--- title: VIDEO: Mariah Carey’s Son Is A Literal Rocky description: "Now he's punching kids though, that's the problem." canonical: https://time.com/92442/mariah-carey-son/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-08T15:43:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:43:50.521Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch: Mariah Carey’s Son Is A Literal Rocky og:description: "Now he's punching kids though, that's the problem." og:url: https://time.com/92442/mariah-carey-son/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch: Mariah Carey’s Son Is A Literal Rocky twitter:description: "Now he's punching kids though, that's the problem." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Mariah Carey’s Son Is A Literal Rocky by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 8, 2014 3:43 PM CUT by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 8, 2014 3:43 PM CUT Mariah Carey went on _The Late Show With David Letterman_ Wednesday and one topic of conversation was her son, Morocco. Nicknamed “Rocky,” it seems he is taking the likeness to Sylvester Stallone’s movie character a bit too far for Mariah’s liking. “Now he’s punching kids though, that’s the problem.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/92442/mariah-carey-son/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/92442/mariah-carey-son/"},"headline":"Mariah Carey’s Son Is A Literal Rocky","datePublished":"2014-05-08T15:43:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:43:50.521Z","description":"Young Rocky is laying down the punches.","url":"https://time.com/92442/mariah-carey-son/","keywords":["celebrity","David Letterman","Mariah Carey"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrity/","name":"celebrity"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/92442/mariah-carey-son/","name":"Mariah Carey’s Son Is A Literal Rocky"}}]}] ```