This year’s festival kicks off on Friday, August 20 with a headlining performance with NYC’s very own Grammy Award-nominated rapper/actor A$AP Rocky, who continues to prepare for the forthcoming release of his next highly-anticipated album following 2018’s Testing. The Summer Smash is known for its meticulously curated music lineup that features some of the most sought-after hip-hop music acts in the country alongside exciting up-and-coming emcees, with 2021 being no different as over 80 of today’s hottest artists are confirmed to perform. The 2019 festival last played host to over 40,000 total attendees across the two-day event. GA and VIP tickets are on sale now at Presented by Chicago-based SPKRBX Presents and Lyrical Lemonade, Summer Smash Festival will soon become one of the largest independent music festivals in the country as it expands to three days this August due to overwhelming demand from fans. Sun 6/30, noon-9:45 PM, Douglas Park, 1401 S.Summer Smash Festival, the premier hip-hop music festival in the Midwest, is proud to announce the music festival will return on Friday, August 20 through Sunday, August 22 to Chicago, Illinois. R Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash day two with Juice Wrld, Gucci Mane, Tyga, Carnage, Trippie Redd, Aminé, Dababy, Shoreline Mafia, Famous Dex, Yung Bans, Currensy, Lil Tjay, Earthgang, Lil Keed, Lil Gotit, Tay Money, IDK, Germ, Cdot Honcho, Yung Baby Tate, Slime Dollaz, Ngeeyl, Buru, Ronsocold, Bennett, DJ Scheme Sacramento, $189 for 2-day pass, all-ages. RLyrical Lemonade Summer Smash day one with Playboi Carti, Lil Yachty, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Ski Mask the Slump God, Blueface, Lil Mosey, Smokepurpp, City Girls, Cam’ron, Megan Thee Stallion, Polo G, and more
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At least the festival has replaced Kodak Black, who’s awaiting trial on allegations of sexual battery in South Carolina and was arrested last month in Florida on weapons charges-and it’s replaced him with none other than reborn trap legend Gucci Mane. Unfortunately, the fest also features Famous Dex (a late addition to replace East Saint Louis rapper Comethazine), who’s admitted to beating his girlfriend in a video that leaked in September 2016. Polo G is part of a small army of great locals on the Summer Smash bill, including the Cool Kids, Supa Bwe, Queen Key, and Femdot. The gravitas and raw emotion in his performances-including the breakout “Finer Things” and the smash “Pop Out”-make his recent debut, Die a Legend (Columbia), a lock for one of the year’s best albums. Raised in Old Town’s Marshall Field Garden Apartments project, he’s leading a new wave of local rappers who’ve adapted drill’s hard-edged aesthetics to melodic, pop-forward songs.
Among those rising stars is Chicago’s Taurus Bartlett, better known as Polo G. You could also see the bill as a fascinating cross section of current rap, represented by some of its most notable success stories-among them Charlotte spitter DaBaby, ferocious Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion, and New York crossover darling A Boogie Wit da Hoodie (whose recent Hoodie Szn became the lowest-selling album to hit number one). The Summer Smash bill is stacked with rappers who’ve worked with Bennett, including flamboyant Florida wordsmith Ski Mask the Slump God, Seattle crooner Lil Mosey, and mischievous LA personality Blueface. The site and its festival have become synonymous with “Soundcloud rap,” partly because Lyrical Lemonade founder Cole Bennett has directed videos by some of the best-known MCs in that ill-defined scene. If anything demonstrates how important Lyrical Lemonade has become in hip-hop, it’s that histrionic young rapper Juice Wrld-who’s had albums debut at number one and number two on the Billboard 200 in the past eight months-is headlining the Summer Smash and not Lollapalooza.
After debuting in August 2018 as a one-day event with two stages, the Summer Smash has expanded to two days, with three stages and 51 acts. The Summer Smash, presented by Chicago hip-hop blog turned cultural powerhouse Lyrical Lemonade, is already the biggest rap festival in the city-and it’s on track to be one of the biggest in the country. Updated Wed 6/26 at 2 PM: This preview has been edited to reflect the addition of Gucci Mane and Famous Dex to the Summer Smash bill (and the removal of Kodak Black).
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