Kai Cenat just added a name to his 2026 Streamer University faculty that nobody saw coming: Lizzo.
The Twitch star made the announcement live on stream Monday night, unveiling both the staff and the incoming class for the second run of his creator incubator. Lizzo’s name landed near the top of the list, and reactions online ranged from confusion to genuine excitement. A Grammy winner teaching alongside gaming streamers is exactly the kind of crossover that makes Streamer University worth paying attention to.
How Lizzo Ended Up on the Faculty
This isn’t Lizzo’s first appearance on Kai’s stream. She showed up alongside SZA more than a year ago, and that guest spot apparently left an impression. But according to Kai, Lizzo didn’t get a professor spot because they’re friends. She applied.
“If y’all don’t know, Lizzo be Twitch’ing! She be streaming,” Kai told his audience while announcing her. “And she sent me an application and bro, she is ready to bring something to the table!”
That detail matters more than it might seem. Lizzo made her own Twitch debut back in 2025, so she’s not just a celebrity guest lecturer parachuting in for a photo op. She’s someone who’s been building a presence on the platform herself, which gives her something real to teach beyond music industry war stories.
Who Else Is Teaching?
Lizzo is joining a stacked lineup of professors, including Kai’s sister Kaiya Cenat, Agent00, Duke Dennis, Cinna, Maya Higa, The Sushi Dragon, Ludwig, Poudii, Pokimane, and Adapt. YourRage is on board as Guidance Counselor. T-Pain will head up Musical Arts as a Club Director, and basketball coach Lethal Shooter is running Athletics.
As for what Lizzo will actually be teaching, Kai hasn’t laid out a syllabus, but the obvious guesses are stage presence, personal branding, and turning a moment of attention into something that sticks. Whether she works flute lessons into the curriculum remains to be seen.
Streamer University is entering its second year, and the goal hasn’t changed: put creators from every platform in one room and see what happens. It’s part networking event, part masterclass, part reality show, and it’s become one of the more interesting experiments in how the creator economy actually trains its next generation.
Not everyone made the cut gracefully. Soulja Boy, who wasn’t included in this year’s auditions, showed up uninvited and was removed by security after launching a rival “Rapper University” in protest. The crowd he drew ended up causing enough of a stir that the event had to wrap early.
Lizzo’s addition, though, is the story people are still talking about. It says a lot about where streaming culture is headed when a Grammy-winning pop star is applying to teach a class run by a 24-year-old Twitch streamer, and getting in on merit.
