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10 Years In, Cole Bennett’s Lyrical Lemonade Keeps Growing With New Def Jam Album

After 10 years of Lyrical Lemonade, acclaimed music director Cole Bennett released his first album through Def Jam with Eminem, Kid Cudi and more.

Ten years ago, Cole Bennett was just another teenager with a blog who loved Chicago hip-hop, at a time when the city was bursting at the seams with rising talent. Shortly after that he dropped out of college entirely, beginning the process of turning his blog and passion for hip-hop into a career as one of the go-to music video directors and creatives in the business. It was really about trying to bring different worlds together and throwing things at the wall that, for the most part — there’s maybe three songs that could have happened without this universe that was created — but these are pretty left-field collabs in terms of people coming together.

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