Nicholas Scott Cannon was born on October 8, 1980 in San Diego, California. He grew up in Lincoln Park’s Bay Vista Housing Projects, which is a gang-ridden section of Southeast San Diego. As a teenager, Cannon was one-third of the rap group ‘Da G4 Dope Bomb Squad’ His debut self titled album was released in 2003 and included the single ‘Your Pops Don’t Like Me’ In 2005, Cannon formed his own record label, Can-I-Ball Records, with plans to release his second studio album, entitled Stages, later that year.
About Nick Cannon in brief
Nicholas Scott Cannon was born on October 8, 1980 in San Diego, California. He grew up in Lincoln Park’s Bay Vista Housing Projects, which is a gang-ridden section of Southeast San Diego. As a teenager, Cannon was one-third of the rap group ‘Da G4 Dope Bomb Squad’ His debut self titled album was released in 2003 and included the single ‘Your Pops Don’t Like Me’ In 2005, Cannon formed his own record label, Can-I-Ball Records, with plans to release his second studio album, entitled Stages, later that year. It was never released because of Nick Cannon’s acting career. Cannon married American singer Mariah Carey in 2008. The couple separated and filed for divorce in December 2014. The divorce was finalized in 2016, and they co-parent their children. On December 6, 2011, Nick Cannon released his debut mixtape entitled Child of the Corn. On July 26, 2013, Cannon premiered his new single ‘Me Sexy’ and announced over seven years after the shelving of his album Stages that he was working on a new studio album entitled White People Party Music. The album’s second single ‘Looking for a Dream’ was released on February 11, 2014. On November 16, 2016, Cannon released the second mixtape The Gospel of Ike Turn Up: My Side of the Story.
The song features Afrojack, Pitbull, Future and Polow da Don. Cannon released a single called ‘The Invitation’ on December 9, as a response to Eminem’s feature on Fat Joe and Dre’s ‘Family Ties’ The track featured former convicted felon Suge Knight, as well as rappers Prince Eazy, Charlie Clips and Hitman Holla Conceited. Cannon responded to Eminem with two tweets the next day featuring the track ‘The Black Squad’ The next day he hosted the stunt show Wild ‘n Out, so he hosted so-called slime-called ‘Pray For Him’ The same year he also hosted the show ‘The Nick Cannon Show’ and ‘The Masked Singer’ He has appeared in the films Drumline, Love Don’t Cost a Thing and Roll Bounce. In 2007, he played the role of the fictional footballer TJ Harper in the film Goal II: Living the Dream. In 2009, Cannon created a parody of hip hop pioneer Slick Rick entitled ‘Slick Nick’ In 2010, he released two songs by the character such as ‘I’m a Slick Nick’, a freestyle of Cali Swag District’s ‘Teach Me How to Dougie’ in which he attempted to diss hip hop mega-star Eminem. In 2011, he opened for Will Smith, LFO, 98 Degrees, and Montell Jordan.
You want to know more about Nick Cannon?
This page is based on the article Nick Cannon published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 04, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
