T-Pain's fun with musical cartoon
Friday January 29 2010
T-Pain has revealed he had a lot of fun making a new musical cartoon.
The rapper-singer is an executive producer on one-hour animated special Freaknik: The Musical, which is based on an annual, raucous and now-defunct Atlanta street party.
"You can't do what you want to do, you can't be as silly as you want to be (and) people won't take you seriously in music - it was a gift ... I always wanted to do a cartoon and I didn't know it would be this good," said the 25-year-old.
However T-Pain admitted he never attended the street party, which was held between 1983 and 1999.
"It was just something I never got to go to," he said. "I had to wait till I was 18 to go and by the time I got 18 it was shut down."
The cartoon follows students who are looking to resurrect the party, and T-Pain is the party ghost. It also features Andy Samberg, Lil' Wayne, Bill Hader, Kelis, Snoop Dogg and George Clinton, among others.
Lil Wayne voices the character Trap Jesus, who T-Pain describes as having "a Jesus-type aura to him". Samberg portrays a "frat boy" while Kelis plays the role of Tyra Banks, whose television show T-Pain's character appears on.
"Some people are going to hate it, some people are going to think it's funny," T-Pain admitted.
The star also spoke about being up for four Grammy Awards this Sunday, including best contemporary RnB album for his CD Thr33 Ringz.
"It feels weird because I never expected it," he said of his nominations. "It feels great, it's just a little confusing."
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