Nick Cannon
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But I think what people have learned to do is separate the art from the man.
So to say that, oh, now his music is trash because of the horrible things that he did.
Then you got to throw the whole music industry away.
You got to start with rock and roll.
Our founding fathers had some transgressions.
That's what I'm saying.
I mean, shoot, James Brown wrote the first disc record where he called the Big Payback.
He went and shot up a club himself.
It's like, you're messing with my girlfriend.
If we sit down right now and look back about what James Brown did or Jerry Lee Lewis or all of these people that I ain't going to say their name because then they're going to be sending me cease and desist.
But if you look, just do your history, the entire music industry is flawed.
And then that takes me to that space where it's all about spiritual warfare at the end of the day because we know
that when artists and all that start allowing those spirits in and that self-absorption, that egomaniacal energy starts to play out when you got nothing but yes men and you don't think you can.
And we see it play out time and time again with our entertainers.
So it's just, we got to wrap our arms around them before they get to a space where it's too late.
You got a lot of backlash when you put Chris Brown in your basketball movie, She-Ball.