Bennett directed and edited the three-minute video, shot in Maple Ridge in Vancouver, Canada. It has a Christmas-adjacent theme. A Christmas carol is the first sound we hear, followed by someone saying, “Christmas came early.” Christmas lights are everywhere, fully coating a luxurious car, while Lil Boat and Drake’s bars beam bright into the night.
“Drake had a few off-days in Vancouver, and he wanted to shoot a video while he was out there,” the prolific director said. “We’re working on a few different projects right now, one of which was to knock something out in Vancouver. With an artist of his size, you have to be aware of — you know, just, we looked at a few locations in Vancouver, it was a little hot. … The Maple Ridge location felt the most tucked away and ducked off, and it was surrounded by trees, and it just felt like the safest place to do it.”
He added, “I’ve known [Drake] for a few years. We’ve talked about working for a few years now, and I just knew it was gonna be when the time was right. I was supposed to do the ‘Search & Rescue‘ video.”
While this marks the first time Bennett and Drake have professionally linked, Bennett previously directed Lil Yachty’s videos for “Poland” and “Strike (Holster).”
Drake celebrated For All The Dogs by performing his It’s All A Blur Tour at his hometown Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena, where he’ll return for another show on Saturday night (October 7).
We’re just days away from the release of Drake’s forthcoming album,For All The Dogs. In the past few months, the rapper has provided a handful of updates during the It’s All A Blur tour. Still, we still don’t know what exactly to expect. Singles like “Search & Rescue” and “Slime You Out” ft. SZA seemed to indicate that he might be in his R&B bag. But then, there was a preview of his upcoming collab with Lil Yachty. Fans spotted Drizzy and Lil Boat shooting a music video in Surrey, BC with Cole Bennett, who recently shared some details on the record.
Bennett told Kids Take Over revealed that the title of Drake and Lil Yachty’s new song is “Another Late Night.” The Lyrical Lemonade mastermind revealed that the two are working on a “few different projects” together. However, the rapper wanted to film a music video in British Columbia. While Vancouver didn’t work out, they scoped out a lowkey location in Maple Ridge, B.C. where they shot the upcoming video for “Another Late Night” with Lil Yachty.
Bennett shared a bit more insight into Drake’s upcoming album. He revealed that he already heard it a few times, although many of the records were unfinished. “Right now, [Drake]’s finishing up the album and he’s very on the go between the show and him finishing up his album,” Bennett said. He added that he already heard the song before Yachty jumped on it and Drake already intended to shoot a music video for it.
However, in Vancouver, Drake said Cole could shoot a video for whatever song he wanted after hearing For All The Dogs. “There are great moments on the album, a lot of which aren’t done. I kind of came to the conclusion that if we shoot one of these songs that aren’t fully finished, we might never finish it,” Bennett added. “He has such a brilliant mind but it’s always moving so he’s always on to the next thing.” The famed director also revealed that he was supposed to direct “Search & Rescue.” Check the full interview above. Bennett talks Drake at the 3:22 mark.
Amid a lot of hype for his upcoming album For All The Dogs, Drake recently announced what’s assumedly a big part of his rollout. There are a lot of things that can contribute to a project lead-up: singles, press runs, tours, and of course, music videos. What’s more is that this marks a first-time collaboration between the “Privileged Rappers” MC and one of the best in the game when it comes to visuals. Moreover, he recently posted on his Instagram Story that he’s working on a music video with none other than Cole Bennett. If you don’t recognize that name, you will most definitely recognize many MVs from his long list of directed work via his creative outlet, Lyrical Lemonade.
“Coming soon,” Drake captioned a picture of Cole with a camera with an owl and lemon emoji. “I was gonna keep it a secret but…” Bennett replied in an IG Story of his own reposting Drizzy’s photo. This is overall a very exciting prospect, not just for the historic nature of this team-up but for the anticipation surrounding For All The Dogs. More importantly, though, it’s a massive level-up for the acclaimed director in terms of visibility, though he doesn’t need the OVO mogul to keep building his career forward.
For example, Cole Bennett recently worked with Lil Yachty once more for the video for his recent single, “TESLA.” With colorfully coordinated shots, crisp clarity, and compelling composition, it’s a simple but effective display of his talents. Considering Yachty and Drake’s own great relationship, maybe this is the connection that Bennett needed to link up with the latter. However, with the massive reputation he’s already amassed, there’s no way that the Toronto superstar wasn’t aware of his reach.
