Invented a whole regional sound at sixteen and never bothered to claim credit: menacing, melodically warped Chicago drill whose ad-libs are still being borrowed a decade on.
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Summer Smash 2026 Lineup
Lyrical Lemonade's Chicago weekend at SeatGeek Stadium: three days, three stages, 55 acts, and the city's rap underground stacked underneath.
Summer Smash is expected back June 2027 (dates aren't announced yet). Until then, here's the full 2026 lineup and the acts you would have loved.
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About Summer Smash 2026
The Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash returned to SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview for three days in June 2026, running 55 acts over three stages. Produced by Lyrical Lemonade with SPKRBX, it is the closest thing rap has to a hometown festival for Chicago. Cole Bennett's video channel effectively A&R'd half this bill before anyone else booked it, and the undercard is where that shows.
Lil Uzi Vert and Chief Keef closed Friday, Skrillex and a joint Yung Lean × Bladee set closed Saturday, and Playboi Carti and Lil Baby closed Sunday. Baby Keem was billed separately as a Saturday-night guest. Underneath, the weekend leaned hard on Chicago itself (G Herbo, LUCKI, Famous Dex and Adamn Killa all played) alongside a deep bench of internet-native rap and a small electronic contingent in ISOxo, Whethan and 2hollis.
Expect hip-hop, trap, cloud rap and electronic across 55 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Friday to Sunday, three days
- Where
- SeatGeek Stadium, Bridgeview, IL
- Lineup
- 55 acts
- Website
- Official site
Summer Smash 2026 lineup & schedule: all 55 acts
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Mosh-pit-summoning Philly superstar bringing melodic rage rap at festival scale, with a hits run that turns fields into trampolines.
Hip-hopRage
Bass music's shape-shifting elder, who went from brostep infamy to festival-set transcendence, with reinvention as a permanent state.
BassElectronic
The two Stockholm architects of cloud rap on one stage, bringing auto-tuned melancholy and dreamlike, half-legible writing that a whole generation of internet rap grew out of.
Cloud rapHip-hopExperimental
Atlanta's most bankable technician, with an effortless, conversational flow that turned street reportage into stadium-scale trap without ever raising his voice.
TrapHip-hop
Stripped rap down to ad-libs, texture and menace, then built a decade of imitators out of the wreckage: the vampiric centre of modern rage rap.
RageTrapHip-hop
Chicago's most unguarded street writer, with rapid, breathless verses that treat trauma as documentary rather than décor.
DrillHip-hopTrap
Melodic, tattooed emo-rap from small-town Pennsylvania, with big pop-punk feelings delivered with trap drums and zero irony.
Emo-rapTrapHip-hop
Sing-song murmurs over woozy, half-dissolved beats: druggy Chicago rap that turned a diaristic monotone into an entire aesthetic lineage.
Hip-hopCloud rapTrap
Molly Santana
Hip-hop
Nine Vicious
Alt-rap
Daughter of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, stepping up to the mic on her own terms after a childhood spent in front of crowds.
Hip-hop
A performance-art rapper who has never once broken character, and who is braided, neon, endlessly quotable, and far more self-aware than the bit lets on.
Hip-hopPop-rap
St. Louis rapper whose blunt, gleefully vulgar club records became some of the most quoted hooks in recent rap (decorum optional, hooks mandatory).
Hip-hopTrapSouthern hip hop
Rage-adjacent producer-vocalist making synth-heavy, blown-out digital pop for a very online audience, with icy arpeggios, distorted 808s, and hooks that hit like a video-game boss theme.
HyperpopElectronicRap
The family ties run deep in elastic, unpredictable rap with pgLang polish and beat-switches that keep entire songs off balance in the best way.
Hip-hop
Feng
Hip-hop
Rage-rap with a deadpan streak: booming, distorted synth beats delivered with the flat confidence of someone who finds the whole thing funny.
Hip-hopRageTrap
Weaponised trap built for a festival's loudest twenty minutes, with bright, brutal drops from one of the sharpest young producers in American bass.
BassTrapElectronic
Rommulas
Hip-hopLatin
Slayr
Young rapper working in the blown-out rage lane, yelping hooks over distorted synths and overdriven 808s built for mosh-pit energy.
Hip-hop
Blown-out digital rock built from cheap synths and cheaper distortion, from an LA duo whose whole appeal is sounding like a corrupted file.
Indie electronicAlt-rockElectroclash
The blueprint for mosh-pit rap, with Lex Luger sirens, shouted hooks, and a catalogue built almost entirely out of songs designed to destroy a room.
TrapHip-hopCrunk
Chicago's future-bass wunderkind, grown into a versatile electro-pop craftsman, with collabs across pop's whole spectrum and festival sets played with pop fluency.
ElectronicFuture bassDance-pop
Internet-native New York rap that treats a loose take as the finished version, and is playful, lo-fi and prolific to the point of overwhelming.
Hip-hopCloud rapExperimental
Dallas rapper with a booming, unhurried baritone over soul-sampled Texas production, and a heavyweight presence that made him one of the South's fastest risers.
Hip hopSouthern hip hop
Che
Hip-hop
Liverpool drill delivered in a thick Scouse accent, melodic, unhurried, and part of the wave that stopped UK rap sounding exclusively like London.
