In a strange way it was a blessing when Sunday afternoon’s severe thunderstorms put the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash on hold. The Douglas Park festival had barely started its second day—it was around ...

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 ...

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The acclaimed music video director, festival producer and media brand founder adds a new title, as his debut album featuring Eminem, Kid Cudi and more drops. By Dan Rys Ten years ago, Cole Bennett was ...

Lyrical Lemonade, which launched in fall 2013, began with a mission to spotlight Chicago rappers who were getting zero or very little coverage elsewhere. It found a gap between what was attracting ...

Cole Bennett might be the most connected guy in the hip-hop industry – and probably the only guy to get Kid Cudi and Lil Durk on a song and music video together in matching three-piece suits. The man ...

Years from now, when fans look back at 2017 hip-hop and try to make sense of a raw underground scene that bubbled up from SoundCloud pages to form massive followings and shake up the industry, there's ...