Key Takeaways:

• hip hop artists have introduced their voices and personas to animated reveals and flicks in unforgettable methods.
• Some artists voice themselves, whereas others tackle wild new roles that nod to their rap personas.
• These cameos present how hip hop continues to form popular culture throughout generations and platforms.

Much like hip hop, cartoons and animated films are a core a part of childhood that usually stick with us effectively into maturity. A whole lot of us nonetheless revisit the reveals and movies we adored as children in the identical method that we maintain on to the rappers we grew up listening to (even when a few of our longtime favorites turned out a little different from who they have been again then).

To no shock, these experiences really feel additional particular after they overlap, and cameos are arguably among the best ways in which occurs. Over the years, tons of rappers have popped up in animated initiatives. Sometimes they play themselves, like 50 Cent on “The Simpsons” or Saweetie on “Velma,” and generally they play characters that nod to their rap personas.

In different instances, they go in the exact opposite route and play no matter most closely fits the world of the present or film, like Megan Thee Stallion as a hormone monstress in “Big Mouth” or Big Sean voicing a canine in Dog Gone Trouble. Their voices are immediately recognizable in any context, so the specifics of the position hardly matter.

With that being stated, Rap-Up rounded up 15 rappers who’ve been in animated TV reveals and flicks. Take a glance under.

1. Ice Spice in ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’

Ice Spice made her voice appearing debut in 2025’s The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, the place she performed an amusement park employee. Beyond attending to be a part of a franchise “that’s been part of so many people’s childhoods,” together with her personal, the Bronx rapper additionally contributed “Big Guy” to the movie’s official soundtrack.

2. Childish Gambino in ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’

Six years after his cameo within the Tom Holland-led Spider-Man: Homecoming, Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) returned to our pleasant neighborhood Spider-Man’s world in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Instead of an animated position, he appeared in dwell motion as Prowler, the alter ego of Miles Morales’s uncle Aaron.

3. Kanye West in “The Cleveland Show”

Kanye West showing in “The Cleveland Show” — with Taraji P. Henson voicing his girlfriend, no much less — as Kenny West was one other gem we obtained within the 2010s. “[Kanye’s character] has a girlfriend who’s played by Taraji and Cleveland [Jr.] is in love with his girlfriend,” Reagan Gomez (who voices Roberta Tubbs) advised VIBE. “So, they’re kind of at odds and at the end of the show they have a rap-off.”

4. 50 Cent in “The Simpsons”

In the “Pranksta Rap” episode of “The Simpsons,” Bart sneaks out to catch a efficiency by Alcatraaz (who appears to be like suspiciously like Ludacris) and even finally ends up spitting a couple of bars himself. On the way in which dwelling from the live performance, he will get an invitation from 50 Cent to hitch him on the “Many Men” rapper’s world tour. Bart declines as a result of he has college, however Fif nonetheless leaves him with just a little knowledge: “The more you know, the further you go.”

5. Logic in “Rick and Morty”

Of all of the rappers Adult Swim might’ve tapped to seem in “Rick and Morty,” Logic is debatably one of many higher selections. He voiced himself on the present, acting at an intergalactic social gathering after a “completely loaded” Rick booked him for the gig.

6. MC Lyte; Tyler, The Creator; and Childish Gambino in “Regular Show”

It makes full sense to have rappers seem as, effectively, rappers of their cameos. In Cartoon Network’s “Regular Show,” MC Lyte, Childish Gambino and Tyler, The Creator performed CrewCrew. Consisting of Alpha-Dog, Demel-Ishun and Blitz Comet, the trio gave Mordecai and Rigby some severe competitors throughout their rap battle.

7. Vince Staples in “Lazor Wulf”

If you’ve ever watched “The Vince Staples Show,” then you definitely already know the Long Beach rapper is completely hilarious. Before touchdown his personal Netflix sequence, Staples performed the titular character in Adult Swim’s “Lazor Wulf.”

8. Lil Wayne in “The Boondocks”

Lil Wayne pops up in “The Boondocks” as Nique, Jericho Freeman’s son. Unfortunately, Riley and Huey aren’t precisely keen on their freeloading second cousin as soon as eliminated.

9. JAY-Z in “Secret Millionaires Club”

Long earlier than he turned hip hop’s first billionaire, JAY-Z made a cameo within the debut episode of “Secret Millionaires Club.” As the Roc Nation founder tells the children, “If you put your minds to it, you can do anything.”

10. Nicki Minaj in “Steven Universe”

In “Steven Universe,” Nicki Minaj lent her voice to Sugilite, the four-armed large fashioned when Garnet and Amethyst fuse collectively. It was one of many many causes cartoons have been so enjoyable to observe within the 2010s.

11. Big Sean in Dog Gone Trouble

Apparently Big Sean is nice at extra than simply rapping. The “I Don’t F**k With You” rapper performed Trouble in Netflix’s Dog Gone Trouble, which additionally occurred to be Betty White’s ultimate voiceover position in a movie.

12. Megan Thee Stallion in “Big Mouth”

“Aw s**t, booty fatter than a pear, your hormone monstress Megan is here,” Megan Thee Stallion hilariously introduces herself in Season 7 of “Big Mouth.” Of all of the reveals talked about right here, the Netflix sequence is unquestionably the strangest. However, we do see the Houston Hottie assist Dani (Zazie Beetz) as she tries to type out whether or not she’s extra interested in Nick Birch or Travis.

13. Saweetie in “Velma”

Although Mindy Kaling’s “Velma” was largely met with lukewarm criticism, at the least it concerned Saweetie. Booked to carry out on the titular character’s annual Sexy Halloween social gathering, the “My Type” rapper made a cameo in Season 2 as herself.

14. Lil Yachty in Teen Titans GO! To the Movies

In addition to contributing “Go! (Remix)” to the Teen Titans GO! To The Movies soundtrack, Lil Yachty additionally popped up within the movie as Green Lantern. He’s actually an sudden alternative for the position, however to be truthful, the film additionally solid Halsey as Wonder Woman and Jimmy Kimmel as Batman.

15. Cardi B and Offset in Baby Shark’s Big Movie

Cardi B (or Sharki B, technically) appeared as “the biggest star in the seven seas” on Baby Shark’s Big Movie with Offset and their oldest daughter, Kulture. The Grammy Award-winning rapper as soon as stated that Kulture beloved “the whole ‘Baby Shark’ mixtape” some years earlier than their cameo, so getting the possibility to be a part of the present needed to be a full-circle second.