The dad-of-seven said he doesn't "subscribe" to the idea of monogamy.
Nick Cannon has been in the news quite a bit lately – but it's less to do with his career and more to do with his seemingly never-ending streak of becoming a new dad.
The 40-year-old, who welcomed four babies in just seven months since December 2020, has now claimed he is merely following the wishes of each of the four mothers to his seven children.
During a radio interview with Power 105.1's
The Breakfast Club, Nick opened up about his... eh, unconventional path to fatherhood, all whilst rallying against monogamy.
When asked about why he has seven kids by four mothers, Nick said: "That's a Eurocentric concept when you think about the ideas of 'you're supposed to have this one person for the rest of your life.' And really that's just to classify property, when you think about it.
"When you go into that mindset, if we're really talking that talk, the idea that a man should have one woman — we shouldn't
have anything. I have no ownership over this person. It's about what exchange can we create together. I've never really subscribed to that mentality.
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"I understand the institution of marriage," Nick, who was married to Mariah Carey from 2008 to 2016, continued. "But if we go back to what that was about … [it] was to classify property. One father gave another man his daughter for land. So when you really get to that concept it's like, we gotta change this up."
Listen Nick, nobody's gonna argue with you there. The dowry system and women being seen as a bargaining chip are definitely Not Good
™ things, and marriage and/or monogamy aren't for everyone.
But we're a lil' bit confused as to how you having multiple kids with multiple women is the ultimate defence against an age-old practice of women being treated like property...
"I don't have ownership of any of the mothers. We create families in the sense of we created a beautiful entity," he explained, saying that people struggle with such a concept because we are "indoctrinated" into thinking monogamy is the only way.
"Those women and all women are the ones that open themselves up to say, 'I would like to allow this man in my world and I will birth this child,'" Nick continued. So it ain't my decision, I'm just following suit."
Nick's seven children are as follows: 10-year-old twins Monroe and Moroccan (who he shares with Mariah), 4-year-old Golden and 8-month-old Powerful Queen (who he shares with model Brittany Bell), two-month-old Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir (who he shares with DJ Abby De La Rosa), and one-month-old Zen (who he shares with model Alyssa Scott).
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When asked how the mothers of his children feel, he said: "Every woman in my life that I deal with or have dealt with… they know how I feel."
Nick also clarified
comments he previously made about having each child "on purpose" and that there was "a lot of people that [he] could've gotten pregnant that [he] didn't."
"I'm not going around like, 'Who am I gonna impregnate next?'" he said. "Nah... The woman is always the one who leads and makes the decision. I'm the one in the scenario who has to follow suit on what they decide."
Well, alrighty then.
Nick also insisted that despite the jokes and criticism suggesting otherwise, he makes time for each one of his kids.
"I'm at every basketball game, I'm at every martial arts practice. People don’t understand how I do it, but my children are my priority."
