Nick Cannon explains unorthodox lifestyle: ‘It ain’t my decision’

Mariah Carey’s ex Nick Cannon explains why he has fathered so many children to different women.

He’s ‘Wild N’ Out’ with a bunch of women — and here’s why.

For Nick Cannon, having multiple babies with multiple girlfriends is the father of seven’s way of rebelling against the “Eurocentric” institution of marriage.

“That’s a Eurocentric concept … the idea that you’re supposed to have this one person for the rest of your life,” explained Cannon, 40, on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, Monday.

“The idea that a man should have one woman,” The Masked Singer host continued. “We shouldn’t have anything. I have no ownership over this person.”

Cannon — who welcomed his seventh child, the fourth within a year’s time, in June — said that fathering so many kids is not a decision he gets to make.

Cannon with the 10-year-old twins, Monroe (left) and Moroccan, that he has with pop diva Mariah Carey. Picture: Getty Images

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“Those women, and all women, are the ones that open themselves up and say, ‘I would like to allow this man into my world and I will birth this child,’” the California native insisted. “It ain’t my decision. I’m just following suit.”

The former Nickelodeon star welcomed 10-year-old twins, Monroe and Moroccan, with ex-wife and megastar Mariah Carey, 51, in 2011.

He has two children — son Golden, 4, and 8-month-old daughter Powerful Queen Cannon — with Miss Guam 2014 pageant winner Brittany Bell, 33.

On June 14, Cannon welcomed twin boys Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir with DJ Abby De La Rosa, 29.

Cannon and Bell with their kids on Christmas 2020. Picture: Instagram

Then, just nine days later, on June 23, he became the father of his fifth son, Zen, with model Alyssa Scott.

And now, Cannon says his aversion to monogamy is rooted in the European history of marriage.

De La Rosa with her and Cannon’s twin boys. Picture: Instagram

“If we’re really talking about how we coexist and how we populate, it’s about what exchange can we create together,” he said.

“I understand the institution of marriage, but if we go back to what that was about … [it] was to classify property,” he added, referring to the dowery system — the practice of trading a woman into marriage in exchange for money or property that was popularised in England between the 12th and 18th centuries.

Scott cradling her and Cannon’s newborn boy, Zen. Picture: Instagram

“One father gave another man his daughter for land,” Cannon said. “So when you really get to that concept it’s like, we gotta change this up.”

Thus, his parade of paramours prevails.

“I don’t want ownership over anybody,” the Love Don’t Cost A Thing star said. “I don’t have ownership over any of the mothers. We create families in the sense that we created a beautiful entity.”

The ‘Wild N’ Out’ star said he doesn’t want ‘ownership’ of any of the mothers of his children. Picture: Instagram

But it’s unclear whether the leading ladies of his love life are happy about Cannon’s staunch commitment to non-commitment.

“Every woman in my life that I deal with or [have] dealt with … they know how I feel,” he said.

“And it usually is a concept like, I’m not going around like, ‘Who am I gonna impregnate next?’ Nah,” Cannon continued.

“When you really look at how the family infrastructure is designed, the woman is the one that always leads and makes decisions,” he said.

“Everyone is like, ‘How is he convincing these women?’ … But I’m not. I’m the one in the scenario who has to follow suit on what they decide.”

Cannon, who admittedly grew up in an “unorthodox” home in which both of his parents were absent at times, said he’s extremely active in all of his children’s lives.

“For every single one of my kids, I’m at every basketball game, I’m at every martial arts practice,” he said.

“People don’t understand how I do it, but my children are my priority.”

This article originally appeared on NY Post and was reproduced with permission