The Drumline star helped Kanye in his early days.

In an interview with The Breakfast Club, Nick Cannon – of Wildin’ Out and being divorced from Mariah Carey fame – revealed that he was one of Kanye West’s ghostwriters early in his rap career.

“I ain’t never wrote no smashes, but I’ve been in the Kanye [songwriting] camps early on. I was there doing ‘Gold Digger.’ I wrote the bar for Kanye, ‘We don’t need to stunt/I make black history every day, I don’t need a month’,” he says of West’s verse on Rhymefest’s 2006 track ‘Brand New’.

“That’s why I love Kanye and his movement because he knows how to make great music, great songs. That ego doesn’t get into the art form. He’s like, ‘If somebody say something dope, let’s get to it.’ Being a part of that process, I’ve learned so much from him in making songs because anybody can get in front of a mic and spit bars, but to create a song, that’s a true talent.”

Kanye’s hyper-collaborative process is no secret. Take a look at any of his album credits and you’ll see a whole host of writers.

Watch Cannon’s full interview with The Breakfast Club below.