Someone get Steve Stoute on the phone, we see tanning. Some of your favorite stars will be coming to a television screen near you – as cartoons! Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, and Bruno Mars will all be staring on a special episode of The Cleveland Show titled Menace II Secret Society. Mike Henry, who voices main character Cleveland, and Executive Producer, Rich Appel, explain the episode after the jump.

We have an episode where Kanye and will.i.am, playing himself, and Nicki Minaj, playing herself, and Bruno Mars, playing himself, and ?uestlove—they’re all part of the rap Illuminati, the secret group that controls pop culture.

Cleveland inadvertently breaks into it and then it’s how he will either bring them down or they’ll bring him down,” he said. “We have a couple of original songs with Kanye and will and Bruno, I mean, all of them, it was great.

The episode and season premier of The Cleveland Show is set for October 7th, 2012 on FOX.