Kid Cudi to star in new HBO series this year
06:00AM ET July 29, 2009
Contributor : Hip Hop Blog Staff
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Kid Cudi is a busy chap. Not only is the Ohio-bred MC preparing to drop his debut, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, in a short while, but he's also touring cross-country with Asher Roth. Now comes word that the rapper has scored the leading role in HBO's new series How To Make It in America.

Directed by Julian Farino, one of the visionaries behind the channel's other hits like Entourage and The Sopranos, and produced by Mark Wahlberg, America is a comedy about three 20-somethings just trying to live the American dream. Cudi plays a cat named Domingo Dean.

And if you're reading this thinking, "Oh, here goes another rapper playing another rapper in front of a camera," try another thought.

"It has no reference to my music," Cudi told the Arizona Republic. "It was important to me early on to branch away from music" the rapper explained. "When we were developing my character with the writers, I was telling them, 'Man, I don't want to be anything that has to do with music,' just because that's not really acting."