understand it, between like 2012 and 2016, I was in the hospital like a couple of times a year for stints of like three weeks till a month, just trying to figure it out. So those, and like I said, the flare-ups would cause things from everywhere from like blood clots, pulmonary embolisms, inflammation and not have the ability to walk to kidney failure, organs not doing what they're supposed to do. So, you know, I had blood clots in my lungs and my heart, like things I would have normally killed other people. The doctors would be like, man, I don't understand how you didn't get affected by that, you know, having to do, you know, infusions that are...”
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“Yeah, I was in and out of the hospital. I mean, I was in the hospital this past December. You know, it's not as frequent, you know, but it's just because I have the right doctors and hopefully doing the right things now that it doesn't find me. But Lupus, you have what they call flare-ups, and it happens when certain times of the year, seasons, stress, and...”
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“Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. But I think that's what you do when you find a helpmate, when you find... Someone that you're in matrimony with, you know, you go hard for them. I feel like I went hard for her and will still go hard. I lay down my life for her today. You know, it's just what you do. It's just family.”
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“I would say I won that life. I've lived several lives and I won them all. So it's like I'm not afraid to go and even all of the things that I study and have prepared myself for it's, you know, one thing, it's inevitable. It's going to happen to all of us at some point. And I think others just deal with it better and it makes you appreciate this life. Like when it's all said and done, I guarantee you they're going to be like, yo, he rolled that motherfucker to the wheels, fell off. He got the most out of life. And, you know, I'll be known for smiling big, loving hard, you know, and What more can you ask for?”
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“I was content. I wasn't scared. And it happened more than once. And even it continues to, like, I'm probably reminded of my physical mortality. All the time. And when you're not afraid of dying. focus on living you know it's a it's a Anyone who's ever had a near death experience or anyone who's been in those quiet places of dealing with thoughts of afterlife and what this current life was for you. You live the rest of your days. At least for a certain amount of time until you're reminded again. But yeah, man,”
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“It's a rap. He's almost out of here. And I wasn't scared. That's the crazy thing when you get to that point where you're like, oh, okay, I had a good run.”
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“Man, just like, was I going to live? What was life all about? Had I wasted my time up until this point? And if I get another shot, what am I going to do? What type of am I going to be able to be here for my children? Am I not going to be able to be here for my children? So therefore, what am I leaving them? What am I leaving the world when I exit? You know, staring up at that hospital bed from the hospital bed, staring at the ceiling all alone and everybody else is kicked out and you got to. You gotta just be face to face with your higher power asking all those tough questions. Am I done? A lot of people, we don't do that because we get. Caught up in the constant rat race of just living day to day. But it slowed down for me on many occasions of like.”
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“Yeah. She was my rock, man. She was. She went hard, you know, probably wouldn't even, I'll be honest, probably wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for how hard she went with the doctors, with me, my stubbornness, you know. She was the perfect helpmate, the perfect matriarch, the perfect mom, the perfect wife in those scenarios. Because granted, she's who she is and dealing with all the pressures of being Mariah Carey, but then being... Loving enough to take on all of my stuff. And it probably took a toll. On us just because of the person. I was in my head and the struggles that I was dealing with. So I probably took a toll on our relationship, but it definitely brought us closer together.”
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“Certain things didn't matter anymore. Other things matter too much. Started to overly value relationships and time. But then that made me get rid of relationships that were taking off time and wasted my time. But it all became Always felt like I had a ticking clock, but the ticking clock became more apparent in 2012 that I got to make the most out of today because tomorrow isn't promise. My relationship with my children, all of my children, you know what I mean? Like a lot of that all comes into play to where like, what are you going to do with the time that you have on this planet? What impact are you going to make? So that's where, in a nutshell, what it did.”
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“Health is currency. Health is the most important thing next to time that we possess. And we can't control the time. We can control our health. We can control what you put in your body. You can control what well you take care of yourself. My Loof Pist is my alarm clock every morning letting me know. You better do the right things. You better drink your gallon of water. You better take your supplements. You better not eat too much sodium or processed. Just a constant measuring stick to keep me alive”
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“Self destroy. It starts to attack the Whatever organs, different people's lupus attack different things. Mine specifically were my kidneys, which then created a bunch of other stuff like pulmonary embolisms. And so the lupus started, I started having these flare-ups and it was doing a bunch of stuff to my body. And if you don't catch it, and control it, you could lose your life pretty quickly. It was a scary time. I didn't understand it. But we got it in order, you know, and even. I feel like I got a good hold on it now, but every once in a while, it's a great reminder. Health is well.”
