"Chozen," an Animated Series on FX, Features Bobby Moynihan Chozen , a new animated series that starts Monday night on FX, follows an aspiring rapper. FX Network Animation is best suited for what might not be believable, even if seen. And our era of extreme progressivism notwithstanding, the idea of a gay white hip-hop thug still remains, for many, the stuff of fantasy. And so there's "Chozen," an oddball, sometimes clever and sometimes eyebrow-raising new animated comedy series, which has its premiere Monday on FX. Chozen (voiced by Bobby Moynihan) is an aspiring rapper fresh out of jail, having served a decade after being set up by a former friend. Years on the inside have hardened him: his body, his attitude, his sexuality. But this show pushes him past caricature into something richer: sexually blunt, studiously oblivious, impossibly prideful. Mr. Moynihan, whose Chozen voice comes off as a blend of some of his rowdier "Saturday Night Live" characters, plays this antihero not as a dolt but as a man driven, one who's been distilled down to frankness by years of prison. In his loose-tongued approach, Chozen has loads in common with Kenny Powers, the unexpectedly smooth id-centric buffoon at the center of the recently concluded "Eastbound & Down." Not surprisingly, that show's creative team - Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill - are executive producers here. Given all the possibility for offense here - and there is plenty, some fulfilled - no amount of boorishness can rescue "Chozen" from its fundamental tenderness. Here is a man interested in building relationships, even if his tool kit is unconventional. He's crashing at the tony college of his sister Tracy (Kathryn Hahn), where he takes on Hunter (Ike Barinholtz), a flip-flop-wearing lacrosse bro, as a lover; Troy (Nick Swardson), a bespectacled virgin, as an aide-de-camp; and Jimmy (Mr. McBride), a peeping-tom ex-roadie, as a manager. He reunites with a pair of tepid old running buddies, Crisco (Hannibal Buress) and Ricky (a hilarious Michael Peña), to be his hype men. And he's on a collision course with the fourth member of their old crew, Phantasm (Method Man), who's now some hyperfamous amalgam of 50 Cent and Dennis Rodman. Well meaning and bumbling, Chozen tries to enlist everyone's help with his nascent rapping career. That, too, is well meaning and bumbling. His actual rapping is done by Grant Dekernion, the series creator. The songs begin dull, but get more vivid as the season progresses, particularly the one celebrating the return of Chozen's big-house love interest, Jamal (Gary Anthony Williams). And the more intimate his songs get, the realer he seems.