Credit: RILEY ALEXANDER

Credit: RILEY ALEXANDER

Lizzo Freakshake

At press time, Lizzo’s Instagram video of her sampling her signature Bake’n Babes milkshake had 1.5 million views. The event was the culmination of the collective thirst that Tampa Bay threw at hip-hop’s new it girl ever since she announced a local date in support of her new album, Cuz I Love You. In the age of Internet-everything, the attention surrounding this milkshake was freakishly fun to watch.bakenbabes.com 

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...