The 32-year-old businessman has negotiated a multi-million dollar deal for the complete rights to “Soul Train,” and according to The Urban Daily, and “now owns everything but Don Cornelius’ corpse.”
Cannon plans to revamp the classic musical variety show and bring it back on the air with today’s hottest artists and a modern-day format on the NBC network.
“It’s a passion project of mine. Obviously, what it means to our culture ... One, it was one of the longest-running syndicated television shows in history, and then, it just did so much for us, for our style, for our fashion," he explained. "Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'”
“Not only am I producing it, I’m hosting it. We got the rights. But it’s like full circle for me. A lot of people don’t know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.”
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