Kid Cudi’s prolific film career continues with the announcement today that he’s been working on his directorial debut for a feature film called Teddy. The Netflix project will also star Cudi and will be co-produced by Jay-Z. “This is a story I started writing in 2013 because I always wanted to write my own movie, so I said fuck it and started doing it,” Cudi wrote. The statement continues:

The road has been long, from it being a tv show for years to finally being a film. So it means so fuckin much to finally be able to bring it to the screen next year, and I cant wait for u all to meet Teddy, his friends, his family and take a walk in his world for a bit. If I could sum up what the movie is about in one sentence, id say this: It’s as if I took the song ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ and wrote a movie about it. I added a lot of my own personal struggles and experiences in it, so this film is very close to my heart. I know, that deep down, this movie will help people in the same ways my music has. Im continuing my mission. Now this is a comedy, but It wouldn’t be me if I didn’t sprinkle some real shit in there. Its trippy, its fun, its sad, its life. 

Cudi is set to star in Brittany Snow’s new feature film directorial debut, September 17th. Cudi and Snow also co-starred in A24’s new horror movie X. Cudi recently made two film appearances as fictionalized versions of himself: in Don’t Look Up and Bill & Ted Face the Music. There’s also a new documentary about him.