Pain co-wrote the Adult Swim animated special, which features Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross and Cee-Lo. By Shaheem Reid T-Pain Photo: MTV News T-Pain says his next album, Revolver, will be coming out later this year, but his first major project of 2010 is a TV show. Pain is starring in and producing a one-hour animated special for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim this weekend called “Freaknik: The Musical.” Freaknik was an annual party in Atlanta that started in the 1980s but blew up in the mid-’90s. During spring break, students from the area’s historically black colleges and the hip-hop community used to gather for a weekend of partying, a picnic and, in many cases, debauchery. The event took over the city and was protested heavily, and the final one was in 1999. “I actually never been, but I’ve seen every piece of footage that can come from the Florida side of Freaknik,” said T-Pain, who hails from Tallahassee, Florida. “It was a lot of night vision, a whole lot of night vision. Every video I’ve ever seen [from Freaknik] was in night vision. Even in the daytime, it was night vision.” Pain’s musical, which he also co-wrote, follows a group trying to make it to the event. “It’s about the trials and tribulations of a group that’s trying to get to Freaknik,” Pain explained. “Freaknik, the party ghost — which is [who I play] — is holding a battle of the trillest. It’s a rap battle. If you win the rap battle, the first prize is a lifetime supply of money, ho’s and clothes. It’s three dudes in the rap group and their weed man trying to make it to Freaknik. It’s their trials and tribulations coming from Sweet Tea, Florida, all the way to Georgia. I play the Spirit of Freaknik. Everywhere I go, it’s on and poppin’.” Pain said the story wasn’t his brainchild, but he jumped onboard when presented with the idea. “I didn’t write the whole thing,” he said. “They came to me with the premise. I started scratching stuff off and getting new stuff. You can say I wrote it, but I didn’t. It was my homeboy Carl [Jones], the same guy that does ‘The Boondocks.’ We had to get a lot of his help, direction and stuff like that. We all wrote it together. It was a good team of people that has no boundaries. We took it so far that the watered-down version is awesome.” Andy Samberg, Snoop Dogg, Cee-Lo and Rick Ross are among the stars doing voice-overs. “I didn’t want nobody to play themselves,” Pain said. “Ross is Big Uzi, one of the dudes in the group. Cee-Lo is Light Skinned, which is a white dude who is a black supremacist.” “Freaknik: The Musical” airs Sunday at 11:30 p.m. on Adult Swim. Related Videos T-Pain’s Speaks About His Upcoming ‘Freaknik: The Musical’
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