Robinson High School seniors Quenton Lasseter (left) and Jacob Sloan, both 17, kneel near Lasseter’s painted parking space. Images of the boys’ parking spaces, inspired by hip-hop artist Drake’s mixtape, went viral on social media.
Robinson High School seniors Quenton Lasseter (left) and Jacob Sloan, both 17, squat in front of Lasseter’s painted parking space. Images of the boys’ parking spaces went viral on social media after painting Drake-inspired parking spots.
Robinson High School senior Quenten Lasseter, 17, bought a parking spot as part of the student council fundraiser and painted an homage to the hip-hop artist Drake, which went viral when someone posted a photo on the website Reddit.
Robinson High School seniors stand near their painted parking spots after designs by Quenten Lasseter (center) and Jacob Sloan (right) went viral due to their Drake-inspired creativity.
Robinson High School senior Quenten Lasseter, 17, bought a parking spot as part of the student council fundraiser. A photo of the spot went viral after it was posted on Reddit and showed the Drake-inspired theme.
Robinson High School senior Quenten Lasseter, 17, bought a parking spot as part of the student council fundraiser. A photo of the spot went viral after it was posted on Reddit and showed the Drake-inspired theme.
A picture on social media shocked Robinson High School senior Quenten Lasseter, 17, when he discovered a shot of his school parking spot had gone viral.
Lesseter painted the spot white and wrote, “If you’re reading this, I’m late,” on the space in black. A Robinson High alum snapped a photo and posted it to Reddit, where it has racked up close to 3 million views.
Lasseter and his friend Jacob Sloan, 17, whose spot also garnered attention, painted their parking spots in homage to hip-hop artist Drake’s mixtape “If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late.”
Sloan’s spot is the black-and- white image of praying hands from the same mixtape.
The spots have been tweeted by thousands, including Canadian radio station The Flow, 93.5 FM, and appeared on the websites for Seventeen and Complex magazines.
Sloan said he saw their spots had gone viral when they appeared on the Complex Twitter feed, which he follows.
The boys bought the right to paint their spots for $20 as part of a student council fundraiser.
Robinson High School senior Jacob Sloan, 17, painted his senior parking spot as a tribute to the hip-hop artist Drake’s mixtape. A photo of his spot was posted on a hip-hop magazine website for his creative design.
This was the first year the council decided to allow students to custom-paint their spots, and teacher sponsor Shay Schill said she is thrilled with the creativity of each one.
“I think they turned out beautiful,” she said. “There were some, they just blew me away. And it was pretty cool to have a couple of students that went viral.”
The students said it took about four hours to finish Sloan’s space, but only an hour to do Lesseter’s.
Sloan said a local artist sketched the outline of the emblem on his space and he filled in the rest with acrylic paint.
He said the students painted their spots the night before school started.
“It was a lot of fun. We shared paint, ideas,” Sloan said.
