Summer Smash, the largest independent hip-hop festival in the US, returned to Chicago on June 23 for their fifth annual festival. This year’s lineup boasted a star-studded roster including Kid Cudi, ...

Lyrical Lemonade’s All Is Yellow Singles So far, “ Doomsday,” “Guitar In My Room,” “Hello There,” “ Stop Giving Me Advice,” and “ Fallout ” have been released as the album’s singles. Lyrical ...

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 ...

Chief Keef, a pioneer in the inception and rise of drill music, is getting his own documentary, Variety can exclusively report. Kenya Barris‘ Khalabo Ink Society is partnering with Lyrical Lemonade ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 is bringing back its annual hip-hop festival Summer Smash this June 20-22 at SeatGeek Stadium in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview. (It's where the Chicago Fire used to play back when ...

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, ...

Ahead of the arrival of Lyrical Lemonade's All Is Yellow compilation album next month, Jack Harlow and Dave have teamed up for the fourth single from the project, "Stop Giving Me Advice." Cole Bennett ...