Cole Bennett
Cole Bennett
Cole Bennett (born May 14, 1996) is an American entrepreneur and videographer based in Chicago, Illinois. He is the founder of Lyrical Lemonade and is widely considered as a pioneer of the SoundCloud rap generation.
Biography
Cole talking about Lil Pump and Smokepurpp
Bennett originally began making videos in high school after his mom gave him a video camera.
He knew he wanted to be in the rap industry and would go to Chicago every weekend to link up with artists.
Cole attended DePaul for a brief time but took a leave of absence to focus more on his career. One of his inspirations is Austin Vesely who directed Chance the Rapper's Music Videos. He has since traveled all around the country working with artists such as Lil Pump, Smokepurpp, Famous Dex, Warhol.ss, etc. As of November 2018, his Youtube Channel has over 6,500,000 subscribers and over 500,000,000 views.
On April 2, 2017, Cole released his foremost short film, Lone Springs.
Accolades
In April 2019, Bennet gave a TED talk at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He has been featured in major publications such as Rolling Stone, Forbes, XXL, and Billboard.