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Nick Cannon

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“I wrote and created a television sitcom through Will's company called Loose Cannon. And it was like me in a military school, a teenager in a military school, thinking they was going to get picked up. We got a six-episode commitment. Will Smith's the executive producer Quincy Jones is on set. Everything staying Lathan is the director of the pilot. I'm like, oh, I'm set. The entire network of the WB makes a shift and they don't pick up the show. So it's like I thought I was, and it's so funny. I don't never even think about these correlations. One of the executive producers and writers was Bentley Kyle Evans, who's the writer and creator of Jamie Fox. My time slot was scheduled to come on. My show was going to air right after the Jamie Fox show. So I was like, it was all together and it didn't happen.”
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“Just spinning it all on cars and living fast, I think my first check was somewhere from him like 150, 200,000 dollars. And I went and bought the exact same range rover he had. And he's like, I'm the biggest movie star in the world. He's got millions. I got 150,000 dollars. And I went and bought a range room. He told me, don't do it. He's like, man, he's like, don't do that. You got to, there's other things to do with that money. And this is from the person who gave it to me. And he was right. I totaled that range for over six months within having it and ended up having to move back to my mom's house probably a year later because thinking that, you know, I'm signed to Will Smith, the opportunities, but you don't like, that's money that you're supposed to survive on. Everything that, you know, that was a time.”
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“Had to have a hot 16 double that was your verse. And Will taught me how to write because I was just writing. He would give me a beat or I'd get a track and I would just write and just memorize it and then be like, oh, let me spit this for you. And he's like, you need some infrastructure around that. He's like, you got some good stuff there. So even as simple as something like that is, but then he also just life ways, man. I learned a lot about. Integrity, character. Obviously perseverance from him. And then stuff that he went through as a teenager, he passed on to me. And even I didn't listen, but I learned, you know, he went broke, you know, at 19 after went in a Grammy and having a platinum album.”
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“Yeah. I mean, before I met Will, I didn't know how to. Even musically, I know how to rap 16 bars. And you know what that was. Like, I knew music counting, you know what I mean? But I didn't know a verse, specifically a rap verse, was supposed to be 16 bars. And I think that culture might have just started to happen because everybody wasn't writing 16 bars in Hades. You know what I mean? Sometimes a song would be seven verses or sometimes, you know, like people would just, but I feel like they're in the 90s there began this infrastructure of songwriting. Obviously most choruses and hooks are about eight bars. And then therefore”
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“And then be on set early in the morning, and you're so grateful and appreciative of the opportunity that you want to be the best you could possibly be.”
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“The thing I learned from him is hard work and really like, obviously, I've heard he said this quote so many times, like, I may not be the most talented person in the room, but I guarantee you I outwork the most talented person in the room. Or I've also heard him say, you know, I may not be the most talented person in the room, but I'll be the hardest worker in the room. And he just, if you want something, he's not going to stop until he figures it out, you know, and he dedicates himself in that manner. And, you know, when this job is done, he's going to stop where everybody else is going to go to sleep. He's going to go work 10 more hours to either perfect that craft or on to the next thing. And I saw that at a teenager. I'm like, okay, that's how you get it. That's what I'm going to do. If he's not sleeping, I'm not sleeping. And it'd be times up in the studio all night.”
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“His thespian muscle is so strong. You know what I mean? And I think from whether he's being a silly character or he's being something that's so tuned in and understanding the subtleties and really embodying all of his characters, I learned a lot of that from him as well, too.”
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“Finally, answer your question in a very long winded way. Like, the things I probably learned from Jamie is I observed him so much that He's such a great storyteller. I've stolen all of the tricks of when he can get everybody around the table and tell the story. He's such a great, impromptu type of guy could sit down at a piano and, you know, sing a song and get everybody. Like, I know all of those tricks and I'll probably learn that from him. You know what I mean? Just watching how to, you know, captivate a room in a very jovial manner, no matter what's going on. But man, yeah, he's and just.”
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“Man, that's what I'm saying. Like, they trained me, and it's so crazy because two of the nicest human beings you would ever want to meet, like never seen, like, it's what you see on camera is that's who they are, you know what I mean? Like, like walking a room, everyone gravitates towards them. They're loud. They know how to have a good time. Like, that's just who those guys are. I don't think I'm naturally like that. Like, I talked to Kevin about that a lot. Like when I come in the room, I'm quiet. Kevin Hart. He's one of those guys that they're loud there. Like everyone loves them. Like, I'm more like, I'm in the corner. I'm watching. I'm observing. I know how to be that. I can joke with the best of them and get as much attention and stuff. But I'm a little more reserved. And I like to.”
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“Well, yeah, yeah, I guess, yeah, but it wasn't directly like Jamie didn't introduce me to Will, but Jamie had a comedy festival called Laughapalooza that Will Smith's company Overbrook saw me at that comedy festival and gave me a holding deal at the time, what they were called, and kind of signed me to Will's Company, which then I got to meet Will, you know, few months later after getting that opportunity in Atlanta at Laffapalooza. And then that's when Will and I's relationship began when I was about 16 years old. So it's like I met Jamie when I was 15 and then I met Will when I was 16.”
