I’ve had mixed feelings about all sorts of large-scale events since their mid-pandemic return, and I’m increasingly uncomfortable with how many for-profit fests are taking over public parks-whether the neighborhood folks who use them year-round want it or not. I wasn’t in town for this year’s Summer Smash, and I’m not sure I would’ve gone anyway. Hitmakers, veterans, and underground stars filled out the schedule Chicago phenom Polo G, whose Hall of Fame debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 last year (and who contributes to PGF Nuk’s simmering breakout single, 2021’s “Waddup”), hit the stage just before Post Malone. Lil Uzi Vert and Playboi Carti, who headlined Friday and Sunday, respectively, have both reconfigured hip-hop on a global scale.
Pop-rap poster boy Post Malone, whose 2021 headlining set at Lollapalooza put him just below the Foo Fighters on the lineup poster, closed out the second night of 2022’s Summer Smash. Since its launch as a one-day festival in 2018, Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash has grown into a three-day extravaganza that can go toe-to-toe with nationally recognized institutions. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.Stay tuned as more details surrounding this year’s event will be announced in the coming weeks. Interested fans are encouraged to purchase their passes as soon as possible because ticket prices will continue to rise as the festival date approaches, and VIP tickets are expected to sell-out in advance similar to past years.
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Three-day GA passes are also available for purchase online today for $275 plus fees, although limited VIP passes remain on sale for $450. Single-day tickets to the weekend event are on sale today via starting at just $95. With a return to its traditional dates in mid-June, Summer Smash will soon offer fans the festival’s most stacked lineup to date filled to the brim with today’s biggest names in hip-hop.
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Fans should be on the lookout for the full performance schedule being announced shortly.įounded by a pair of Chicago-based music powerhouses – concert promoter SPKRBX and next-gen media company Lyrical Lemonade – Summer Smash Festival has grown into one of the largest independent music festivals in the country after playing host to 90,000 attendees last summer. Rounding out the full music lineup includes several special pop-up DJ sets throughout the three-day affair from the likes of OG Chase B, DJ Scheme, Zach Bia, GloUpJake, and ZacFTP. Additional Sunday sets will include the return of the newly added Atlanta-based rapper Lil Yatchy, who has performed at the past two editions of Summer Smash to mass acclaim as well as previously announced acts 2 Chainz and Oliver Tree, Yeat, $not, Key Glock, Flo Milli, Ken Car$on, Ohgeesy, and Famous Dex who will make their Summer Smash debut this June. Perennial fashion trendsetter and mysterious emcee Playboi Carti will help close out the three-day fest on Sunday night while he continues to tease fans with new tunes from his upcoming project Music that follows the release of Whole Lotta Red which debuted at No. Other notable Saturday performances include two new leaders of the ever-evolving Chicago hip-hop scene - Polo G and G Herbo - who are performing alongside former Summer Smash alumni Ski Mask The Slump God and Lil Tecca, along with BIA, Lil Tracy, Tyla Yameh and a special joint performance from Pouya and Fat Nick. International hip-hop superstar Post Malone will headline Saturday night marking the award-winning singer/songwriter’s first major performance following the highly anticipated release of his fourth studio album Twelve Carat Toothache on June 3.
Additional Day 1 performers joining the Philly-born rap rockstar skew across a wide range of hip-hop subgenres with acts like Wiz Khalifa, Trippie Redd, Lil Skies, Rico Nasty, Nardo Wick, Sheck Wes, Yung Bans, Chicago’s very own Lucki, and newly added SSGKobe, among many others. Although three-day GA and VIP tickets are on sale now, newly announced single-day tickets have just become available for purchase today via Kicking off the festival on Friday night features a headlining performance from Grammy Award-winning, platinum-selling emcee Lil Uzi Vert, who was brought back to perform once again following fervent fan feedback and a thunderous headlining performance at Summer Smash 2021. Summer Smash Festival, the premier hip-hop music festival in the Midwest, is excited to reveal an expanded music lineup broken down by day for this year’s three-day music festival returning Friday, June 17 through Sunday, June 19 to Douglass Park in Chicago, Illinois.
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