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.
Summer Smash 2026 Lineup
Lyrical Lemonade's Chicago weekend at SeatGeek Stadium — Lil Uzi Vert, Skrillex and Playboi Carti over three stages, with the city's rap underground stacked underneath.
Summer Smash 2026 has already wrapped — but you can still dig through the lineup and find the acts you would have loved.
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.
Summer Smash 2026 lineup: all 55 acts
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Lil Baby
Atlanta's most bankable technician — an effortless, conversational flow that turned street reportage into stadium-scale trap without ever raising his voice.
Mosh-pit-summoning Philly superstar — melodic rage rap at festival scale, with a hits run that turns fields into trampolines.
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.
Bass music's shape-shifting elder — from brostep infamy to festival-set transcendence, reinvention as a permanent state.
Yung Lean x Bladee
The two Stockholm architects of cloud rap on one stage — auto-tuned melancholy and dreamlike, half-legible writing that a whole generation of internet rap grew out of.
Rage-adjacent producer-vocalist making synth-heavy, blown-out digital pop for a very online audience — icy arpeggios, distorted 808s, and hooks that hit like a video-game boss theme.
The family ties run deep — elastic, unpredictable rap with pgLang polish and beat-switches that keep entire songs off balance in the best way.
Dallas rapper with a booming, unhurried baritone over soul-sampled Texas production — heavyweight presence that made him one of the South's fastest risers.
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EsDeeKid
Liverpool drill delivered in a thick Scouse accent — melodic, unhurried, and part of the wave that stopped UK rap sounding exclusively like London.
Famous Dex
Hyperactive, cartoonish Chicago rap from the SoundCloud boom — all yelps and energy, a genuine stylistic bridge to the rage era that followed.
Feng
Fetty Wap
That yelped, half-sung hook ran the radio for a solid year — New Jersey trap-pop so instantly recognisable it needed no second verse.
G Herbo
Chicago's most unguarded street writer — rapid, breathless verses that treat trauma as documentary rather than décor.
Ian
Rage-rap with a deadpan streak — booming, distorted synth beats delivered with the flat confidence of someone who finds the whole thing funny.
ISOxo
Weaponised trap built for a festival's loudest twenty minutes — bright, brutal drops from one of the sharpest young producers in American bass.
City Girls' JT gone solo — Miami rap precision with main-character energy and fashion-page confidence, solo bars sharpened by a decade in the game.
Lil Skies
Melodic, tattooed emo-rap from small-town Pennsylvania — big pop-punk feelings delivered with trap drums and zero irony.
LUCKI
Sing-song murmurs over woozy, half-dissolved beats — druggy Chicago rap that turned a diaristic monotone into an entire aesthetic lineage.
Molly Santana
Nine Vicious
North West
PBM
Raq Baby
Riff Raff
A performance-art rapper who has never once broken character — braided, neon, endlessly quotable, and far more self-aware than the bit lets on.
Rommulas
St. Louis rapper whose blunt, gleefully vulgar club records became some of the most quoted hooks in recent rap — decorum optional, hooks mandatory.
Slayr
smokedope2016
The Hellp
Blown-out digital rock built from cheap synths and cheaper distortion — an LA duo whose whole appeal is sounding like a corrupted file.
untiljapan
Waka Flocka
The blueprint for mosh-pit rap — Lex Luger sirens, shouted hooks, and a catalogue built almost entirely out of songs designed to destroy a room.
Chicago's future-bass wunderkind, grown into a versatile electro-pop craftsman — collabs across pop's whole spectrum, festival sets with pop fluency.
xaviersobased
Internet-native New York rap that treats a loose take as the finished version — playful, lo-fi and prolific to the point of overwhelming.
$AM
1300saint
2slimey
Adamn Killa
Chicago cult figure with a nasal, unbothered drawl — an underground stylist whose influence far outruns his streaming numbers.
B Jack$
bleood
BOSSFTR
Dabo
diamond* x Tezzus
Kels!
MAF Teeski
Matt Proxy
NickCheo
pinponpanpon
Rocket Rese
Sk8star
Lo-fi guitar-R&B moods gone viral — Pittsburgh bedroom loops with a late-night glow, viral moods with real guitar underneath.
thirteendegrees
Tiffany Day
Big-voiced confessional pop with a bedroom-recording intimacy — writes about wanting things badly and doesn't dress it up.
TisaKorean
Builds rap songs like dance instructions — goofy, minimal, deeply Houston, and responsible for more choreography than most producers manage in a career.
The headliners
- Lil Uzi Vert — Mosh-pit-summoning Philly superstar — melodic rage rap at festival scale, with a hits run that turns fields into trampolines.
- 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.
- Skrillex — Bass music's shape-shifting elder — from brostep infamy to festival-set transcendence, reinvention as a permanent state.
- Yung Lean x Bladee — The two Stockholm architects of cloud rap on one stage — auto-tuned melancholy and dreamlike, half-legible writing that a whole generation of internet rap grew out of.
- 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.
- Lil Baby — Atlanta's most bankable technician — an effortless, conversational flow that turned street reportage into stadium-scale trap without ever raising his voice.
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.
- Rocket Rese — Deep in the Saturday undercard, where this festival tends to be right early.
- sosocamo — Played both this and Rolling Loud Orlando inside two months.
Other acts worth planning around
- Playboi Carti — Sunday's closer, and the centre of gravity for most of the bill below him.
- Lil Uzi Vert — Opened the weekend as Friday's headliner.
- Skrillex — The one genuinely left-field headline booking — Saturday's closer on a rap festival.
- Chief Keef — A Chicago drill homecoming, second on the Friday bill.
- Yung Lean x Bladee — Billed as a joint set rather than two slots — the Drain Gang axis in one.
- Baby Keem — Added as a separate Saturday-night guest rather than a listed slot.
- Lil Baby — Sunday's co-headliner, directly beneath Carti.
- Sexyy Red — Top of the Friday undercard and one of the weekend's biggest singalongs.
The lineup by day
- Friday, June 12: Lil Uzi Vert, Chief Keef, Sexyy Red, G Herbo, LUCKI, Nine Vicious + 11 more
- Saturday, June 13: Skrillex, Yung Lean x Bladee, Baby Keem, ISOxo, 2hollis, Ian + 12 more
- Sunday, 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.
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