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“So interesting, man. I had so many great mentors coming up. I feel like a lot of my first part of my career, I always acknowledge and bigged up Will Smith. He was so influential to me.”
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“Outgoing kid, either. I wasn't like, I kind of, my ADD kind of maybe shifted, like made me always seeking attention or like, I don't say I was seeking attention. I got attention because I was. Always doing something. I was always in some shit because I was just trying to figure it out. Therefore, I got a lot of attention. And a lot of it probably wasn't positive attention, but it was just attention. And then from there, you know, Shifted. You know, I grew up around hustlers. So I was like, all right, we're going to try to figure it out. If it was a door over there, I'm going to figure out how to get in that door. And that's how I was able to rub shoulders. And, you know, I studied rooms and I'm like, all right, if I'm a maneuver in here, I got to do it in a way that”
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“Like, everybody used to think it was so funny as a four year old. I'm Nick Cannon. I just thought my name was cool. I thought everybody else, you know, you teach a kid to say their first name. And it's funny. I teach my children the same way. Like, nah, you got your full name. You're Monroe Cannon. You're a powerful canon. You know what I mean? And I think maybe I got that from such a cool ass name. Like, I think my dad probably did that. His dad probably did that. Like, it's just like they called, you know, my grandfather, they called him Canon or Daddy Cannon. It was just like, it's such a cool name. And that's why I was like, I believe it's so much in a name. But so even as I think those steps kind of ordered the personality, so then when I would find myself in scenarios that I would take advantage of them, I wasn't a shy kid. I wasn't overly.”
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“Yeah, I was definitely a hustler. I don't believe in luck. I believe in alignment. You know what I mean? And you got to put yourself in those positions. It's like, you know, some people say luck is preparation meets opportunity. I was always speaking. Myself into existence. I would put myself in those environments. Like I met Jamie Fox because I walked up to him and was like, yo, what's up, Jamie Fox? I'm Nick Cannon. Like ever since I was four years old, I introduced myself.”
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“Something that I was just having a blast. I didn't think about what the future was going to offer up. I was just like, yo, this is a dream come true right now.”
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“Catching car rides, or even once I got my own vehicle, I had nowhere to sleep. So people would know that I was sleeping in my car or it wouldn't have a place to sleep. So people like Jamie Fox would let me sleep on that couch. Brothers like Guy Tori, if you've seen the Fat Tuesday documentary about, you know, the black side of the comedy store. He had a night that, you know, he would let me open up. As people were coming in, I'd be entertaining the audience as a teenager, you know. And the guys like Chris Tucker and Damon Wayne and Eddie Griffin, all these guys will be going on later on in the night. But I was the guy, I was the kid that was welcoming everybody into their seats. And it'd be like Shaquille O'Neill and Kobe Bryan and Snoop Dogg and all of these people in the audience. And there's this 15-year-old on stage, you know, rapping and telling jokes. And, you know, everybody else.”
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“Yeah, I mean, I met so many comedians, but Jamie was definitely one of the ones that kind of, just because it's such a giving and loving individual, kind of saw this kid and was like, I love it. Like, come hang out. And because, you know, Hollywood was miles away from my neighborhood. So figuratively and literally, like it was just like I needed a place to stay a lot of time. So, you know, catching.”
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“Yeah, and then, you know, ultimately, my dad had a, my mother's only child, but my dad had five boys in total. So, you know, and I was the oldest. And he and I's connection was different than the connection with my younger brothers because I was almost, you know. I was closer to my father. His parenting style was different with me than it was with, you know, his younger children.”
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“I was always called an old soul. And I think it was because I grew up around older people with my grandparents kind of being, you know, patriarchs for me. Their children were my siblings. My father, who was, you know, a teenager was somewhat more of like a big brother type of thing. So like even the way he dealt with me and even the people that I dealt with in my community, I just kind of had mannerisms and a jargon that was Little wise beyond my years.”
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“TV officially doing it at 11. I have been doing stuff in church and stuff, trying to make people laugh. But first stand up stage I got on was I was 11 years old.”
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“Yeah, it was loud. It was ADHD. It was the kid who could do it all, you know, kind of also had a church background. So I was, you know, I was always a class clown at school trying to be funny, starting to just figure out, oh, there's careers in that space. I started to look up to a lot of people like the Eddie Murphys. Even at the time, the fresh prints, as we know, Will Smith, but he was just this charismatic. Bunny rapper at the time. So those are, you know, but at the same time I was looking up to the ice cubes and two shorts and which was a whole different energy. So that was kind of like my makeup of like, oh, I want to be like these guys.”
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“Same thing, a rapper, you know. Probably that's if it was just as simple as at 10 years old, what I was focused on, I loved hip-hop. I loved, I knew I was, in my mind, I was famous in the hood. Like I just wanted to be, because I was already doing stuff then. You know what I mean? I always had demo tapes and I was already connected to our. Streets and our blocks just as being in the community, somebody with a voice, not always a positive voice. I was considered a... I wasn't a bad kid, but I was a kid that everybody knew about, you know. But luckily. My art, my creativity allow people to appreciate me. Even at 10 years old, like within my family, within my community.”
