Lil Uzi Vert, Chief Keef Set The Tone

The annual pageant has continued to develop the momentum of earlier years. In 2025, Summer time Smash featured a lineup that includes Don Toliver and Yeat headlining the opening night time. Future took over Day 2 with a set full of entice classics, whereas Younger Thug closed out the weekend in memorable trend throughout considered one of his main performances following his launch from jail.

This yr’s pageant wasted no time delivering memorable moments.

Chicago natives Chief Keef and G Herbo obtained welcomes from their hometown crowd, simply one other reminder on why they each stay a few of the metropolis’s most influential rap figures. Rising star, Molly Santana additionally capitalized on the thrill surrounding her look on Drake’s ICEMAN, handing over one of many day’s standout performances.

As nice because the supporting acts have been, the night time was flipped the wrong way up when Lil Uzi Vert got here out.

Whereas followers proceed to demand new music from the Philly rapper, his Summer time Smash set proved his catalog stays as impactful as ever. Working by his traditional hits together with “XO Tour Lif3” and even considered one of his newer data “What You Sayin,” Uzi saved the gang engaged from begin to end. 

His efficiency set the bar very excessive for the rest of the weekend. Amongst them is his boo, JT, who’s scheduled to carry out on the pageant’s last day.

Hip-Hop Wired additionally caught up with Taylor Bennett, brother of Probability The Rapper, who mirrored on watching Summer time Smash founder Cole Bennett flip a dream into considered one of Hip-Hop’s premier festivals.

“I’ve identified Cole [Bennet] since I used to be a child, we placed on our first present collectively within the Music Storage. In a room that held like 50 folks, it was packed out, however that is f*cking loopy.”

Try the total recap of Day 1 of Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer time Smash Competition under