Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash has become Chicago’s biggest hip-hop-oriented music festival. With this year’s fest headlined by Travis Scott (billed as Cactus Jack, suggesting a few friends joining ...

Cole Bennett, acclaimed video director and founder of Lyrical Lemonade, has spent the past two years working on the most ambitious project he’s ever taken on. His first full-length compilation album, ...

You a clone, you a Meseek / I’m a Roadrunner, meep-meep / Think I work at Best Buy with the squad how I be geeked.” Like many ...

BRIDGEVIEW, IL — Lyrical Lemonde’s 2025 Summer Smash returns to SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview for three days, June 20 to June 22, purporting some of the hottest names in hip hop. Gates open at 3 p.m.

Ten years ago, Cole Bennett was just another teenager with a blog who loved Chicago hip-hop, at a time when the city was bursting at the seams with rising talent. Chicago drill had taken over, with ...

Lyrical Lemonade has unveiled the latest visual lifted from its recent All Is Yellow audiovisual album. The latest video from the Cole Bennett-helmed collective is for Eminem’s standout contribution ...

Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash will be three days at SeatGeek Stadium. Left to right, up to down: Lil Skies, Lil Tecca, Lil Yachty, That Mexican OT, Famous Dex, Kodak Black, Lazer Dim, Mick Jenkins, ...

A few of the artists at this year’s Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash, listed left to right: top row Saba, Bktherula, and G Herbo; bottom row Sexyy Red and Don Toliver and Yeat, who perform a ...

Ian heard the criticism surrounding his sudden rise in rap, and now he’s firing back. One of the biggest critics of the Lil Yachty protégé’s artistic approach is none other than Tyler The Creator. So, ...