Chicago-based visionary Cole Bennett shooting for up-and-coming teens and twenty-something blog favorites, but in the past five years, he has become one of rap’s foremost music video directors, working with top names like , , , and more. He’s even shot for actor Jack Black, delivering a colorful video for Black’s crowd-pleaser, “ .” “I was a very visual person, but I never knew that I loved music videos,” Bennett said in a 2021 interview.
“I always had this idea since I was super young of what it would look like if I made a music video.” For nearly a decade, Bennett has been bringing these ideas to life to the praise of the artists he works with and his growing fan base. With that being said, we decided to scour Bennett’s Lyrical Lemonade page for his best work.
Here are the 10 best Cole Bennett-directed music videos. Honorable Mention: JID & J. Cole — “Off Deez” Okay, it’s a pretty basic concept with workmanlike execution, but it might be the best song Bennett’s ever done a video for.
are left turns for Cole Bennett, if you take in the entirety of his filmography, so it was pretty meaningful that the Dreamville cohorts teamed up with him on this standout from JID’s . It’d be nice to see them do it again. 10.
Ski Mask The Slump God — “Catch Me Outside” An early standout from both Bennett and , “Catch Me Outside” perfectly illustrates the possibilities of a limited budget when you’ve got unlimited imagination. Awash with eye-poppin.
