Nick Cannon
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But we never had big budgets.
They never promoted our show.
You never saw wilding out billboards and all that stuff.
They was focused on punked.
Then they stole the concept and made Yo Mama.
Like, and they was all, like, then, you know, then they made Ridiculousness, and we outlived all of them, but they never gave us the budgets that they gave us.
You had MTV Crib, you had Pimp My Ride.
Yeah, like, those were the shows that they were spending money on.
So the fact that, you know, we never had a big budget, and even myself, like, it happened season after season that I would sacrifice, you know, my talent fee to make sure others could get on and eat, because that's the thing.
You kind of, in that environment, you got...
you eat what you kill.
The more shows, more episodes you got, you are never guaranteed more than one episode.
Unless you became popular, then in your contract, I want at least 10 episodes or however that works at this amount.
And that's why I was like, it's been beautiful for me because I agree with them.
They should get paid more because I'm not a part of that.
You know what I mean?
This is our budget.
Your people negotiate.