No matter how you slice it, this opportunity gathered more conversation and buzz than most music videos these days. It’ll be very exciting to see what they craft together. All we can hope for is that, if they’re happy with it and fans are too, it won’t be their last team-up. For more news and the latest updates on Drake and Cole Bennett, come back to HNHH.
Summer Smash was held over the weekend at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois. Kid Cudi headlined on Friday night, June 23, while Future handled headliner duties on Saturday, June 24, and Carti brought the Cole Bennett-led event home on Sunday night, June 25. The final night was actually punctuated by Chicago’s very own Lil Durk, but some fans wanted more Playboi Carti.
Videos aggregated on Instagram and Twitter by Our Generation Music show an SUV carrying Carti speeding off from the venue, only to be chased by people on foot as it approached the highway. (Maybe they wanted to demand answers in person as to when his follow-up to Whole Lotta Red is coming.) Carti appeared to love the overflowing love, appearing with a smile from the sunroof.
According to setlist.fm, Carti’s 12-song Summer Smash set included a cover of Lil Yachty’s “Flex Up” and of Kanye West’s “Off The Grid” — Carti was a featured artist on both — before a three-song encore of “Teen X,” “New N3on,” and “Vamp Anthem.”
Generally, I find all the deepfakes and AI use in music today — especially when it comes to deceased artists’ posthumous releases — ethically iffy, if not downright creepy. I’m willing to make an exception for Lyrical Lemonade’s off-the-wall “Doomsday” collab between Juice WRLD and Cordae, though. For one, Juice and Cordae were very tight in real life, and for another, both were extremely close with director Cole Bennett, who was instrumental to both of their careers.
But mostly, it’s because the project came out super tight, which is something you can’t always say for similar works. In this case, we get another opportunity to hear both young rappers at the respective heights of their game — something they got too few chances to give us while Juice was alive — as well as to hear Juice really rapping. Also, the deepfake effect in the video is used in a creative way, allowing Cordae to perform for the both of them as he morphs back and forth between his own face and Juice’s.
Eminem, whose song “Role Model” is sampled here, even makes an appearance at the beginning of the video and his association with Cordae and Juice is just enough to make you wonder whether it’s more digital trickery, or really the man himself showing love to the younger rappers (and Cole, who directed his “Godzilla” video).
Check out the “Doomsday” video above.
Cordae is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash Festival is gearing up for its highly anticipated return on June 23-25, and today they have revealed an expanded lineup that will make the festival’s fifth anniversary even more special. Regarded as the largest independent hip-hop festival in the country, Summer Smash has become a must-attend event for music lovers.
To add to the excitement, the festival organizers are thrilled to announce that Grammy Award-nominated artist and Chicago native Lil Durk will be the surprise special guest for Sunday’s lineup. After delighting fans with a surprise pop-up performance at the 2021 festival, Durk’s return to his hometown promises to be an unforgettable experience for both the artist and the audience.
In addition to Lil Durk, the festival will feature a range of rising rap acts that are sure to leave a lasting impression. Artists like 03 Greedo, Young Nudy, Homixide Gang, Duwap Kaine, and Matt OX are set to join the already incredible lineup, which includes headliners Kid Cudi, Future, and Playboi Carti.
Fans can expect an extraordinary array of talent at this year’s event. Renowned rap phenomenons such as Ice Spice, Trippie Redd, Ski Mask The Slump God, Lucki, Central Cee, Rico Nasty, and Lil Skies will grace the stage and deliver unforgettable performances.
For those eager to attend the festival, tickets are currently on sale through the official website, www.TheSummerSmash.com. It is advised that fans act quickly, as the cutoff for ticket shipping is tonight, June 9, at 11:59 pm. This allows attendees to secure their spot at the festival and ensure their tickets arrive in time for the event.
Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash Festival promises to be an unparalleled celebration of hip-hop music, showcasing both established and emerging artists. With the expanded lineup, surprise guest Lil Durk, and headliners that are set to ignite the stage, this year’s Summer Smash is bound to be an unforgettable experience for all attendees.
While a lot of attention has been lavished on Rolling Loud as the premiere hip-hop-oriented festival (and rightly so), Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash, which takes place annually in the Chicago area, is quickly carving out a chunk of that regard for itself. It probably helps that Lyrical Lemonade is the brainchild of Cole Bennett and has produced music videos for just about every notable name in rap right now (as well as Jack Black, whose “Peaches” song from The Super Mario Bros. Movie is an inescapable earworm).