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“And then through the biopsy. I think at the time it was kind of like a cute. Kidney failure, like it wasn't full. I had caught it early enough to where my kidneys didn't completely fail. And then they found out the reason why is that my immune system was attacking my kidneys. Therefore, the autoimmune condition, lupus and lupus nephritis to where your immune system can get out of whack based off of whether it's levels of stress things that you're putting into your body. A lot of times it's not hereditary. They don't really know what the cause of it is. It's definitely related to stress, which I didn't think I was stressed out. But it's like, obviously, there's various types of stress or physical stress, emotional stress. But this can send your immune system out of whack and therefore your immune system then starts to...”
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“I don't know. I was laid out. And I think everybody, because I don't think it was that bad because I had just came from jogging in Aspen. They'd be like, oh, he probably got altitude sickness. You know what I mean? Like, I was just dehydrated. So that's the narrative we were going with. So once I got to the hospital, like, I just need some fluid, IV. I'll be all right. That happens. It happens on the ski slopes. People are like, my dumbass was jogging up a mountain. I'm probably going to pass out. And I was only doing it to try to rid this crap that I had. I thought I could like work it off. And then the longer I was in the hospital, they were like, oh, well, maybe I have a kidney stone because there's something going on back there. And I was like, no, it wasn't a kidney stone. It got the fluid and no longer dehydrated. All right, well, you know, maybe you got a kidney infection. And then they wanted to do a body.”
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“Married to? Mariah Carey. But it's like I'm in Aspen with my wife. And thinking I'm in probably some of the best shape of my life, go to the boxing three times a week. You know what I mean? Got my own home gym in Aspen. You know what I mean? And I had the weirdest pain in my right side. I'm like, I'm thinking like a muscle cramp or like I'm going to just jog through it. Here I'm in high altitude jogging in the snow thinking I'm going to my rocky moment. I don't know what I was thinking. And by the time I got back to the house. Passed out. Like, and I didn't know literally Mariah came in and found me. And they called her, you know, rushed me to the ER in Aspen.”
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“Yeah, man, Lupus Nephritis specifically in 2012. And here, living my dream life, you know, married to... Most gorgeous, beautiful, super talented person to ever step on a planet. Literally, my dream girl, we got two kids. We're in Aspen. I never, like, I'm from the hood. I'm from the projects. You don't go to Aspen.”
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“That's coming from a person who my personal bandwidth is overloaded constantly, but my spiritual bandwidth, I don't give everybody my energy. And that's probably why I am a little bit more subdued in rooms. That's why I may not go to every event. And most of the time, if somebody asks me to come, something's like, no, I'm good. And it's not because I just like my piece. I just like being with where I can be my authentic self, where I can be my best self. I don't like having to turn it on. But I understand when it's time to like, all right, it's the award season. You got to go do this or you got to like, all right. And I. How to do it with the best of them, but that's not who I naturally am.”
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“I'll tell everybody I'm an outgoing introvert. Like, I am, and that's what me and Kevin Hart go back and forth about all the time because he has that gift. He walks in a room and lights it up. You know what I mean? And he knows this person and this person. And I'm like, yo, that looks exhausting.”
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“And maybe because I've been in it so long, I've been to the white parties before and wanted to show off. And they were fun. But I'm at this point, I don't want to do that. That feels like work to me. I'd rather be in a studio. I'd rather be with my children. I'd rather be writing somewhere. And not to say that those people don't do that as well. I just like that world is I don't have a place in it. That's not where I could be my best self.”
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“Like, I don't want to hang out with everybody's dressed in white and got on billion-dollar watches. That's not fun to me. Like to each his own.”
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“I don't care who I know. It's more about who knows me. I'm going to go over here and figure it out. And you're welcome to the party. But I don't want to go to your party.”
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“If that's how you like connecting, I'll get it. But if we're really trying to get the artist or the IP or the genius to the people. Now, technology is doing it for us.”
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“Proposition before is like, oh, I can introduce you to that person. I always tell people, like, Networking is stupid, focus on being the best you, they'll come find you. But there are some people who made a lot of money by networking. That concept is like, oh, I know this person, I can introduce you to them. God bless you. You know what I mean?”
