Nick Cannon, who's fathered 12 children with 6 women, says a 'vision' from a spirit told him he was 'gonna be a father of many'

• Nick Cannon knew he'd have many children after communing with a spirit.
• "I heard that like, 'Yo, you're gonna be a father of many,'" Cannon said, describing the vision.
• "I had the vision that my name will be great as like, the Rockefeller name," Cannon added.

Nick Cannon, who's fathered 12 children with six different women, had a vision that he would have many children.

Cannon described the incident while talking to podcaster Laura Berman, a sex and relationship therapist and podcast host, for an episode of "The Language of Love with Dr. Laura Berman." The episode aired on Wednesday.

Berman spoke to Cannon about visions he's had, and asked if God told him to have "all those babies." Cannon responded that he's had one moment when he communed with a spirit.

"It's almost like when you have these manifestations or even these visions, if that's what we want to call them, it's like, 'Oh, that all makes sense now,'" Cannon told Berman.

"You get them in pieces, or they're fragmented," he said of visions he'd had about fatherhood, explaining that the visions never came through like a "Father Abraham conversation." According to the Bible, God promised to make Father Abraham the "father of a multitude of nations."

"I've never heard that clarity, but I heard that like, 'Yo, you're gonna be a father of many. There's gonna be your great influence, your lineage, your offspring are gonna do great things,'" Cannon said.

"I had the vision that my name will be great as, like, the Rockefeller name," Cannon added.

Cannon also told Berman that some of the women he's had children with are monogamous with him, while others just want to co-parent. Cannon did not specify which women were monogamous, and which were not.

Cannon has previously said he is non-monogamous. But he added that his preference is for the mothers of his children to wait until their kids are a little older to pursue monogamous relationships with other people. 

"I would hope it would happen a little bit later, once you've come into your own of what our parenting infrastructure looks like," Cannon said on the podcast.

Cannon also said he would be a little "concerned" if the mothers of his children were out sowing their "wild oats" and being "out in these streets."

But Cannon added during the podcast that he does not enjoy being called "community dick" and being mocked for having so many children.

Cannon has children with Mariah Carey, Abby De La Rosa, Alyssa Scott, Brittany Bell, Bre Tiesi, and Lanisha Cole.

And he might not be done yet: In February, he said he would let God decide when he should stop having kids.

Representatives for Cannon did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider sent outside regular business hours.