Summer Smash is sponsored by Beatbox and Rockstar drink companies and presented by the independent festival promoter SPKRBX. Lyrical Lemonade is a hip-hop blog by Cole Bennett, founded in 2013.

Bennett is also expanding the brand with the launch of a canned beverage line called Drink Lyrical. In the past decade of Lyrical Lemonade, Bennett has directed 500 music videos. Now, he's taking ...

Summer Smash is like a rite of passage.” With three stages – the main, Lyrical Lemonade stage and tented Drink Lyrical stage on the outside grounds, and the SPKRBX stage within the confines of ...

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 ...

Chicago rapper G Herbo and media brand Lyrical Lemonade have teamed up for the LL x 150 DREAMTEAM capsule, a limited-edition merch collection celebrating their longtime collaboration and impact on ...

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 ...

Summer Smash Festival, presented by Lyrical Lemonade and SPKRBX, will return to SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois, for its seventh anniversary from June 20–22, 2025. Known as the largest ...