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 ...

Playboi Carti headlined the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash festival in Chicago Saturday night. During his set, the rapper debuted a whole bunch of his new songs, and performed a couple of ...

The arc of Chicago’s Lyrical Lemonade is honestly the evolution of the hip-hop industry writ small. The media empire’s first kernel was a somewhat low-budget, experimental music video, and as the ...

The three-day hip-hop festival, Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash, opened Friday night at Bridgeview’s SeatGeek Stadium on June 20, 2025. Summer Smash 2025: Best artists and everything you need to know ...

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 ...

In every emerging “underground” rapper’s trajectory into the mainstream – if they’re lucky, that is – they’ll land a Lyrical Lemonade music video, which often serves as another springboard into the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ian has seemingly responded to Tyler, The Creator after the Grammy-winning rapper subliminally dissed him during an interview with Maverick Carter last year. Ian pulled up to the Lyrical Lemonade ...

Hip-hop is Cole Bennett’s first love. Having grown up in Plano, Illinois, he often found himself immersed in the Chicago rap scene. The bars of Vic Mensa, King Louie and Ridgio soundtracked his day-to ...