Freaknik: The Musical

So this was kinda weird. It was a one hour animated special produced by T-Pain, starring him as Freaknik, an auto-tuned ghost who comes back from the dead to host a music festival in Atlanta (Freaknik used to be an actual thing. The festival, not the ghost.), and featuring a bunch of rappers and comedians playing a wide array of strange characters. Lil Jon is an old man who tells the story, Lil Wayne is some version of Jesus, Young Cash and Cee-Lo are members of a ssmall town rap group trying to make it big, and so on. Not all of the jokes land, as it spends a lot of time leaning on celebrity parody and race jokes, though it was funny enough to elicit the occasional chuckle. What I enjoyed most was the animation style (hard to believe this is the same studio that does Metalocalypse) and the musical numbers, which are generally enjoyable, catchy alt rap. The plot, beyond its unusual premise, isn't that original, but it hits all the right notes in order, and wraps itself up nicely. Not the greatest, but watchable.