Cartoon Rap: Music Stars as Animated Characters

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Rae Sremmurd - Rae Sremmurd have just landed a part in Marvel Comics' consciously diverse All-New Captain America series, which debuted Nov. 12. Brothers Slim Jimmy and Swae Lee post up with the first ever Black Captain America, Falcon, to hold down the "No Flex Zone" on the cover of the latest book. The comic doesn't come cheap. Collectors can head here and drop $170 for the first edition.(Photo: Marvel Comics)
Nicki Minaj - Nicki Minaj found another way to channel all those voices. She took her Cash Money reign over to The Cartoon Network and lent her acting and voiceover talents to the character “Sugilite” for the show Steven Universe in the episode "Coach Seven."(Photos from left: Johnny Nunez/BET/Getty Images for BET, Cartoon Network)
Mike Tyson - Iron Mike Tyson may not be an MC, but he’s been a staple in hip hop culture for nearly 30 years. The former boxing champ voiced his own cartoon on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Mike Tyson Mysteries finds the Brooklyn brawler solving crimes and knocking people out in what seems to be a mesh of Scooby-Doo meets G.I. Joe and Space Ghost.  (Photo: Adult Swin via Cartoon Network)
Ludacris - Ludacris often turns himself into characters for his music video and Hollywood roles, and in 2007, for the animation and Luda-lovers, he became "Luda-Crest" when he appeared on the 400th episode of The Simpsons as a tooth paste fighting the "Menace Tooth Society." He also appeared as himself [a cartoon version, of course] in the hour-long episode.(Photo: FOX)André 3000 - Outkast's André 3000 had his own cartoon series, Class of 3000, which ran for two seasons on The Cartoon Network from 2006-2008. Dre also created the series and starred and voiced music teacher "Sunny Bridges," who took his class of inner city kids on musical and educational adventures. (Photo: Cartoon Network)

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Nicki Minaj - Nicki Minaj found another way to channel all those voices. She took her Cash Money reign over to The Cartoon Network and lent her acting and voiceover talents to the character “Sugilite” for the show Steven Universe in the episode "Coach Seven."(Photos from left: Johnny Nunez/BET/Getty Images for BET, Cartoon Network)

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