The Simpsons are soon releasing a first-ever hour long hip-hop homage to The Great Gatsby, and matt has recruited for instance Snoop Dogg, RZA, and Common. The rappers will lend their voices to the animated Fox comedy’s upcoming hourlong episode, EW has learned exclusively. All three rappers will play themselves and join a guest roster that also includes Taraji P. Henson and Keegan-Michael Key. (See above for a peek at the Simpsonized version of the trio.)
Titled “The Great Phatsby,” the episode tips its cap to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Roaring ’20s novel, revolving around the doomed friendship between Mr. Burns and a mysterious hip-hop mogul named… Jay G. The story, which is narrated by Homer instead of Nick Carroway, takes place at Burns’ summer mansion in the Springfield Hamptons, and sees Jay G and Burns becoming friends before Jay G sends Burns into bankruptcy and assumes command of the nuclear plan, prompting Burns, Homer, Bart, “force of nature” Praline (Henson), and Jazzy James (Key) to exact revenge on Jay G.
The two-part episode, which airs as an hour, is slated to air in January. Back in 1995, the show offered up the two-episode mystery “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” but that was not packaged as an hourlong episode; part 1 aired as the season 6 finale and part 2 served as the season 7 premiere.
