Cartoon Rap: Music Stars as Animated Characters

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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)
T.I. and Tiny - T.I., Tiny and the rest of The Harris clan became animated one Christmas when they left Atlanta and headed to the North Pole to find Santa for a holiday episode of their hit show, The Family Hustle.  (Photo: VH1)T-Pain - T-Pain produced and starred in Freaknik: The Musical, which aired in 2010 on The Cartoon Network. The rappa-ternt-singa played "The Ghost of Freaknik" who tried to bring back the Atlanta skin-fest tradition.(Photo: Adult Swin via Cartoon Network)

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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)

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