Rapper Lizzo now has a denim jacket from Tampa artist Cam Parker

“She makes me feel like I can move a mountain.”

click to enlarge Rapper Lizzo now has a denim jacket from Tampa artist Cam Parker
Photo c / o Cam Parker


Lizzo is now rocking a jean jacket from Tampa artist Cam Parker. 

Parker has already painted a giant Lizzo mural near the corner of Nebraska Avenue and Columbus Drive in VM Ybor, but the Tampa artist has a knack for gifting musicians with custom art (read: Lady Gaga, Janelle Monáe, Diana Ross).

However, recently Parker struck a chord with Lizzo, who is headed to Tampa’s Yuengling Center on September 10.

During Lizzo’s recent Atlanta show, Parker, 35, gave the 31-year-old hip-hop rising star a big ass jean jacket with her face on the back. Parker even upped the ante for his Atlanta antics by gifting members of Lizzo’s team custom denim jackets of their own.

Parker wouldn’t tell CL if he has anything planned for Lizzo’s Tampa date, but he did buy tickets for that show, too.

“I took her and her glam squad custom painted jackets as a gesture of love and appreciation for all that they do,” Parker said, adding that Lizzo’s message of self-love resonates with him.

“She’s black and fat and basically a bunch of things that America doesn’t deem pretty, acceptable or enough. She preaches that you are enough and that you can be your own damn soulmate,” Parker said. “She makes me feel like I can pick up a mountain and move it 5 feet over — the definition of empowerment.”

click to enlarge Rapper Lizzo now has a denim jacket from Tampa artist Cam Parker
Photo c / o Cam Parker


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Ray Roa

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 in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...
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