![]() You want to tell a joke about his client in front of 17.6 million viewers? All good. And I think that’s what inspires and motivates him every day.” “Nick’s success and what he’s generated don’t match up to where the industry places him. “Nick Cannon is the most misunderstood person I’ve ever encountered,” says Michael Goldman, who has worked with Cannon since the star was 15. ![]() It’s more about really being a good person instead of telling people you’re a good person.”Ĭannon’s manager, on the other hand, is very interested in shifting the public’s perception. “But I’m really at a place now where I don’t care what people know. “Right now the narrative is, ‘He has a bunch of kids,’” he says. ![]() He’s learned to quiet those frustrations. He wanted everyone to know that he could play seven instruments, that he first enrolled in college at 35, that he deserved a spot on a Forbes list. It used to bother Cannon that his success wasn’t widely recognized. His career has been nearly as unconventional as his personal life - but that headline is apparently way less interesting. Oh, and he’s putting the finishing touches on a romance novel - his second, in fact - based on his personal life he describes it as “an urban ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’”Īfter 25 years in the entertainment business, Cannon oversees what could reasonably be described as a multimedia empire. He is trying to complete a master’s degree in child psychology and a PhD in divinity. He’s part owner of the Hollywood Hills restaurant Yamashiro, and has an Ncredible-branded gym on the premises. More than a half-dozen musicians are signed to Cannon’s own imprint at Ncredible, and one of the company’s acts - the teen boy band Pop Money - has a deal with Republic Records. He and Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, also have their own podcast that aims to bridge gaps between different cultures - “#2HateorNot2Hate.” And he just co-starred in a movie opposite Alec Baldwin, “Hollywood Heist,” but that doesn’t have a release date yet.Įvery weekday morning, he hosts “The Daily Cannon,” a three-hour live radio show that started in April for Amazon’s AMP app. It will premiere in the fall, along with BET’s “Future Superstar Tour,” a filmed version of the recently wrapped live tour where Cannon showcases up-and-coming talent. Meanwhile, E! is airing the first season of “Celebrity Prank Wars,” Cannon and longtime friend Kevin Hart’s own version of “Punk’d.” He recently shot “Counsel Culture” for Amazon Freevee, an all-male version of “The View” where Cannon leads five fellow “councilmen” through discussions on hot-button issues such as toxic masculinity. He’s currently in Dublin shooting 12 episodes of Fox’s guess-the-lyrics game show “Beat Shazam” - a fill-in gig that came up suddenly after the show’s usual host, Cannon’s old mentor Jamie Foxx, was hospitalized in April with an undisclosed illness. Steel letters spelling out “Zen” - the name of his 5-month-old son who died from brain cancer last year - rest against a windowsill. In Cannon’s private domain, immense black-and-white photographs of him marching in Black Lives Matter protests hang above the desk. It’s the most sober area at Ncredible Productions, where the chalkboard walls are covered in scribbles and employees have access to a candy bar, game room and a pingpong table. We watch the baby bounce in her jumper, cooing at her when she presses buttons or shakes a rattle.Īt 6:45 p.m., Cannon arrives, cuddles Onyx and then leads me into his office. So Onyx is alone in the play space with her nanny, who notices me waiting and invites me to take off my shoes and join them. He has yet to return to his Burbank headquarters after dropping off his 6-year-old son, Golden, at Mandarin class. Today, his 6-month-old daughter, Onyx, is the only one of his children using the space. That’s how he ended up with a nursery in his office building - a neon-lit room with tumbling mats, a ball pit and toy instruments. ![]() “And I just wanted to give them what they desired. “A lot of them are in the same age group,” he says. So during the pandemic, when a number of his lovers began to express anxiety about their biological clocks, he obliged.
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