So it makes sense that the 2023 lineup for Summer Smash includes a great many of those notable names, including headliners Future, Kid Cudi, and Playboi Cart, along with “a very special Chicago guest” which probably means Chance The Rapper (or a hologram of Juice WRLD, you never know. As long as it ain’t Kanye). Meanwhile, the three-day festival — which takes place at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, IL on June 23-25 — also includes heavy hitters like Vince Staples, Ice Spice, GloRilla, Freddie Gibbs, Ski Mask The Slump God, G Herbo, Cordae, Juicy J, Trippie Redd, Lucki, Central Cee, Lil Skies, and Rico Nasty, and that’s just the top line of each of the three days.
If you have been on TikTok lately, you have probably heard of a rapper named Yeat. Noah Olivier Smith, or Yeat, is a rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer.
Born on February 26, 2000, Yeat has gained popularity in such a short time. Born from a Romanian descent mom and a Mexican dad, Yeat has been making music since 2016.
Yeat’s dad was also a musician; when he was, it was said that there were guitars and pianos all around the house. However, he didn’t take a passion for playing instruments but later developed a love for making his own music.
As he grew up, Yeat started to gain some musical influence, which included some huge artists. Those artists were Young Thug and Future, but there was one more that Yeat’s mother actually put him on. His most significant influence was T-Pain.
In an interview with Our Generation Music, Yeat said, “I feel like that’s why I be singing and shit. I don’t be singing, but I feel like that’s where I got that inspiration from.” “He’s really the GOAT of Auto-Tune.”
Since the late 2016s and early 2017s, it was revealed that Yeat has been putting out music since those times. However, most of them consisted of singles and a few Eps.
He has attributed that his early drug use was the reason that helped him get into music. It was also the factor that made him think of his stage name. But then, he did LSD, which stimulated his mind to think differently, and he made up his name while he was high.
“I really think it helped open my mind and think about shit differently. It didn’t make me rap, but it kind of gave me the idea, like, I could just do whatever I put my mind to.”
“I’m not going to lie, it was really like some high shit,” he said during an interview with Our Generation Music. “I just wanted to do something like one word, and just make it simple and kind of relatable. People hear my name, they feel like they already heard of me.” For a while, he was known as Lil Yeat, but he eventually dropped the “Lil.”
As Yeat progressed in his music career, he wanted to find something that was unique to him. That’s why he started to make up his own language in his raps. He briefly explains its origins, saying, “It started when I was out in New York.”
In his songs, you can hear many different words that no one can recognize, but they all have a meaning that Yeat has created. Some of these words are “Twizzy,” “luh geeky,” “SHMUNKIT,” etc. Afterward, he explains how he took this after his dad said, “I think I got it from my dad because he be making up words for shit all the time,” he said. “So I just do that.”
Furthermore, he explained how he doesn’t think his style fits into a class or box. Instead, it is all about adaptability, and that’s why Young Thug and Future inspired him because of them experimenting with different sounds.
“I feel like my style isn’t really set on one thing,” he explains. “I be having mad different vibes, mad different styles. The way I even my voice on different songs, I feel like I got that from listening to a lot of Thug shit.”
As stated earlier, a lot of people discovered Yeat through TikTok. A couple of his songs became huge on the platform and were the sound everyone used in their video. Another significant aspect of his music is the famous bell that can be heard in the instrumental.
His song “Sorry Bout That” and “Talk” were Yeat’s two most used sounds. In addition, “Sorry Bout That” was his breakout song for him. The 2021 single was from his “4L” project and is currently his most viral song to date.
This is what he had to say about that single “spur-of-the-moment.” “I really just be living my raps, and be talking about whatever I’m going through at the moment. All my music is like that. It’s just about whatever is on my mind. I don’t be writing or none of that.”
Music director Cole Bennett became involved as his popularity grew and helped Yeat skyrocket his career by producing a music video for him. If you know anything about Lyrical Lemonade, then you know they always help out growing musicians.
Currently, with “Out thë way,” “Poppin,” and “Still Countin” on the Lyrical Lemonade channel, they all accumulate to 47.7 million views.
Cole Bennett spoke briefly about Yeat and said, “Yeat is the breakout artist of the year” back in 2022.
Yeat, in the past couple of years, has dropped seven albums since 2021, which was the start of his popularity. These albums include, “Aftërlyfe,” “Lyfë,” “2 Alivë (Gëëk Pack)“, “2 Alivë“, “Up 2 Më“, “4L“, and “Alivë.”