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“Art and someone who had nothing to do with it gets to own it forever in perpetuity, the fuck this perpetuity mean. There's these terms and these words that we just signed up for that is just, it's wrong, but it's made a lot of people a lot of money so they don't want it to change. But it has to change. Like technology is making it change. These next generations of people who have More empathy and giving spirits are gonna allow it to change because I don't believe people are as animalistic or they're not they don't have a savage mentality like it once used to require. I believe we're more empathetic, we're more compassionate, and it's starting to show even in business.”
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“A lot of people, even from my attorneys and people in my circle, like, man, you got to sign these people. How you going to function? How you going to allow your business to thrive if you don't sign? It's been working thus far. So I don't like signing people. I don't like having ownership in someone else's brand. Now, we could be collaborative. We can write a song together and we can split the publishing. We can, you know. Yeah, it costs money to keep the lights on. You can use my studio. Yeah, like, and I'll get reimbursed, you know, down the line when it's time. But I'm not going to take something from you. I'm not going to charge the artist. Like, that's a fucked up concept that we just been operating in and no one's ever corrected it. Like, why should we, this is an artist who's making brilliant.”
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“And that's me paying it forward. That's me correcting what this industry has done to people. So for so long. So I don't want, if you want to sign with Incredible, that's your choice. You can sign to me if you want to, but I'm good. I'm going to still be rich. So I don't need anything from you. If you want to join the gang, let's go. Like, you know, there's benefits and perks to being incredible.”
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“There's a lot of people, and that is their business to where I need my percentage of every song that you write from here on out because I found you, I discovered you, I signed you, that don't sit well with my spirit. And this future superstar show, my inner struggle, when you watch it, because I'm on the show as well, I struggle with signing these kids. It's funny because we go from city to city and I give Local artist anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 a city. And a lot of times that's what these record labels are signing these kids up for. Someone signed my publishing. I was a teenager for $10,000. One of the biggest mistakes, one of the biggest lessons I've ever learned. So now I'm giving that $10,000 away to these kids and I don't want nothing from you but to see you win.”
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“Yeah, yeah. I didn't want no money from it. You know what I mean? I do that for a lot of people. And it's created, you know, me and Craig Kowman over at Atlantic. That's my man. But where a lot of people would. You know, Kaylani would be signed to them forever. I don't want that. You know what I mean? I want her to be able to provide and do. Like, I always tell everybody I work with from the beginning, whether you make it or you don't make it, my life is still going to be the same. So I don't want anything from you, but to see you win. I just want to see, like,”
2023-09-21 · The Diary of a CEO · Nick Cannon: How I ACCIDENTALLY Built A $1.3 Billion Business & My Ex-Wife Mariah Carey Saved My Life! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“See, that's the thing, how I feel about signing. I'm weird about that. I don't like signing people and people, everybody in my life is like, that's what you have to do. I would say I didn't ask for anything. I was the impressario. You know what I mean? I funded scenarios because I could. So she didn't have to worry about anything. You know what I mean? She had. Roof overhead, food on the table, anything she wanted, studio time. You know, we figured it out. I introduced her to, you know, the good people over at Atlantic Records. The rest is history.”
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“Nominated for a Grammy. So it's just like just, and you know, so it's stuff like that to where, you know, I was like, Put in the work to help her out. I was telling Simon Yeah, you missed that one. You got a lot of other ones, right? But you missed that one”
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“The father of her, as we know, I knew as Gabby, who also grew up in that same musical vicinity called me and said, hey man, you know, that girl that was on America's Got Talent, she's homeless now. She's not doing so well. I was like, what? It's like, yeah, she's not doing a teenager, but like, she needs help. Like, I didn't really know her background of her father, you know, being murdered when she was a child and her mother, you know, dealing with substance abuse. And she has a very compelling story of just the resilience of her and her family. And they were explaining all that. And I was like, yo, give me your information. Find who's her guardian. And kind of went and talked to the family and said, yo, I'll move you to LA, but first you got to finish high school. Like the one promise, finish school, I'll take care of everything else. A year later, her mixtape was.”
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“The finale. I think they performed with Stevie Wonder on the finale as pop life. And then unfortunately, you know, when you don't win, life goes on. She had to go back home to Oakland and probably met some hard times. And I remember it's funny.”
2023-09-21 · The Diary of a CEO · Nick Cannon: How I ACCIDENTALLY Built A $1.3 Billion Business & My Ex-Wife Mariah Carey Saved My Life! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT