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Kanye records guest spot for Family Guy spin off
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 18 March 2009
Kanye West has recorded a guest voice spot on new cartoon series ‘The Cleveland Show’, which is a spin off from Seth McFarlane’s ‘Family Guy’ featuring the already established character of Cleveland Brown. West plays an aspiring rapper called MC Kenny West for the show, which will be launched on US network Fox in the autumn. According to reports, the episode featuring West will air in the new year.
Mike Henry, voice of Cleveland Brown and executive producer, explained how it came about, saying: “We knew Kanye was a big ‘Family Guy’ fan because he invited Seth [MacFarlane] to his house a year or two ago”. Fellow executive producer Richard Appel added: “Before we came to the table … there was only one line he didn’t love, and he came up with another idea and in a completely modest, nice way said, ‘Would you mind if I changed just this one line?’ And our feeling was, how many raps have we written? One? And how many has he written? Be our guest”.
