
Wanting to avoid the show turning into Hammerman or The Jackson 5ive, André decided to become directly involved with development and not have it become "a licensing deal". André however was uninterested in the idea and instead proposed coming up with an original concept. While discussing ideas, the two realized their shared fondness for Outkast's album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below and contacted André 3000 to turn his The Love Below into an animated show for Adult Swim.
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Lynch told him he wanted to make an animated series with music, and Lazzo said he had a pilot. While on a trip to Turner Broadcasting to pitch projects, Thomas Lynch met with vice president of programming for Cartoon Network Mike Lazzo, an old friend of his. It is also the final Cartoon Network original series to premiere when Jim Samples was Cartoon Network's manager, as he later resigned following the 2007 Boston Mooninite panic. Ĭlass of 3000 was produced by Tom Lynch Company, Moxie Turtle, and Cartoon Network Studios. Both OutKast and Cartoon Network are based in Atlanta. Bridges is a jazz and blues artist who occasionally lectures in Atlanta's Little Five Points residential area.

The series follows superstar and music teacher Sunny Bridges (voiced by 3000), who teaches a group of students at Atlanta, Georgia's Westley School of Performing Arts. Class of 3000 is an American animated musical television series created by André 3000 (best known as a member of the hip hop duo Outkast) for Cartoon Network.
