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Kanye Gets Animated

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on May 3, 2010 3:20PM

Ke$ha wasn't the only pop star to make an appearance on a certain network's line-up of prime time animated programming. Chicago-based rapper Kanye West - perhaps you've heard of him - made an appearance on last night's episode of The Cleveland Show. While rapping in cartoons usually makes us cringe, Kanye's jam in last night's episode was pretty funny ("I'm the black Zach Efron" was a great line), the auto-tune call-out was funny, and showed that, yes, occasionally Kanye knows how to have fun. Okay, so it was still a little cringe-inducing, but not as bad as it could have been. Chicago Now's Show Patrol has a bit more background on how the whole thing came to pass.