Review Summary: Chillin', stoners, laid back, a lot of weed, and a lot of females (whom he just can’t get away from), a couple Coronas, and your best friend.
Shwayze: he’s young, trendy, likes’ marijuana—a lot—and he gets a lot of females—supposedly. He free styles at rock concerts, gets stoners with big named dads to like him, and he got himself a name; "kind of like Patrick". This album is basically back ground music to any sort of youthful gathering. That said, non-music listeners are probably going to be offended by some of the lyrical content and music critics are probably going to hate on how simple some of the beats are and how each song pretty much follows the same trail.
He manages to create such a laid back atmosphere in all of the songs, almost as if every song is made to be listened to while chilling at a beach bonfire. Thanks to the use of actual instruments—a surprising amount for a rap album—with the acoustic guitar leading a lot of bridges and intros, he achieves that atmosphere. Being very upbeat, he never brings you down.
Shwayze isn’t just a one man show though; it’s more of a group, with Cisco Adler (mentioned above), the former front man of the band Whitestar (also mentioned above) who sings all the chorus's and even has his own song. He writes as well and does the beats. Ultimately, all "Aaron Smith" does is rap, but he’s got a good flow on him, and a good repertoire of audacious lines. For example, "Her daddy say he don´t like my ways/Probably cause I hit it three times a day/Dropped her off late with a sticky face/So a kiss on the cheek is your mistake.” The lyric content is really dry; nothing expands beyond everyday life experience of sex and getting high. The only topic that shows any signs of self-relevance or personal distress is his lack of money—or, lack of "getting paid.”
As I mentioned above, the lyric content is bland; he’s clever and even sometimes witty, but he raps too much about how much weed he smokes, and how many females want him. For a guy fairly new on the music scene and not too popular, he seems to be quiet adept at boasting of his womanizer achievements.
So ultimately, Shwayze's Shwayze was made to be fun, not blow away critics with deep and personal lyrics or intricate beats; it’s just summer, chill, relaxed, stoner fun.