UK rapDrillHip-hop
Hyperactive, cartoonish Chicago rap from the SoundCloud boom, all yelps and energy, and a genuine stylistic bridge to the rage era that followed.
Hip-hopTrap
That yelped, half-sung hook ran the radio for a solid year, and this New Jersey trap-pop was so instantly recognisable it needed no second verse.
TrapHip-hopPop-rap
City Girls' JT gone solo, with Miami rap precision, main-character energy and fashion-page confidence, her solo bars sharpened by a decade in the game.
Rap
PBM
Hip-hop
Raq Baby
Hip-hop
smokedope2016
American rapper working the hazier fringes of trap, where cloud-rap atmosphere and blown-out low end matter more than polish.
Hip-hop
untiljapan
Hip-hop
$AM
Hip-hop
1300saint
Hip-hop
2slimey
Hip-hop
bleood
New York producer-rapper working the noisy end of the online underground, where rage and digicore textures are pushed toward outright experiment.
Hip-hop
Kels!
Hip-hop
Sk8star
Hip-hop
Builds rap songs like dance instructions that are goofy, minimal, deeply Houston, and responsible for more choreography than most producers manage in a career.
Hip-hopDance-rap
B Jack$
Hip-hop
NickCheo
Dance
pinponpanpon
J-pop
Rocket Rese
Hip-hop
Big-voiced confessional pop with a bedroom-recording intimacy that writes about wanting things badly and doesn't dress it up.
PopAlt-R&BBedroom pop
Chicago cult figure with a nasal, unbothered drawl, an underground stylist whose influence far outruns his streaming numbers.
Hip-hopTrapCloud rap
BOSSFTR
Hip-hop
Dabo
Hip-hop
diamond* x Tezzus
MAF Teeski
Hip-hop
Matt Proxy
Hip-hop
Lo-fi guitar-R&B moods gone viral, from Pittsburgh bedroom loops with a late-night glow, viral moods with real guitar underneath.
alt-R&BBedroom
thirteendegrees
Hip-hop
The headliners
Lil Uzi Vert · Mosh-pit-summoning Philly superstar bringing melodic rage rap at festival scale, with a hits run that turns fields into trampolines. Opened the weekend as Friday's headliner.
Chief Keef · Invented a whole regional sound at sixteen and never bothered to claim credit: menacing, melodically warped Chicago drill whose ad-libs are still being borrowed a decade on. A Chicago drill homecoming, second on the Friday bill.
Skrillex · Bass music's shape-shifting elder, who went from brostep infamy to festival-set transcendence, with reinvention as a permanent state. The one genuinely left-field headline booking: Saturday's closer on a rap festival.
- Yung Lean x Bladee · The two Stockholm architects of cloud rap on one stage, bringing auto-tuned melancholy and dreamlike, half-legible writing that a whole generation of internet rap grew out of. Billed as a joint set rather than two slots: the Drain Gang axis in one.
Playboi Carti · Stripped rap down to ad-libs, texture and menace, then built a decade of imitators out of the wreckage: the vampiric centre of modern rage rap. Sunday's closer, and the centre of gravity for most of the bill below him.
Lil Baby · Atlanta's most bankable technician, with an effortless, conversational flow that turned street reportage into stadium-scale trap without ever raising his voice. Sunday's co-headliner, directly beneath Carti.
Up-and-comers to catch early
2hollis · Self-produced synth-rap pitched at a size his audience has only just caught up to.
EsDeeKid · Liverpool drill, a long way from home on a Chicago bill.
TisaKorean · Books a rap set and delivers a dance class.
Tiffany Day · The rare bedroom-pop voice on a bill this rowdy.
The Hellp · Deliberately corrupted digital rock, and a hard left turn in the running order.
sosocamo · Played both this and Rolling Loud Orlando inside two months.
Other acts worth planning around
The lineup by day
Friday lineup (June 12)
Lil Uzi Vert, Chief Keef, Sexyy Red, G Herbo, LUCKI, Nine Vicious + 11 more
Saturday lineup (June 13)
Skrillex, Yung Lean x Bladee, Baby Keem, ISOxo, 2hollis, Ian + 12 more
Sunday lineup (June 14)
Playboi Carti, Lil Baby, EsDeeKid, BigXthaPlug, JT, Fetty Wap + 14 more
Summer Smash 2026 lineup FAQ
Who headlined Summer Smash 2026?
Lil Uzi Vert and Chief Keef on Friday, Skrillex and a joint Yung Lean × Bladee set on Saturday, and Playboi Carti and Lil Baby on Sunday. Baby Keem was billed as a Saturday-night guest.
When was Summer Smash 2026?
June 12–14, 2026.
Where is Summer Smash held?
SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois, just outside Chicago.
How many acts played Summer Smash 2026?
55 acts across three stages and three days.
Who puts on Summer Smash?
Lyrical Lemonade, Cole Bennett's Chicago music and video label, together with promoter SPKRBX.
How do I find the acts I'd have liked?
Type a few artists you love into the finder at the top of this page. It matches them against this lineup and explains each pick.
When is Summer Smash 2027?
Summer Smash is expected back in June 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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