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“Know nature of exploring and wanting to understand things. It's cool to be a bad boy when you're young. And especially when for me, the mold wasn't necessarily presented that way. So I definitely went through a stage of I want to prove to people that, you know, I'm not a goody to shoe all the time. That took some maturing to do. But then it's also a lot of it is environment. When you grow up and especially Southern California, you know, there was times where the life of gang violence was glorified, whether it was through music, through entertainment, through our culture, when you come from the trenches, you get a certain level of respect. You get a certain level of Reverence. So I grew up admiring a lot of that and therefore kind of took that path a few times. But, you know, luckily I didn't get caught up”
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“I went down there, figured a U-turn, went back. You know what I mean? I think human nature, we all kind of gravitate towards the unknowing sometimes, and that usually is the past that are sometimes the darkest, sometimes like you just want to. You don't want to do the responsible thing. You don't want to do what your parents may suggest. So I definitely have a rebellious nature. I'm definitely an anti-authoritarian. I'm definitely the kid that has to feel that the pot is hot. You know, then I'm like, okay, I'm not going to, I know what getting burned feels like. I think it's probably just my.”
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“Yeah, yeah, yeah. My dad was definitely headed down a path of destruction early on, and then it clicked for him, you know, through some experiences of, you know, incarceration. Know being able to kind of leave some of those substances out there that were, you know, kind of the downfall of, you know, the community in the 80s. He was able to escape and put his life on the right path and dedicated his life to his ministry and helping others. It worked.”
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“Good things for himself where, you know, getting a college degree and trying to figure it out and have a family infrastructure elsewhere, his mom would help my mom kind of keep me afloat.”
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“I feel like my parents had sex once, just one time. And then I showed up. Because they were kids, man. I don't really know the intricate details of the relationship, but I definitely knew they weren't together. It was, uh... But not enemies by any means. You know what I mean? They were just teenagers. They were kids. So after, you know, I was born, they kind of went their separate ways. My dad's parents kind of kept everyone together and it was a close knife thing. And when my mother needed assistance, my grandmother would be there to help her out, my father's mother. And even though my father necessarily wasn't physically present for, you know, he was. Actually, doing”
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“That's the thing, like, probably looking back at it One would be like, it definitely wasn't Orthodox. And we didn't come from much, but it was joyous. It was filled with love. You know, my parents had me as teenagers. They were young. I went to my dad's high school graduation. Know his parents helped raise me. My mom was constantly working school and worked. My dad went off to college. And then, you know, I kind of felt like I grew up with my parents and their parents assisted in raising us all. But it was households filled with love. But, you know, wasn't traditional by any means. So there were the obstacles of, you know, trying to figure it out. And grandparents putting food on the table. But I think that also gave me a different type of drive to say. We're going to have to make something out of nothing.”
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“Yeah, that's what was so crazy about it. Like, I would even growing up in the projects, growing up in scenarios that we didn't have a lot, but I felt like I had a lot. I felt like. I was always destined for it to, and it wasn't even like about fame. It wasn't about money. It was just about. I like my life. I'm going to have fun. I'm going to have a good time. I was always that, you know, let's. Smile about it. You know what I mean? Even in some Difficult and at tumultuous times, I would still find a silver lining. I would still find a way to smile through pain and It's worked. It's always kept me Level headed, you know, even in the midst of having an abnormal and extraordinary life, it's like even the thing that humbles me is the fact that I'll just enter spaces with gratitude and optimism.”
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“Steal that question. I'd have to say that optimism, youthful optimism, you know, some call it imagination. But the world was just so big but yet so tangible for me. You know, I felt even as I felt like I had this magic that I could just manifest anything good or bad. You know what I mean? I lived this life to where as small as the community was, disenfranchised and maybe not as upwardly mobile as one would see from the house. I had this big imagination in my mind, this superpower that I could be, do or whatever I wanted. It was all in my grasp and I could, I don't know where I got it from, but I was just, as a kid, as a teenager, always felt like I had this ability to walk in a room and get whatever I wanted.”
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“Yeah, it makes you question what are you going to do with the time that you have on this planet? What impact are you going to make? When you're not afraid of dying, you focus on living.”
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“Yeah. I was like Harry Potter with the pig and then Will Smith signed me. I was living my dream life, but always felt like I had a ticking clock.”
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“That was just in our headphone cell. We have a tour that makes millions of cruise line, restaurants as a kid. I learned that I may not be the most talented person in the room, but I'll be the hardest worker in the room. That's how you get it. Some people play basketball. Then there's some basketball players. Don't try it. If you try it, it's not going to work. Do it as if there's no other option. So by the time I was 17, I started writing Burkina and Kale.”
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“I didn't think Wiling out would be the billion-dollar conglomerate. I was just creating a show because Kevin Hard needed money to pay his rent.”
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