T-Pain Wants to Get Freaky on Cartoon Network

The Grammy-winning singer and producer will premiere a cartoon musical on March 7.
Chantelle Marcelle
Singer and producer T-Pain is looking to get even more animated than he already is in real life with the help of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

He jumped at an offer from the network's executives to create his own show, manifesting in the form of a one-hour cartoon extravaganza, Freaknik: The Musical. Expect strippers “flying out the air,” said the Grammy-winning T-Pain.

Freaknik is about teenagers who want to attend the Atlanta spring break party that was canceled in 1999. T-Pain, 25, said the show's idea came from his own regrets at never being able to attend the event.

“I wasn't old enough [to attend] by the time it got shut down,” he said in an interview with The BoomBox. “It's just something that needed to be made into a cartoon because I don't think it's ever coming back in real life.”

Adult Swim executive Nick Weidenfeld said the negative reputation of the Freaknik festival didn't deter him from embracing the show's concept because it was really about having “a good time.” In fact, he said, a lot of criticism of the event came from racism.

“There's no real isolated incidents other than traffic jams,” he said. “It's funny. If you look at the statistics, it was more so [complaints of] that many black people in places.”

Also lending their talents to the show are rappers Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Snoop Dogg, Big Boi, in addition to Saturday Night Live cast members Andy Samberg and Bill Hader.

T-Pain, a self-described Cartoon Network fanatic, said if everything goes well, there will definitely be more cartoons from him.

Freaknik: The Musical debuts on Adult Swim on March 7 at 11:30 p.m., and T-Pain's new album RevolveR will drop in 2010.

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