@LifeofDiablo2 This happened after the fight. That is a stud he hit. The post where it says daddy rude and Cap fight is where it began. The stud was just there watching. It was a lot to the story.
Nick Cannon divorced Mariah Carey. In the deal, she agreed to pay his travel and hotel when he visits their twins
Then he had 10 more kids with 5 other women
In the video below, he explains why he left: "The husband I became was Mr. Mariah Carey"
April 2008. They marry at her estate in the Bahamas. She's about a decade older and one of the best selling artists alive
April 30, 2011. The twins are born on their third anniversary
December 2014. He files for divorce
Asked to name the reasons, the first word out of his mouth: "Financially"
Asked if he felt he didn't deserve her: "Absolutely. 100%." "This is someone that is out of my league"
The settlement, per TMZ in 2016:
The twins live mainly with Mariah
He puts $5,000 a month into a trust for them
When he visits, she pays his travel and lodging
She signs a 2012 Ferrari over to him
Neither can let the kids call a new partner "mom" or "dad"
Their incomes in the filing: him $2.7 million a year, her $6.3 million
February 2017. His third child is born. Between June 2021 and December 2022 he has 8 more. Total: 12 kids with 6 women
His explanation, in the same video: he wanted to prove he could provide for a lot of people, "because for so much time I didn't have to"
Do the math. In the marriage he made less than half of what she did. In 6 years after it, he went from 2 kids to 12
The case for Nick: he says he went to therapy, still loves her, and calls himself "the low functioning individual" in his relationships
Could you stay married to someone who makes more than double what you make, or would it eat at you too?
In August 1994, an underage marriage certificate nearly destroyed one of the most promising new labels in music.
Aaliyah Haughton was 15 years old. Her producer, R. Kelly, was 27. Her debut album was titled Age Ain't Nothing but a Number.
The album was not just a pop release. It was the flagship asset of Blackground Records, a label built by Aaliyah's uncle, Barry Hankerson, specifically to keep 100 percent of her management, publishing, and master revenues inside the family.
In their 1994 interview on BET's Video Soul below, R. Kelly explains how Barry Hankerson brought him in to develop Aaliyah, right before they discuss her age and the album title.
When the illegal marriage leaked, it created an immediate existential crisis for the label and its distributor, Jive Records.
Facing severe media fallout, potential legal exposure, and an impending PR disaster, Hankerson executed a swift corporate containment strategy.
The marriage was quietly annulled, R. Kelly was completely cut out of her future projects, and Hankerson severed ties with Jive, moving Blackground's distribution deal to Atlantic Records. The scandal was buried and Aaliyah was rebranded alongside Timbaland and Missy Elliott into a multi-platinum global superstar.
Commercially, the maneuver saved the brand. Structurally, it trapped the artist. Aaliyah was managed by her mother, signed to her uncle's label, and bound by contracts negotiated while she was a minor. She had zero independent representation.
When Aaliyah died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22, the complete ownership of her master recordings remained with Blackground.
For nearly two decades, her catalog stayed off major streaming platforms because of rights disputes and family control. Only recently have deals begun to change that.
The label built to protect a child star from the industry ended up owning the gate to her legacy.