Kid Cudi has a landed an out of this worldproject…
The 35-year-old part-Mexican American rapper, record producer and actor, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, has joined forces with Kenya Barris for Entergalactic, an adult animated music series for Netflix based on the upcoming album of the same name by Kid Cudi.
Mescudi, who played one of the leads on HBO’s How To Make It In America, will write, star, and executive produce the series.
How To Make It In America creator Ian Edelman will co-write with Mescudi and will also executive produce. Barris executive produces.
The show will showcase music from Kid Cudi’s album, which follows a young man on his journey to discover love.
Kid Cudi, who also has appeared onscreen in HBO’s Westworld and the feature film James White, has been a multi-platinum recording artist for more than a decade. The Grammy winner has collaborated with the likes of Kanye Westand Travi$ Scott. He was recently cast in the movie Bill & Ted Face the Musicand the HBO series from Luca Guadagnino.