Peewee Longway has made it happen for himself. The former Blue M&M put in work as one of the lyrical cohorts of Migos. Representing ATL and 1017 Records, Longway has been touring, recording, and touring some more. Instead of waiting on Gucci to get out of imprisonment, he kept working. Mr. Blue Benjamin is the culmination of that progress. However, the mixtape is your typical hood album. It’s Peewee that keeps things interesting. Peewee Longway isn’t reinventing any wheels. Rather, he is driving on a gangster rap superhighway on Forgiato wheels with Valentino’s on his feet and DSquared jeans on his butt. From “Mr. Blue Benjamin” to “Nothing Else to Talk About,” all is to be heard is that gutter trap music. With his loquacious flow and use of similies and metaphors, the raps stay entertaining. If anything, Peewee Longway does the hood justice. However, there is one problem: the music is quite monotonous. As hood and urban as the music is, it all sounds similar to each other. Variety is the spice of life with music. Peewee Longway is dope as is. Yet and still, hearing an entire mixtape of 20 songs that rarely variates in style/substance can be grating to the ears. All in all, this is a good (not great) effort coming from Peewee Longway. What keeps everything afloat is the fact that his lyrical ability makes his songs and ideas quite catchy and listenable. However, he tends to teeter between an impressive lyricist and your run-of-the-mill hood rapper. Maybe he will get to the point where he makes the music that changes the course of his career and capitalizes on his lyrical abilities. Until then, he will impress those that love the hood music and make others wonder if he would just tweak his output slightly enough to send his career into an evolution.