He has also been meant with a lot of praise from the generational artist. These include Drake, the Weeknd, Lil Yachty, Lil Uzi Vert, Gunna, Young Thug, and more.
Yeat continues to push out music as he just released his most recent album, “Aftërlyfe,” on February 24, 2023. Be on the lookout for more of Yeat, as his label boss Zack Bia had this to say about him on Complex,
“Yeat is an all-around “visionary artist.” “in terms of creating a whole lingo, having a very unique style of music, and building a whole world around it.” “He’s created something so unique that people can really buy into, so I don’t want to take credit for any of it. It’s all Yeat, and I’m just here to plug in the plays behind the scenes, and help facilitate all the relationships. I’m here to make sure the music is packaged right and handle all the things that a label executive should.”
The biggest hip-hop music festival in the Midwest, Summer Smash Festival, is pleased to announce that its three-day event will officially return to Chicagoland, Illinois, on Friday, June 23, through Sunday, June 25, this year.
After welcoming more than 90,000 visitors in total last summer, Summer Smash Festival—founded by two Chicago-based music powerhouses, concert promoter SPKRBX and next-generation media business Lyrical Lemonade—has developed into one of the biggest independent music festivals in the nation. The most coveted names in hip-hop music, including Grammy Award winners, chart-topping emcees, quickly-rising up-and-comers, and some of the best rappers from the local Chicago region, will once again be featured on the Summer Smash festival schedule.
Summer Smash is moving to SeatGeek Stadium this summer after spending the previous four years at Douglass Park on the west side of Chicago. Located roughly 30 minutes from downtown Chicago in nearby Bridgeview, Illinois, this world-class concert and sports facility offers luxurious accommodations with state-of-the-art facilities, top-of-the-live production capabilities, full-service fan experiences, and family-friendly recreational activities.
“Our Summer Smash team is thrilled to finally unveil our new location today. Douglass Park was a great launching pad for the festival, but our new home at SeatGeek Stadium will really help us expand and host more fans than ever before,” said Summer Smash Festival Director and SPKRBX Founder Berto Solorio. “Relocating to SeatGeek Stadium was a monumental opportunity. From all facets of the fan experience including main stage viewing, food and drink, parking, transportation, and housing, attendees at Summer Smash 2023 will be able to see firsthand the incredible benefits this new location has to offer.”
The outdoor event series will include three performance stages in addition to two main stages, one of which will be housed inside the outdoor stadium with a capacity of more than 25,000 and the other of which will be specially built and situated on turf nearby. This larger venue offers more seating, food, and drink options, as well as area for dancing and exploring with other music fans, in addition to better production, sound, and lighting.
Stay tuned as more details surrounding this year’s event will be announced in the coming weeks, including the highly-anticipated 2023 music lineup.
It’s a big weekend for Polo G. Not only did the 23-year-old make an appearance on Scorey’s Help Is On The Way album, but he’s also showing out on a single of his own. The song, titled, “My All,” arrived on Friday (December 9) and was accompanied by an awesome Lyrical Lemonade music video.
As Revolt notes, the track boasts production from both Southside and CuBeatz. As Cole Bennett directs in his unique style, the Chicago rapper chiefly gets his bars off for the camera.
“I done spent two-thirty on a brand-new Richard Mille / I been turnt up, I’m the youngest and the richest in my city,” Polo quickly flexes on his first verse.
He continues, “All on Twitter on my d*ck because that bitch can’t get up with mе / This rapper lifestyle lit, callеd it a quits and now she shitty, uh.”
Other songs to arrive from the Hall of Fame hitmaker this year include “Bag Talk” and “Distraction.” Additionally, he appears on Nardo Wick’s “G Nikes,” alongside Manifest and Almighty Jay on “Bottle Girls,” and with PGF Nuk on “Waddup.”
While the singles are satisfying fans (for now), they’re undeniably hungry for a new album. Luckily, The Fader reports that we can expect one in 2023. Details about the forthcoming project remain sparse at this time, but we do know several of his recent arrivals will appear on the tracklist.
Stream Polo G’s “My All” on Spotify or Apple Music below. Afterward, let us know what your thoughts on the new single are in the comments.
Quotable Lyrics:
No, I swear these hoes, you can’t trust ’em Baby, I don’t want relations, I’m just tryna f*ck some I’m just tryna drop a hit and make the club jump But I hate that I was too deep in so young
(@nojumper)
