Lil Uzi Vert, Chief Keef Set The Tone

The annual competition has continued to develop the momentum of earlier years. In 2025, Summer season 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 vogue throughout one in all his main performances following his launch from jail.

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

Chicago natives Chief Keef and G Herbo acquired welcomes from their hometown crowd, simply one other reminder on why they each stay among the metropolis’s most influential rap figures. Rising star, Molly Santana additionally capitalized on the thrill surrounding her look on Drake’s ICEMAN, delivering 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 season Smash set proved his catalog stays as impactful as ever. Operating by way of his basic hits together with “XO Tour Lif3” and even one in all 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 competition’s remaining day.

Hip-Hop Wired additionally caught up with Taylor Bennett, brother of Likelihood The Rapper, who mirrored on watching Summer season Smash founder Cole Bennett flip a dream into one in all 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.”

Take a look at the total recap of Day 1 of Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer season Smash Pageant beneath